The foundations of connectionist computation

Connection Science

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 163-196

  Fletcher, Peter ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Connectionism; Formal semantics; Neural network definition; Operational semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034338087     PISSN: 09540091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540090050129772     Document Type: Article

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