Reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) is one of the waste materials that highway agencies promote to use in new construction or rehabilitation of highways pavement. Since the use of RAP can affect the resilient modulus and other structural properties of flexible pavement layers, this paper aims to employ two different artificial neural network (ANN) models for modeling and evaluating the effects of ...

-This paper focuses the function approximation capability of feed forward neural network (FFNN). A Graphical user Interface (GUI) system has been developed and tested for function approximation. This GUI system can approximate any nonlinear/linear function which can have any number of input variable and six output variables. Configuration of neural network can be set from a single GUI window. A...

artificial neural networks have the advantages such as learning, adaptation, fault-tolerance, parallelism and generalization. this paper mainly intends to offer a novel method for finding a solution of a fuzzy equation that supposedly has a real solution. for this scope, we applied an architecture of fuzzy neural networks such that the corresponding connection weights are real numbers. the sugg...

The paper is based on feed forward neural network (FFNN) optimization by particle swarm intelligence (PSI) used to provide initial weights and biases to train neural network. Once the weights and biases are found using Particle swarm optimization (PSO) with neural network used as training algorithm for specified epoch, the same are used to train the neural network for training and classificatio...

This letter describes the first derivatives estimation of nonlinear parameters through an embedded identifier in the hybrid system by using a feed-forward neural network (FFNN). The hybrid systems are modelled by the differential-algebraic-impulsive-switched (DAIS) structure. The FFNN is used to identify the full dynamics of the hybrid system. Moreover, the partial derivatives of an objective f...

Recurrent neural network (RNN) are being extensively used over feed-forward neural networks (FFNN) because of their inherent capability to capture temporal relationships that exist in the sequential data such as speech. This aspect of RNN is advantageous especially when there is no a priori knowledge about the temporal correlations within the data. However, RNNs require large amount of data to ...

t is becoming increasingly difficult to have data security nowadays. There have been used various cryptography methods in literature, but recent developments in computational area have heightened the need of new methods. In this study the feed-forward artificial neural network (FFNN) was used with a different perspective by using the structure of artificial neural network as a key as a solution...

Abstract-This paper investigates the ability of feed-forward neural network (FFNN) classifiers trained with examples to generalize and estimate the structure of the feature space in the form of class membership information. A functional theory of FFNN classifiers is developed from formal definitions. The properties of discriminant functions learned by FFNN classifiers from sample data are also ...

We examine various and different approaches for the prediction of economic crisis periods of US economy. We examine the traditional econometric discrete choice Logit and Probit models then a feed-forward neural network (FFNN) model and finally we apply an Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS). We examine the period 1950-2009, where we take as the in-sample or training period 1950-2005, ...

This paper presents a novel edge detector based on Feed-Forward Neural Networks (FFNNs). The FFNN computing architecture has two stages, which is a feature enhancement stage as well as a structural boundary extraction stage. The first stage is a traditional supervised BP network, and the second one is manually designed without training. Experiments based on both synthetic and natural images sho...