Computer Science 394
Special Topics
Artificial Life
Dickinson College
Spring Semester 2007
Grant Braught
Modeling Learning
Reading Assignment 
- Coppin, B. (2004). Chapter 11: Neural Networks. In Artificial Intelligence Illuminated (pp. 291-326). Sudbury: Jones and Bartlett.
- Statsoft (2003). Neural Networks. Retrieved January 10, 2007 from http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stneunet.html.
Read up to and including section on Data Selection.
Homework Assignment 
Sample Code 
- dlife.zip: An update to the
dlife package that contains the dlife.nn package for neural networks.
TrainBinaryAdder.java - Program that uses dlife.nn to train a backpropagation neural network to perform two-bit binary addition.
RunBinaryAdder.java - Program that shows how to load and use a pre-trained neural network. This program works with files saved by TrainBinaryAdder.java.