Raw cow milk has short supply market in summer and over supply in winter, which causes consumers and dairy industry concern about the quality of raw milk whether is adulated with reconstituted milk (powdered milk). This study prepared 307 raw cow milk samples with various adulteration ratios 0%, 2%, 5%, 10%, 20%, 30%, 50%, 75%, and 100% of powdered milk. Least square support vector machine (LS-...

As an important part of power system planning and the basis of economic operation of power systems, the main work of power load forecasting is to predict the time distribution and spatial distribution of future power loads. The accuracy of load forecasting will directly influence the reliability of the power system. In this paper, a novel short-term Empirical Mode Decomposition-Grey Relational ...

It is a well-known problem that obtaining a correct bandwidth in nonparametric regression is difficult in the presence of correlated errors. There exist a wide variety of methods coping with this problem, but they all critically depend on a tuning procedure which requires accurate information about the correlation structure. Since the errors cannot be observed, the latter is a hard goal to achi...

In this paper, a multi-class feature selection scheme based on recursive feature elimination (RFE) is proposed for texture classifications. The feature selection scheme is performed in the context of one-against-all least squares support vector machine classifiers (LSSVM). The margin difference between binary classifiers with and without an associated feature is used to characterize the discrim...

In the construction industry, evaluating the financial status of a contractor is a challenging task due to the myriad of the input data as well as the complexity of the working environment. This article presents a novel hybrid intelligent approach named as Evolutionary Least Squares Support Vector Machine Inference Model for Predicting Contractor Default Status (ELSIM-PCDS). The proposed ELSIM-...

In this paper, a modified least squares support vector machine classifier, called the C-variable least squares support vector machine (C-VLSSVM) classifier, is proposed for credit risk analysis. The main idea of the proposed classifier is based on the prior knowledge that different classes may have different importance for modeling and more weight should be given to classes having more importan...

A wide interest has been observed in the medical health care applications that interpret neuroimaging scans by machine learning systems. This research proposes an intelligent, automatic, accurate, and robust classification technique to classify the human brain magnetic resonance image (MRI) as normal or abnormal, to cater down the human error during identifying the diseases in brain MRIs. In th...

In this work, we developed classifiers to distinguish between four ovarian tumor types using Bayesian least squares support vector machines (LS-SVMs) and kernel logistic regression. Input selection using rank-one updates for LS-SVMs performed better than automatic relevance determination. Evaluation on an independent test set showed good performance of the classifiers to distinguish between all...

Model selection plays a key role in the application of support vector machine (SVM). In this paper, a method of model selection based on the small-world strategy is proposed for least squares support vector regression (LS-SVR). In this method, the model selection is treated as a single-objective global optimization problem in which generalization performance measure performs as fitness function...