The slope stability analysis is routinely performed by engineers to estimate the stability of river training works, road embankments, embankment dams, excavations and retaining walls. This paper presents a new approach to build a model for the prediction of slope stability state. The support vector machine (SVM) is a new machine learning method based on statistical learning theory, which can so...

Support vector machine (SVM) is a popular classification technique with many diverse applications. Parameter determination and feature selection significantly influences the classification accuracy rate and the SVM model quality. This paper proposes two novel approaches based on: Microcanonical Annealing (MA-SVM) and Threshold Accepting (TA-SVM) to determine the optimal value parameter and the ...

Support Vector Machines(SVMs) have succeeded in many classification fields. Some researchers have tried to apply SVMs to Intrusion Detection recently and got desirable results. By analyzing C-SVM theoretically and experimentally, we found that C-SVM had some properties which showed C-SVM was not most suitable for Network Intrusion Detection. First, C-SVM has different classification error rates...

Breast cancer is an all too common disease in women, making how to effectively predict it an active research problem. A number of statistical and machine learning techniques have been employed to develop various breast cancer prediction models. Among them, support vector machines (SVM) have been shown to outperform many related techniques. To construct the SVM classifier, it is first necessary ...

The prediction of structural domains in novel protein sequences is becoming of practical importance. One important area of application is the development of computer-aided techniques for identifying, at a low cost, novel protein domain targets for large-scale functional and structural proteomics. Here, we report a loop-length-dependent support vector machine (SVM) prediction of domain linkers, ...

The ν-support vector machine (ν-SVM) for classification proposed by Schölkopf et al. has the advantage of using a parameter ν on controlling the number of support vectors. In this paper, we investigate the relation between ν-SVM and C-SVM in detail. We show that in general they are two different problems with the same optimal solution set. Hence we may expect that many numerical aspects on solv...

The generalization error bound of support vector machine (SVM) depends on the ratio of radius and margin, while standard SVM only considers the maximization of the margin but ignores the minimization of the radius. Several approaches have been proposed to integrate radius and margin for joint learning of feature transformation and SVM classifier. However, most of them either require the form of...

Comparing with the standard L2-norm support vector machine (SVM), the L1-norm SVM enjoys the nice property of simultaneously preforming classification and feature selection. In this paper, we investigate the statistical performance of L1-norm SVM in ultra-high dimension, where the number of features p grows at an exponential rate of the sample size n. Different from existing theory for SVM whic...