Prediction of soil physical properties by optimized support vector machines

International Agrophysics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 109-115

  Besalatpour, A ^a   Hajabbasi, M A ^a   Ayoubi, S ^a   Gharipour, A ^a   Jazi, A Y ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Aggregate stability; Simulated annealing algorithm; Soft computing; Soil shear strength; Support vector machines

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGGREGATE SIZE; ALGORITHM; ERROR ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OPTIMIZATION; PREDICTION; SHEAR STRENGTH; SIMULATED ANNEALING; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL PROPERTY;

EID: 84863206794     PISSN: 02368722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10247-012-0017-7     Document Type: Article

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