You can think of a neural network as a complex function that accepts some numeric inputs and that generates some numeric outputs. A neural network has weights and bias values that, along with the ...

Journal of Urban and Environmental Engineering, Vol. 10, No. 1 (January to June 2016), pp. 42-49 (8 pages) Abstract: Land use planning seeks to divide land, the most valuable resource in the hands of ...

Journal of Coastal Research, SPECIAL ISSUE NO. 111. Today’s Modern Coastal Society: Technical and Sociological Aspects of Coastal Research (FALL 2020), pp. 279-282 (4 pages) Path planning plays an ...

Particle swarm optimization isn't usually seen as the first-choice technique for training a neural network but, as James McCaffrey demonstrates, it's a useful alternative. Particle swarm optimization ...

Abstract: The initial study of this research applied the particle swarm optimization (PSO) heuristic to the orienteering problem (OP). PSO is a fairly new evolutionary heuristic-type algorithm created ...

Abstract: To meet the requirement for high-precision thickness measurement of silicon-based thin films in integrated circuits and the semiconductor industry, spectroscopic reflectometry has been ...

The familiar early summer call of the cuckoo has inspired composer and poet alike, but the sound belies the bird's true parasitic nature. Now, researchers have taken the cuckoo's wont to deposit its ...