A softmin-based neural model for causal reasoning

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 732-744

  Romdhane, Lotfi Ben ^a  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Causal reasoning; Fuzzy AND ing; Monotonic causal problems

Indexed keywords

FORMAL LOGIC; FUZZY SETS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

CAUSAL REASONING; MONOTONIC CAUSAL PROBLEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING-BASED FEATURE EXTRACTION; SOFTMIN-BASED NEURAL MODEL;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FUZZY LOGIC; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CAUSALITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FUZZY LOGIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 33646518086     PISSN: 10459227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNN.2006.872350     Document Type: Article

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