%0 Journal Article %T Application of Neurocomputing for Data Approximation and Classification in Wireless Sensor Networks %A Amir Jabbari %A Reiner Jedermann %A Ramanan Muthuraman %A Walter Lang %J Sensors %D 2009 %I MDPI AG %R 10.3390/s90403056 %X A new application of neurocomputing for data approximation and classification is introduced to process data in a wireless sensor network. For this purpose, a simplified dynamic sliding backpropagation algorithm is implemented on a wireless sensor network for transportation applications. It is able to approximate temperature and humidity in sensor nodes. In addition, two architectures of ˇ°radial basis functionˇ± (RBF) classifiers are introduced with probabilistic features for data classification in sensor nodes. The applied approximation and classification algorithms could be used in similar applications for data processing in embedded systems. %K Radial basis function %K back propagation %K wireless sensor network %K distributed Data approximation and classification %U http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/9/4/3056