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Text categorization – the assignment of natural language documents to one or more predefined categories based on their semantic content – is an important component in many information organization and management tasks. Performance of neural networks learning is known to be sensitive to the initial weights and architecture. This paper discusses the use multilayer neural network initialization with decision tree classifier for improving text categorization accuracy. Decision tree from root node until a final leave is used for initialization of each single unit. Growing decision trees with increasingly larger amounts of training data will result in larger decision tree sizes. As a result, the neural networks constructed from these decision trees are often larger and more complex than necessary. Appropriate choice of certainty factor is able to produce trees that are essentially constant in size in the face of increasingly larger training sets. Experimental results support the conclusion that error based pruning can be used to produce appropriately sized trees, which are directly mapped to optimal neural network architecture with good accuracy. The experimental evaluation demonstrates this approach provides better classification accuracy with Reuters‐21578 corpus, one of the standard benchmarks for text categorization tasks. We present results comparing the accuracy of this approach with multilayer neural network initialized with traditional random method and decision tree classifiers.

This paper develops a representation of multi‐model based controllers by using artificial intelligence typical structures. These structures will be neural networks, genetic algorithms and fuzzy logic. The interpretation of multimodel controllers in an artificial intelligence frame will allow the application of each specific technique to the design of improved multimodel based controllers. The obtained artificial intelligence based multimodel controllers are compared with classical single model based ones. It is shown through simulation examples that a transient response improvement can be achieved by using multiestimation based techniques. Furthermore, a method for synthesizing multimodel based neural network controllers from already designed single model based ones is presented. The proposed methodology allows to extend the existing single model based neural controllers to multimodel based ones, extending the applicability of this kind of techniques to a more general type of controllers. Also, some applications of genetic algorithms and fuzzy logic to multimodel controller design are proposed. Thus, the mutation operation from genetic algorithms inspires a robustness test which consists of a random modification of the estimates which is used to select the estimates leading to the better identification performance towards parameterizing online the adaptive controller. Such a test is useful for plants operating in a noisy environment. The proposed robustness test improves the selection of the plant model used to parameterize the adaptive controller in comparison to classical multimodel schemes where the controller parameterization choice is basically taken based on the identification accuracy of each model. Moreover, the fuzzy logic approach suggests new ideas to the design of multiestimation structures which can be applied to a broad variety of adaptive controllers such as robotic manipulator controller design.

This paper presents model-based forecasting of the Lithuanian education system in the period of 2001–2010. In order to obtain satisfactory forecasting results, development of models used for these aims should be grounded on some interactive data mining. The process of the development is usually accompanied by the formulation of some assumptions to background methods or models. The accessibility and reliability of data sources should be verified. Special data mining of data sources may verify the assumptions. Interactive data mining of the data, stored in the system of the Lithuanian teachers' database, and that of other sources representing the state of the education system and demographic changes in Lithuania was used. The models cover the estimation of data quality in the databases, analysis of the flow of teachers and pupils, clustering of schools, the model of dynamics of the pedagogical staff and pupils, and the quality analysis of teachers. The main results of forecasting and integrated analysis of the Lithuanian teachers' database with other data reflecting the state of the education system and demographic changes in Lithuania are presented.

The objective of expert systems is the use of Artificial Intelligence tools so as to solve problems within specific prefixed applications. Even when such systems are widely applied in diverse applications, as manufacturing or control systems, until now, there is an important gap in the development of a theory being applicable to a description of the involved problems in a unified way. This paper is an attempt in supplying a simple formal description of expert systems together with an application to a robot manipulator case.

Neural networks are often characterized as highly nonlinear systems of fairly large amount of parameters (in order of 10³ – 10⁴). This fact makes the optimization of parameters to be a nontrivial problem. But the astonishing moment is that the local optimization technique is widely used and yields reliable convergence in many cases. Obviously, the optimization of neural networks is high-dimensional, multi-extremal problem, so, as usual, the global optimization methods would be applied in this case. On the basis of Perceptron-like unit (which is the building block for the most architectures of neural networks) we analyze why the local optimization technique is so successful in the field of neural networks. The result is that a linear approximation of the neural network can be sufficient to evaluate the start point for the local optimization procedure in the nonlinear regime. This result can help in developing faster and more robust algorithms for the optimization of neural network parameters.