Acquiring rule sets as a product of learning in a logical neural architecture

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 461-474

  Healy, Michael J ^a,b   Caudell, Thomas P ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^c University of New Mexico   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive resonance theory (ART) neural networks; Classification; Connectionist system; Formal semantics; Inferencing; Knowledge based systems; Logic; Predicate; Rule base; Rule extraction; Synaptic learning

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; BINARY SEQUENCES; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; FORMAL LOGIC; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LOGIC PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ADAPTIVE RESONANCE THEORY (ART);

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 0031140465     PISSN: 10459227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/72.572088     Document Type: Article

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