Constructive/Destructive NN Algorithms

[Scott.Fahlman@SEF-PMAX.SLISP.CS.CMU.EDU]

    I know from the NIPS Workshop, that there is intense interest in networks that 
    develop their own topology during the training.  I personally have had problems 
    when refering to this class of algorithms...    
    The term for these networks, which I would like to propose, is Ontogenic Neural 
    Networks.

Clever, but I just can't see this term catching on.  What's wrong with
"constructive" and "destructive" (or maybe "additive" and "subtractive")?
People immediately know what you're talking about.

I don't think it's a big problem that there isn't a single word for the
whole class.  Usually you only want to refer to one kind or the other.
Only leaders of workshops and (I hope!) funding agencies have any need to
come up with one term that covers the whole spectrum of such approaches.
    
-- Scott