Engineering Applications of Neural Networks: 11th International Conference, EANN 2009, London, UK, August 27-29, 2009. Proceedings

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by  Lazaros S. Iliadis, A. Papaleonidas (auth.), Dominic Palmer-Brown, Chrisina Draganova, Elias Pimenidis, Haris Mouratidis (eds.)

Communications
in Computer and Information Science 43
Dominic Palmer-Brown Chrisina Draganova
Elias Pimenidis Haris Mouratidis (Eds.)
Engineering Applications
of Neural Networks
11th International Conference, EANN 2009
London, UK,August 27-29, 2009
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DominicPalmer-Brown
LondonMetropolitanUniversity
FacultyofComputing
London,UK
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ChrisinaDraganova
UniversityofEastLondon
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London,UK
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EliasPimenidis
UniversityofEastLondon
SchoolofComputing,ITandEngineering
London,UK
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HarisMouratidis
UniversityofEastLondon
SchoolofComputing,ITandEngineering
London,UK
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Preface
A cursory glance at the table of contents of EANN 2009 reveals the amaz-
ing range of neural network and related applications. A random but revealing
sample includes: reducing urban concentration, entropy topography in epilep-
tic electroencephalography, phytoplanktonic species recognition, revealing the
structureofchildhoodabdominalpaindata,robotcontrol,discriminatingangry
and happy facial expressions, flood forecasting, and assessing credit worthiness.
The diverse nature of applications demonstrates the vitality of neural comput-
ing and related soft computing approaches, and their relevance to many key
contemporary technological challenges. It also illustrates the value of EANN in
bringing together a broad spectrum of delegates from across the world to learn
from each other’s related methods. Variations and extensions of many methods
are well represented in the proceedings, ranging from support vector machines,
fuzzy reasoning,and Bayesianmethods to snap-drift and spiking neurons.
This year EANN accepted approximately 40% of submitted papers for full-
length presentation at the conference. All members of the Program Committee
were askedto participate in the reviewingprocess.The standardof submissions
was high, according to the reviewers, who did an excellent job. The Program
and Organizing Committees thank them. Approximately 20% of submitted pa-
pers will be chosen, the best according to the reviews, to be extended and re-
viewedagainforinclusioninaspecialissueofthejournalNeuralComputingand
Applications.
We hope that these proceedings will help to stimulate further research and
development of new applications and modes of neural computing.
August 2009 Dominic Palmer-Brown
Organization
EANN 2009 was organized by the School of Computing, IT and Engineering,
University of East London in cooperation with the Faculty of Computing, Lon-
don Metropolitan University.
Organizing Committee
Chair: Dominic
Palmer-Brownn London Metropolitan University, UK
Chrisina Draganova University of East London, UK
Elias Pimenidis University of East London, UK
Haris Mouratidis University of East London, UK
Sin Wee Lee University of East London, UK
Manolis Christodoulakis University of East London, UK
Miao Kang University of East London, UK
Frank Ekpenyong University of East London, UK
Terry Walcott University of East London, UK
Administrative Support:
Linda Day University of East London, UK
Administrative Support:
Farhanaz Begum University of East London, UK
Administrative Support:
Carole Cole University of East London, UK
Program Committee
Chair: Dominic
Palmer-Brownn London Metropolitan University, UK
Graham Ball Nottingham Trent University, UK
Chris Christodoulou University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Manolis Christodoulakis University of East London, UK
Chrisina Draganova University of East London, UK
Frank Ekpenyong University of East London, UK
Alexander Gegov University of Portsmouth, UK
Lazaros Iliadis Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Miao Kang University of East London, UK
Sin Wee Lee University of East London, UK
James Allen Long London South Bank University, UK
Liam McDaid University of Ulster, UK
Haralambos Mouratidis University of East London, UK
Elias Pimenidis University of East London, UK
VIII Organization
Kathleen Steinhofel King’s College, UK
Ioannis Vlahavas Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Carlo Francesco
Morabito University Mediterranea of Reggio C. - Italy,
and SIREN (Italian Society of Neural
Networks)
Christos N. Schizas University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Terry Walcott University of East London, UK
Abdullah Al-Zakwani Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
Diego G. Loyola R. Remote Sensing Technology Institute,
Germany
Antony Browne University of Surrey, UK
Kaizhu Huang University of Bristol, UK
Richard Dybowski University of East London, UK
Aloysius Edoh University of East London, UK
Marco Ramoni Harvard University, USA
Stephen Rees Aalborg University, Denmark
Bernadette Sharp Staffordshire University, UK
Peter Weller City University, UK
Stefan Wermter Sunderland University, UK
Hassan Kazemian London Metropolitan University, UK
J. Fernandez de Canete University of Malaga, Spain
Karim Ouazzane London Metropolitan University, UK
Kenneth Revett University of Westminster, UK
Sponsoring Institutions
University of East London, UK
London Metropolitan University, UK
International Neural Network Society INNS, USA
Table of Contents
Intelligent Agents Networks Employing Hybrid Reasoning: Application
in Air Quality Monitoring and Improvement......................... 1
Lazaros S. Iliadis and A. Papaleonidas
Neural Network Based Damage Detection of Dynamically Loaded
Structures ...................................................... 17
David Lehk´y and Drahom´ır Nova´k
Reconstruction of Cross-Sectional Missing Data Using Neural
Networks ....................................................... 28
Iffat A. Gheyas and Leslie S. Smith
Municipal Creditworthiness Modelling by Kernel-Based Approaches
with Supervised and Semi-supervised Learning....................... 35
Petr Hajek and Vladimir Olej
Clustering of Pressure Fluctuation Data Using Self-Organizing Map .... 45
Masaaki Ogihara, Hideyuki Matsumoto, Tamaki Marumo, and
Chiaki Kuroda
Intelligent Fuzzy Reasoning for Flood Risk Estimation in River
Evros........................................................... 55
Lazaros S. Iliadis and Stephanos Spartalis
Fuzzy Logic and Artificial Neural Networks for Advanced
Authentication Using Soft Biometric Data .......................... 67
Mario Malcangi
Study of Alpha Peak Fitting by Techniques Based on Neural
Networks ....................................................... 79
Javier Miranda, Rosa P´erez, Antonio Baeza, and Javier Guill´en
Information Enhancement Learning: Local Enhanced Information to
Detect the Importance of Input Variables in Competitive Learning .... 86
Ryotaro Kamimura
Flash Flood Forecasting by Statistical Learning in the Absence of
Rainfall Forecast: A Case Study ................................... 98
Mohamed Samir Toukourou, Anne Johannet, and G´erard Dreyfus
An Improved Algorithm for SVMs Classification of Imbalanced Data
Sets ............................................................ 108
Cristiano Leite Castro, Mateus Araujo Carvalho, and
Antˆonio Padua Braga
X Table of Contents
Visualization of MIMO Process Dynamics Using Local Dynamic
Modelling with Self Organizing Maps............................... 119
Ignacio D´ıaz, Abel A. Cuadrado, Alberto B. Diez, Juan J. Fuertes,
Manuel Dom´ınguez, and Miguel A. Prada
Data Visualisation and Exploration with Prior Knowledge ............ 131
Martin Schroeder, Dan Cornford, and Ian T. Nabney
Reducing Urban Concentration Using a Neural Network Model ........ 143
Leandro Tortosa, Jos´e F. Vicent, Antonio Zamora, and
Jos´e L. Oliver
Dissimilarity-Based Classification of Multidimensional Signals by
Conjoint Elastic Matching: Application to Phytoplanktonic Species
Recognition ..................................................... 153
E´milie Caillault, Pierre-Alexandre H´ebert, and Guillaume Wacquet
Revealing the Structure of Childhood Abdominal Pain Data and
Supporting Diagnostic Decision Making............................. 165
Adam Adamopoulos, Mirto Ntasi, Seferina Mavroudi,
Spiros Likothanassis, Lazaros Iliadis, and George Anastassopoulos
Relating Halftone Dot Quality to Paper Surface Topography .......... 178
Pekka Kumpulainen, Marja Metta¨nen, Mikko Lauri, and
Heimo Ihalainen
Combining GRN Modeling and Demonstration-BasedProgrammingfor
Robot Control................................................... 190
Wei-Po Lee and Tsung-Hsien Yang
Discriminating Angry, Happy and Neutral Facial Expression: A
Comparison of Computational Models .............................. 200
Aruna Shenoy, Sue Anthony, Ray Frank, and Neil Davey
Modeling and Forecasting CAT and HDD Indices for Weather
Derivative Pricing................................................ 210
Achilleas Zapranis and Antonis Alexandridis
Using the Support Vector Machine as a Classification Method for
Software Defect Prediction with Static Code Metrics ................. 223
David Gray, David Bowes, Neil Davey, Yi Sun, and
Bruce Christianson
AdaptiveElectricalSignalPost-processingwithVaryingRepresentations
in Optical Communication Systems ................................ 235
Stephen Hunt, Yi Sun, Alex Shafarenko, Rod Adams, Neil Davey,
Brendan Slater, Ranjeet Bhamber, Sonia Boscolo, and
Sergei K. Turitsyn
Table of Contents XI
Using of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) for Aircraft Motion
Parameters Identification ......................................... 246
Anatolij Bondarets and Olga Kreerenko
Ellipse Support Vector Data Description ............................ 257
Mohammad GhasemiGol, Reza Monsefi, and Hadi Sadoghi Yazdi
Enhanced Radial Basis Function Neural Network Design Using Parallel
Evolutionary Algorithms.......................................... 269
Elisabet Parras-Gutierrez, Maribel Isabel Garcia-Arenas, and
Victor M. Rivas-Santos
New Aspects of the Elastic Net Algorithm for Cluster Analysis ........ 281
Marcos L´evano and Hans Nowak
Neural Networks for Forecasting in a Multi-skill Call Centre........... 291
Jorge Pacheco, David Milla´n-Ruiz, and Jos´e Luis V´elez
Relational Reinforcement Learning Applied to Appearance-Based
Object Recognition............................................... 301
Klaus Ha¨ming and Gabriele Peters
Sensitivity Analysis of Forest Fire Risk Factors and Development of a
Corresponding Fuzzy Inference System: The Case of Greece ........... 313
Theocharis Tsataltzinos, Lazaros Iliadis, and Spartalis Stefanos
Nonmonotone Learning of Recurrent Neural Networks in Symbolic
Sequence Processing Applications .................................. 325
Chun-Cheng Peng and George D. Magoulas
Indirect Adaptive Control Using Hopfield-Based Dynamic Neural
Network for SISO Nonlinear Systems ............................... 336
Ping-Cheng Chen, Chi-Hsu Wang, and Tsu-Tian Lee
A Neural Network Computational Model of Visual Selective
Attention ....................................................... 350
Kleanthis C. Neokleous, Marios N. Avraamides,
Costas K. Neocleous, and Christos N. Schizas
Simulation of Large Spiking Neural Networks on Distributed
Architectures, The “DAMNED” Simulator .......................... 359
Anthony Mouraud and Didier Puzenat
A Neural Network Model for the Critical Frequency of the F2
Ionospheric Layer over Cyprus..................................... 371
Haris Haralambous and Harris Papadopoulos
XII Table of Contents
Dictionary-Based Classification Models. Applications for Multichannel
Neural Activity Analysis.......................................... 378
Vincent Vigneron, Hsin Chen, Yen-Tai Chen, Hsin-Yi Lai, and
You-Yin Chen
Pareto-BasedMulti-output Metamodeling with Active Learning........ 389
Dirk Gorissen, Ivo Couckuyt, Eric Laermans, and Tom Dhaene
Isolating Stock Prices Variation with Neural Networks................ 401
Chrisina Draganova, Andreas Lanitis, and Chris Christodoulou
Evolutionary Ranking on Multiple Word Correction Algorithms Using
Neural Network Approach......................................... 409
Jun Li, Karim Ouazzane, Yanguo Jing, Hassan Kazemian, and
Richard Boyd
Application of Neural Fuzzy Controller for Streaming Video over IEEE
802.15.1 ........................................................ 419
Guillaume F. Remy and Hassan B. Kazemian
Tracking of the Plasma States in a Nuclear Fusion Device Using
SOMs .......................................................... 430
Massimo Camplani, Barbara Cannas, Alessandra Fanni,
Gabriella Pautasso, Giuliana Sias, Piergiorgio Sonato, and
The Asdex-Upgrade Team
An Application of the Occam Factor to Model Order Determination.... 438
David J. Booth and Ruth Tye
Use of Data Mining Techniques for Improved Detection of Breast
Cancer with Biofield Diagnostic System............................. 444
S. Vinitha Sree, E.Y.K. Ng, G. Kaw, and U. Rajendra Acharya
Clustering of Entropy Topography in Epileptic
Electroencephalography........................................... 453
Nadia Mammone, Giuseppina Inuso, Fabio La Foresta,
Mario Versaci, and Francesco C. Morabito
Riverflow Prediction with Artificial Neural Networks ................. 463
A.W. Jayawardena
Applying Snap-Drift Neural Network to Trajectory Data to Identify
Road Types: Assessing the Effect of Trajectory Variability ............ 472
Frank Ekpenyong and Dominic Palmer-Brown