Steel consumption is a critical factor affecting pricing decisions and a key element to achieve sustainable industrial development. Forecasting future trends of steel consumption based on analysis of nonlinear patterns using artificial intelligence (AI) techniques is the main purpose of this paper. Because there are several features affecting target variable which make the analysis of relations...

This paper investigates the use of influence from foreign stock markets (intermarket influence) to predict the trading signals, buy, hold and sell, of the of a given stock market. Australian All Ordinary Index was selected as the stock market whose trading signals to be predicted. Influence is taken into account as a set of input variables for prediction. Two types of input variables were consi...

This paper presents a novel adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system based on interval Gaussian type-2 fuzzy sets in the antecedent part and Gaussian type-1 fuzzy sets as coefficients of linear combination of input variables in the consequent part. The capability of the proposed ANFIS2 for function approximation and dynamical system identification is remarkable. The structure of ANFIS2 is very sim...

An adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system based on interval Gaussian type-2 fuzzy sets in the antecedent part and Gaussian type-1 fuzzy sets as coefficients of linear combination of input variables in the consequent part is presented in this paper. The capability of the proposed method (we named ANFIS2) for function approximation and dynamical system identification is remarkable. The structure o...

Achieving relatively high-accuracy short-term wind speed forecasting estimates is a precondition for the construction and grid-connected operation of wind power forecasting systems for wind farms. Currently, most research is focused on the structure of forecasting models and does not consider the selection of input variables, which can have significant impacts on forecasting performance. This p...

This work aims to investigate a simple to use and easy to interpret methodology for assessing the relative importance of input variables in artificial neural networks (ANNs) applied to epidemiological modelling. The independent variables were 43 variables of the social, economic, environmental and health sector of 59 Brazilian municipalities, and the outcomes were infant mortality rates from th...

We describe a method of automatically abducing qualitative models from descriptions of behaviors. We generate, from either quantitative or qualitative data, models in the form of qualitative differential equations suitable for use by QSIM. Constraints are generated and filtered both by comparison with the input behaviors and by dimensional analysis. If the user provides complete information on ...