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This paper is concerned with a multi-resolution tool for analysis of a time series aiming to detect abnormalities in various frequency regions. The task is treated as a kernel based novelty detection applied to a multi-level time series representation obtained from the discrete wavelet transform. Having a priori knowledge that the abnormalities manifest themselves in several frequency regions, a committee of detectors utilizing data dependent aggregation weights is build by combining outputs of detectors operating in those regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we propose a two-pass classification method and apply it to face recognitions. The method is obtained by integrating together two approaches, the hyper-ellipsoid neural networks (HENN's) and the SVM's with error correcting codes. This method realizes a classification operation in two passes: the first one is to get an intermediate classification result for an input sample by using the HENN's, and the second pass is followed by using the SVM's to re-classify the sample based on both the input data and the intermediate result. Simulations conducted in the paper for applications to face recognition showed that the two-pass method can maintain the advantages of both the HENN's and the SVM's while remedying their disadvantages. Compared with the HENN's and the SVM's, a significant improvement of recognition performance over them has been achieved by the new method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Accurate cancer classification is very important to cancer diagnosis and treatment. As molecular information is increasing for the cancer classification, a lot of techniques have been proposed and utilized to classify and predict the cancers from gene expression profiles. In this paper, we propose a method based on speciated evolution for the cancer classification. The optimal combination among several feature-classifier pairs from the various features and classifiers is evolutionarily searched using the deterministic crowding genetic algorithm. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method is more effective than the standard genetic algorithm and the fitness sharing genetic algorithm as well as the best single classifier to search the optimal ensembles for the cancer classification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an approach for solving the driving load forecasting problem based on Cascade Neural Networks with node-decoupled extended Kalman Filtering (CNN-NDEKF). Because of the inherent advantages, hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) are being given more and more attention. The power control strategy of HEVs is the key technology which determines the HEV's efficiency and pollutive emission level. Since the extent of improvement involved with HEV power control strategies greatly depends on the future driving load forecasting, in this paper, we attempt to achieve driving load forecasting using CNN-NDEKF. Instead of forecasting the entire load sequence, we define 5 load levels by a fuzzy logic method and then we forecast the load level. Simulation study is given to illustrate the feasibility of the driving load forecasting approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aiming at improving the convergence performance of conventional BP neural network, this paper presents an improved PSO algorithm instead of gradient descent method to optimize the weights and thresholds of BP network. The strategy of the algorithm is that in each iteration loop, on every dimension d of particle swarm containing n particles, choose the particle whose velocity decreases most quickly to mutate its velocity according to some probability. Simulation results show that the new algorithm is very effective. It is successful to apply the algorithm to gas turbine fault diagnosis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we study the Cohen-Grossberg neural networks with mixed time-varying delays. By applying the Lyapunov functional method and combining with the inequality 3abc ≤ a3 + b3 + c3 (a,b,c > 0) technique, a series of new and useful criteria on the existence of equilibrium point and its global asymptotical stability are established. The results obtained in this paper extend and generalize the corresponding results existing in previous literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies a general class of neural networks with time-varying delays and the neuron activations belong to the set of discontinuous monotone increasing functions. The discontinuities in the activations are an ideal model of the situation where the gain of the neuron amplifiers is very high. Because the delay in combination with high-gain nonlinearities is a particularly harmful source of potential instability, in the paper, conditions which ensure the global convergence of the neural network are derived. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Electromagnetic (EM)-based neural network (NN) approaches have recently gained recognition as unconventional and useful methods for radio frequency (RF) components modeling. In this paper, several improvement techniques including a new data preprocessing technique and an improved training algorithm are presented. Comprehensive cases are compared in this paper. The experimental results indicate that with these techniques, the modified model has better performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper suggests an automated method for document classification using an ontology, which expresses terminology information and vocabulary contained in Web documents by way of a hierarchical structure. Ontologybased document classification involves determining document features that represent the Web documents most accurately, and classifying them into the most appropriate categories after analyzing their contents by using at least two pre-defined categories per given document features. In this paper, Web documents are classified in real time not with experimental data or a learning process, but by similar calculations between the terminology information extracted from Web texts and ontology categories. This results in a more accurate document classification since the meanings and relationships unique to each document are determined. Keywords: Document classification, Ontology, Web Page classification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Raster map should be corrected after scanned because of the errors caused by paper map deformation. In the paper, the deficiency of the polynomial fitting method is analyzed. The paper introduces an ANN (Artificial Neural Network) correcting method that utilizes the advantage of its function approximation ability. In the paper, two types of ANNs, BP and GRNN, are designed for the correcting. The comparing experiment is done with the same data by the polynomial fitting and ANN methods, utilizing the MALAB. The experiment results show that the ANN methods, especially the GRNN method, performances far better than the polynomial fitting method does. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The www is a dynamic environment and it is difficult to capture the user preferences and interests without interfering with the normal activity of the user. Hence to improve user searching in the World Wide Web, we have proposed a personalized search system that supports user searches by learning about user preferences and by observing responses to prior search experiences aided by a new index called the User Conceptual Index (UCI). This paper models every user's search behavior as a User's Search Behavior (USB) Graph. The main focus of this paper is the analysis of the USB graph and the redesign of the UCI using the results arrived from the analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An optimization algorithm for dynamic Bayesian networks (DBN) based on Bayesian optimization algorithm (BOA) is developed for learning and constructing the DBN structure. In this paper, we first introduce some basic theories and concepts of probability model evolutionary algorithm. Then we describe, the basic mode for constructing DBN diagram and the mechanism of DBN structure learning based on BOA. The DBN structure learning based on BOA consists of two parts. The first part is to obtain the structure and parameters of DBN in terms of a good solution, and the second part is to produce new groups according to the obtained DBN structure. In this paper, the DBN learning is achieved by genetics algorithm based on a greedy mechanism. The DBN inference is performed by a forward-simulation algorithm. Simulation results are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Generalization problem is a key problem in NN society, which can be grouped into two classes: the generalization problem with unlimited size of training sample and that with limited size of training sample. The generalization problem with limited size of training sample is considered in this paper. Similar to margin maximization criterion in SVM, we propose a margin maximization training algorithm for BP network to further improve the generalization ability of BP network. Experimental results show that the margin maximization training algorithm proposed in this paper does improve the performance of BP network, and shows a comparable performance with SVM. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Chaotic noise cancellation has potential application in both secret communication and radar target identification. To solve the problem of parameter estimation in chaotic noise, a novel radial basis function neural network (RBF-NN) -based chaotic time series data modeling method is presented in this paper. Together with the spectral analysis technique, the algorithm combines neural network's ability to approximate any nonlinear function. Based on the flexibility of RBF-NN predictor and classical amplitude spectral analysis technique, this paper proposes a new algorithm for parameter estimation in chaotic noise. Analysis of the proposed algorithm's principle and simulation experiments results are given out, which show the effective of the proposed method. We conclude that the study has potential application in various fields as in secret communication for narrow band interference rejection or attenuation and in radar signal processing for weak target detection and identification in sea clutter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The controlled system is an uncertain nonlinear differential-algebraic subsystem (DASs) in a large-scale system. The problem of robust stabilization for such class of uncertain nonlinear DASs is considered in this paper. The robust stabilization controller is proposed based on backstepping approach using two-layer Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) whose weights are updated on-line. The closed-loop error systems are uniformly ultimately bounded (UUB) and the error of convergence can be made arbitrarily small. Finally, using the design scheme proposed in this paper, a governor controller is designed for one synchronous generator in a multi-machine power systems. The simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper develops a new blind channel identification method in frequency domain. Oversampled signal has the property of spectral redundancy in frequency domain which is corresponding to the cyclostationarity property in time domain. This method exploits the cyclostationarity of oversampled signals to identify possibly non-minimum phase FIR channels. Unlike many existing methods, this method doesn't need EVD or SVD of correlation matrix. Several polynomials are constructed and zeros of channels are identified through seeking for common zeros of those polynomials. It is in the similar spirit of Tong's frequency approach, but this new algorithm is much simpler and computationally more efficient. A sufficient and necessary condition for channel identification is also provided in this paper. This condition is quite similar to Tong's time domain theory but it is derived from a novel point of view. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Most of the algorithms proposed in the literature deal with the problem of digital modulation classification and consider classic probabilistic or decision tree classifiers. In this paper, we compare and analyze the performance of 2 neural network classifiers and 3 support vector machine classifiers (i.e. 1-v-r type, 1-v-1 type and DAG type multi-class classifier). This paper also deals with the modulation classification problems of classifying both analog and digital modulation signals in military and civilian communications applications. A total of 7 statistical signal features are extracted and used to classify 9 modulation signals. It is known that the existing technology is able to classify reliably (accuracy ≥ 90%) only at SNR above 10dB when a large range of modulation types including both digital and analog is being considered. Numerical simulations were conducted to compare performance of classifiers. Results indicated an overall success rate of over 95% at the SNR of 10dB in all classifiers. Especially, it was shown that 3 support vector machine classifiers can achieve the probabilities of correct classification (Pcc) of 96.0%, 97.3% and 97.8% at the SNR of 5dB, respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recently, the distribution and using of the digital multimedia contents are easy by developing the internet application program and related technology. However, the digital signal is easily duplicated and the duplicates have the same quality compare with original digital signal. To solve this problem, there is the multimedia fingerprint which is studied for the protection of copyright. Fingerprinting scheme is a technique which supports copyright protection to track redistributors of electronic information using cryptographic techniques. Only regular user can know the inserted fingerprint data in fingerprinting schemes differ from a symmetric/asymmetric scheme and the scheme guarantee an anonymous before re-contributed data. In this paper, we present a new scheme which is the detection of colluded multimedia fingerprint by neural network. This proposed scheme is consists of the anti-collusion code generation and the neural network for the error correction. Anti-collusion code based on BIBD(Balanced Incomplete Block Design) was made 100% collusion code detection rate about the average linear collusion attack, and the Hopfield neural network using (n,k) code designing for the error bits correction confirmed that can correct error within 2bits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Currently, there is little quantitative research on macroscopic real estate finance at home and abroad. Seen from the whole system of real estate finance, this paper chooses 14 main indexes to compose an evaluation index system. Based on the evaluation index system, an error -back-propagation BP network model is built to evaluate the growth of real estate finance. Data of real estate financial system from 1997-2005 are used as train and test samples of BP neural network. After training, the BP neural network is used to evaluate and forecast by simulation. Through the good accuracy of evaluation and forecasting, the model is proved to be very efficient. By comparing the growing difference of two adjacent years and analyzing the related macro financial policies in related years, the running effect of related real estate financial policies in related years is gained. So by using the evaluation model of this paper, decision makers can decide to use what kind of macro adjusting and controlling policies to gain anticipated aim of real estate finance in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Code reuse in software reuse has several limitations such as difficulties of understanding and retrieval of the reuse code written by other developers. To overcome these problems, it should be possible to reuse the analysis/design information than source code itself. In this paper, I present analogical matching techniques for the reuse of object models and design patterns. We have suggested the design patterns as reusable components and the representation techniques to store them. The contents of the paper are as follows. 1) Analogical matching functions to retrieve analogous design patterns from reusable libraries. 2) The representation of reusable components to be stored in the library in order to support the analogical matching. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

According to analysis of both neuro-electrophysiological experimental data and the biophysical properties of neurons, in early research paper we proposed a new biophysical model that reflects the property of energy coding in neuronal activity. On the based of the above research work, in this paper the proposed biophysical model can reproduce the membrane potentials and the depolarizing membrane current by means of neuro-electrophysiological experimental data. Combination with our previous research results, the proposed biophysical model is demonstrated again to be more effective compared with known biophysical models of neurons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The existence and global asymptotic stability of a large class of Cohen-Grossberg neural networks is discussed in this paper. Previous papers always assume that the amplification function has positive lower and upper bounds, which excludes a large class of functions. In our paper, it is only needed that the amplification function is positive. Also, the model discussed is general, the method used is direct and the conditions needed are weak. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper investigates the existence and global stability of periodic solution of non-autonomous neural networks with delay. Then the existence and uniqueness of periodic solutions of the neural networks are discussed in the paper. Moreover, criterion on stability of periodic solutions of the neural networks is obtained by using matrix function inequality, and algorithm for the criterion on the neural networks is provided. Result in the paper generalizes and improves the result in the existing references. In the end, an illustrate example is given to verify our results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper mainly discusses a generic scheme for on-line adaptive critic design for nonlinear system based on neural dynamic programming (NDP), more exactly, an improved action-depended dual heuristic dynamic programming (ADDHP) method. The principal merit of the proposed method is to avoid the model neural network which predicts the state of next time step, and only use current and previous states in the method, as makes the algorithm more suitable for real-time or on-line application for process control. In this paper, convergence proof of the method will also be given to guarantee the control to reach the optimal. At last, simulation result verifies the performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses a new application of adaptive dynamic programming (ADP). Meanwhile, traffic control as an important factor in social development is a valuable research topic. Considering with advancement of ADP and importance of traffic control, this paper present a new signal control in a single intersection. Simulation results show that the proposed signal control is valid. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a model predictive control (MPC) based on a neural network (NN) model for air/fuel ration (AFR) control of automotive engines. The novelty of the paper is that the severe nonlinearity of the engine dynamics are modelled by a NN to a high precision, and adaptation of the NN model can cope with system uncertainty and time varying effects. A single dimensional optimization algorithm is used in the paper to speed up the optimization so that it can be implemented to the engine fast dynamics. Simulations on a widely used mean value engine model (MVEM) demonstrate effectiveness of the developed method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A novel nonlinear discriminant analysis method, Kernelized Decision Boundary Analysis (KDBA), is proposed in our paper, whose Decision Boundary feature vectors are the normal vector of the optimal Decision Boundary in terms of the Structure Risk Minimization principle. We also use a simple method to prove a property of Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithm, which is combined with the optimal Decision Boundary Feature matrix to make our method consistent with the Kernel Fisher method(KFD). Moreover, KDBA is easily used in its applications, and the traditional Decision Boundary Analysis implementations are computationally expensive and sensitive to the size of the problem. Text classification problem is first used to testify the effectiveness of KDBA. Then experiments on the large-scale face database, the CAS-PEAL database, have illustrated its excellent performance compared with some popular face recognition methods such as Eigenface, Fisherface, and KFD. Keywords: Face Recognition, Kernel Fisher, Support Vector Machine [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with a problem of recognition by gait when time-dependent covariates are added, i.e. when 6 months have passed between recording of the gallery and the probe sets. We show how recognition rates fall significantly when data is captured between lengthy time intevals, for static and dynamic gait features. Under the assumption that it is possible to have some subjects from the probe for training and that similar subjects have similar changes in gait over time, a predictive model of changes in gait is suggested in this paper, which can improve the recognition capability. A small number of subjects were used for training and a much large number for classification and the probe contains the covariate data for a smaller number of subjects. Our new predictive model derives high recognition rates for different features which is a considerable improvement on recognition capability without this new approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the chaotic characteristics of violent abnormal vibration signals of a large rolling mill, and studies phase space reconstruction techniques of the signals. On this basis, the vibration model of wavelet neural networks and the model of backpropagation neural networks are set up, respectively, through inversion methods. The properties of these two models are tested and compared with each other. The result shows that the wavelet neural networks have an advantage over the backpropagation neural networks in rapid convergence and high accuracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we present a well designed method that makes use of edge information to extract textual blocks from gray scale document images. It aims at detecting textual regions on heavy noise infected newspaper images and separate them from graphical regions. The algorithm traces the feature points in different entities and then groups those edge points of textual regions. Finally feature based connected component merging was introduced to gather homogeneous textual regions together within the scope of its bounding rectangles. The proposed method can be used to locate text in-group of newspaper images with multiple page layouts. Initial results are encouraging, then they are experimented with considerable number of newspaper images with different layout structures and promising results were obtained. This finds its major application in digital libraries for OCR where information can be of different quality depending on the age of the scanned paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we present a HMM based system that is used to recognize ultra low resolution text such as those frequently embedded in images available on the web. We propose a system that takes specifically the challenges of recognizing text in ultra low resolution images into account. In addition to this, we show in this paper that word models can be advantageously built connecting together sub-HMM-character models and inter-character state. Finally we report on the promising performance of the system using HMM topologies which have been improved to take into account the presupposed minimum length of each character. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An automated approach for computation of the frontal plane QRS vector and an important observation of its clinical significance is described in this paper. Frontal plane QRS vector is computed from the six frontal plane leads ( Standard leads I, II, III , AVR, AVL and AVF). The R-R interval of each ECG wave is detected by square derivative technique. The baseline or isoelectric level of every ECG wave is determined. After that the net positive or net negative deflection (NQD) of QRS complex is detected. Net positive or net negative deflection in any lead is obtained by subtracting the smaller deflection (+ve or -ve) from the larger deflection (-ve or +ve). An algorithm is developed for computation of the exact angle,amplitude and direction of the frontal plane QRS vector from maximum and minimum NQD. In the present work, the PTB diagnostic ECG database of normal and Myocardial Infarction (MI) subjects is used for computation of the QRS vector. An interesting clinical observation that, the rotation of QRS axis for MI data may significantly detect the region of the infarcted cardiac wall, is reported in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Automatic tracking of references involves aggregating and synthesizing references through World Wide Web, thereby introducing greater efficiency and granularity to the task of finding publication information. This paper discusses the design and implementation of crawler-based reference tracking system, which has the advantage of online reference filtering. The system automatically analyses the semantic relevance of the reference article by harvesting keywords and their meanings, from title and abstract of the respective article. Indirectly this attempts to improve the performance of the reference database by reducing the articles that are actually being downloaded thereby improving the performance of the system. The number of levels for recursive downloads of reference articles are specified by the user. According to user's interest the system tracks up the references required for the understanding of the seed article, stores them in the databases and projects the information by threshold based view filtering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a framework for using a case-based reasoning system for stock analysis in financial market. The unique aspect of this paper is the use of a hierarchical structure for case representation. The system further incorporates a multi-criteria decision-making algorithm which furnishes the most suitable solution with respect to the current market scenario. Two important aspects of financial market are addressed in this paper: stock evaluation and investment planning. CBR and multi-criteria when used in conjunction offer an effective tool for evaluating goodness of a particular stock based on certain factors. The system also suggests a suitable investment plan based on the current assets of a particular investor. Stock evaluation maps to a flat case structure, but investment planning offers a scenario more suited for structuring the case into successive detailed layers of information related to different facets. This naturally leads to a hierarchical case structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a computer vision guidance system for agricultural vehicles. This system is based on a segmentation algorithm that uses an optimum threshold function in terms of minimum quadratic value over a discriminant based on the Fisher lineal discriminant. This system has achieved not only very interesting results in the sense of segmentation, but it has also guided successfully a vehicle in a real world environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Transmission of images and video over unreliable channels produces visual artifacts due to either loss or corruption of bit streams. Error concealment schemes aim at reducing such degradation and improving the visual quality. Error concealment schemes usually conceal errors of a specific type. This points towards the possibility of combining more than one scheme, for efficient error concealment and better visual effects. In this paper, we propose a scheme for error concealment using a combination of watermarking and Projection Onto Convex Sets (POCS). Watermarking an image using the information derived from the host data itself conceals errors initially and those which are prominent even after this stage are concealed through POCS. The proposed method can be used for concealing errors in images and intra coded video by preserving average values through watermarking and edge information through POCS. Simulation results of POCS, watermarking and watermarking with POCS are given in the paper to show the advantage of combining both the methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Applications in various domains often lead to very large and frequently high-dimensional data. Successful algorithms must avoid the curse of dimensionality but at the same time should be computationally efficient. Finding useful patterns in large datasets has attracted considerable interest recently. The primary goal of the paper is to implement an efficient Hybrid Tree based clustering method based on CF-Tree and KD-Tree, and combine the clustering methods with KNN-Classification. The implementation of the algorithm involves many issues like good accuracy, less space and less time. We will evaluate the time and space efficiency, data input order sensitivity, and clustering quality through several experiments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Detecting the boundaries of protein domains has been an important and challenging problem in experimental and computational structural biology. In this paper the domain detection is first taken as an imbalanced data learning problem. A novel undersampling method using distance-based maximal entropy in the feature space of SVMs is proposed. On multiple sequence alignments that are derived from a database search, multiple measures are defined to quantify the domain information content of each position along the sequence. The overall accuracy is about 87% together with high sensitivity and specificity. Simulation results demonstrate that the utility of the method can help not only in predicting the complete 3D structure of a protein but also in the machine learning system on general imbalanced datasets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Provide these intelligent medical services, it is necessary to understand the situation information generated in a hospital. There should be infra technologies that can classify and control the information for processing situation data, not mere collection of conceptual information, with clear standards. This paper, as a study to seize the information generated from medical situation more clearly, understood the property of data using neural network and applied the security ratings of information so that the system to provide the user appropriate to designated rating with analyzed medical information is established. It will be an effective measure to enhance the effectiveness of medical devices and backup data already introduced and understand the various medical data that will be generated from medical devices to be introduced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An edge detection method by combining image entropy and Self -Organizing Map (SOM) is proposed in this paper. First, according to information theory image entropy is used to curve up the smooth region and the region of gray level abruptly changed. Then we transform the gray level image to ideal binary pattern of pixels. We define six classes' edge and six edge prototype vectors. These edge prototype vectors are fed into input layer of the Self-Organizing Map (SOM). Classifying the type of edge through this network, the edge image is obtained. At last, the speckle edges are discarded from the edge image. Experimental results show that it gained better edge image compared with Canny edge detection method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the development of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), automatic license plate recognition (LPR) plays an important role in numerous applications in reality. In this paper, a coarse to fine algorithm to detect license plates in images and video frames with complex background is proposed. First, the method based on Component Connect (CC) is used to detect the possible license plate regions in the coarse detection. Second, the method based on texture analysis is applied in the fine detection. Finally, a BP Neural Network is adopted as classifier, parts of the features is selected based on statistic diagram to make the network efficient. The average accuracy of detection is 95.3% from the images with different angles and different lighting conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Of the possible interactions between human and robot, touch is an important means of providing human beings with emotional relief. However, most previous studies have focused on interactions based on voice and images. In this paper, a method of recognizing human touching behaviors is proposed for developing a robot that can naturally interact with humans through touch. In this method, the recognition process is divided into pre-process phase and recognition phase. In the pre-process phase, recognizable characteristics are calculated from the data generated by the touch detector which was fabricated using force sensors. The force sensor used an FSR (force sensing register). The recognition phase classifies human touching behaviors using a multi-layer perceptron which is a neural network model. We measured three different human touching behaviors for six men. The human touching behaviors are ‘hitting,' 'stroking,' and ‘tickling'. In the test conducted with recognizers generated for each user, the average recognition rate was 93.8%, while the test conducted with a single recognizer showed a 79.8% average recognition rate. These results show the feasibility of the proposed human touching behavior recognition method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the construction of a wide class of singlehidden layer neural networks (SLNNs) with or without tunable parameters in the hidden nodes. It is a challenging problem if both the parameter training and determination of network size are considered simultaneously. Two alternative network construction methods are considered in this paper. Firstly, the discrete construction of SLNNs is introduced. The main objective is to select a subset of hidden nodes from a pool of candidates with parameters fixed ‘a priori'. This is called discrete construction since there are no parameters in the hidden nodes that need to be trained. The second approach is called continuous construction as all the adjustable network parameters are trained on the whole parameter space along the network construction process. In the second approach, there is no need to generate a pool of candidates, and the network grows one by one with the adjustable parameters optimized. The main contribution of this paper is to show that the network construction can be done using the above two alternative approaches, and these two approaches can be integrated within a unified analytic framework, leading to potentially significantly improved model performance and/or computational efficiency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At present, most of the algorithms for learning Bayesian Networks (BNs) use EM algorithm to deal with incomplete data. They are of low efficiency because EM algorithm has to perform iterative process of probability reasoning to complete the incomplete data. In this paper we present an efficient BN learning algorithm, which use the combination of EMI method and a scoring function based on mutual information theory. The algorithm first uses EMI method to estimate, from incomplete data, probability distributions over local structures of BNs, then evaluates BN structures with the scoring function and searches for the best one. The detailed procedure of the algorithm is depicted in the paper. The experimental results on Asia and Alarm networks show that when achieving high accuracy, the algorithm is much more efficient than two EM based algorithms, SEM and EM-EA algorithms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fuzzy Petri net (FPN) is a powerful modeling tool for fuzzy production rules based knowledge systems. But it is lack of learning mechanism, which is the main weakness while modeling uncertain knowledge systems. Fuzzy neural Petri net (FNPN) is proposed in this paper, in which fuzzy neuron components are introduced into FPN as a sub-net model of FNPN. For neuron components in FNPN, back propagation (BP) learning algorithm of neural network is introduced. And the parameters of fuzzy production rules in FNPN neurons can be learnt and trained by this means. At the same time, different neurons on different layers can be learnt and trained independently. The FNPN proposed in this paper is meaningful for Petri net models and fuzzy systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Consumer demand for intelligent battery charges is increasing as portable electronic applications continue to grow. Fast charging of battery packs is a problem which is difficult, and often expensive, to solve using conventional techniques. Conventional techniques only perform a linear approximation of a nonlinear behavior of a battery packs. The battery charging is a nonlinear electrochemical dynamic process and there is no exact mathematical model of battery. Better techniques are needed when a higher degree of accuracy and minimum charging time are desired. In this paper we propose soft computing approach based on fuzzy recurrent neural networks (RFNN) training by genetic algorithms to control batteries charging process. This technique does not require mathematical model of battery packs, which are often difficult, if not impossible, to obtain. Nonlinear and uncertain dynamics of the battery pack is modeled by recurrent fuzzy neural network. On base of this FRNN model, the fuzzy control rules of the control system for battery charging is generated. Computational experiments show that the suggested approach gives least charging time and least Tend-Tstart results according to the other intelligent battery charger works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, synchronization is investigated for an array of nonlinearly coupled identical connected neural networks with delay. By employing the Lyapunov functional method and the Kronecker product technique, several sufficient conditions are derived. It is shown that global exponential synchronization of the coupled neural networks is guaranteed by a suitable design of the coupling matrix, the inner linking matrix and some free matrices representing the relationships between the system matrices. The conditions obtained in this paper are in the form of linear matrix inequalities, which can be easily computed and checked in practice. A typical example with chaotic nodes is finally given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed synchronization scheme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aiming at the existence of relativity between repeat or similar samples and character parameters during diagnosis of character data, this paper presents an effective data analysis approach for character data compression from bi-direction, which can reduce the burden of learning machine without losing the connotative character knowledge of character data. At the first step of the algorithm, basing on the theory of component analysis, the paper adopt a principal component analysis approach to reduce the dimension of data horizontally, then after comparison of existing clustering algorithms, put forward an immune clustering algorithm based on similarity measurement of principle component core for vertical reduction by using related mechanism of clone selection as well as immune network self-stabilization in organism natural immune system for reference. Finally, to analyze machine behavior quantitatively, a pattern discrimination model based on a cerebellar model articulation controller neural network (NN) was developed. Simulation experiments proved the effectiveness of this algorithm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aiming at the problem of parameter estimation in radar detection, a modified RBF neural network is proposed to estimate parameter accurately because of its good approximation ability to random nonlinear function and quick convergence speed. Two classical detection methods, which widely used in radar field, are listed in this paper, and their corresponding parameters are estimated with modified RBF neural network. Theoretical analysis and numerical results both show that the proposed method has good parameter estimation accuracy and quick convergence speed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Image segmentation is of great importance in the field of image processing. A wide variety of approaches have been proposed for image segmentation. However, SAR image segmentation poses a difficult challenge owing to the high levels of speckle noise. In this paper, we proposed a SAR image segmentation method based on one-class support vector machines (SVM) to solve this problem. One-class SVM and two-class SVM for segmentation is discussed. One-class way is a kind of unsupervised learning, and one-class SVM based segmentation method reduces greatly human interactions, while yielding good segmentation results compared to two-class SVM based segmentation method. The segmentation results based on SVM are also compared to threshold method and adaptive threshold method. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method works well for image segmentation while reducing the speckle noise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]