This book provides successful implementations of metaheuristic methods for neural network training. It is the first book to achieve this objective. Moreover, the basic principles and fundamental ideas given in the book will allow the readers to create successful training methods on their own....

Neural Networks (NN) have a very unique property of being trained (Ben and Patrick, 1996) for pattern recognition, pattern association and pattern classification. The Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) have a wide area of applications. The well-known idea of pattern recognition is very much...

In this study, a path to improving students' core literacy is explored, and a new mechanism is developed for maker education and teaching based on research on students' core literacy and the essence of maker education. An evaluation model of college students' maker ability is established, and an...