Learning monotonic-concave interval concepts using the back-propagation neural networks

Computational Intelligence

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 260-272

  Wang, Shouhong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Concavity; Machine learning; Monotonicity; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

MONOTONIC CONCAVE INTERVAL CONCEPTS; REAL WORLD DATA; STATISTICAL FLUCTUATIONS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030148736     PISSN: 08247935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8640.1996.tb00262.x     Document Type: Article

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