A parallel distributed processing approach to the computation of localized fractal dimension values in imagery is presented. This approach is a further development of the covering method which requires only nearest ne...
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A parallel distributed processing approach to the computation of localized fractal dimension values in imagery is presented. This approach is a further development of the covering method which requires only nearest neighbor communication. A major benefit of our approach is the ability to readily incorporate any boundary information that may be available. Many fractal textures or surfaces are fractal only in distribution. With this in mind, we show that comparison of the fractal dimension distributions via Kullback-Leibler can give an improved texture discrimination capability over comparison of computed fractal dimension. Results are presented for a set of textures.
A systematic approach has been developed to construct neural networks for qualitative analysis and reasoning. These neural networks are used as specialized paralleldistributed processors for solving constraint satisf...
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A systematic approach has been developed to construct neural networks for qualitative analysis and reasoning. These neural networks are used as specialized paralleldistributed processors for solving constraint satisfaction problems. A typical application of such a neural network is to determine a reasonable change of a system after one or more of its variables are changed. A six-node neural network is developed to represent fundamental qualitative relations. A larger neural network can be constructed hierarchically for a system to be modeled by using six-node neural networks as building blocks. The complexity of the neural network building process is thus kept manageable. An example of developing a neural network reasoning model for a transistor equivalent circuit is demonstrated. The use of this neural network model in the equivalent circuit parameter extraction process is also described.
Neural networks can be used as a tool in the explanation of neuropsychological data. Using the Hebbian Learning Rule and other such principles as competition and modifiable interlevel feedback, researchers have succes...
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Neural networks can be used as a tool in the explanation of neuropsychological data. Using the Hebbian Learning Rule and other such principles as competition and modifiable interlevel feedback, researchers have successfully modeled a widely used neuropsychological test, the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test. One of these models is reviewed here and extended to a qualitative analysis of how verbal fluency might be modeled, which demonstrates the importance of accounting for the attentional components of both tests. Difficulties remain in programming sequential cognitive processes within a parallel distributed processing (PDP) framework and integrating exceedingly complex neuropsychological tests such as Proverbs. PDP neural network methodology offers neuropsychologists co-validation procedures within narrowly defined areas of reliability and validity.
parallel distributed processing (PDP), a computational methodology with origins in Associationism, is used to provide empirical information regarding neurobiological systems. Recently, supercomputers have enabled neur...
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parallel distributed processing (PDP), a computational methodology with origins in Associationism, is used to provide empirical information regarding neurobiological systems. Recently, supercomputers have enabled neuroscientists to model brain behavior-relationships. An overview of supercomputer architecture demonstrates the advantages of parallel over serial processing. Histological data provide physical evidence of the paralleldistributed nature of certain aspects of the human brain, as do corresponding computer simulations. Whereas sensory networks follow more sequential neural network pathways, in vivo brain imaging studies of attention and rudimentary language tasks appear to involve multiple cortical and subcortical areas. Controversy remains as to whether associative models or Artificial Intelligence symbolic models better reflect neural networks of cognitive functions; however, considerable interest has shifted towards associative models.
It is claimed that there are pre-objective phenomena, which cognitive science should explain by employing the notion of non-conceptual representational content. It is argued that a match between paralleldistributed p...
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It is claimed that there are pre-objective phenomena, which cognitive science should explain by employing the notion of non-conceptual representational content. It is argued that a match between parallel distributed processing (PDP) and non-conceptual content (NCC) not only provides a means of refuting recent criticisms of PDP as a cognitive architecture;it also provides a vehicle for NCC that is required by naturalism. A connectionist cognitive mapping algorithm is used as a case study to examine the affinities between PDP and NCC.
This paper aims at developing a new control method based on the decentralized management approache to describing a mathematical model of the autonomic machiens. In the field of engineering, there were formerly two cat...
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This paper aims at developing a new control method based on the decentralized management approache to describing a mathematical model of the autonomic machiens. In the field of engineering, there were formerly two categories of the control method. One was based on a central control, the other was on parallel distribution. However, these former models are based on the connection between processing units. Thus each processing unit must be controled by a host unit. Both of these units have to be programmed by a sequence of procedures, and all the units are hardly able to express unification and enlargement. However, in Nature there is an important method that utilizes the propagation of information, for example light waves, sonic waves and smell; and it is known that information transmission among all life units, not just animal, depends on this method. Furthermore, the infonnation processing of a life unit is a self-organizing process that can be achieved by utilizing a field to exchange information. By this method, there are many cases where high perfonnance information processing can be attained without supervision. IIere, in order to develop a more generalized theory for the control of autonomic machines, the Vibrating Potential Method (VPM) is introduced. The VPM is described by placing each unit's potential functions on its own harmonic wave as axes. Each unit receives potential energy from the Vibrating Potential Field (VPF) by convolution and decides its own strategy of motion independently. This paper proposes a new control method using field and discusses its application to the grasping problem of free form objects.
We propose a novel multilayer paralleldistributed pattern recognition system model in which the n-tuple principle in WISARD is followed and ordinary RAM nets are replaced by sparse RAM ones. The new system considers ...
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We propose a novel multilayer paralleldistributed pattern recognition system model in which the n-tuple principle in WISARD is followed and ordinary RAM nets are replaced by sparse RAM ones. The new system considers pattern correlation and is able to optimise n-tuple size in a larger range through reduction of cost. Preliminary experiments with handwritten Chinese character recognition have confirmed the feasibility of the model.
A topic of interdisciplinary research in neurobiology and neuroinformatics concerns visual pattern recognition by neuronal networks. Drawing on quantitative studies of visual releasers of prey catching in toads, it ca...
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computing devices such as Turing machines resolve the dilemma between the necessary finitude of effective procedures and the potential infinity of a function's domain by distinguishing between a finite-state proce...
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computing devices such as Turing machines resolve the dilemma between the necessary finitude of effective procedures and the potential infinity of a function's domain by distinguishing between a finite-state processing part, defined over finitely many representation types, and a memory sufficiently large to contain representation tokens for any of the function's arguments and values. Connectionist networks have been shown to be (at least) Turing-equivalent if provided with infinitely many nodes or infinite-precision activation values and weights. Physical computation, however, is necessarily finite.
A model based on an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) was developed for modeling and predicting red pine survival. The new model uses diameter at breast height and estimated annual diameter growth as its predictors. For...
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A model based on an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) was developed for modeling and predicting red pine survival. The new model uses diameter at breast height and estimated annual diameter growth as its predictors. For training neural networks, a proportional coding scheme based on Gaussian distributions was used to transform the data into patterns of activities. Four model performance criteria-sum of square errors (SSE), chi-2 statistic, final predicted error (FPE), and predicted squared error (PSE)-were used to determine the adequacy of the new model. Based on the four criteria, the ANN-based new red pine survival model not only fits the data better than a statistical model;it is also expected to perform better on future data, provided that the training data are representative. The response surface of the ANN model shows it has the required flexibility to model red pine survival, especially in modeling both small and large but slow growing trees. This study also shows that a proportionally coded training data set may indeed be an effective form of input data representation for developing red pine survival models based on artificial neural networks.
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