Weather analysis using ensemble of connectionist learning paradigms

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 995-1004

  Maqsood, Imran ^a   Abraham, Ajith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Elman recurrent neural network; Ensemble; Forecasting; Multi layered perceptron; Radial basis function; Simulation; Statistical model; Weather

Indexed keywords

LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ELMAN RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS; ENSEMBLE; MULTILAYERED PERCEPTRON; NEUROCOMPUTING; STATISTICAL MODELS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 34047267854     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2006.06.005     Document Type: Article

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