Explaining results of artificial neural networks

Journal of Applied Sciences

Volumn 11, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 2855-2860

  Yedjour, Dounia ^a   Yedjour, H ^a   Benyettou, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DES SCIENCES ET DE LA TECHNOLOGIE D ORAN MOHAMED BOUDIAF   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Extracting comprehensible rules; Quine mccluskey algorithm; Symbolic interpretation of artificial neural networks; Symbolic knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959915434     PISSN: 18125654     EISSN: 18125662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2011.2855.2860     Document Type: Article

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