no unique method has been so far specified for determining the number of neurons in hidden layers of multi-layer perceptron (mlp) neural networks used for prediction. the present research is intended to optimize the number of neurons using two meta-heuristic procedures namely genetic and hill climbing algorithms. the data used in the present research for prediction are consumption data of water...

An artificial neural network has been used to determine the volume flux and rejections of Ca2+ , Na+ and Cl¯, as a function of transmembrane pressure and concentrations of Ca2+, polyethyleneimine, and polyacrylic acid in water softening by nanofiltration process in presence of polyelectrolytes. The feed-forward multi-layer perceptron artificial neural network including an eight-neuron hidde...

In recent years, many machine learning methods have been used in network traffic identification.In order to improve the accuracy and solve some problems of network traffic identification, this paper presents a multi layer perceptron neural network-based method for network traffic identification, and parameters of multi-layer perceptron neural network are analyzed. Experimental results show that...

The change of land use/land cover has been known as an imperative force in environmental alteration, especially in arid and semi-arid areas. This research was mainly aimed to assess the validity of two major types of land change modeling techniques via a three dimensional approach in Birjand urban watershed located in an arid climatic region of Iran. Thus, a Markovian approach based on two suit...

in some statistical process control applications, the quality of the product is characterized by thecombination of both correlated variable and attributes quality characteristics. in this paper, we propose anovel control scheme based on the combination of two multi-layer perceptron neural networks forsimultaneous monitoring of mean vector as well as the covariance matrix in multivariate-attribu...

in this paper, the grouting ability of sandy soils is investigated by artificial neural networks based on the results of chemical grout injection tests. in order to evaluate the soil grouting potential, experimental samples were prepared and then injected. the sand samples with three different particle sizes (medium, fine, and silty) and three relative densities (%30, %50, and %90) were injecte...

In this paper, the grouting ability of sandy soils is investigated by artificial neural networks based on the results of chemical grout injection tests. In order to evaluate the soil grouting potential, experimental samples were prepared and then injected. The sand samples with three different particle sizes (medium, fine, and silty) and three relative densities (%30, %50, and %90) were injecte...

We have proposed the glial network which was inspired from the feature of brain. In the glial network, glias generate independent oscillations and these oscillations propagated neurons and other glias. We confirmed that the glial network improved the learning performance of the Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) In this article, we investigate the MLP with the impulse glial network. The glias have on...