| Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Preface to the First Edition | p. ix |
| Preface to the Second Edition | p. xi |
| Introduction and Role of Artificial Neural Networks | p. 1 |
| Fundamentals of Biological Neural Networks | p. 5 |
| Basic Principles of ANNs and Their Early Structures | p. 9 |
| Basic Principles of ANN Design | p. 9 |
| Basic Network Structures | p. 10 |
| The Perceptron's Input-Output Principles | p. 11 |
| The Adaline (ALC) | p. 12 |
| The Perceptron | p. 17 |
| The Basic Structure | p. 17 |
| The Single-Layer Representation Problem | p. 22 |
| The Limitations of the Single-Layer Perceptron | p. 23 |
| Many-Layer Perceptrons | p. 24 |
| Perceptron Case Study: Identifying Autoregressive Parameters of a Signal (AR Time Series Identification) | p. 25 |
| The Madaline | p. 37 |
| Madaline Training | p. 37 |
| Madaline Case Study: Character Recognition | p. 39 |
| Back Propagation | p. 59 |
| The Back Propagation Learning Procedure | p. 59 |
| Derivation of the BP Algorithm | p. 59 |
| Modified BP Algorithms | p. 63 |
| Back Propagation Case Study: Character Recognition | p. 65 |
| Back Propagation Case Study: The Exclusive-OR (XOR) Problem (2-Layer BP) | p. 76 |
| Back Propagation Case Study: The XOR Problem - 3 Layer BP Network | p. 94 |
| Hopfield Networks | p. 113 |
| Introduction | p. 113 |
| Binary Hopfield Networks | p. 113 |
| Setting of Weights in Hopfield Nets - Bidirectional Associative Memory (BAM) Principle | p. 114 |
| Walsh Functions | p. 117 |
| Network Stability | p. 118 |
| Summary of the Procedure for Implementing the Hopfield Network | p. 121 |
| Continuous Hopfield Models | p. 122 |
| The Continuous Energy (Lyapunov) Function | p. 123 |
| Hopfield Network Case Study: Character Recognition | p. 125 |
| Hopfield Network Case Study: Traveling Salesman Problem | p. 136 |
| Counter Propagation | p. 161 |
| Introduction | p. 161 |
| Kohonen Self-Organizing Map (SOM) Layer | p. 161 |
| Grossberg Layer | p. 162 |
| Training of the Kohonen Layer | p. 162 |
| Training of Grossberg Layers | p. 165 |
| The Combined Counter Propagation Network | p. 165 |
| Counter Propagation Network Case Study: Character Recognition | p. 166 |
| Adaptive Resonance Theory | p. 179 |
| Motivation | p. 179 |
| The ART Network Structure | p. 179 |
| Setting-Up of the ART Network | p. 183 |
| Network Operation | p. 184 |
| Properties of ART | p. 186 |
| Discussion and General Comments on ART-I and ART-II | p. 186 |
| ART-I Network Case Study: Character Recognition | p. 187 |
| ART-I Case Study: Speech Recognition | p. 201 |
| The Cognitron and the Neocognitron | p. 209 |
| Background of the Cognitron | p. 209 |
| The Basic Principles of the Cognitron | p. 209 |
| Network Operation | p. 209 |
| Cognitron's Network Training | p. 211 |
| The Neocognitron | p. 213 |
| Statistical Training | p. 215 |
| Fundamental Philosophy | p. 215 |
| Annealing Methods | p. 216 |
| Simulated Annealing by Boltzman Training of Weights | p. 216 |
| Stochastic Determination of Magnitude of Weight Change | p. 217 |
| Temperature-Equivalent Setting | p. 217 |
| Cauchy Training of Neural Network | p. 217 |
| Statistical Training Case Study - A Stochastic Hopfield Network for Character Recognition | p. 219 |
| Statistical Training Case Study: Identifying AR Signal Parameters with a Stochastic Perceptron Model | p. 222 |
| Recurrent (Time Cycling) Back Propagation Networks | p. 233 |
| Recurrent/Discrete Time Networks | p. 233 |
| Fully Recurrent Networks | p. 234 |
| Continuously Recurrent Back Propagation Networks | p. 235 |
| Recurrent Back Propagation Case Study: Character Recognition | p. 236 |
| Large Scale Memory Storage and Retrieval (LAMSTAR) Network | p. 249 |
| Basic Principles of the LAMSTAR Neural Network | p. 249 |
| Detailed Outline of the LAMSTAR Network | p. 251 |
| Forgetting Feature | p. 257 |
| Training vs. Operational Runs | p. 258 |
| Advanced Data Analysis Capabilities | p. 259 |
| Correlation, Interpolation, Extrapolation and Innovation-Detection | p. 261 |
| Concluding Comments and Discussion of Applicability | p. 262 |
| LAMSTAR Network Case Study: Character Recognition | p. 265 |
| Application to Medical Diagnosis Problems | p. 280 |
| Problems | p. 285 |
| References | p. 291 |
| Author Index | p. 299 |
| Subject Index | p. 301 |
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