Construction of a radial basis function network using an evolutionary algorithm for grade estimation in a placer gold deposit

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1592-1602

  Samanta, B ^a   Bandopadhyay, S ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b University of Alaska Fairbanks   (United States)

Author keywords

Data division; Evolutionary algorithms; Genetic algorithms; Grade estimation; RBF network

Indexed keywords

BAD DATA; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DATA DIVISION; DATA SEGMENTATION; DATA SETS; FEED-FORWARD NETWORK; GEOSTATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; GRADE ESTIMATION; INTEGRATED APPROACH; ORDINARY KRIGING; PREDICTIVE PERFORMANCE; RANDOM DATA; RBF MODEL; RBF NETWORK; SIMULATION STUDIES;

ATTITUDE CONTROL; DEPOSITS; ESTIMATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GOLD DEPOSITS;

RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CALIBRATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GOLD; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORE GRADE; PARAMETERIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PLACER DEPOSIT;

EID: 67650550498     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2009.01.006     Document Type: Article

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