Slope displacement prediction based on morphological filtering

Combining mathematical morphology (MM),nonparametric and nonlinear model,a novel approach for predicting slope displacement was developed to improve the prediction accuracy.A parallel-composed morphological filter with multiple structure elements was designed to process measured displacement time series with adaptive multi-scale decoupling.Whereafter,functional-coefficient auto regressive (FAR) models were established for the random subsequences.Meanwhile,the trend subsequence was processed by least squares support vector machine (LSSVM) algorithm.Finally,extrapolation results obtained were superposed to get the ultimate prediction result.Case study and comparative analysis demonstrate that the presented method can optimize training samples and show a good nonlinear predicting performance with low risk of choosing wrong algorithms.Mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) and root mean square error (RMSE) of the MM-FAR&LSSVM predicting results are as low as 1.670% and 0.172 mm,respectively,which means that the prediction accuracy are improved significantly.

ON A CLASS OF WEIGHT HIERARCHIES OF TERNARY LINEAR CODES OF DIMENSION 4

The possible weight hierarchies of ternary codes of dimension 4 satisfying thealmost chain condition are completely determined in this paper.

TESTING SERIAL CORRELATION IN SEMIPARAMETRIC VARYING COEFFICIENT PARTIALLY LINEAR ERRORS-IN-VARIABLES MODEL

The authors propose a V_(N,p) test statistic for testing finite-order serial correlation in asemiparametric varying coefficient partially linear errors-in-variables model.The test statistic is shownto have asymptotic normal distribution under the null hypothesis of no serial correlation.Some MonteCarlo experiments are conducted to examine the finite sample performance of the proposed V_(N,p) teststatistic.Simulation results confirm that the proposed test performs satisfactorily in estimated sizeand power.

ASYMPTOTIC NORMALITY OF SOME ESTIMATORS IN A FIXED-DESIGN SEMIPARAMETRIC REGRESSION MODEL WITH LINEAR TIME SERIES ERRORS

Consider a semiparametric regression model with linear time series errors Y_k= x′ _kβ + g(t_k) + ε_k, 1 ≤ k ≤ n, where Y_k's are responses, x_k =(x_(k1),x_(k2),···,x_(kp))′ and t_k ∈ T is contained in R are fixed design points, β =(β_1,β_2,···,β_p)′ is an unknown parameter vector, g(·) is an unknown bounded real-valuedfunction defined on a compact subset T of the real line R, and ε_k is a linear process given byε_k = ∑ from j=0 to ∞ of ψ_je_(k-j), ψ_0=1, where ∑ from j=0 to ∞ of |ψ_j| < ∞, and e_j,j=0, +-1, +-2,···, ard i.i.d. random variables. In this paper we establish the asymptoticnormality of the least squares estimator of β, a smooth estimator of g(·), and estimators of theautocovariance and autocorrelation functions of the linear process ε_k.

Numerical analysis of wave hazards in a harbor

Resonance may occur when the periods of incoming waves are close to the eigen-periods of harbor basin.The amplified waves by resonance in harbor will induce serious wave hazards to harbor structures and vehicles in it.Through traditional theoretical approaches,the eigen-periods of harbor basin with regular shapes can be obtained.In our study,we proposed a numerical model to simulate the behavior characteristics of the harbor waves.A finite difference numerical model based on the shallow water equations(SWE) is developed to simulate incoming tsunami and tidal waves.By analyzing the time series data of water surface wave amplitude variations at selected synthetic observation locations,we estimate the wave height and arrival time in coastal area.Furthermore,we use frequency spectrum analysis to investigate the natural frequencies from the data recorded at the synthetic observation stations.