Neural Networks: A Comprehensive Foundation

This book presents the first comprehensive treatment of neural networks from an engineering perspective. Thorough, well-organized, and completely up-to-date, it examines all the important aspects of this emerging technology.

Renowned for its thoroughness and readability, this well-organized and completely up-to-date text remains the most comprehensive treatment of neural networks from an engineering perspective. Thoroughly revised.

NEW TO THIS EDITION

• NEW—New chapters now cover such areas as:
• Support vector machines.
• Reinforcement learning/neurodynamic programming.
• Dynamically driven recurrent networks.
• NEW-End—of-chapter problems revised, improved and expanded in number.
FEATURES
• Extensive, state-of-the-art coverage exposes the reader to the many facets of neural networks and helps them appreciate the technology's capabilities and potential applications.
• Detailed analysis of back-propagation learning and multi-layer perceptrons.
• Explores the intricacies of the learning process—an essential component for understanding neural networks.
• Considers recurrent networks, such as Hopfield networks, Boltzmann machines, and meanfield theory machines, as well as modular networks, temporal processing, and neurodynamics.
• Integrates computer experiments throughout, giving the opportunity to see how neural networks are designed and perform in practice.
• Reinforces key concepts with chapter objectives, problems, worked examples, a bibliography, photographs, illustrations, and a thorough glossary.
• Includes a detailed and extensive bibliography for easy reference.
• Computer-oriented experiments distributed throughout the book
• Uses Matlab SE version 5.