What is an Artificial Neural Network?

• From Statistics journals
  • Warner, B. and Misra, M. (1996), `` Understanding neural networks as statistical tools,'' The American Statistician, Nov 1996, Vol 50, No.4, pp.284-293.
  • Schumacher, M., Robner, R., and Vach, W., (1996), ``Neural networks and logistic regression: Part I and II,'' Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 21, pp.661-701.
  • Ripley, B.D. (1994), ``Neural networks and related methods for classification,'' Jouranl of the Royal Statistical Society B, 56, No.3, pp.409-456.
  • Cheng, B and Titterington, D. M. (1994), ``Neural networks: A review from statistical perspective,'' Statistical Science, Vol 9, No.1, pp.2-54.
• A Basic Introduction To Neural Networks
• Artificial neural networks: a developing science - an article in SPIE's Optical Engineering Reports.
• Neural Network Lecture Notes from Kevin Gurney at Brunel University, UK.
• Engineering Applications of Neural Nets Presentation by Gary Whittington at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
• An introduction to Neural Networks by Ben J.A. Kröse and P. Patrick van der Smagt of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. This is a nice introductory book that can be freely downloaded.
• What is an Artificial Neural Networks by NeuroSolutions, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
• Biological Neurons description at Einhoven.
• Neural Network Entry in the Software Engineering Glossary at CERN, Switzerland.
• Neural Network Definitions from the Grolier Electronic Encyclopedia at the University of Washington, USA.
• Neural Networks Course at Colorado School of Mines: MACS570, Spring 1995
• Was ist ein Neuronales Netz? from Universität Kassel, Germany.
• les Reseaux de Neurones from Conservatoire National d'Arts et Métiers, France.
• Úvod do umelých neuronových sítí from Technical University of Brno, Czech Republic
• Neural Nets notes from Tom D. Grove
• Collection of Backpropagation Articles
• Glossary of Neural Network Terms from PC AI Magazine
• Rule extraction from Neural Networks by Robert Andrews, Joachim Diederich, & Lee Giles
• From Books
  • Ripley, B. D. and Hjort, N. L. (1996) Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks - A Statistical Approach. Cambridge Universityh Press.
  • Haykin, S. (1994) Neural Networks - A Comprehensive Foundation. Macmillan.
  • Hertz, J., Krogh. A., and Palmer, R. G. (1991) An Introdution to The Theory of Neural Computation. Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Redwood City, CA: Addison-Wesley.

Neural Networks on the Web

• Frequently Asked Questions about Neural Networks
• Java neural network software
• Gateway to the Neural Networks World
• IDIAP Neural Network Home Page
• Neural networks group at Austrian Research Institute
• University of Texas at Austin
• Georgia Institute of Technology Neural Net Research Center (NNRC)
• Neural Networks at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
• Neuroprose archive at Ohio State U
• Don Tveter's Home Page
• The Usenet Neural Network Newsgroup
• Other WWW Neural Network Home Pages