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From: kcj@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Kate Juliff)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: Neuralworks Professional II Plus
Message-ID: <5690@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 12 May 91 02:56:49 GMT
References: <1991May11.232140.24961@ncs.dnd.ca>
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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In article <1991May11.232140.24961@ncs.dnd.ca> marwood@ncs.dnd.ca (Gordon Marwood) writes:
>I should be interested in any opinions anyone may have on Neuralworks
>Professional II Plus running under MS-DOS.  A colleague of mine is
>considering the acquisition of this software to assist in studies of
>association of positional data, e.g. association of new data with
>multiple existing tracks of previous data.


I bought it and it is of no use to what I am doing at the moment.
Its implementation of a Hopfield and Tank net is not standard and
the description of such a net in the manual contains information
which I found misleading. 

I have not looked in detail at the other NN models, but from a brief
overview, I would say that the product is best  used  as an educational
tool, that is using it to illustrate the different models, rather than
for real applications.


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