It is known that a hierarchical decision structure consisting of multiple criteria can be modeled by a Choquet integral-based hierarchical network. With a given input–output dataset, the degree of importance of each criterion can be directly obtained from the corresponding connection weight after the network has been trained from samples. Since each output value or the synthetic evaluation of a...

investigation of soil properties like cation exchange capacity (cec) plays important roles in study of environmental reaserches as the spatial and temporal variability of this property have been led to development of indirect methods in estimation of this soil characteristic. pedotransfer functions (ptfs) provide an alternative by estimating soil parameters from more readily available soil data...

In this paper efficient energy saving scheme and corresponding algorithm is designed and developed in order to provide reasonable energy consumption and to improve the network lifetime for wireless sensor network systems. A hybrid data-gathering protocol that dynamically switches between the event-driven data-reporting and data-driven data-reporting schemes is proposed. Typically, communication...

A Hopfield network is a completely connected directed graph of I nodes (“neurons”), i.e., a graph of I nodes, denoted {1, 2, . . . , I}, in which there is a directed edge from each node to every other node (there are no self directed loops). Each node i has an associated output value xi. For simplicity, we consider xi ∈ {−1, 1}. From a biological perspective, such an binary assignment of node v...