... research Behavior Neural nets Information technology Metaverse is an immersive environment that enables users to do all their activities in the physical world with like-minded people in the virtual environment and explore the world via a single screen. It removes geographical barriers...

... Consciousness Neural nets Cybernetics Autopoiesis Brain In cognitive science, feature and vector-based models of concept networks have been developed for lexical semantics (Schreuder and Flores D’arcais, 1989 ; Widdows, 2004). Many of these exhibit spreading activation through networks on the basis...

... 2014 Artificial intelligence Classification Neural nets Markov processes As the number of elderly people continuously increases in western countries as well as third-word countries as the result of enhanced health care and living standards, the associated costs to support elderly...

..., beyond comparing the accuracy, its outcomes and its efficiency in classification are demonstrated. Professor Xin Ma can be contacted at: xin.ma@hotmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Environmental management Classification Neural nets There exists very strong...

... for membership determination and multi‐attribute classification. Heng Ma can be contacted at: hengma@chu.edu.tw © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Information systems Neural nets Classification Architecture Facing the challenges of digital information era, the demands...

... to train ANN by BPM. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Programming and algorithm theory Neural nets Searching Simplex search Derivative free Artificial neural networks Training algorithm Robust Benchmark solution Derivative free optimization has recently gained...

... are parameters and output is expert valuation. Yingying Su can be contacted at: yy_su2000@yahoo.com.cn © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Modelling Optimization techniques Neural nets Genetic algorithms Complex systems Computational intelligence Optimization method is not only...

... at: jg_wang2000@163.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Neural nets Loading (physics) Forecasting Electric power systems Time series analysis Short‐term load forecast (STLF) is important to daily operations of a power utility. It is required for unit commitment, energy transfer...

... Neural nets Stability (control theory) Cybernetics Phase equilibrium Kosko (1987, 1988) has proposed a series of neural networks related to bi‐directional associative memory (BAM). These models generalized the single‐layer auto associative Hebbian correlates to a tow‐layer pattern‐matched...

... for detecting infrared targets. Cybernetics Neural nets Systems and control theory Infra‐red devices Image processing Gray scale estimating is one of the basic and important attributes of the detecting of infrared object. It is necessary to carry out the analysis of gray scale before the image...

... can be contacted at: laopeng129@vip.sina.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Cybernetics Fuzzy control Neural nets Lubricating oils Transformers Gases Dissolved gas analysis (DGA), as an important supervising method for incipient fault diagnosis of power transformer...

...‐adaptive learning rates, to improve convergence. Cybernetics Neural nets Error analysis Searching Programming and algorithm theory (d) if f (w _j−Δ w _j d _{j)≥ f (w j}...

... Group Publishing Limited 2010 Cybernetics Neural nets Adaptive system theory Estimation Yigao Deng can be contacted at: eagle‐dee@163.com This paper proposes a robust adaptive recursive estimation method for the derivatives of system outputs. In each step of estimation...

... A frequently used structure of CM, with a fuzzy c‐means clustering algorithm as splitting and combining unit and some single‐layer linear neural nets as expert modules, was applied to short‐term climate prediction. Considering the complexity of the climate conditions, use was made of two‐layer back propagation...

... in Figure 3 . Jiang Guo can be contacted at: guo.river@163.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Neural nets Modelling Systems and control theory Turbines Cybernetics Simulation Simulation technology is based on the control theory and analogy principle, which has...

... and learning is divided into two steps: Zhihuai Xiao can be contacted at: xiaozhihuai@126.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Cybernetics Neural nets Systems and control theory Fuzzy control Electric generators The controlling work of hydroelectric generating unit (HGU...

... be contacted at: wuxd308@163.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Cybernetics Neural nets Mineral oils Research and development Visc=viscosity of crude oil Perm=permeability of rock Midp=midpoint of pay zone Thick‐reservoir thickness N/G=ratio of net reservoir...

... Systems theory Programming and algorithmic theory Modelling Neural nets Many situations in complex industrial processes step out, which require building of their models. In complex control ahead with industrial processes, the necessity of qualification of the algorithms control in different...

... corresponding to different conditions. Qian Li can be contacted at: linda_lq@ruc.edu.cn © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Vendor relations Neural nets Cybernetics Systems analysis In recent years, considerable attention has focus on purchasing, as more managers have come...

... Cybernetics Neural nets Programming In this paper, we briefly discuss a flexible platform for single and multi‐computer environments, the genetic hybrid algorithm (GHA) for use in numerical computation and demonstrate its scalability in connection to a local network algorithm for vector‐valued time...