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Building Neural Networks (ACM Press)
 
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Building Neural Networks (ACM Press) (Paperback)

by David M. Skapura (Author)
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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Addison Wesley; 3 edition (11 Mar 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0201539217
  • ISBN-13: 978-0201539219
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.5 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 811,923 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #41 in  Books > Computing & Internet > Networking & Security > Network Topics > Building & Maintaining Networks
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This practical introduction describes the kinds of real-world problems neural network technology can solve. Surveying a range of neural network applications, the book demonstrates the construction and operation of artificial neural systems. Through numerous examples, the author explains the process of building neural-network applications that utilize recent connectionist developments, and conveys an understanding both of the potential, and the limitations of different network models. Examples are described in enough detail for you to assimilate the information and then use the accumulated experience of others to create your own applications. These examples are deliberately restricted to those that can be easily understood, and recreated, by any reader, even the novice practitioner. In some cases the author describes alternative approaches to the same application, to allow you to compare and contrast their advantages and disadvantages.

  • Organized by application areas, rather than by specific network architectures or learning algorithms, Building Neural Networks shows why certain networks are more suitable than others for solving specific kinds of problems. Skapura also reviews principles of neural information processing and furnishes an operations summary of the most popular neural-network processing models. Finally, the book provides information on the practical aspects of application design, and contains six topic-oriented chapters on specific applications of neural-network systems. These applications include networks that perform:
  • -Pattern matching, storage, and recall.-Business and financial systems.-Data extraction from images.-Mechanical process control systems.-New neural networks that combine pattern matching with fuzzy logic.

The book includes application-oriented exercises that further help you see how a neural network solves a problem, and that reinforce your understanding of modeling techniques.



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This practical introduction describes the kinds of real-world problems neural network technology can solve. Surveying a range of neural network applications, the book demonstrates the construction and operation of artificial neural systems. Through numerous examples, the author explains the process of building neural-network applications that utilize recent connectionist developments, and conveys an understanding both of the potential, and the limitations of different network models. Examples are described in enough detail for you to assimilate the information and then use the accumulated experience of others to create your own applications. These examples are deliberately restricted to those that can be easily understood, and recreated, by any reader, even the novice practitioner. In some cases the author describes alternative approaches to the same application, to allow you to compare and contrast their advantages and disadvantages.

Organized by application areas, rather than by specific network architectures or learning algorithms, Builiding Neural Networks shows why certain networks are more suitable than others for solving specific kinds of problems. Skapura also reviews principles of neural information processing and furnishes an operations summary of the most popular neural-network processing models. Finally, the book provides information on the practical aspects of application design, and contains six topic-oriented chapters on specific applications of neural-network systems. These applications include networks that perform:

  • Pattern matching, storage, and recall
  • Business and financial systems
  • Data extraction from images
  • Mechanical process control systems
  • New neural networks that combine pattern matching with fuzzy logic

The book includes application-oriented excercises that further help you see how a neural network solves a problem, and that reinforce your understanding of modeling techniques.



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4.0 out of 5 stars Practical, info-packed, a great read!, 10 April 2000
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The book gives a more practical view of using Neural Networks than most other books I have read. Giving you the basics as to how they work internally it moves on to an overview of all the different types of networks. Once aware of the many flavours of network the book goes in depth to cover the issues of training. After this come the chapters concerning the actual real-world applications of neural networks. These make up the meat of the book. They are very informative and give many ideas for experiments of your own. If you really want to start building your own neural networks this book is just full of case studies. The only down-sides to this book is the lack of any pseudo-code and some of the network descriptions are a little confusing (ART2, for example). Otherwise an esstential read.
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