• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제50권7호
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• pp.1154-1159
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• 2018

Precise prediction of the radiation interaction position in scintillators plays an important role in medical and industrial imaging systems. In this research, the incident position of the gamma rays was predicted precisely in a plastic rod scintillator by using attenuation technique and multilayer perceptron (MLP) neural network, for the first time. Also, this procedure was performed using nonlinear regression (NLR) method. The experimental setup is comprised of a plastic rod scintillator (BC400) coupled with two PMTs at two sides, a $^{60}Co$ gamma source and two counters that record count rates. Using two proposed techniques (ANN and NLR), the radiation interaction position was predicted in a plastic rod scintillator with a mean relative error percentage less than 4.6% and 14.6%, respectively. The mean absolute error was measured less than 2.5 and 5.5. The correlation coefficient was calculated 0.998 and 0.984, respectively. Also, the ANN technique was confirmed by leave-one-out (LOO) method with 1% error. These results presented the superiority of the ANN method in comparison with NLR and the other methods. The technique and set up used are simpler and faster than other the previous position sensitive detectors. Thus, the time, cost and shielding and electronics requirements are minimized and optimized.

• Soft Computing and Machine Intelligence
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2021

Analysis and Tracking of bug reports is a challenging field in software repositories mining. It is one of the fundamental ways to explores a large amount of data acquired from defect tracking systems to discover patterns and valuable knowledge about the process of bug triaging. Furthermore, bug data is publically accessible and available of the following systems, such as Bugzilla and JIRA. Moreover, with robust machine learning (ML) techniques, it is quite possible to process and analyze a massive amount of data for extracting underlying patterns, knowledge, and insights. Therefore, it is an interesting area to propose innovative and robust solutions to analyze and track bug reports originating from different open source projects, including Mozilla and Eclipse. This research study presents an ML-based classification model to analyze and track bug defects for enhancing software engineering management (SEM) processes. In this work, Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Naive Bayesian (NB) classifiers are implemented using open-source bug datasets, such as Mozilla and Eclipse. Furthermore, different evaluation measures are employed to analyze and evaluate the experimental results. Moreover, a comparative analysis is given to compare the experimental results of ANN with NB. The experimental results indicate that the ANN achieved high accuracy compared to the NB. The proposed research study will enhance SEM processes and contribute to the body of knowledge of the data mining field.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.15-30
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• 2009

In this study, the nonlinear vibrations of stepped beams having different boundary conditions were investigated. The equations of motions were obtained by using Hamilton's principle and made non dimensional. The stretching effect induced non-linear terms to the equations. Natural frequencies are calculated for different boundary conditions, stepped ratios and stepped locations by Newton-Raphson Method. The corresponding nonlinear correction coefficients are also calculated for the fundamental mode. At the second part, an alternative method is produced for the analysis. The calculated natural frequencies and nonlinear corrections are used for training an artificial neural network (ANN) program which has a multi-layer, feed-forward, back-propagation algorithm. The results of the algorithm produce errors less than 2.5% for linear case and 10.12% for nonlinear case. The errors are much lower for most cases except clamped-clamped end condition. By employing the ANN algorithm, the natural frequencies and nonlinear corrections are easily calculated by little errors, and the computational time is drastically reduced compared with the conventional numerical techniques.

• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.102-110
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• 2009

Application of artificial intelligence (AI) approaches in eco-environmental modeling has gradually increased for the last decade. Comprehensive understanding and evaluation on the applicability of this approach to eco-environmental modeling are needed. In this study, we reviewed the previous studies that used AI-techniques in eco-environmental modeling. Decision Tree (DT) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) were found to be major AI algorithms preferred by researchers in ecological and environmental modeling areas. When the effect of the size of training data on model prediction accuracy was explored using the data from the previous studies, the prediction accuracy and the size of training data showed nonlinear correlation, which was best-described by hyperbolic saturation function among the tested nonlinear functions including power and logarithmic functions. The hyperbolic saturation equations were proposed to be used as a guideline for optimizing the size of training data set, which is critically important in designing the field experiments required for training AI-based eco-environmental modeling.

• KIEE International Transaction on Systems and Control
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• 제2D권2호
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• pp.53-58
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• 2002

In this paper, various aspects in magnetoencephalography (MEG) source localization are studied. To minimize the errors in experimental data, an approximation technique using a polynomial function is proposed. The simulation shows that the proposed technique yields more accurate results. To improve the convergence characteristics in the optimization algorithm, a hybrid algorithm of evolution strategy and sensitivity analysis is applied to the neuromagnetic inverse problem. The effectiveness of the hybrid algorithm is verified by comparison with conventional algorithms. In addition, an artificial neural network (ANN) is applied to find an initial source location quickly and accurately. The simulation indicates that the proposed technique yields more accurate results effectively.

• 전기학회논문지P
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• 제62권4호
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• pp.186-191
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• 2013

Earth equipments are essential to protect ITS facilities from abnormal situation. In this research, an estimation algorithm of earth parameters and equivalent resistivity is introduced. Traditional estimation methods can be divided into graphic method and numerical method. The result of graphic method is varied by the ability of expert or repeated calculation and it is hard to estimate the parameters precisely. The numerical method requires special techniques such as optimizing theory, and numerous calculations, whose results can be varied with initial values. The proposed algorithm is based on the relationship between apparent resistances and earth parameters and approximates the nonlinear characteristics of earth using ANN(artificial neural networks). The effectiveness of proposed method is verified in case studies.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.255-261
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• 2022

Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPLs) in Internet of Things (IoT) is currently one of the most popular wireless technologies for sensor communication. RPLs are typically designed for specialized applications, such as monitoring or tracking, in either indoor or outdoor conditions, where battery capacity is a major concern. Several routing techniques have been proposed in recent years to address this issue. Nevertheless, the expansion of the network lifetime in consideration of the sensors' capacities remains an outstanding question. In this research, aANN-CUCKOO based optimization technique is applied to obtain a more efficient and dependable energy efficient solution in IOT-RPL. The proposed method uses time constraints to minimise the distance between source and sink with the objective of a low-cost path. By considering the mobility of the nodes, the technique outperformed with an efficiency of 98% compared with other methods. MATLAB software is used to simulate the proposed model.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.579-586
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• 2018

단기 통행속도 예측을 위해 데이터 기반 비모수적 기법들을 활용한 다양한 연구들이 수행되고 있다. 그럼에도 교통신호 및 교차로로 인한 복잡한 동적 특성을 가지는 도시부의 예측 연구는 상대적으로 부족한 실정이다. 본 연구는 도시부 통행 속도를 예측하기 위해 앙상블 경험적 모드 분해법(EEMD)과 인공신경망(ANN)을 이용한 하이브리드 접근법을 제안하는 것을 목적으로 한다. EEMD는 통행속도의 시계열 자료를 고유모드함수(IMF)와 오차항으로 분해한다. 분해된 IMF는 시간단위의 국지적 특성을 반영하며, ANN을 통해 개별적으로 예측된다. IMF는 원본데이터가 가진 비선형성, 비정상성, 진동 등의 복잡성을 완화하기 때문에, 원래의 통행속도에 비하여 더 정확하게 예측될 수 있다. 예측된 IMF들은 합산되어 예측 통행속도를 표현한다. 본 연구에서 제시된 방법을 검증하기 위하여 대구시의 DSRC로부터 구득된 통행속도 데이터가 활용된다. 성능평가는 도시부 링크 중 특히 예측이 어려운 지점에 대해 수행되었으며, 분석 결과 제시된 모형은 15분 후 예측에 대해 각각 평상시 10.41%, 와해상태시 25.35%의 오차율을 가지며, 단순 ANN 기법에 비하여 우수한 성능을 보이는 것으로 확인된다. 본 연구에서 개발된 모형은 도시교통관리체계의 신뢰성 있는 교통정보를 제공하는 데에 기여할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 교량 모니터링 시스템의 일부분으로 서해대교에 설치된 교량 하중측정 시스템(BWIM system)으로부터 획득한 신호를 분석하여 통행차량의 정보를 추출하기 위한 알고리즘의 개발과정과 이를 위해 수행한 현장 차량주행시험에 대하여 기술하였다. 개발된 BWIM 시스템은 포장층에 매설하는 축감지기가 없는 형태로, 바닥판과 가로보에 설치된 변형률계로부터 측정한 시간이력 변형률신호만을 이용하였다. 이들 측정신호로부터 추출하고자 하는 차량의 정보는 통과차로, 통과속도, 차 축수 및 총 중량이며, 이들 정보의 추출을 위해 패턴인식기법의 일종인 인공신경망(Aritificial Neural Network, ANN) 기법을 사용하였다. 현장 차량주행시험을 통하여 기지차량 및 미지차량 통행시의 BWIM 응답 데이터를 측정하였으며, 이들 실측데이터를 사용하여 인공신경망의 학습 및 성능검증을 수행하였다. 개발된 기법을 사용하여 추출되는 차량의 정보들은 현재의 교량상태 및 피로수명 평가시 활용될 수 있을 것이며, 향후 설계트럭 하중모델의 개정시 기초자료로도 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 품질경영학회지
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• 제47권3호
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• pp.497-508
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• 2019

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to overcome limitations of conventional studies that to predict Baltic Dry Index (BDI). The study proposed applications of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) named Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) to predict BDI. Methods: The BDI time-series prediction was carried out through eight variables related to the dry bulk market. The prediction was conducted in two steps. First, identifying the goodness of fitness for the BDI time-series of specific ANN models and determining the network structures to be used in the next step. While using ANN's generalization capability, the structures determined in the previous steps were used in the empirical prediction step, and the sliding-window method was applied to make a daily (one-day ahead) prediction. Results: At the empirical prediction step, it was possible to predict variable y(BDI time series) at point of time t by 8 variables (related to the dry bulk market) of x at point of time (t-1). LSTM, known to be good at learning over a long period of time, showed the best performance with higher predictive accuracy compared to Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) and Recurrent Neural Network (RNN). Conclusion: Applying this study to real business would require long-term predictions by applying more detailed forecasting techniques. I hope that the research can provide a point of reference in the dry bulk market, and furthermore in the decision-making and investment in the future of the shipping business as a whole.