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ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS (cid:883) APPLICATION Edited by Chi-Leung Hui Artificial Neural Networks - Application Edited by Chi-Leung Hui Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia Copyright © 2011 InTech All chapters are Open Access articles distributed under the Creative Commons Non Commercial Share Alike Attribution 3.0 license, which permits to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the work in any medium, so long as the original work is properly cited. After this work has been published by InTech, authors have the right to republish it, in whole or part, in any publication of which they are the author, and to make other personal use of the work. Any republication, referencing or personal use of the work must explicitly identify the original source. Statements and opinions expressed in the chapters are these of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. 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ISBN 978-953-307-188-6 free online editions of InTech Books and Journals can be found at www.intechopen.com Contents Preface XI Part 1 Application of ANN in Business 1 Chapter 1 World-Level Analysis in Top Level Football Analysis and Simulation of Football Specific Group Tactics by Means of Adaptive Neural Networks 3 Memmert Daniel, Bischof Jürgen, Endler Stefan, Grunz Andreas, Schmid Markus, Schmidt Andrea and Perl Jürgen Chapter 2 Artificial Neural Networks Numerical Forecasting of Economic Time Series 13 Michael Štencl and Jiří Šťastný Chapter 3 Neural and Bayesian Networks to Fight Crime: the NBNC Meta-Model of Risk Analysis 29 Gaetano Bruno Ronsivalle Part 2 Application of ANN in Chemical Technology 43 Chapter 4 Applications of Neural Networks in Advanced Oxidative Process 45 Messias Borges Silva, Oswaldo Luiz Cobra Guimarães, Adriano Francisco Siqueira, Hélcio José Izário Filho, Darcy Nunes Villela Filho, Henrique Otávio Queiroz de Aquino, Ivy dos Santos Oliveira and Carlos Roberto de Oliveira Almeida Chapter 5 Application of Artificial Neural Network for Mineral Potential Mapping 67 Saro Lee and Hyun-Joo Oh Chapter 6 The Use of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) for Modelling, Simulation and Prediction of Advanced Oxidation Process Performance in Recalcitrant Wastewater Treatment 105 Emad S. Elmolla and Malay Chaudhuri VI Contents Chapter 7 Construction of Optimal Artificial Neural Network Architectures for Application to Chemical Systems: Comparison of Generalized Pattern Search Method and Evolutionary Algorithm 125 Matthias Ihme Chapter 8 Facile Tool for Prediction of Catalytic Activity — Cu-Lanthanoid Catalyst for Methanol Synthesis 151 Kohji Omata, Tetuo Umegaki and Muneyoshi Yamada Part 3 Application of ANN in Computing 165 Chapter 9 Size-Based Software Cost Modelling with Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms 167 Efi Papatheocharous and Andreas S. Andreou Chapter 10 Artificial Neural Network for Cooperative Distributed Environments 189 Mauricio Paletta Chapter 11 Applications of Artificial Neural Networks to Facial Image Processing 213 Thai Hoang Le Chapter 12 Modeling Spammer Behavior: Artificial Neural Network vs. Naïve Bayesian Classifier 241 Saiful Islam and Rafiqul Islam Chapter 13 Applying an Artificial Neural Network to Predicting Effort and Errors for Embedded Software Development Projects 253 Kazunori Iwata, Toyoshiro Nakashima, Yoshiyuki Anan and Naohiro Ishii Chapter 14 Design of High Speed Neural Networks for Fast Pattern Detection by using Cross Correlation and Matrix Decomposition 269 Hazem M. El-Bakry Part 4 Application of ANN in Engineering 301 Chapter 15 Study for Application of Artificial Neural Networks in Geotechnical Problems 303 Hyun Il Park Chapter 16 Confidence Intervals for Neural Networks and Applications to Modeling Engineering Materials 337 Shouling He and Jiang Li Contents VII Chapter 17 Landslide Susceptibility Mapping: an Assessment of the Use of an Advanced Neural Network Model with Five Different Training Strategies 361 Biswajeet Pradha, Shattri Mansor and Saied Pirasteh Part 5 Application of ANN in Environmental Science 389 Chapter 18 Dynamic Fuzzy Neural-Network Model for Estimating Heavy Metal Concentration in Rice Using Spectral Indices and Environmental Parameters 391 Xiangnan Liu and Meiling Liu Chapter 19 Application of Artificial Intelligence in Environmental Sciences – Forecasting CO Emission in Poland 407 2 Alicja Kolasa – Więcek Chapter 20 Applying Artificial Neural Network on Modelling Waterbird Diversity in Irrigation Ponds of Taoyuan, Taiwan 423 Wei-Ta Fang, K. Douglas Loh, Hone-Jay Chu and Bai-You Cheng Chapter 21 Developing an Artificial Neural Network for Modeling and Prediction of Temporal Structure and Spectral Composition of Environmental Noise in Cities 443 Antonio J. Torija, Diego P. Ruiz and Ángel Ramos-Ridao Part 6 Application of ANN in Nanotechnology 463 Chapter 22 Artificial Neural Networks: Applications in Nanotechnology 465 Amir Amani and Dariush Mohammadyani Chapter 23 Application of Artificial Neural Networks in Optical Properties of Nanosemiconductors 479 M. Farzalipour Tabriz, P. Salehpour and A. Esmaielzadeh Kandjani Part 7 Application of ANN in Science 497 Chapter 24 Evolutionary Artificial Neural Networks in Neutron Spectrometry 499 José Manuel Ortiz-Rodríguez, Ma. del Rosario Martínez-Blanco and Héctor René Vega-Carrillo Chapter 25 Analysis of Thermal Transient Processes by Means of Neural Network Technique 525 Rafał Rakoczy and Stanisław Masiuk VIII Contents Chapter 26 Application of Artificial Neural Networks and Hybrid Methods in the Solution of Inverse Problems 541 Jader Lugon Junior, Antônio J. da Silva Neto, Luiz Biondi Neto, Francisco José da Cunha Pires Soeiro, Cesar Costapinto Santana and Haroldo F. Campos Velho Chapter 27 The Use of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) in Aquatic Ecology 567 Antoni Quetglas, Francesc Ordines and Beatriz Guijarro