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Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 504574, 15 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/504574
Research Article

Forecasting Cohesionless Soil Highway Slope Displacement Using Modular Neural Network

Yanyan Chen, Shuwei Wang, Ning Chen, Xueqin Long, and Xiru Tang

Transportation Research Center, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China

Received 5 September 2012; Revised 16 November 2012; Accepted 21 November 2012

Academic Editor: Wuhong Wang

Copyright © 2012 Yanyan Chen et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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