Modularity in neural networks

[Wray Buntine]

Dear connectionists,

Just want to bring peoples attention to the fact that the
Bayesian network community (a close relative of the neural network
community) takes modularity as one of its foundations.

I discuss this more, giving some connections to neural nets, in:

URL:     ftp://ack.arc.nasa.gov/pub/buntine/kdd2.ps.Z

FTP:   extract from above

@incollection{Buntine.KDD2,
        AUTHOR = "W.L. Buntine",
        TITLE = "Graphical Models for Discovering Knowledge",
        BOOKTITLE = "Knowledge Discovery in Databases (Volume 2)",
        EDITOR = "U. M. Fayyad and G. Piatetsky-Shapiro and
                        P. Smyth and R. S. Uthurasamy",
        PUBLISHER = "MIT Press",
        YEAR = "1995"
}

Here is an article that talks about these general ideas in more
detail.

@article{howard:km,
        AUTHOR = "R.A. Howard",
        TITLE = "Knowledge maps",
        JOURNAL = "Management Science",
        VOLUME = 35,
        PAGES = "903--922" ,
        YEAR = 1989,
        NUMBER = 8
}

Hopefully, David Heckerman will talk about this more at Snowbird,
Machines that Learn this April.


Wray Buntine
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