Treatment and assessment of nonlinear seismic data by a genetic algorithm based neural network model

International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 45-56

  Kerh, Tienfuan ^a   Chan, Yaling ^a   Gunaratnam, David ^b  

^a NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Curve fitting; Genetic algorithm; Global search; Neural network; Nonlinear seismic data; Potentially hazardous identification

Indexed keywords

EID: 65349154453     PISSN: 15651339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/IJNSNS.2009.10.1.45     Document Type: Article

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