The difficulty in gas price forecasting has attracted much attention of academic researchers and business practitioners. Various methods have been tried to solve the problem of forecasting gas prices however, all of the existing models of prediction cannot meet practical needs. In this paper, a novel hybrid intelligent framework is developed by applying a systematic integration of GMDH neural n...

During an earthquake, significant damage can result due to instability of the soil in the area affected by internal seismic waves. A liquefaction-induced lateral ground displacement has been a very damaging type of ground failure during past strong earthquakes. In this study, neuro-fuzzy group method of data handling (NF-GMDH) is utilized for assessment of lateral displacement in both ground sl...

In the case of substantial noise, i.e., for inaccurate and incomplete data, the use of the Group Method of Data Handling (GMDH) algorithm leads to sharp and rather deep minimums of dependency of external criterion of accuracy measured on testing sample on the complexity of model structure. This minimum indicates the optimal model. In practice, however, if the noise is just noticeable, i.e., if ...

An Artificial Neural Network is a flexible mathematical structure which is capable of identifying complex nonlinear relationships between input and output data sets. Such Neural Networks have been characterized by passive neurons that are not able to select and estimate their own inputs. In a new approach, which corresponds in a better way to the actions of human nervous system, the connections...

Virtual machines (VMs) dynamic consolidation is effective to improve the utilization of resources and energy efficiency in cloud environment. However, the obligation of providing high quality of service to customers leads to the necessity in dealing with the energy performance trade-off, as aggressive consolidation may lead to performance degradation. Current solutions to the problem of host lo...

in this work, a hybrid gmdh–neural network model was developed in order to predict the moisture content of papaya slices during hot air drying in a cabinet dryer. for this purpose, parameters including drying time, slices thickness and drying temperature were considered as the inputs and the amount of moisture ratio (mr) was estimated as the output. exactly 50% of the data points were used for ...

This study concerns numerical simulation, modeling and optimization of aerodynamic stall control using a synthetic jet actuator. Thenumerical simulation was carried out by a large-eddy simulation that employs a RNG-based model as the subgrid-scale model. The flow around a NACA0015 airfoil, including a synthetic jet located at 10 % of the chord, is studied under Reynolds number Re = 12.7 × 106 a...