scholarly journals Investigating the impact of the Chi-Chi earthquake on the occurrence of debris flows using artificial neural networks

2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (19) ◽  
pp. 2728-2736 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fi-John Chang ◽  
Yen-Ming Chiang ◽  
Wong-Shuo Lee
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Artificial Neural Networks ◽  
Debris Flows ◽  
Artificial Neural ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Atmospheric Pollutant Flow and Precipitation: Modeling Effects on the Vegetation Ecosystem

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 157-161
Author(s):  
Allag Fateh ◽  
Saddek Bouharati ◽  
Lamri Tedjar ◽  
Mohamed Fenni
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Artificial Neural Networks ◽  
Chemical Composition ◽  
Wide Distribution ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Mathematical Methods ◽  
Atmospheric Pollutant ◽  
Artificial Neural ◽  
Precipitation Modeling ◽  
The Impact

Because of their fixed life and wide distribution, plants are the first victims of air pollution. The atmosphere is considered polluted when the increase of the rate of certain components causes harmful effects on the different constituents of the ecosystems. The study of the flow of air near a polluting source (cement plant in our case), allows to predict its impact on the surrounding plant ecosystem. Different factors are to be considered. The chemical composition of the air, the climatic conditions, and the impacted plant species are complex parameters to be analyzed using conventional mathematical methods. In this study, we propose a system based on artificial neural networks. Since artificial neural networks have the capacity to treat different complex parameters, their application in this domain is adequate. The proposed system makes it possible to match the input and output spaces. The variables that constitute the input space are the chemical composition, the concentration of the latter in the rainwater, their duration of deposition on the leaves and stems, the climatic conditions characterizing the environment, as well as the species of plant studied. The output variable expresses the rate of degradation of this species under the effect of pollution. Learning the system makes it possible to establish the transfer function and thus predict the impact of pollutants on the vegetation.

Assessing the impact of PM2.5 on respiratory disease using artificial neural networks

2018 ◽  
Vol 235 ◽  
pp. 394-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela Polezer ◽  
Yara S. Tadano ◽  
Hugo V. Siqueira ◽  
Ana F.L. Godoi ◽  
Carlos I. Yamamoto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Artificial Neural Networks ◽  
Respiratory Disease ◽  
Artificial Neural ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Water, Energy, and Carbon with Artificial Neural Networks (WECANN): a statistically based estimate of global surface turbulent fluxes and gross primary productivity using solar-induced fluorescence

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (18) ◽  
pp. 4101-4124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyed Hamed Alemohammad ◽  
Bin Fang ◽  
Alexandra G. Konings ◽  
Filipe Aires ◽  
Julia K. Green ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Artificial Neural Networks ◽  
Eddy Covariance ◽  
Latent Heat ◽  
Gross Primary Production ◽  
Turbulent Fluxes ◽  
Uncertainty Estimates ◽  
Artificial Neural ◽  
The Impact

Abstract. A new global estimate of surface turbulent fluxes, latent heat flux (LE) and sensible heat flux (H), and gross primary production (GPP) is developed using a machine learning approach informed by novel remotely sensed solar-induced fluorescence (SIF) and other radiative and meteorological variables. This is the first study to jointly retrieve LE, H, and GPP using SIF observations. The approach uses an artificial neural network (ANN) with a target dataset generated from three independent data sources, weighted based on a triple collocation (TC) algorithm. The new retrieval, named Water, Energy, and Carbon with Artificial Neural Networks (WECANN), provides estimates of LE, H, and GPP from 2007 to 2015 at 1°  ×  1° spatial resolution and at monthly time resolution. The quality of ANN training is assessed using the target data, and the WECANN retrievals are evaluated using eddy covariance tower estimates from the FLUXNET network across various climates and conditions. When compared to eddy covariance estimates, WECANN typically outperforms other products, particularly for sensible and latent heat fluxes. Analyzing WECANN retrievals across three extreme drought and heat wave events demonstrates the capability of the retrievals to capture the extent of these events. Uncertainty estimates of the retrievals are analyzed and the interannual variability in average global and regional fluxes shows the impact of distinct climatic events – such as the 2015 El Niño – on surface turbulent fluxes and GPP.

scholarly journals Water, Energy, and Carbon with Artificial Neural Networks (WECANN): A statistically-based estimate of global surface turbulent fluxes using solar-induced fluorescence

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyed Hamed Alemohammad ◽  
Bin Fang ◽  
Alexandra G. Konings ◽  
Julia K. Green ◽  
Jana Kolassa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Artificial Neural Networks ◽  
Latent Heat ◽  
Gross Primary Production ◽  
Sensible Heat Flux ◽  
Turbulent Fluxes ◽  
Input Dataset ◽  
Artificial Neural ◽  
The Impact

Abstract. A new global estimate of surface turbulent fluxes, including latent heat flux (LE), sensible heat flux (H), and gross primary production (GPP) is developed using remotely sensed Solar-Induced Fluorescence (SIF) and other radiative and meteorological variables. The approach uses an artificial neural network (ANN) with a Bayesian perspective to learn from the training datasets: a target input dataset is generated using three independent data sources and a triple collocation (TC) algorithm to define a prior distribution. The new retrieval, named Water, Energy, and Carbon with Artificial Neural Networks (WECANN), provides surface turbulent fluxes from 2007 to 2015 at 1° × 1° spatial resolution and on monthly time resolution. The quality of ANN training is assessed using the target data, and the WECANN retrievals are validated using FLUXNET tower measurements across various climates and conditions. WECANN performs well in most cases and is strongly constrained by SIF information. The impact of SIF on WECANN retrievals is evaluated by removing it from the input dataset of the ANN, and it shows that SIF has significant influence, especially in regions of high vegetation cover and in humid conditions. When compared to in situ eddy covariance observations, WECANN typically outperforms other estimates, particularly for sensible and latent heat fluxes.

scholarly journals Approximation of the process of changes in deformation of land surface using artificial neural networks

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 00009
Author(s):  
Maria Mrówczyńska ◽  
Jacek Sztubecki
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Artificial Neural Networks ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Reference System ◽  
Surface Deformation ◽  
Copper Mining ◽  
Vertical Displacements ◽  
Artificial Neural ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Impact

Artificial neural networks are an interesting method for modelling phenomena, including spatial phenomena, which are difficult to describe with known mathematical models. The properties of neural networks enable their practical application for solving such problems as: approximation, interpolation, identification and classification of patterns, compression, prediction, etc. The article presents the use of multilayer feedforward artificial neural networks for describing the process of changes in land surface deformation in the area of the Legnica-Głogów Copper Mining Centre, located in the southern part of the Fore Sudetic Monocline. Results provided by geodesic monitoring, which consists of land surveying and interpreting data obtained in this way, are undoubtedly significant in terms of identifying the impact of mining on the land surface the results of measurements carried out by precise levelling in the years 19672014 were used to determine changes in land deformation in the Legnica-Głogów Copper Mining Centre. The concept of a flexible reference system was used to assess the stability of points in the measurement and control network stabilized in order to determine vertical displacements. However, the reference system itself was identified on the basis of the critical value of the increment of the square of the norm of corrections to the observations.

scholarly journals Experimental Implementation of a Neural Network Optical Channel Equalizer in Restricted Hardware Using Pruning and Quantization

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Argüello Ron ◽  
Pedro Jorge Freire De Carvalho Sourza ◽  
Jaroslaw E. Prilepsky ◽  
Morteza Kamalian-Kopae ◽  
Antonio Napoli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Artificial Neural Networks ◽  
Computational Complexity ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Complexity Reduction ◽  
Edge Computing ◽  
Optical Channel ◽  
Raspberry Pi ◽  
Artificial Neural ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The deployment of artificial neural networks-based optical channel equalizers on edge-computing devices is critically important for the next generation of optical communication systems. However, this is a highly challenging problem, mainly due to the computational complexity of the artificial neural networks (NNs) required for the efficient equalization of nonlinear optical channels with large memory. To implement the NN-based optical channel equalizer in hardware, a substantial complexity reduction is needed, while keeping an acceptable performance level. In this work, we address this problem by applying pruning and quantization techniques to an NN-based optical channel equalizer. We use an exemplary NN architecture, the multi-layer perceptron (MLP), and address its complexity reduction for the 30 GBd 1000 km transmission over a standard single-mode fiber. We demonstrate that it is feasible to reduce the equalizer’s memory by up to 87.12%, and its complexity by up to 91.5%, without noticeable performance degradation. In addition to this, we accurately define the computational complexity of a compressed NN-based equalizer in the digital signal processing (DSP) sense and examine the impact of using different CPU and GPU settings on power consumption and latency for the compressed equalizer. We also verify the developed technique experimentally, using two standard edge-computing hardware units: Raspberry Pi 4 and Nvidia Jetson Nano.

scholarly journals Quantifying the Brain Predictivity of Artificial Neural Networks With Nonlinear Response Mapping

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aditi Anand ◽  
Sanchari Sen ◽  
Kaushik Roy
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Artificial Neural Networks ◽  
Image Recognition ◽  
Mapping Function ◽  
Classification Performance ◽  
Linear Mapping ◽  
Brain Responses ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Artificial Neural ◽  
The Impact

Quantifying the similarity between artificial neural networks (ANNs) and their biological counterparts is an important step toward building more brain-like artificial intelligence systems. Recent efforts in this direction use neural predictivity, or the ability to predict the responses of a biological brain given the information in an ANN (such as its internal activations), when both are presented with the same stimulus. We propose a new approach to quantifying neural predictivity by explicitly mapping the activations of an ANN to brain responses with a non-linear function, and measuring the error between the predicted and actual brain responses. Further, we propose to use a neural network to approximate this mapping function by training it on a set of neural recordings. The proposed method was implemented within the TensorFlow framework and evaluated on a suite of 8 state-of-the-art image recognition ANNs. Our experiments suggest that the use of a non-linear mapping function leads to higher neural predictivity. Our findings also reaffirm the observation that the latest advances in classification performance of image recognition ANNs are not matched by improvements in their neural predictivity. Finally, we examine the impact of pruning, a widely used ANN optimization, on neural predictivity, and demonstrate that network sparsity leads to higher neural predictivity.

scholarly journals Using of Artificial Neural Networks in Support System of Forensic Building-Technical Expertise

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 3162-3168 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Artificial Neural Networks ◽  
Technical Condition ◽  
Fuzzy Neural Networks ◽  
Impact Factors ◽  
Technical Expertise ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
Resonance Theory ◽  
Artificial Neural ◽  
The Impact

The article contains an analysis of the order of forensic building-technical expertise and expert research to determine the reasons for the deterioration of the technical condition of the structural elements of buildings. The conditions for forming expert conclusions about the possible correlation between the appearance of negative changes in the technical condition of the structural elements that have become the subject of forensic building-technical expertise and the various factors of influence of the environment are investigated. In doing so, the focus is on the impact factors associated with carrying out renovation work in adjacent premises. In addition, issues related to the fuzzy uncertainty of the different nature of the expert researches are highlighted. Some of these problems are proposed to be solved by the using of artificial neural networks in the fuzzy subsystem of the system of support of forensic building-technical expertise. It is shown that a considerable part of the materials of forensic building-technical expertise and expert research is represented by photographs of injuries. Fixation of damaged structures is reflected in the plans of premises and schemes of placement of structures in the buildings. The graphic information of the research materials is accompanied by textual information, the processing of which requires the use of models and methods of fuzzy mathematics. The fragment of the knowledge base is provided, which contains information on the geometric parameters of damage to building structures and an example of a fuzzy rule that reflects an expert conclusion. The expediency of using fuzzy neural networks of adaptive resonance theory of the Cascade ARTMAP category is substantiated. Cascade ARTMAP memory card schematic is shown.

Using Artificial Neural Networks to Forecast Market Response

2011 ◽  
pp. 23-46
Author(s):  
Leonard J. Parsons ◽  
Ashutosh Dixit
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Artificial Neural Networks ◽  
Sales Performance ◽  
Marketing Mix ◽  
Causal Modeling ◽  
Market Response ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Artificial Neural ◽  
Marketing Actions ◽  
The Impact

Marketing managers must quantify the effects of marketing actions on contemporaneous and future sales performance. This chapter examines forecasting with artificial neural networks in the context of model-based planning and forecasting. The emphasis here is on causal modeling; that is, forecasting the impact of marketing mix variables, such as price and advertising, on sales.

Impact Detection Using Artificial Neural Networks

2011 ◽  
Vol 488-489 ◽  
pp. 767-770 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Ghajari ◽  
Z. Sharif-Khodaei ◽  
M.H. Aliabadi
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Artificial Neural Networks ◽  
Stiffened Panel ◽  
Fe Method ◽  
Impact Detection ◽  
Impact Position ◽  
Composite Stiffened Panel ◽  
Location Detection ◽  
Artificial Neural ◽  
The Impact

In this work, a number of impacts on a composite stiffened panel fitted with piezoceramic sensors were simulated with the finite element (FE) method. During impacts, the contact force history and strains at the sensors were recorded. These data were used to train, validate and test two artificial neural networks (ANN) for the prediction of the impact position and the peak of the impact force. The performance of the network for location detection has been promising but the other network should be further improved to provide acceptable predictions about the peak force.

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