• Computers and Concrete
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• 제3권5호
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• pp.357-373
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• 2006

The concepts of four parameters of nominal water-cement ratio, equivalent water-cement ratio, average paste thickness, fly ash-binder ratio were introduced. It was verified that the four parameters and the mix proportion of mortar can be transformed each other. The behaviors (strength, workability, et al.) of mortar primarily determined by the mix proportion of mortar now depend on the four parameters. The prediction models of strength and workability of mortar were built based on artificial neural networks (ANNs). The calculation models of average paste thickness and equivalent water-cement ratio of mortar can be obtained by the reversal deduction of the two prediction models, respectively. A mortar mix proportion design algorithm was proposed. The proposed mortar mix proportion design algorithm is expected to reduce the number of trial and error, save cost, laborers and time.

• Journal of Oral Medicine and Pain
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• 제47권2호
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• pp.107-108
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• 2022

Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the use of machines to mimic intelligent human behavior. It involves interactions with humans in clinical settings, and augmented intelligence is considered as a cognitive extension of AI. The importance of AI in healthcare and medicine has been emphasized in recent studies. Machine learning models, such as genetic algorithms, artificial neural networks (ANNs), and fuzzy logic, can learn and examine data to execute various functions. Among them, ANN is the most popular model for diagnosis based on image data. AI is rapidly becoming an adjunct to healthcare professionals and is expected to be human-independent in the near future. The introduction of AI to the diagnosis and treatment of oral diseases worldwide remains in the preliminary stage. AI-based or assisted diagnosis and decision-making will increase the accuracy of the diagnosis and render treatment more precise and personalized. Therefore, dental professionals must actively initiate and lead the development of AI, even if they are unfamiliar with it.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.127-130
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• 2022

The number of published journals, conferences, and research papers in computer science is increasing rapidly, which has led to a challenge in coming up with new and unique ideas for research. To alleviate the issue, this paper uses artificial neural networks (ANNs) to generate new computer science research ideas. It does so by using a dataset collected from IEEE published journals and conferences to train an ANN model. The results reveal that the model has a 14% success rate in generating usable ideas. The outcome of this paper has implications for helping both new and experienced researchers come up with novel research topics.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.93-122
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• 2024

One well-known reason for using Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) composites is to improve concrete strength and strain capacity via external confinement. Hence, various studies have been undertaken to offer a good illustration of the response of FRP-wrapped concrete for practical design intents. However, in such studies, the strength and strain of the confined concrete were predicted using regression analysis based on a limited number of test data. This study presents an approach based on artificial neural networks (ANNs) to develop models to predict the strength and strain at maximum stress enhancement of circular concrete cross-sections confined with different FRP types (Carbone, Glass, Aramid). To achieve this goal, a large test database comprising 493 axial compression experiments on FRP-confined concrete samples was compiled based on an extensive review of the published literature and used to validate the predicted artificial intelligence techniques. The ANN approach is currently thought to be the preferred learning technique because of its strong prediction effectiveness, interpretability, adaptability, and generalization. The accuracy of the developed ANN model for predicting the behavior of FRP-confined concrete is commensurate with the experimental database compiled from published literature. Statistical measures values, which indicate a better fit, were observed in all of the ANN models. Therefore, compared to existing models, it should be highlighted that the newly developed models based on FRP type are remarkably accurate.

• 한국터널지하공간학회 논문집
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.153-166
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 IT 기술을 이용한 터널 자동화 설계 시스템 개발에 관한 내용을 다루었다. 먼저 개발 시스템에 대한 개념 및 개발 과정과 시스템을 구성하는 각 요소기술 및 개별 모듈 개발에 관한 내용을 기술하였다. 본 시스템의 요소기술인 ANN-기반의 터널 저동 예측 기술에 대해 그 개념과 ANN 학습과정 및 검증과정을 기술하였다 ANN-기반의 터널거동 예측은 FEM 및 FDM 등 연속체 기반의 해석을 토대로 구축한 DB를 ANN을 통해 일반화 한 후 개발된 엔진을 세부모듈에 접목시켜 별도의 해석 없이 유사 단면 혹은 현장에 적용이 가능하도록 하였다. 본 논문에서는 구체적인 개발과정과 향후 적용방향에 대해 구체적인 내용을 기술하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권7호
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• pp.2736-2754
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• 2015

Android dominates the mobile operating system market, which stimulates the rapid spread of mobile malware. It is quite challenging to detect mobile malware. System call sequence analysis is widely used to identify malware. However, the malware detection accuracy of existing approaches is not satisfactory since they do not consider correlation of system calls in the sequence. In this paper, we propose a new scheme called Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) on Co-occurrence Matrices Droid (ANNCMDroid), using co-occurrence matrices to mine correlation of system calls. Our key observation is that correlation of system calls is significantly different between malware and benign software, which can be accurately expressed by co-occurrence matrices, and ANNs can effectively identify anomaly in the co-occurrence matrices. Thus at first we calculate co-occurrence matrices from the system call sequences and then convert them into vectors. Finally, these vectors are fed into ANN to detect malware. We demonstrate the effectiveness of ANNCMDroid by real experiments. Experimental results show that only 4 applications among 594 evaluated benign applications are falsely detected as malware, and only 18 applications among 614 evaluated malicious applications are not detected. As a result, ANNCMDroid achieved an F-Score of 0.981878, which is much higher than other methods.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.35-47
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• 2020

This paper proposes the use of transmissibility functions combined with a machine learning algorithm, Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), to assess damage in a truss bridge. A new approach method, which makes use of the input parameters calculated from the transmissibility function, is proposed. The network not only can predict the existence of damage, but also can classify the damage types and identity the location of the damage. Sensors are installed in the truss joints in order to measure the bridge vibration responses under train and ambient excitations. A finite element (FE) model is constructed for the bridge and updated using FE software and experimental data. Both single damage and multiple damage cases are simulated in the bridge model with different scenarios. In each scenario, the vibration responses at the considered nodes are recorded and then used to calculate the transmissibility functions. The transmissibility damage indicators are calculated and stored as ANNs inputs. The outputs of the ANNs are the damage type, location and severity. Two machine learning algorithms are used; one for classifying the type and location of damage, whereas the other for finding the severity of damage. The measurements of the Nam O bridge, a truss railway bridge in Vietnam, is used to illustrate the method. The proposed method not only can distinguish the damage type, but also it can accurately identify damage level.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제51권4호
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• pp.441-456
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• 2024

This paper aims to develop Machine Learning (ML) algorithms to predict the buckling resistance of cold-formed steel (CFS) channels with restrained flanges, widely used in typical CFS sheathed wall panels, and provide practical design tools for engineers. The effects of cross-sectional restraints were first evaluated on the elastic buckling behaviour of CFS channels subjected to pure axial compressive load or bending moment. Feedforward multi-layer Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) were then trained on different datasets comprising CFS channels with various dimensions and properties, plate thicknesses, and restraining conditions on one or two flanges, while the elastic distortional buckling resistance of the elements were determined according to the Finite Strip Method (FSM). To develop less biased networks and ensure that every observation from the original dataset has the chance of appearing in the training and test set, a K-fold cross-validation technique was implemented. In addition, the hyperparameters of the ANNs were tuned using a grid search technique to provide ANNs with optimum performances. The results demonstrated that the trained ANNs were able to predict the elastic distortional buckling resistance of CFS flange-restrained elements with an average accuracy of 99% in terms of coefficient of determination. The developed models were then used to propose a simple ANN-based design formula for the prediction of the elastic distortional buckling stress of CFS flange-restrained elements. Finally, the proposed formula was further evaluated on a separate set of unseen data to ensure its accuracy for practical applications.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제9B권4호
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• pp.407-414
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• 2002

최근 자신의 건강에 관한 관심이 고조됨에 따라 웹 상에서 많은 증상 진단 사이트들이 대두되고 있다. 그러나 기존의 건강정보 사이트들은 사용자에게 매우 제한된 기능만을 제공하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 신경망의 학습 효과를(전문가의 지식이 아니라) 진단 과정에 통합되도록 함으로써 유연한 증상-진단 도구를 제안한다. 즉 사용자(흑은 전문가)가 웹 상에서 단계별로 지정한 증상들을 바탕으로 하여 신경망 모델에 적용함으로써 보다 유연하게 사용자의 질병을 예측할 수 있는 새로운 알고리즘을 개발한다. 제안한 알고리즘은 두 가지 중요한 특징을 가진다 : 1) 일반 사용자들은 조기에 자신의 질병에 대한 진단을 받을 수 있고, 2) 전문가는 예상 질병 목록과 함께 각 질병의 가능성(확률)을 참조함으로써 진단의 정확성을 높일 수 있다는 점이다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.41-46
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• 2015

It is very important to make accurate forecast of wind power because of its indispensable requirement for power system stable operation. The research is to predict wind power by chaos and BP artificial neural networks (CBPANNs) method based on genetic algorithm, and to evaluate feasibility of the method of predicting wind power. A description of the method is performed. Firstly, a calculation of the largest Lyapunov exponent of the time series of wind power and a judgment of whether wind power has chaotic behavior are made. Secondly, phase space of the time series is reconstructed. Finally, the prediction model is constructed based on the best embedding dimension and best delay time to approximate the uncertain function by which the wind power is forecasted. And then an optimization of the weights and thresholds of the model is conducted by genetic algorithm (GA). And a simulation of the method and an evaluation of its effectiveness are performed. The results show that the proposed method has more accuracy than that of BP artificial neural networks (BP-ANNs).