Assessment of M5′ model tree and classification and regression trees for prediction of scour depth below free overfall spillways

Neural Computing and Applications

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 357-366

  Samadi, Mehrshad ^a   Jabbari, Ebrahim ^a   Azamathulla, H Md ^b  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b RIVER ENGINEERING AND URBAN DRAINAGE RESEARCH CENTRE REDAC   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Classification and regression trees; Free overfall spillways; Model trees; Scour depth

Indexed keywords

BRIDGE PIERS; DECISION TREES; FORECASTING; SOFT COMPUTING; SPILLWAYS;

CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREE; FREE OVERFALL; MODEL TREES; PREDICTION EQUATIONS; SCOUR DEPTH; SOFT COMPUTING APPROACHES; SOFT COMPUTING MODELS; STATISTICAL MEASURES;

SCOUR;

CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTATION; FORESTRY; NEURAL NETWORKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCOURING;

EID: 84892882142     PISSN: 09410643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00521-012-1230-9     Document Type: Article

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