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ION526 INTRODUCTION TO NEURAL NETWORKS

Course Code: 9040526
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Informatics Online
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
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Offered Semester: Spring Semesters.

Course Content

This course aims to give basics of Artificial Neural Networks in an algorithmic approach. The following topics are to be covered in the course: Biological and Artificial Neurons, Perceptron Training Algorithm, Multilayer Perceptron and Back Propagation Training Algorithm, Hopfield Network as Autoassociative Memory, Bidirectional Associative Memory, Function Interpolation and Radial Basis Function Networks, Kohonen Self Organizing Feature Maps, Hopfield Network for Optimization Problems, Simulated Annealing and Boltzman Machine.