ECE/ME578/CS504 ST:
NEURAL NETWORKS DESIGN
(UI Spring schedule and to get enrolled...)
http://husky.if.uidaho.edu/ee578s06

Spring 2006

class period: Thu. 7:30pm - 10:15pm mdt (6:30pm - 9:15pm pdt)
office hours: Thu. 6:30pm - 7:25pm mdt (5:30pm - 6:25pm pdt)

Offered: 

  • Idaho Falls (live - room TAB 350A),
  • Moscow (through Compressed Video - room JEB 026)
  • Through Engineering Outreach (tapes/DVDs)

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Catalog data:
ECE 578 Neural Network Design (3 cr). Same as CS504/ME 578. Introduction to neural networks and problems that can be solved by their application; introduction of basic neural network architectures; learning rules are developed for training these architectures to perform useful functions; various training techniques employing the learning rules discussed and applied; neural networks used to solve pattern recognition and control system problems. Prereq: perm. 

This course was offered last time in Spring 2005.

Instructor:
Milos Manic, Ph.D.
University of Idaho

UIIF College of Engineering at IF, UIIF CS Dept
1776 Science Center Drive, TAB Ste.#241,
Idaho Falls, ID 83402;
ph. direct: 208.282.7845; fax:208.282.7950;
email: misko@uidaho.edu
url: http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~milosm/
url: http://husky.if.uidaho.edu

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References:
Required texbooks are:
  • Robert J. Schalkoff, "Artificial Neural Networks" co-published by MIT Press and the McGraw-Hill Companies 1997, ISBN: 0-07-057118-X.
  • J. M. Zurada, "Introduction to Artificial Neural Systems" - West Publishing Company 1992, ISBN: 0-314-93391-3 or 053495460X (hardcover), and 8172242662 (paperback).

Also, there is a variety of recommended text books listed at course web page.

Related more towards applications:

  • ed. by Ian Cloete & Jacek M. Zurada, “Knowledge-Based Neurocomputing”, The MIT Press, 2000, ISBN: 0-262-03274-0.
  • ed. by Emile Aarts, J.K.Lenstra, "Local Search In Combinatorial Optimization", John Wiley & Sons, 1998, ISBN: 0-471-948-225.
  • ed. by D.B. Fogel, C.J. Robinson, "Computational Intelligence", John Wiley & Sons, IEEE Press, ISBN: 0-471-27454-2.
  • Hagan, H. Demuth, M. Beale, “Neural Network Design”, PWS Publishing Company 1995, ISBN: 0-534-94332-2

For your project/research paper, you can start searching from here.

Possible sources for textbook on internet are: half.com => textbook, bestwebbuys.com => textbook, bookarea.com => textbook, amazon.com => textbook, dealtime.com , etc.

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Software download  

Class notes click here
At the end of the course, please complete the evaluation for this course at: http://max.csrv.uidaho.edu/

Homework & Exam assignments click here
Homework should be sent to misko@uidaho.edu with the following subject: "[ECE578] HW1 Family_name" for homework number 1, "[ECE578] HW2 Family_name" for homework number 2, etc. Attachments in doc, PDF, or ps format are welcome.


Questions

FAQs page click here.

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Grades

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