Interpretation and knowledge discovery from the multilayer perceptron network: Opening the black box

Neural Computing and Applications

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 72-82

  Vaughn, Marilyn Lougher ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data mining; Explanation facilities; Interpretation; Knowledge discovery; Rule induction; Validation and verification

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030538051     PISSN: 09410643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01413743     Document Type: Article

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