estimating of forest equipment productivity is an important aspect of managing cost in forestry, which leads to reduction of operations expenses. in other words, high capital cost in forest harvesting, is a good reason to argue forest engineering research and time modeling. this paper applied one of the artificial intelligence subsets, which are called artificial neural networks (anns), to pred...

We describe here the application of a type of artificial neural network, the Gaussian radial basis function (RBF) network, in the identification of a large number of phytoplankton strains from their 11-dimensional flow cytometric characteristics measured by the European Optical Plankton Analyser instrument. The effect of network parameters on optimization is examined. Optimized RBF networks rec...

In this paper we have studied adaptive equalization in the GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) environment using radial basis function (RBF) networks. Equalization is here considered as a classification problem, where the idea is to map the received complex-valued signal into desired binary values using RBF network equalizer. Results prove that the RBF network provides very good bit e...

A signal su ers from nonlinear, linear, and additive distortion when transmitted through a channel. Linear equalizers are commonly used in receivers to compensate for linear channel distortion. As an alternative, nonlinear equalizers have the potential to compensate for all three sources of channel distortion. Previous authors have shown that nonlinear feedforward equalizers based on either mul...

every woman is at risk of ovarian cancer; about 90 percent of women who develop ovarian cancer are above 40 years of age, with the high number of ovarian cancers occurring at the age of 60 years and above. early and correct diagnosis of ovarian cancer can allow proper treatment and as a result reduce the mortality rate. in this paper, we proposed a hybrid of synthetic minority over-sampling tec...

This paper reports a preliminary investigation of the use of modern data mining tools for mortgage scoring. Using IBM's Intelligent Miner (a data mining toolbox), we built a model of serious delinquency on a sample of data from Mortgage Information Corpo-ration's Loan Performance System, which contains over 20 million loans with a volume of over $1.6 trillion. Currently, two technologies prevai...

Transfer functions play a very important role in learning process of neural systems. This paper presents new functions which are more flexible than other functions commonly used in artificial neural networks. The latest improvement added is the ability to rotate the contours of constant values of transfer functions in multidimensional spaces with only N − 1 adaptive parameters. Rotation using f...

Active queue control aims to improve the overall communication network throughput, while providing lower delay and small packet loss rate. The basic idea is to actively trigger packet dropping (or marking provided by explicit congestion notification (ECN)) before buffer overflow. In this paper, two artificial neural networks (ANN)-based control schemes are proposed for adaptive queue control in...

The Neural Networks are best at identifying patterns or trends in data and they are well suited for predicting or forecasting. Hence neural networks are extensively applied to biomedical systems. An analysis is carried out to motivate neural network applications in medical diagnosis. A special note is made on neural network effort on cancer diagnosis. This paper focuses on the importance of app...

We examine the ARCH-GARCH models for the forecasting of the bond price time series provided by VUB bank and make comparisons the forecast accuracy with the class of RBF neural network models. A limited statistical or computer science theory exists on how to design the architecture of RBF networks for some specific nonlinear time series, which allows for exhaustive study of the underlying dynami...