A comparison between single and combined backpropagation neural networks in the prediction of turnover

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 41-47

  Tchaban, T ^a   Griffin, J P ^b   Taylor, M J ^c  

^a Cambridge Risk Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Back propagation neural networks; Non linear prediction problems

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

NON-LINEAR PREDICTION PROBLEMS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0031995137     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0952-1976(97)00059-6     Document Type: Article

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