Fuzzy neural networks for water level and discharge forecasting with uncertainty

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 523-537

  Alvisi, Stefano ^a   Franchini, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Discharge forecasting; Fuzzy numbers; Uncertainty; Water level forecasting

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DISCHARGE FORECASTING; FUZZY NUMBERS; UNCERTAINTY; WATER LEVEL FORECASTING;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; FORECASTING; FUZZY RULES; FUZZY SETS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER LEVELS;

FUZZY NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER LEVEL;

EID: 78650584376     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2010.10.016     Document Type: Article

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