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used for prediction of Equilibrium Moisture Content (EMC) of three varieties
of paddy (Sadri, Tarom and Khazar) as a new method. Feed forward back
propagation and cascade forward back propagation networks with Levenberg-Marquardt
and Bayesian regularization training algorithms used for training of input
patterns. Optimized trained network has the ability of EMC prediction
to test patterns at thermal boundary of 20-40 °C and relative humidity
boundary of 13.5-87% with R2 = 0.9929 and mean absolute error
0.0229. Comparison between optimized ANN result and empirical model of
Henderson showed that artificial neural network not only can simultaneously
predict the EMC of samples of all varieties but also has better coefficient
of determination and less mean absolute error.]]>Bala, B.K.,19971st Edn.,Demuth, H. and M. Beale,20031st Edn.,Girosi, F., M. Jones and T. Poggio,19957219269Henderson, S.M.,1952332932Henderson, S.M. and R.L. Perry,19771977Heristev, R.M.,19981998Huang, B. and A.S. Mujumdar,199311525541Jay, S. and T.N. Oliver,19961996pp: 13931400Jindal, V.K. and T.J. Siebenmorgen,199437195201Khankari, K.K., R.V. Morey and S.N. Patankar,19943715911604Kozma, R., M. Sakuma, Y. Yokoyama and M. Kitamura,199613295311Pahlevanzadeh, G. and H.M. Yazdani,200528331345Palipane, K.B. and R.H. Driscroll,1992186376Pancharyia, P.C., D. Popovic and A.L. Sharma,200220351362Siebenmorgen, T.J., A.A. Perdon, X. Che and A. Mauromoustakos,199875129136Thyagurajan, T., R.C. Panda, Y. Shanmugam and P.G. Rao,19971525272540Trelea, I.C., F. Countrios and E. Trystram,19971510951102Veltchev, Z.N. and N.D. Menkov,20001811271137Zhang, Q., S.X. Yang, G.S. Mittal and S. Yi,200283281290Zomorodian, A.,200172740