Model Induction with Support Vector Machines: Introduction and Applications

Autor: Dimitri Solomatine, Slavco Velickov, Michael B. Abbott, Yonas Dibike
Rok vydání: 2001
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Zdroj: Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering. 15:208-216
ISSN: 1943-5487
0887-3801
DOI: 10.1061/(asce)0887-3801(2001)15:3(208)
Popis: The rapid advance in information processing systems in recent decades had directed engineering research towards the development of intelligent systems that can evolve models of natural phenomena automatically—“by themselves,” so to speak. In this respect, a wide range of machine learning techniques like decision trees, artificial neural networks (ANNs), Bayesian methods, fuzzy-rule based systems, and evolutionary algorithms have been successfully applied to model different civil engineering systems. In this study, the possibility of using yet another machine learning paradigm that is firmly based on the theory of statistical learning, namely that of the support vector machine (SVM), is investigated. An interesting property of this approach is that it is an approximate implementation of a structural risk minimization (SRM) induction principle that aims at minimizing a bound on the generalization error of a model, rather than minimizing only the mean square error over the data set. In this paper, the basic ...
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