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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".
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- -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")
- -------
- 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
- ------
- 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
- -----
- 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")
- -------
- 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")
- -----
- Title: Computer Simulations in Brain Science
- -----
- Title: Internation Journal of Neuroscience
- -----
- 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.
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- -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
-
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- -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.
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- -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
- file SNNSv2.1.tar.Z OR SNNSv2.1.tar.Za[a-d] ( 826271 Bytes)
- manual SNNSv2.1.Manual.ps.Z (1041375 Bytes)
- SNNSv2.1.Readme ( 7645 Bytes)
-