[comp.ai.neural-nets] Multi-layer Perceptron Network Design

mcguire@fornax.UUCP (Michael McGuire) (01/31/91)

Does anyone know of any books or papers that describe in detail how
one would go abount designing a multi-layer perceptron neural network
given a certain problem. I am interested in the selection of layers,
number of hidden units, learning rate etc. Most of the literature seems to
use a trial-and-error method or experience. Given a problem, and a set of
patterns to analyze, is there a good way to determine whether a certain
network could learning the mapping. Much appreciated.