cs162faw@sdcc18.ucsd.EDU (Phaedrus) (11/16/88)
About two weeks ago, I posted a desire for Axon/Netset information, I'm afraid my scope was much to small, considering I only received two responses. I'm sorry to muck up the newsgroup, but I really do need this information, and my posting disappeared after a week or so. If you've ever used a neural network simulator or if you have good opinions regarding representations. Provided is a questionare regarding Neural-Networking/PDP. Information from this questionare will be used to design a user interface for an industrial neural network program which may perform any of the traditional PDP problems (e.g., back prop, counter prop, constraint satisfact, etc). The program can handle connections set up in any fashion (e.g., fully connected, feed-back connected, whatever), and it can also toggle between syncronous or asyncronous modes. What we're really interested in is what you feel is "hard" or "easy" about neural net representations. 1. What type of research have you done ? 2. What type of research are you likely to do in the future ? 3. What is your programming background ? 4. What simulators have you used before ? What did you like about their interfaces ? 5. Have you used graphical interfaces before ? Did you like them ? Do you think that you could use them for research-oriented problems ? Why or why not ? 6. Do you prefer to work with numerical representations of networks ? Weight matrices ? Connection Matrices ? Why or why not ? 7. Would you like to use a graphical PDP interface if it could craft complicated networks easily ? Why or why not ? 8. Do you forsee any difficulties you might have with graphical interfaces ? Any other comments along the same vein will be appreciated. Your opinion is REALLY wanted, so please take 5 minutes and hit 'r-'!!! Thank you, James Shaw