Academic Articles & Research Papers

Artificial neural networks enabled by nanophotonics

The growing demands of brain science and artificial intelligence create an urgent need for the development of artificial neural networks (ANNs) that can mimic the structural, functional and biological features of human neural networks. Nano...

Prediction Intervals for Artificial Neural Networks

The artificial neural network (ANN) is becoming a very popular model for engineering and scientific applications. Inspired by brain architecture, artificial neural networks represent a class of nonlinear models capable of learning from data...

Artificial Neural Network Modelling

Neural Networks: A Review from a Statistical Perspective

This paper informs a statistical readership about Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), points out some of the links with statistical methodology and encourages cross-disciplinary research in the directions most likely to bear fruit. The areas...

Artificial Neural Networks for Misuse Detection

Misuse detection is the process of attempting to identify instances of network attacks by comparing current activity against the expected actions of an intruder. Most current approaches to misuse detection involve the use of rule-based expe...

Evolutionary artificial neural networks: a review

Understanding of a convolutional neural network

The term Deep Learning or Deep Neural Network refers to Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) with multi layers. Over the last few decades, it has been considered to be one of the most powerful tools, and has become very popular in the literatur...

Neural networks: an introduction

In this chapter, neural networks are discussed. The present field of neural networks links a number of closely related areas, such as parallel distributed processing, connectionism and neural computing, these being brought together with the...

Introduction to artificial neural networks

The coupling of computer science and theoretical bases such as nonlinear dynamics and chaos theory allows the creation of 'intelligent' agents, such as artificial neural networks (ANNs), able to adapt themselves dynamically to problems of h...

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...

Neural networks: a tutorial

1. A Structure of an Artificial Neural Network. 2. Applications of Neural Networks. 3. The Early Years. 4. The Hopfield Net. 5. Self Organizing Maps. 6. Backpropagation. 7. Learning Laws and Continued Taxonomy. 8. Adaptive Resonance Theory....

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 ...

Introduction to artificial neural networks

A general introduction to the subject of artificial neural networks is given and the tenuous relationship of neural networks to the biological neuron structure of the brain is also briefly outlined. The development of artificial neural netw...

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 ...

Artificial Neural Networks

Neural Networks in Applied Statistics

Artificial neural networks are computer algorithms or computer programs derived in part from attempts to model the activity of nerve cells. They have been applied to pattern recognition, classification, and optimization problems in the phys...

Artificial neural networks

Quantum neural network

It is suggested that a quantum neural network (QNN), a type of artificial neural network, can be built using the principles of quantum information processing. The input and output qubits in the QNN can be implemented by optical modes with d...

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, ...