Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 681890, 10 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/681890
Research Article

Validation of Infinite Impulse Response Multilayer Perceptron for Modelling Nuclear Dynamics

F. Cadini, E. Zio, and N. Pedroni

Department of Nuclear Engineering, Polytechnic of Milan, Via Ponzio 34/3, Milan 20133, Italy

Received 2 May 2007; Revised 16 November 2007; Accepted 3 December 2007

Academic Editor: Nikola Cavlina

Copyright © 2008 F. Cadini 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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