A self organizing map (SOM) guided rule based system for freshwater tropical algal analysis and prediction

This paper describes the feasibility study of applying a hybrid combination of Kohonen self organizing feature maps (SOM) and a rule based system in predicting the biomass of selected algae division (Chlorophyta) at tropical Putrajaya Lake (Malaysia). The system was trained and tested on an over fiv...

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Main Authors: Malek Abd Rashid, Sorayya Bibi Malek, Salleh, Aishah, Baba, Mohd Sapiyan, Syed Ahmad Abdul Rahman, Sharifah Mumtazah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academic Journals 2011
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/23121/1/A%20self%20organizing%20map%20%28SOM%29%20guided%20rule%20based%20system.pdf
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/23121/
http://www.academicjournals.org/journal/SRE/article-abstract/1179EBA40193
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Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia
Language: English
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Summary:This paper describes the feasibility study of applying a hybrid combination of Kohonen self organizing feature maps (SOM) and a rule based system in predicting the biomass of selected algae division (Chlorophyta) at tropical Putrajaya Lake (Malaysia). The system was trained and tested on an over five years of limnological time-series data sampled from Putrajaya Lake. Results from trained SOM were used to extract rules of relationships between input variables and the Chlorophyta biomass which was used to construct a rule based system. Selected input variables were water temperature, Secchi depth and nitrate nitrogen (NO3-N). The rules extracted conformed to findings as postulated in literatures. The overall rule based system yielded an accuracy of 73%.