Decomposition of interacting features using a Kohonen self-organizing feature map neural network

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 59-78

  Zulkifli, A H ^a   Meeran, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CAD CAM; Feature patterns; Feature recognition; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN ALGEBRA; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

KOHONEN SELF-ORGANIZING FEATURE MAP (SOFM) NEURAL NETWORKS; MAXIMAL RECTANGULAR REGIONS (MRR);

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 0033078887     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0952-1976(98)00050-5     Document Type: Article

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