Mapping environmental conditions in the St. Lawrence River onto ice parameters using artificial neural networks to predict ice jams

2003 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 758-765 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Morse ◽  
Masoud Hessami ◽  
Céline Bourel
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Artificial Neural Networks ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Unit Discharge ◽  
Feed Forward ◽  
Ice Jams ◽  
Feed Forward Network ◽  
Ice Concentration ◽  
Artificial Neural ◽  
St Lawrence River

This paper evaluates the potential of using artificial neural networks to model ice parameters related to ice jams in the St. Lawrence River navigation channel through Lake St. Pierre. The artificial neural networks mapped environmental conditions onto ice parameters through multilayer feed-forward networks. The ice parameters include velocity, thickness, concentration, and unit discharge. The input to the network is based on two meteorological parameters: wind velocity and air temperature. The Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm with Bayesian regularization is used to train the feed-forward network. The artificial neural networks adequately modelled the ice parameters. The predicted ice velocity, thickness, and unit discharge were very satisfactory, but ice concentration was not. Methods to improve forecasting (particularly of ice concentration) are suggested.Key words: ice parameters, ice jam, artificial neural network, ADCP, IPS.

scholarly journals A Novel Multimean Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Nonlinear Continuous Optimization: Application to Feed-Forward Neural Network Training

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehmet Hacibeyoglu ◽  
Mohammed H. Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Particle Swarm Optimization ◽  
Artificial Neural Networks ◽  
Optimization Algorithm ◽  
Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm ◽  
Particle Swarm ◽  
Continuous Optimization ◽  
Swarm Optimization ◽  
Feed Forward ◽  
Artificial Neural

Multilayer feed-forward artificial neural networks are one of the most frequently used data mining methods for classification, recognition, and prediction problems. The classification accuracy of a multilayer feed-forward artificial neural networks is proportional to training. A well-trained multilayer feed-forward artificial neural networks can predict the class value of an unseen sample correctly if provided with the optimum weights. Determining the optimum weights is a nonlinear continuous optimization problem that can be solved with metaheuristic algorithms. In this paper, we propose a novel multimean particle swarm optimization algorithm for multilayer feed-forward artificial neural networks training. The proposed multimean particle swarm optimization algorithm searches the solution space more efficiently with multiple swarms and finds better solutions than particle swarm optimization. To evaluate the performance of the proposed multimean particle swarm optimization algorithm, experiments are conducted on ten benchmark datasets from the UCI repository and the obtained results are compared to the results of particle swarm optimization and other previous research in the literature. The analysis of the results demonstrated that the proposed multimean particle swarm optimization algorithm performed well and it can be adopted as a novel algorithm for multilayer feed-forward artificial neural networks training.

Contributions to Predict the Malfunction Probability of the Human-Machine-Environment System, Using Artificial Neural Networks

2015 ◽  
Vol 760 ◽  
pp. 771-776
Author(s):  
Daniel Constantin Anghel ◽  
Nadia Belu
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Artificial Neural Networks ◽  
Design Experiment ◽  
Manufacturing Processes ◽  
Feed Forward Neural Network ◽  
Feed Forward ◽  
Linear Relationships ◽  
The Neural Network ◽  
Artificial Neural

This paper presents the application of Artificial Neural Networks to predict the malfunction probability of the human-machine-environment system, in order to provide some guidance to designers of manufacturing processes. Artificial Neural Networks excel in gathering difficult non-linear relationships between the inputs and outputs of a system. We used, in this work, a feed forward neural network in order to predict the malfunction probability. The neural network is simulated with Matlab. The design experiment presented in this paper was realized at University of Pitesti, at the Faculty of Mechanics and Technology, Technology and Management Department.

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