Statistics published by department of transportation indicates that hundreds of fatal accidents have occurred throughout the United States every year. Many of these accidents are involved utility poles in rural areas throughout the country, costing lives and damages estimated to…
Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have been comprehensively researched, both from a computer scientific perspective and with regard to their use for predictive modelling in a wide variety of applications including hydrology and the environment. Yet their adoption for live, real-…
Building an accurate and reliable model for prediction for different application domains, is one of the most significant challenges in knowledge discovery and data mining. This thesis focuses on building and enhancing a generic predictive model for estimating a future value by e…
Within the northern Great Plains of the United States is the southeast Prairie Pothole Region (SEPPR), an important habitat for waterfowl, pheasants, deer, and many unique species that cannot be found anywhere else in the regional landscape. There are millions of wetlands in thi…