An investigation of fuzzy combiners applied to a hybrid multi-neural system

Proceedings - Brazilian Symposium on Neural Networks, SBRN

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 156-161

  Canuto, A M P ^a   Fairhurst, M ^b   Howells, G ^b  

^a DIMAp UFRN   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Function approximation; Fuzzy neural networks; Fuzzy set theory; Fuzzy sets; Fuzzy systems; Handwriting recognition; Neural networks; Phase measurement; Testing

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; FUZZY INFERENCE; FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY SET THEORY; FUZZY SETS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PHASE MEASUREMENT; TESTING;

COMBINATION METHOD; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; FUNCTION APPROXIMATION; FUZZY COMBINATION; FUZZY METHODS; HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; HANDWRITTEN NUMERAL RECOGNITION; NEURAL SYSTEMS;

FUZZY NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 84948956342     PISSN: 15224899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SBRN.2002.1181462     Document Type: Conference Paper

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