Visual Basic Developers Guide to ASP and IIS: Build Powerful Server-Side Web Applications with Visual Basic. (Visual Basic Developers Guides)

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Backpropagation see also Backpropagation Algorithm

Backpropagation Neural Network Globals (code listing), 102

evolving game AI behaviors and, 95101

example, 9192

Feed-Forward Algorithm (code listing), 104105

learning, 8995

Macros and Symbolic Constants for Backpropagation (code listing), 102103

Representing the Neurocontroller Training Set (code listing), 107

Sample main Function for Neurocontroller Training and Testing (code listing), 108111

Support Functions for (code listing), 103104

Winner-Take-All Determiner Function (code listing), 108

Backpropagation algorithm, 8990

applications for, 112113

Backpropagation Algorithm (code listing), 105106

CD-ROM content, 350

connection weights, adjusting, 9395

error backward propagation pass, 9293

feed-forward pass, 9192

learning and neural nets , 83

Backward chaining in rules-based systems, 196

BACON.3 system, 344

Berners-Lee, Tim, 346

Beyesian networks, 8

Bigram Model

applications for Markov Chains for HMMs, 259262

CD-ROM content, 352

Emitted Text from a Collection of Works (code listing), 274

Emitted Text from Albert Camus' Absurd Man (code listing), 273274

Emitted Text from Albert Einstein Quotes (code listing), 273

Function buildSentence, 270271

Function emitMatrix (code listing), 272273

Function nextWord (code listing), 271272

Hidden Markov Models (HMMs), 259

intellectual property issues, 274

loadWord Function (code listing), 268270

Main Program (code listing), 264265

Markov Models described, 257259

parseFile Function, 266268

parseOptions Function (code listing), 265266

parsers and parsing, 263270

sample application for random character generation, 262263

Symbolic Constants and Global Variables (code listing), 263264

Boolean logic, SLPs and Boolean expressions, 8687

Bots, 277

Bottom-up AI, 341342