Academic Articles & Research Papers

Are artificial neural networks black boxes?

Artificial neural networks are efficient computing models which have shown their strengths in solving hard problems in artificial intelligence. They have also been shown to be universal approximators. Notwithstanding, one of the major criti...

Cellular neural networks: theory

A novel class of information-processing systems called cellular neural networks is proposed. Like neural networks, they are large-scale nonlinear analog circuits that process signals in real time. Like cellular automata, they consist of a m...

Modular learning in neural networks

In the development of large-scale knowledge networks much recent progress has been inspired by connections to neurobiology. An important component of any neural network is an accompanying learning algorithm. Such an algorithm, to be biologi...

Artificial Neural Networks: An Overview

Neural networks, also known as artificial neural networks (ANNs) or artificially generated neural networks (SNNs) are a subset of machine learning that provide the foundation of deep learning techniques. Their name and form are inspired by ...

Fundamentals of Neural Networks

The purpose of this study is to familiarise the reader with the foundations of neural networks. Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are algorithm-based systems that are modelled after Biological Neural Networks (BNNs). Neural networks are an ...

Discovering Physical Concepts with Neural Networks

Despite the success of neural networks at solving concrete physics problems, their use as a general-purpose tool for scientific discovery is still in its infancy. Here, we approach this problem by modeling a neural network architecture afte...

Introduction to artificial neural networks

A neural network is a data processing system consisting of a large number of simple, highly interconnected processing elements in an architecture inspired by the structure of the cerebral cortex portion of the brain. Hence, neural networks ...

Neural Networks for Chemical Engineers

Part 1 Theoretical issues: an introduction to artificial neural networks, D.T. Pham unsupervised neural learning, E. Oja back-propagation and its variations, D. Tsaptsinos the general approximation problem for feed-forward neural networks, ...

Neural networks for financial forecasting

When applied to the world of finance, neural networks are automated trading systems, based on mapping inputs and outputs for forecasting probable future values. In Neural Networks for Financial Forecasting - the first book to focus on the r...

Neural Networks

Neural Networks, Second Edition provides a complete introduction to neural networks. It describes what they are, what they can do, and how they do it. While some scientific background is assumed, the reader is not expected to have any prior...

Neural networks for optimization and signal processing

From the Publisher: Artificial neural networks can be employed to solve a wide spectrum of problems in optimization, parallel computing, matrix algebra and signal processing. Taking a computational approach, this book explains how ANNs pro...

Applications of Neural Networks in Electromagnetics

From the Book: Since the early 1990s, a plethora of electromagnetic problems have been tackled using neural networks, some more successfully than others. Because neural networks and electromagnetics are two different scientific fields, not...

Bankruptcy prediction using neural networks

On Interpretability of Artificial Neural Networks: A Survey

Deep learning as represented by the artificial deep neural networks (DNNs) has achieved great success recently in many important areas that deal with text, images, videos, graphs, and so on. However, the black-box nature of DNNs has become ...

Federated Machine Learning

Today’s artificial intelligence still faces two major challenges. One is that, in most industries, data exists in the form of isolated islands. The other is the strengthening of data privacy and security. We propose a possible solution to t...

On Formalizing Fairness in Prediction with Machine Learning

Machine learning algorithms for prediction are increasingly being used in critical decisions affecting human lives. Various fairness formalizations, with no firm consensus yet, are employed to prevent such algorithms from systematically dis...

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to a set of technologies through which "intelligent machines are gaining the ability to learn, improve and make calculated decisions in ways that enable them to perform tasks previously thought to rely so...

Artificial intelligence in educational leadership: a symbiotic role of human-artificial intelligence decision-making

Purpose Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to a type of algorithms or computerized systems that resemble human mental processes of decision-making. This position paper looks beyond the sensational hyperbole of AI in teaching and learning. ...

Artificial Intelligence: Principles and Applications

Part 1. Principles of artificial intelligence, John Campbell. Part 2 Tools and techniques: artificial intelligence programming environments and the POPLOG system, John Gibson LISP, lists and pattern-matching, Tony Hasemer. Part 3 Applicatio...

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE LIMITS OF LEGAL PERSONALITY

Abstract As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become more sophisticated and play a larger role in society, arguments that they should have some form of legal personality gain credence. The arguments are typically framed in instrumental t...