Academic Articles & Research Papers

Thorax-Segment- and Leg-Segment-Specific Motor Control for Adaptive Behavior

We have just started to understand the mechanisms underlying flexibility of motor programs among segmental neural networks that control each individual leg during walking in vertebrates and invertebrates. Here, we investigated the mechanism...

Validation of Infinite Impulse Response Multilayer Perceptron for Modelling Nuclear Dynamics

Artificial neural networks are powerful algorithms for constructing nonlinear empirical models from operational data. Their use is becoming increasingly popular in the complex modeling tasks required by diagnostic, safety, and control appli...

Evaluation of Indoor Thermal Environments Using a Novel Predicted Mean Vote Model Based on Artificial Neural Networks

The assessment of indoor thermal environments is crucial to achieving thermal comfort and energy efficiency. However, the inaccurate evaluation and strong nonlinear variations of thermal comfort parameters limit engineering designs. Therefo...

Artificial Neural Networks

Introduction to neural networks

Artificial Neural Networks

Neural Networks for River Flow Prediction

The surface‐water hydrographs of rivers exhibit large variations due to many natural phenomena. One of the most commonly used approaches for interpolating and extending streamflow records is to fit observed data with an analytic power model...

Neural networks in geophysical applications

Abstract Neural networks are increasingly popular in geophysics. Because they are universal approximators, these tools can approximate any continuous function with an arbitrary precision. Hence, they may yield important contributions to fin...

Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition

In a simple and accessible way it extends embedding field theory into areas of machine intelligence that have not been clearly dealt with before. Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition takes the pioneering work in artificial neural network...

An Overview of Neural Network

Neural networks represent a brain metaphor for information processing. These models are biologically inspired rather than an exact replica of how the brain actually functions. Neural networks have been shown to be very promising systems in ...

Building neural networks

Foundations. Motivation. Neural-Network Fundamentals. Single Neuron Computations. Network Computations. Network Simulation. Foundations Summary. Suggested Readings. Bibliography. Paradigms. The Backpropagation Network. The Counterpropagatio...

Bayesian Regularization of Neural Networks

Bayesian regularized artificial neural networks (BRANNs) are more robust than standard back-propagation nets and can reduce or eliminate the need for lengthy cross-validation. Bayesian regularization is a mathematical process that converts ...

FPGA Implementations of Neural Networks

Essence of Neural Networks

* Introduction * Classifying Patterns * Clustering Patterns * Pattern Association * A Sample of Recurrent Networks * Some Other Network Models and A Few Practical Points * Links to Artificial Intelligence * Synthesising Symbols with Neural ...

Artificial neural networks: a tutorial

Artificial neural nets (ANNs) are massively parallel systems with large numbers of interconnected simple processors. The article discusses the motivations behind the development of ANNs and describes the basic biological neuron and the arti...

Binarized Neural Networks

We introduce a method to train Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) - neural networks with binary weights and activations at run-time and when computing the parameters' gradient at train-time. We conduct two sets of experiments, each based on a...

Neural Networks for Applied Sciences and Engineering

In response to the exponentially increasing need to analyze vast amounts of data, Neural Networks for Applied Sciences and Engineering: From Fundamentals to Complex Pattern Recognition provides scientists with a simple but systematic introd...

Determining the Optimum Layer Combination for Cross-Laminated Timber Panels According to Timber Strength Classes Using Artificial Neural Networks

The primary aim of this work was to determine the effects of production parameters, such as wood species and timber strength classes, on some mechanical properties of cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels using artificial neural network (ANN)...

Dissipativity analysis of stochastic fuzzy neural networks with randomly occurring uncertainties using delay dividing approach

This paper focuses on the problem of delay-dependent robust dissipativity analysis for a class of stochastic fuzzy neural networks with time-varying delay. The randomly occurring uncertainties under consideration are assumed to follow certa...

Assimilation of ASCAT Radar Backscatter Coefficients over Southwestern France

In this work, Advanced SCATterometer (ASCAT) backscatter data are directly assimilated into the interactions between soil, biosphere, and atmosphere (ISBA) land surface model using Meteo-France’s global Land Data Assimilation System (LDAS-M...