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Neural and Adaptive Systems: Fundamentals through Simulations
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Author: José C. Principe, Neil R. Euliano, W. Curt Lefebvre
List Price: $96.95
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ISBN: 0471351679
Publisher: Wiley Text Books (03 December, 1999)
Edition: Hardcover
Sales Rank: 129,859
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 3 out of 5
Okay book, not worth the price.
The book covers the topics fairly well. Unfortunately, you won't ever use this book outside of a classroom. It seems like every page either has an illustration, or a box saying "run simulation 5.17 fom the CD, and here are 3 graphs from that simulation", or "Use the Excel plugin on the data from the CD". I suppose that is useful to those who can't follow the math. I believe it is also what causes the excessive cost of the book.DON'T buy the book if you are looking for ways to include neural networks or machine learning into your existing applications. The book gives you formulas, and a workbench program that (once you figure it out) lets you customize it's own built-in formulas with its own data sets. It is not significantly useful when wanting to write your own adaptive system, nor does it have any significant code samples to learn from. You get the formulas and illustrations, figuring out how to apply them is up to you.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Very Helpful and Practical
Topics explored in this book include signal processing, feature extraction, linear and non-linear modelling, temporal models and an array of connectionist learning paradigms. These topics are demanding, particularly mathematically, however I have taken a lot from this book where I have had limited success with others. The authors know a great deal about their subject, which has enabled them to take a holistic approach, which explains fundamentals before building them into powerful solutions. Equations, while frequently cited are explained descriptively and often boxed separately from the main text. Learning is greatly enhanced by the 200 interactive tutorials. The NeuroSolutions software (limited version free) is the best I've seen in terms of the number of architectures and data processing algorithms provided and comes with an excel add in! I searched Amazon long and hard for this book and was not disappointed - it sets a new standard for technical education.
Rating: 5 out of 5
The best book for adaptive signal processing
This is the best book to learn adaptive signal processing. The authors teach you the spirit of adaptation thorugh simulation played by yourself. Moreover, readers can build their own system using the NeuralSolution. No matter you are a student or an engineer, this book is very useful.
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