The forecast of fluctuations and prices is the major concern in financial markets. Thus, developing an accurate and robust forecasting decision model is critically favorable to the investors. As gold has shown a special capability to smooth inflation fluctuations, governors use gold as a price controlling lever. Thus, more information about future gold price trends will help to make the firm de...

Composite neural networks consist of multilayer networks, in which each layer may use different models of neurons: the classical sigmoidal neuron, the kernel neuron (like radial basis function neurons), the logical neuron, and so on. This section is devoted to supervised composite neural networks and contains three main parts. The first is focused on radial basis function (RBF) networks, as int...

In this paper, we proposed a method to design a model-following adaptive controller for linear/nonlinear plants. Radial basis function neural networks (RBF-NNs), which are known for their stable learning capability and fast training, are used to identify linear/nonlinear plants. Simulation results show that the proposed method is effective in controlling both linear and nonlinear plants with di...

This paper introduces a novel method for human face detection with its orientation by using wavelet, principle component analysis (PCA) and redial basis networks. The input image is analyzed by two-dimensional wavelet and a two-dimensional stationary wavelet. The common goals concern are the image clearance and simplification, which are parts of de-noising or compression. We applied an effectiv...

We propose an Euro banknote recognition system using two types of neural networks; a three-layered perceptron and a Radial Basis Function (RBF) network. A three-layered perceptron is well known method for pattern recognition and is also a very effective tool for classifing banknotes. An RBF network has a potential to reject invalid data because it estimates the probability distribution of the s...

A general and efficient design approach using a radial basis function (RBF) neural classifier to cope with small training sets of high dimension, which is a problem frequently encountered in face recognition, is presented. In order to avoid overfitting and reduce the computational burden, face features are first extracted by the principal component analysis (PCA) method. Then, the resulting fea...

The current fault diagnosis methods based on conventional BP neural network and RBF neural network exist long training time, slow convergence speed and low judgment accuracy rate and so on. In order to improve the ability of fault diagnosis, this paper puts forward a kind of fault diagnosis method based on RBF Neural Network improved by PSO algorithm. By using particle swarm algorithm’s heurist...

In this work, some ubiquitous neural networks are applied to model the landscape of a known problem function approximation. The performance of the various neural networks is analyzed and validated via some well-known benchmark problems as target functions, such as Sphere, Rastrigin, and Griewank functions. The experimental results show that among the three neural networks tested, Radial Basis F...

Any action taken on a process, for example in response to an abnormal situation or in reaction to unsafe conditions, relies on the ability to identify the state of operation or the events that are occurring. Although there might be hundreds or even thousands of measurements in a process, there are generally few events occurring. The data from these measurements must then be mapped into appropri...