Weekly-Discharge estimation for Tang-Karzin’s Station, Using Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) Network Optimized by Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) Algorithm

In order to perceive of rainfall- runoff process, essential prediction for water surface source management has special importance. Thereby in this paper, Tang-e Karzin hydrometric station which is located in sub-domain of salman-farsi dam had been considered. By utilizing of weekly statistical discharge information related to past 36 years, multilayer perceptron neural network model was used to predict the average weekly discharge of Tang-e Karzin station through the discharge information of its two upside stations. In order to optimize the weights and biases of the MLP network, we tried to use Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm within training phase of the ANN network. The results indicated that by changing of different parameters of hidden layer of perceptron model, ABC can well optimize ANN’s weights and biases. Among five activation function Log-sigmoid was performed better than others with 9 neurons in hidden layer.