Evolving Multiple Neural Networks

Author

Sunghwan Sohn
Cihan H. Dagli, Missouri University of Science and TechnologyFollow

Abstract

In this paper, we apply genetic algorithms to the automatic generation of neural networks as well as the biological inspiration of neural networks to successfully adapt to environments. The network produced by this method can be customized for a special objective because the network is selected by the objective function. The final goal in designing a classifier is to achieve the best performance for a given classification. It has been observed that some methods of combining networks consistently outperform a single network. Therefore, we also investigate the performance of combining multiple evolving neural networks. Financial and medical data are used to test the network's performance.

Recommended Citation

S. Sohn and C. H. Dagli, "Evolving Multiple Neural Networks," Intelligent Engineering Systems Through Artificial Neural Networks, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Nov 2002.

Meeting Name

Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering Conference, ANNIE 2002 (2002: Nov. 10-13, St. Louis, MO)

Department(s)

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering

Keywords and Phrases

Artificial Intelligence; Neural Networks

Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

Document Version

Citation

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2002 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), All rights reserved.

Publication Date

13 Nov 2002