Because of the formidable obstacles to realizing the ideal distributed database, DBMS vendors have taken a step-by-step approach to databases and networking. They have focused on specific forms of network database access, data distribution, and distributed data management that are appropriate...

This paper presents some simple techniques to improve the backpropagation algorithm. Since learning in neural networks is an NP-complete problem and since traditional gradient descent methods are rather slow, many alternatives have been tried in order to accelerate convergence. Some of the...

This paper presents the backpropagation algorithm based on an extended network approach in which the algorithm reduces to a graph labeling problem. This method is not only more general than the usual analytical derivations, which handle only the case of special network topologies, but also much...

System outputs are the results of automatic processing, and they represent one of the main means of materialization of the objectives of any computing system. This means providing on-demand or periodic data needed by the real system. Thus, the contents of this paper present the main elements of...