While Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are highly expressive models, they are hard to train from limited data. Formalizing a connection between Random Forests (RFs) and ANNs allows exploiting the former to initialize the latter. Further parameter optimization within the ANN framework yields models that are intermediate between RF and ANN, and achieve performance better than RF and ANN on the m...

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are based on an abstract and simplified view of the neuron. Artificial neurons are connected and arranged in layers to form large networks, where learning and connections determine the network function. Connections can be formed through learning and do not need to be ’programmed.’ Recent ANN models lack many physiological properties of the neuron, because they ...

Accurate estimation of parameters during transient and steady state is required for controlling of Induction motor. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) based online identification of induction motor parameters are presented. ANNs such as feed forward network is used to develop an ANN as a memory for remembering the estimated parameters and for computing the parameters during transients. Simulatio...

Since artificial neural networks (ANNs) can approximate any function, they have been applied in many fields including hydrology. In hydrology, there are important issues such as flood estimation and predicting rainfall-runoff in a certain area. In this presentation, we briefly introduce a popular feed-forward neural network model, so called “multi-layer perceptron (MLP)”, and review its applica...

In this paper, a fault diagnosis system based on discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and artificial neural networks (ANNs) is designed to diagnose different types of fault in gears and bearings. DWT is an advanced signal-processing technique for fault detection and identification. Five features of wavelet transform RMS, crest factor, kurtosis, standard deviation and skewness of discrete wavelet co...

Sheet sediment transport was modelled by artificial neural networks (ANNs). A three-layer feed-forward artificial neural network structure was constructed and a back-propagation algorithm was used for the training of ANNs. Event-based, runoffdriven experimental sediment data were used for the training and testing of the ANNs. In training, data on slope and rainfall intensity were fed into the n...

Neural networks are an artificial intelligence method for modeling complex target functions. For certain types of problems, such as learning to interpret complex real-world sensor data, artificial neural networks (ANNs) are among the most effective learning methods. During the last decade, they have been widely applied to the domain of financial time series prediction, and their importance in t...

1. Introduction Neural networks, more accurately called Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), are computational models that consist of a number of simple processing units that communicate by sending signals to one another over a large number of weighted connections. They were originally developed from the inspiration of human brains. In human brains, a biological neuron collects signals from other...