Accurate decomposition of standard MLP classification responses into symbolic rules

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1240 LNCS, Issue , 1997, Pages 617-627

  Bologna, Guido ^a   Pellegrini, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS;

CONTINUOUS INPUT; HYPER-PLANE; INPUT VARIABLES; MLP MODEL;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 84902175507     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/bfb0032521     Document Type: Conference Paper

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