Support vector regression (SVR) combined with particle swarm optimization (PSO) for its parameter optimization, was proposed to establish a model to predict the thermal conductivity of polymer-based composites under d...Support vector regression (SVR) combined with particle swarm optimization (PSO) for its parameter optimization, was proposed to establish a model to predict the thermal conductivity of polymer-based composites under different mass fractions of fillers (mass fraction of polyethylene (PE) and mass fraction of polystyrene (PS)). The prediction performance of SVR was compared with those of other two theoretical models of spherical packing and flake packing. The result demonstrated that the estimated errors by leave-one-out cross validation (LOOCV) test of SVR models, such as mean absolute error (MAE) and mean absolute percentage error (MAPE), all are smaller than those achieved by the two theoretical models via applying identical samples. It is revealed that the generalization ability of SVR model is superior to those of the two theoretical models. This study suggests that SVR can be used as a powerful approach to foresee the thermal property of polymer-based composites under different mass fractions of polyethylene and polystyrene fillers.展开更多
基金supported by the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of China (Grant No. NCET-07-0903)the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars of Ministry of Education, China (Grant No. 2008101-1)+2 种基金the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant Nos. CDJXS10101107, CDJXS10100037)the Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing, China (Grant No. CSTC2006BB5240)the Innovative Talent Training Project of the Third Stage of "211 Project", Chongqing University (Grant No. S-09109)
文摘Support vector regression (SVR) combined with particle swarm optimization (PSO) for its parameter optimization, was proposed to establish a model to predict the thermal conductivity of polymer-based composites under different mass fractions of fillers (mass fraction of polyethylene (PE) and mass fraction of polystyrene (PS)). The prediction performance of SVR was compared with those of other two theoretical models of spherical packing and flake packing. The result demonstrated that the estimated errors by leave-one-out cross validation (LOOCV) test of SVR models, such as mean absolute error (MAE) and mean absolute percentage error (MAPE), all are smaller than those achieved by the two theoretical models via applying identical samples. It is revealed that the generalization ability of SVR model is superior to those of the two theoretical models. This study suggests that SVR can be used as a powerful approach to foresee the thermal property of polymer-based composites under different mass fractions of polyethylene and polystyrene fillers.