Network Creation Tools

SNNS provides five tools for easy creation of large, regular networks. All these tools carry the common name BigNet. They are called by clicking the button in the manager panel. This invokes the selection menu of figure , where the individual tools can be selected. This chapter gives a short indroduction to the handling of each of them.

  
Figure: The BigNet Menu Window

• BigNet for Feed-Forward Networks
  • Terminology of the Tool BigNet
  • Buttons of BigNet
  • Plane Editor
  • Link Editor
    • Example 1: Receptive Fields in Two Dimensions
    • Example 2: Moving in Different Dimensions
  • Create Net
• BigNet for Time-Delay Networks
  • Terminology of Time-Delay BigNet
  • Plane Editor
  • Link Editor
• BigNet for ART-Networks
• BigNet for Self-Organizing Maps
• BigNet for Autoassociative Memory Networks
• BigNet for Partial Recurrent Networks
  • BigNet for Jordan Networks
  • BigNet for Elman Networks