Protein is an important component of milk powder. The fast and non-destructive detection of protein content in milk powder is important. Infrared spectroscopy technique was applied to achieve this purpose. Least-squares support vector machine (LS-SVM) was applied to building the protein prediction model based on spectral transmission rate. The determination coefficient for prediction (R2pÞ was ...

In this letter, we comment on "Pruning Error Minimization in Least Squares Support Vector Machines" by B. J. de Kruif and T. J. A. de Vries. The original paper proposes a way of pruning training examples for least squares support vector machines (LS SVM) using no regularization (-gamma = infinity). This causes a problem as the derivation involves inverting a matrix that is often singular. We di...

Accurately predicting non-peak traffic is crucial to daily traffic for all forecasting models. In the paper, least squares support vector machines (LS-SVMs) are investigated to solve such a practical problem. It is the first time to apply the approach and analyze the forecast performance in the domain. For comparison purpose, two parametric and two non-parametric techniques are selected because...

In this paper we propose a new technique for the identification of NARX Hammerstein systems. The new technique is based on the theory of Least Squares Support Vector Machines function-approximation and allows to determine the memoryless static nonlinearity as well as the linear model parameters. As the technique is non-parametric by nature, no assumptions about the static nonlinearity need to b...

In least squares support vector machines (LS-SVMs), the optimal separating hyperplane is obtained by solving a set of linear equations instead of solving a quadratic programming problem. But since SVMs and LS-SVMs are formulated for two-class problems, unclassifiable regions exist when they are extended to multiclass problems. In this paper, we discuss fuzzy LS-SVMs that resolve unclassifiable ...

This article employs Least Square Support Vector Machine (LSSVM) for determination of Compression Index (Cc) of marine clay in east coast of Korea. This study uses LSSVM as a regression tool. In LSSVM, the regression equation is obtained as the solution to a linear system instead of a quadratic programming (QP) problem. The input parameters of LSSVM are natural water content (n), liquid limit ...

the use of third-party logistics (3pl) providers is regarded as new strategy in logistics management. the relationships by considering 3pl are sometimes more complicated than any classical logistics supplier relationships. these relationships have taken into account as a well-known way to highlight organizations' flexibilities to regard rapidly uncertain market conditions, follow core competenc...

The accurate prediction of significant wave height (SWH) offers major safety improvements for coastal and ocean engineering applications. However, the phenomenon is nonlinear nonstationary, which makes any work a non-straightforward task. aim research presented in this paper to improve predicted via hybrid algorithm. Firstly, an empirical mode decomposition (EMD) used preprocess data, are decom...

Credit risk evaluation has been the major focus of financial and banking industry due to recent financial crises and regulatory concern of Basel II. Recent studies have revealed that emerging artificial intelligent techniques are advantageous to statistical models for credit risk evaluation. In this study, we discuss the use of least square support vector machine (LSSVM) technique to design a c...

Accurate real-time crash risk evaluation is essential for making prevention strategy in order to proactively improve traffic safety. Quite a number of models have been developed to evaluate traffic crash risk, by using real-time surveillance data. In this paper, the basic idea of traffic safety region is introduced into highway crash risk evaluation. Traffic safety region aims to describe the s...