A neural network approach to prediction of glass transition temperature of polymers

International Journal of Intelligent Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 22-32

  Xi, Chen ^a   Sztandera, Les ^a   Cartwright, Hugh M ^b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION DATABASE; POLYMER OPTICAL FIBERS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GLASS TRANSITION; LINEAR REGRESSION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; POLYMERS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 38149065289     PISSN: 08848173     EISSN: 1098111X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/int.20256     Document Type: Article

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