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McCord Nelson, M. and Illingworth, W.T. (1990). A Practical Guide to Neural
Nets. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc. (ISBN 0-201-52376-0).
Comments: "No formulas at all( ==> no good)"; "It does not have much
detailed model development (very few equations), but it does present many
areas of application. It includes a chapter on current areas of research.
A variety of commercial applications is discussed in chapter 1. It also
includes a program diskette with a fancy graphical interface (unlike the
PDP diskette)".
Orchard, G.A. & Phillips, W.A. (1991). Neural Computation: A
Beginner's Guide. Lawrence Earlbaum Associates: London.
Comments: "Short user-friendly introduction to the area, with a
non-technical flavour. Apparently accompanies a software package, but I
haven't seen that yet".
Wasserman, P. D. (1989). Neural Computing: Theory & Practice.
Van Nostrand Reinhold: New York. (ISBN 0-442-20743-3)
Comments: "Wasserman flatly enumerates some common architectures from an
engineer's perspective ('how it works') without ever addressing the underlying
fundamentals ('why it works') - important basic concepts such as clustering,
principal components or gradient descent are not treated. It's also full of
errors, and unhelpful diagrams drawn with what appears to be PCB board layout
software from the '70s. For anyone who wants to do active research in the
field I consider it quite inadequate"; "Okay, but too shallow"; "Quite
easy to understand";
"The best bedtime reading for Neural Networks. I have given
this book to numerous collegues who want to know NN basics, but who never
plan to implement anything. An excellent book to give your manager."
2.) The classics:
Kohonen, T. (1984). Self-organization and Associative Memory. Springer-Verlag:
New York. (2nd Edition: 1988; 3rd edition: 1989).
Comments: "The section on Pattern mathematics is excellent."
Rumelhart, D. E. and McClelland, J. L. (1986). Parallel Distributed
Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition (volumes 1 & 2).
The MIT Press.
Comments: "As a computer scientist I found the two Rumelhart and McClelland
books really heavy going and definitely not the sort of thing to read if you
are a beginner."; "It's quite readable, and affordable (about $65 for both
volumes)."; "THE Connectionist bible.".
3.) Introductory journal articles:
Hinton, G. E. (1989). Connectionist learning procedures.
Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 40, pp. 185--234.
Comments: "One of the better neural networks overview papers, although the
distinction between network topology and learning algorithm is not always
very clear. Could very well be used as an introduction to neural networks."
Knight, K. (1990). Connectionist, Ideas and Algorithms. Communications of
the ACM. November 1990. Vol.33 nr.11, pp 59-74.
Comments:"A good article, while it is for most people easy to find a copy of
this journal."
Kohonen, T. (1988). An Introduction to Neural Computing. Neural Networks,
vol. 1, no. 1. pp. 3-16.
Comments: "A general review".
4.) Not-quite-so-introductory literature:
Anderson, J. A. and Rosenfeld, E. (Eds). (1988). Neurocomputing:
Foundations of Research. The MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.
Comments: "An expensive book, but excellent for reference. It is a
collection of reprints of most of the major papers in the field.";
Anderson, J. A., Pellionisz, A. and Rosenfeld, E. (Eds). (1990).
Neurocomputing 2: Directions for Research. The MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.
Comments: "The sequel to their well-known Neurocomputing book."
Caudill, M. and Butler, C. (1990). Naturally Intelligent Systems.
MIT Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts. (ISBN 0-262-03156-6).
Comments: "I guess one of the best books I read"; "May not be suited for
people who want to do some research in the area".
Khanna, T. (1990). Foundations of Neural Networks. Addison-Wesley: New York.
Comments: "Not so bad (with a page of erroneous formulas (if I remember
well), and #hidden layers isn't well described)."; "Khanna's intention
in writing his book with math analysis should be commended but he
made several mistakes in the math part".
Levine, D. S. (1990). Introduction to Neural and Cognitive Modeling.
Lawrence Erlbaum: Hillsdale, N.J.
Comments: "Highly recommended".
Lippmann, R. P. (April 1987). An introduction to computing with neural nets.
IEEE Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Magazine. vol. 2,
no. 4, pp 4-22.
Comments: "Much acclaimed as an overview of neural networks, but rather
inaccurate on several points. The categorization into binary and continuous-
valued input neural networks is rather arbitrary, and may work confusing for
the unexperienced reader. Not all networks discussed are of equal importance."
Maren, A., Harston, C. and Pap, R., (1990). Handbook of Neural Computing
Applications. Academic Press. ISBN: 0-12-471260-6. (451 pages)
Comments: "They cover a broad area"; "Introductory with suggested
applications implementation".
Pao, Y. H. (1989). Adaptive Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc. (ISBN 0-201-12584-6)
Comments: "An excellent book that ties together classical approaches
to pattern recognition with Neural Nets. Most other NN books do not
even mention conventional approaches."
Rumelhart, D. E., Hinton, G. E. and Williams, R. J. (1986). Learning
representations by back-propagating errors. Nature, vol 323 (9 October),
pp. 533-536.
Comments: "Gives a very good potted explanation of backprop NN's. It gives
sufficient detail to write your own NN simulation."
Simpson, P. K. (1990). Artificial Neural Systems: Foundations, Paradigms,
Applications and Implementations. Pergamon Press: New York.
Comments: "Contains a very useful 37 page bibliography. A large number of
paradigms are presented. On the negative side the book is very shallow.
Best used as a complement to other books".
Zeidenberg. M. (1990). Neural Networks in Artificial Intelligence.
Ellis Horwood, Ltd., Chichester.
Comments: "Gives the AI point of view".
Zornetzer, S. F., Davis, J. L. and Lau, C. (1990). An Introduction to
Neural and Electronic Networks. Academic Press. (ISBN 0-12-781881-2)
Comments: "Covers quite a broad range of topics (collection of
articles/papers )."; "Provides a primer-like introduction and overview for
a broad audience, and employs a strong interdisciplinary emphasis".
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-A11.) Any journals and magazines about Neural Networks ?
[to be added: comments on speed of reviewing and publishing,
whether they accept TeX format or ASCII by e-mail, etc.]
A. Dedicated Neural Network Journals:
=====================================
Title: Neural Networks
Publish: Pergamon Press
Address: Pergamon Journals Inc., Fairview Park, Elmsford,
New York 10523, USA and Pergamon Journals Ltd.
Headington Hill Hall, Oxford OX3, 0BW, England
Freq.: 6 issues/year (vol. 1 in 1988)
Cost/Yr: Free with INNS membership ($45?), Individual $65, Institution $175
ISSN #: 0893-6080
Remark: Official Journal of International Neural Network Society (INNS).
Contains Original Contributions, Invited Review Articles, Letters
to Editor, Invited Book Reviews, Editorials, Announcements and INNS
News, Software Surveys. This is probably the most popular NN journal.
(Note: Remarks supplied by Mike Plonski "plonski@aero.org")
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Title: Neural Computation
Publish: MIT Press
Address: MIT Press Journals, 55 Hayward Street Cambridge,
MA 02142-9949, USA, Phone: (617) 253-2889
Freq.: Quarterly (vol. 1 in 1989)
Cost/Yr: Individual $45, Institution $90, Students $35; Add $9 Outside USA
ISSN #: 0899-7667
Remark: Combination of Reviews (10,000 words), Views (4,000 words)
and Letters (2,000 words). I have found this journal to be of
outstanding quality.
(Note: Remarks supplied by Mike Plonski "plonski@aero.org")
-----
Title: IEEE Transaction on Neural Networks
Publish: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Address: IEEE Service Cemter, 445 Hoes Lane, P.O. Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ,
08855-1331 USA. Tel: (201) 981-0060
Cost/Yr: $10 for Members belonging to participating IEEE societies
Freq.: Quarterly (vol. 1 in March 1990)
Remark: Devoted to the science and technology of neural networks
which disclose significant technical knowledge, exploratory
developments and applications of neural networks from biology to
software to hardware. Emphasis is on artificial neural networks.
Specific aspects include self organizing systems, neurobiological
connections, network dynamics and architecture, speech recognition,
electronic and photonic implementation, robotics and controls.
Includes Letters concerning new research results.
(Note: Remarks are from journal announcement)
-----
Title: Journal of Neural Network Computing,
Technology, Design, and Applications
Publish: Auerback Publishers
Address: Auerback Publishers, 210 South Street, Boston, MA 02111-9812
Tel: (800) 950-1216
Freq.: Quarterly (vol. 1 in Summer 1989)
Cost/Yr: $145 in USA
Remark: 3 to 5 in-depth articles per issue; Bookshelf Section which
provides a several page introduction to a specific topic
(e.g. feedforward networks) and a list of references for further
reading on that topic; Software Reviews. Good quality, but a little
expensive for personal subscriptions. I got my corporate library
to buy it so I wouldn't have to.
(Note: Remarks supplied by Mike Plonski "plonski@aero.org")
-----
Title: International Journal of Neural Systems
Publish: World Scientific Publishing
Address: USA: World Scientific Publishing Co., 687 Hartwell Street, Teaneck,
NJ 07666. Tel: (201) 837-8858; Eurpoe: World Scientific Publishing
Co. Pte. Ltd., 73 Lynton Mead, Totteridge, London N20-8DH, England.
Tel: (01) 4462461; Other: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.,
Farrer Road, P.O. Box 128, Singapore 9128. Tel: 2786188
Freq.: Quarterly (Vol. 1 in 1990?)
Cost/Yr: Individual $42, Institution $88 (plus $9-$17 for postage)
ISSN #: 0129-0657 (IJNS)
Remark: The International Journal of Neural Systems is a quarterly journal
which covers information processing in natural and artificial neural
systems. It publishes original contributions on all aspects of this
broad subject which involves physics, biology, psychology, computer
science and engineering. Contributions include research papers,
reviews and short communications. The journal presents a fresh
undogmatic attitude towards this multidisciplinary field with the
aim to be a forum for novel ideas and improved understanding of
collective and cooperative phenomena with computational capabilities.
(Note: Remarks supplied by B. Lautrup (editor),
"LAUTRUP%nbivax.nbi.dk@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU" )
Review is reported to be very slow.
------
Title: Neural Network News
Publish: AIWeek Inc.
Address: Neural Network News, 2555 Cumberland Parkway, Suite 299, Atlanta, GA
30339 USA. Tel: (404) 434-2187
Freq.: Monthly (beginning September 1989)
Cost/Yr: USA and Canada $249, Elsewhere $299
Remark: Commericial Newsletter
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Title: Network: Computation in Neural Systems
Publish: IOP Publishing Ltd
Address: Europe: IOP Publishing Ltd, Techno House, Redcliffe Way, Bristol
BS1 6NX, UK; IN USA: American Institute of Physics, Subscriber
Services 500 Sunnyside Blvd., Woodbury, NY 11797-2999
Freq.: Quarterly (1st issue 1990)
Cost/Yr: USA: $180, Europe: 110 pounds
Remark: Description: "a forum for integrating theoretical and experimental
findings across relevant interdisciplinary boundaries." Contents:
Submitted articles reviewed by two technical referees paper's
interdisciplinary format and accessability." Also Viewpoints and
Reviews commissioned by the editors, abstracts (with reviews) of
articles published in other journals, and book reviews.
Comment: While the price discourages me (my comments are based upon
a free sample copy), I think that the journal succeeds very well. The
highest density of interesting articles I have found in any journal.
(Note: Remarks supplied by brandt kehoe "kehoe@csufres.CSUFresno.EDU")
------
Title: Connection Science: Journal of Neural Computing,
Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Research
Publish: Carfax Publishing
Address: Europe: Carfax Publishing Company, P. O. Box 25, Abingdon,
Oxfordshire OX14 3UE, UK. USA: Carafax Publishing Company,
85 Ash Street, Hopkinton, MA 01748
Freq.: Quarterly (vol. 1 in 1989)
Cost/Yr: Individual $82, Institution $184, Institution (U.K.) 74 pounds
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Title: International Journal of Neural Networks
Publish: Learned Information
Freq.: Quarterly (vol. 1 in 1989)
Cost/Yr: 90 pounds
ISSN #: 0954-9889
Remark: The journal contains articles, a conference report (at least the
issue I have), news and a calendar.
(Note: remark provided by J.R.M. Smits "anjos@sci.kun.nl")
-----
Title: Concepts in NeuroScience
Publish: World Scientific Publishing
Address: Same Address (?) as for International Journal of Neural Systems
Freq.: Twice per year (vol. 1 in 1989)
Remark: Mainly Review Articles(?)
(Note: remarks by Osamu Saito "saito@nttica.NTT.JP")
-----
Title: International Journal of Neurocomputing
Publish: ecn Neurocomputing GmbH
Freq.: Quarterly (vol. 1 in 1989)
Remark: Commercial journal, not the academic periodicals
(Note: remarks by Osamu Saito "saito@nttica.NTT.JP")
Review has been reported to be fast (less than 3 months)
-----
Title: Neurocomputers
Publish: Gallifrey Publishing
Address: Gallifrey Publishing, PO Box 155, Vicksburg, Michigan, 49097, USA
Tel: (616) 649-3772
Freq. Monthly (1st issue 1987?)
ISSN #: 0893-1585
Editor: Derek F. Stubbs
Cost/Yr: $32 (USA, Canada), $48 (elsewhere)
Remark: I only have one exemplar so I cannot give you much detail about
the contents. It is a very small one (12 pages) but it has a lot
of (short) information in it about e.g. conferences, books,
(new) ideas etc. I don't think it is very expensive but I'm not sure.
(Note: remark provided by J.R.M. Smits "anjos@sci.kun.nl")
------
Title: JNNS Newsletter (Newsletter of the Japan Neural Network Society)
Publish: The Japan Neural Network Society
Freq.: Quarterly (vol. 1 in 1989)
Remark: (IN JAPANESE LANGUAGE) Official Newsletter of the Japan Neural
Network Society(JNNS)
(Note: remarks by Osamu Saito "saito@nttica.NTT.JP")
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Title: Neural Networks Today
Remark: I found this title in a bulletin board of october last year.
It was a message of Tim Pattison, timpatt@augean.OZ
(Note: remark provided by J.R.M. Smits "anjos@sci.kun.nl")
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Title: Computer Simulations in Brain Science
-----
Title: Internation Journal of Neuroscience
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Title: Neural Network Computation
Remark: Possibly the same as "Neural Computation"
B. NN Related Journals
======================
Title: Complex Systems
Publish: Complex Systems Publications
Address: Complex Systems Publications, Inc., P.O. Box 6149, Champaign,
IL 61821-8149, USA
Freq.: 6 times per year (1st volume is 1987)
ISSN #: 0891-2513
Cost/Yr: Individual $75, Institution $225
Remark: Journal COMPLEX SYSTEMS devotes to the rapid publication of research
on the science, mathematics, and engineering of systems with simple
components but complex overall behavior. Send mail to
"jcs@complex.ccsr.uiuc.edu" for additional info.
(Remark is from announcement on Net)
-----
Title: Biological Cybernetics (Kybernetik)
Publish: Springer Verlag
Remark: Monthly (vol. 1 in 1961)
-----
Title: Various IEEE Transactions and Magazines
Publish: IEEE
Remark: Primarily see IEEE Trans. on System, Man and Cybernetics; Various
Special Issues: April 1990 IEEE Control Systems Magazine.; May 1989
IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems.; July 1988 IEEE Trans. Acoust.
Speech Signal Process.
-----
Title: The Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence
Publish: Taylor & Francis, Ltd.
Address: London, New York, Philadelphia
Freq.: ? (1st issue Jan 1989)
Remark: For submission information, please contact either of the editors:
Eric Dietrich Chris Fields
PACSS - Department of Philosophy Box 30001/3CRL
SUNY Binghamton New Mexico State University
Binghamton, NY 13901 Las Cruces, NM 88003-0001
dietrich@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu cfields@nmsu.edu
-----
Title: The Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Publish: Cambridge University Press
Remark: (Expensive as hell, I'm sure.)
This is a delightful journal that encourages discussion on a
variety of controversial topics. I have especially enjoyed reading
some papers in there by Dana Ballard and Stephen Grossberg (separate
papers, not collaborations) a few years back. They have a really neat
concept: they get a paper, then invite a number of noted scientists
in the field to praise it or trash it. They print these commentaries,
and give the author(s) a chance to make a rebuttal or concurrence.
Sometimes, as I'm sure you can imagine, things get pretty lively. I'm
reasonably sure they are still at it--I think I saw them make a call
for reviewers a few months ago. Their reviewers are called something
like Behavioral and Brain Associates, and I believe they have to be
nominated by current associates, and should be fairly well established
in the field. That's probably more than I really know about it but
maybe if you post it someone who knows more about it will correct any
errors I have made. The main thing is that I liked the articles I
read. (Note: remarks by Don Wunsch <dwunsch@blake.acs.washington.edu>)
-----
Title: International Journal of Applied Intelligence
Publish: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Remark: first issue in 1990(?)
-----
Title: Bulletin of Mathematica Biology
-----
Title: Intelligence
-----
Title: Journal of Mathematical Biology
-----
Title: Journal of Complex System
-----
Title: AI Expert
Publish: Miller Freeman Publishing Co., for subscription call ++415-267-7672.
Remark: Regularly includes ANN related articles, product
announcements, and application reports.
Listings of ANN programs are available on AI Expert affiliated BBS's
-----
Title: International Journal of Modern Physics C
Publish: World Scientific Publ. Co.
Farrer Rd. P.O.Box 128, Singapore 9128
or: 687 Hartwell St., Teaneck, N.J. 07666 U.S.A
or: 73 Lynton Mead, Totteridge, London N20 8DH, England
Freq: published quarterly
Eds: G. Fox, H. Herrmann and K. Kaneko
C. Journals loosely related to NNs
==================================
JOURNAL OF COMPLEXITY
(Must rank alongside Wolfram's Complex Systems)
IEEE ASSP Magazine
(April 1987 had the Lippmann intro. which everyone likes to cite)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
(Vol 40, September 1989 had the survey paper by Hinton)
COGNITIVE SCIENCE
(the Boltzmann machine paper by Ackley et al appeared here in Vol 9, 1983)
COGNITION
(Vol 28, March 1988 contained the Fodor and Pylyshyn critique of connectionism)
COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
(no comment!)
JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(several good book reviews)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-A12.) The most important conferences concerned with Neural Networks ?
[preliminary]
[to be added: has taken place how often yet; most emphasized topics;
where to get proceedings ]
A. Dedicated Neural Network Conferences:
1. Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)
Annually in Denver, Colorado; late November or early December
2. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
co-sponsored by INNS and IEEE
3. Annual Conference on Neural Networks (ACNN)
4. International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN)
Annually in Europe(?), 1992 in Brighton
Major conference of European Neur. Netw. Soc. (ENNS)
B. Other Conferences
1. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
2. Intern. Conf. on Acustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
3. Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
4. [Vision Conferences?]
C. Pointers to Conferences
1. The journal "Neural Networks" has a long list of conferences,
workshops and meetings in each issue.
This is quite interdisciplinary.
2. There is a regular posting on comp.ai.neural-nets from Paultje Bakker:
"Upcoming Neural Network Conferences", which lists names, dates,
locations, contacts, and deadlines.
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-A13.) Neural Network Associations ?
[Is this data still correct ? Who will send me some update ?]
1. International Neural Network Society (INNS).
INNS membership includes subscription to "Neural Networks",
the official journal of the society.
Membership is $55 for non-students and $45 for students per year.
Address: INNS Membership, P.O. Box 491166, Ft. Washington, MD 20749.
2. International Student Society for Neural Networks (ISSNNets).
Membership is $5 per year.
Address: ISSNNet, Inc., P.O. Box 15661, Boston, MA 02215 USA
3. Women In Neural Network Research and technology (WINNERS).
Address: WINNERS, c/o Judith Dayhoff, 11141 Georgia Ave., Suite 206,
Wheaton, MD 20902. Telephone: 301-933-9000.
4. European Neural Network Society (ENNS)
5. Japanese Neural Network Society (JNNS)
Address: Japanese Neural Network Society
Department of Engineering, Tamagawa University,
6-1-1, Tamagawa Gakuen, Machida City, Tokyo,
194 JAPAN
Phone: +81 427 28 3457, Fax: +81 427 28 3597
6. Association des Connexionnistes en THese (ACTH)
(the French Student Association for Neural Networks)
Membership is 100 FF per year
Activities : newsletter, conference (every year), list of members...
Address : ACTH - Le Castelnau R2
23 avenue de la Galline
34170 Castelnau-le-Lez
FRANCE
Contact : jdmuller@vnet.ibm.com
7. Neurosciences et Sciences de l'Ingenieur (NSI)
Biology & Computer Science
Activity : conference (every year)
Address : NSI - TIRF / INPG
46 avenue Felix Viallet
38031 Grenoble Cedex
FRANCE
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-A14.) Other sources of information about NNs ?
1. Neuron Digest
Internet Mailing List. From the welcome blurb:
"Neuron-Digest is a list (in digest form) dealing with all aspects
of neural networks (and any type of network or neuromorphic system)"
Moderated by Peter Marvit.
To subscribe, send email to neuron-request@cattell.psych.upenn.edu
comp.ai.neural-net readers also find the messages in that newsgroup
in the form of digests.
2. Usenet groups comp.ai.neural-nets (Oha ! :-> )
and comp.theory.self-org-sys
There is a periodic posting on comp.ai.neural-nets sent by
srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) about Neural Network
patents.
3. Central Neural System Electronic Bulletin Board
Modem: 509-627-6CNS; Sysop: Wesley R. Elsberry;
P.O. Box 1187, Richland, WA 99352; welsberr@sandbox.kenn.wa.us
Available thrugh FidoNet, RBBS-Net, and other EchoMail compatible
bulletin board systems as NEURAL_NET echo.
4. Neural ftp archive site funic.funet.fi
Is administrating a large collection of neural network papers and
software at the Finnish University Network file archive site
funic.funet.fi in directory /pub/sci/neural
Contains all the public domain software and papers that they
have been able to find.
ALL of these files have been transferred from FTP sites in U.S.
and are mirrored about every 3 months at fastest.
Contact: magi@funic.funet.fi or
magi@utu.fi (my home university address)
5. USENET newsgroup comp.org.issnnet
Forum for discussion of academic/student-related issues in NNs, as
well as information on ISSNNet (see A13) and its activities.
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-A15.) Freely available software packages for NN simulation ?
[This is a bit chaotic and needs reorganization.
A bit more information about what the various programs can do,
on which platform they run, and how big they are would also be nice.
And some important packages are still missing (?)
Who volunteers for that ?]
1. Rochester Connectionist Simulator
A quite versatile simulator program for arbitrary types of
neural nets. Comes with a backprop package and a X11/Sunview
interface.
anonymous FTP from cs.rochester.edu (192.5.53.209)
directory : pub/simulator
files: README (8 KB)
(documentation:) rcs_v4.2.justdoc.tar.Z (1.6 MB)
(source code:) rcs_v4.2.justsrc.tar.Z (1.4 MB)
2. UCLA-SFINX
ftp 131.179.16.6 (retina.cs.ucla.edu)
Name: sfinxftp
Password: joshua
directory: pub/
files : README
sfinx_v2.0.tar.Z
Email info request : sfinx@retina.cs.ucla.edu
3. NeurDS
request from mcclanahan%cookie.dec.com@decwrl.dec.com
simulator for DEC systems supporting VT100 terminal.
OR
anonymous ftp gatekeeper.dec.com [16.1.0.2]
directory: pub/DEC
file: NeurDS031.tar.Z ( please check may be NeurDSO31.tar.Z )
4. PlaNet5.7 (also known as SunNet)
ftp 133.15.240.3 (tutserver.tut.ac.jp)
pub/misc/PlaNet5.7.tar.Z
or
ftp 128.138.240.1 (boulder.colorado.edu)
pub/generic-sources/PlaNet5.7.tar.Z (also the old PlaNet5.6.tar.Z)
A popular connectionist simulator with versions to
run under X Windows, and non-graphics terminals
created by Yoshiro Miyata (Chukyo Univ., Japan).
60-page User's Guide in Postscript.
Send any questions to miyata@sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp
5. GENESIS
anonymous ftp 131.215.135.64 ( genesis.cns.caltech.edu )
Register first via telnet genesis.cns.caltech.edu
login as: genesis
6. Mactivation
anonymous ftp from bruno.cs.colorado.edu [128.138.243.151]
directory: /pub/cs/misc
file: Mactivation-3.3.sea.hqx
7. CMU Connectionist Archive
There is a lisp backprop simulator in the
connectionist archive.
unix> ftp b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (or 128.2.242.8)
Name: ftpguest
Password: cmunix
ftp> cd connectionists/archives
ftp> get backprop.lisp
8. Cascade Correlation Simulator
There is a LISP and C version of the
simulator based on Scott Fahlman's Cascade Correlation algorithm,
who also created the LISP version. The C version was created by
Scott Crowder.
Anonymous ftp from pt.cs.cmu.edu (or 128.2.254.155)
directory /afs/cs/project/connect/code
files cascor1.lisp (56 KB)
cascor1.c (108 KB)
9. Quickprop
A variation of the back-propagation algorithm developed by
Scott Fahlman. A LISP and C version can be obtained in the
same directory as the cascade correlation simulator above. (25 KB)
10. DartNet
DartNet is a Macintosh-based Neural Network Simulator. It makes
full use of the Mac's graphical interface, and provides a
number of powerful tools for building, editing, training,
testing and examining networks.
This program is available by anonymous ftp from
dartvax.dartmouth.edu [129.170.16.4] as
/pub/mac/dartnet.sit.hqx (124 KB)
Copies may also be obtained through email from bharucha@dartmouth.edu.
Along with a number of interface improvements and feature
additions, v2.0 is an extensible simulator. That is,
new network architectures and learning algorithms can be
added to the system by writing small XCMD-like CODE
resources called nDEF's ("Network Definitions"). A number
of such architectures are included with v2.0, as well as
header files for creating new nDEF's.
Contact: sean@coos.dartmouth.edu (Sean P. Nolan)
11. SNNS
"Stuttgarter Neuronale Netze Simulator" from the University
of Stuttgart, Germany.
A luxurious simulator for many types of nets; with X11 interface:
Graphical topology editor, training visualisation, etc.
ftp: ifi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.211.1]
directory /pub/SNNS
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manual SNNSv2.1.Manual.ps.Z (1041375 Bytes)
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