Prediction of tractor repair and maintenance costs using Artificial Neural Network

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 8999-9007

  Rohani, Abbas ^a   Abbaspour Fard, Mohammad Hossein ^b   Abdolahpour, Shamsolla ^c  

^a SHAHROOD UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

Author keywords

ANN; Basic Back propagation; BDLRF algorithm; Repair and maintenance cost

Indexed keywords

AGRO-INDUSTRY; ALTERNATIVE METHODS; ANN; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BASIC BACK-PROPAGATION; BDLRF ALGORITHM; COST COMPONENTS; ECONOMICAL DECISIONS; EMPIRICAL DATA; OPTIMAL PARAMETER; REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE; REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE COST; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SINGLE NETWORKS; TRAINING ALGORITHMS; TRIAL-AND-ERROR PROCEDURES; WHEEL DRIVES;

BACKPROPAGATION ALGORITHMS; COSTS; FORECASTING; MACHINERY; NEURAL NETWORKS; TRACTORS (AGRICULTURAL); TRACTORS (TRUCK);

REPAIR;

EID: 79952441281     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.01.118     Document Type: Article

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