Neural Network Modelling of Constrained Spatial Interaction Flows



M -1(xu, yu ) with u = 1,..., U}, so that g (xu ) = yu. The set M is the set of input and
output vectors. The task is to find a continuous function that approximates
M. In real
world application,
U is generally a small number and the samples contain noise.

The Generic Neural Spatial Interaction Model

In the unconstrained case the challenge is to approximate the real-valued interaction
function
g(r, sj, fjj j : ¾3 →¾, where the 3-dimensional euclidian real space is the
input space and the 1-dimensional euclidian real space the output space. In practice
only bounded subsets of the spaces are considered. To approximate
g, we consider the
class
Ω of feedforward neural network models with three input units, one hidden layer
that contains
H hidden units and a single output unit. The three input units represent
measures of origin propulsiveness, destination attractiveness and spatial separation. The
output unit, denoted by
y, represents the estimated flow from i to j. Formally the
neural network model for the unconstrained case of spatial interaction may be written in
its general form as:

{ Ω ; ¾3

χn   , x


¾3;γh,βhn ¾}


(6)


Vector x = (x0, x1, x2, x3 ) is the input vector augmented with a bias signal x0 that can
be thought of as being generated by a dummy unit whose output is clamped at 1.
Models belonging to
Ω(x,w) may have any number of hidden units (H = 1,2,...) with
connection strengths from hidden to the output unit represented by
Гh . The βhn
represent input-to-hidden connection weights. The symbol
w = (wk: | k = 1,...,K = (5H +1)) is a convenient short hand notation of the (5H +1) -
dimensional vector of all the
βhn and γh network weights and biases. φh and ψ are
arbitrarily differentiable, generally non-linear transfer functions of the hidden units and
the output unit, respectively.



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