Neural Computing: An Introduction and Some Applications

Artificial neural network models have been studied for many years with the hope of designing information proeessing systems to produee human-like performance. The present artiele provides an introduction to neural computing by reviewing three commonly used models (namely, Hopfield's model, Kobonen's model and the Multi-layer perceptron) and showing their applications in various fields such as pattern classification, image processing and optimization problems. Some discussions are made on the merits of fusion of fuzzy logic and neural network technologies, and robnstness of network based systems.