TR available: schemas, logics, and neural assemblies

[Ron Sun]

Paper available:

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* FTP-host: archive.cis.ohio-state.edu 
  FTP-filename: pub/neuroprose/sun.schema.ps.Z
  (thanks to Jordan Pollack)
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Title: 
 Schemas, Logics, and Neural Assemblies
 ( length: 30 pages.)

Author:
 Ron Sun
 Department of Computer Science     
 The University of Alabama
 Tuscaloosa, AL  35487


To appear in
  Applied Intelligence,  Special issue on connectionist models
  Vol.5, No.2. Feb. 1995 (edited by  Michael Dyer)


Abstract:
To implement schemas and  logics in connectionist models,
some form of basic-level organization is needed.
This paper proposes  such an organization, which is termed a discrete 
neural assembly. Each discrete neural assembly is in turn
made up of discrete neurons (nodes), that is,
a node that process inputs based on a discrete mapping instead of a 
continuous function.  A group of discrete neurons (nodes) closely
interconnected form an assembly and carry out a basic functionality.
Some substructures and superstructures of such assemblies are 
developed, to enable complex symbolic schemas to be represented and 
processed in connectionist networks.  The paper shows that 
logical inference can be performed precisely, when necessary, in these 
networks  and with certain generalization, more flexible inference 
(fuzzy inference) can also be performed.
The development of various connectionist  constructs demonstrates the 
possibility of implementing symbolic schemas, in their full complexity,  
in connectionist networks.


* No hardcopy available.

* FTP procedure:
        unix> ftp archive.cis.ohio-state.edu (or 128.146.8.52)
        Name: anonymous
        Password: 
        ftp> cd pub/neuroprose
        ftp> binary
        ftp> get sun.schema.ps.Z
        ftp> quit
        unix> uncompress sun.schema.ps.Z
        unix> lpr sun.schema.ps (or however you print postscript)

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Also, the following paper is now available in Neuroprose 
(file: sun.robust.ps.Z.  50 pages):

      Robust Reasoning: Integrating Rule-Based and Similarity-Based Reasoning
              by  Ron Sun

       to appear in: Artificial Intelligence (AIJ),    Spring 1995