...Milam Aiken Forecasting inflation is a major concern for economists and businessmen. Most researchers have relied upon statistical techniques with their stringent data assumptions and low accuracy rates to predict changes in inflation, but only a few have investigated how neural networks can...

...Terry Anthony Byrd; Fwu‐Shan Shieh; Thomas E. Marshall Focuses on the development and implementation of an expert system in a paper mill plant of a large Fortune 500 company. A noteworthy issue in the development of this expert system is the use of neural network technology to decrease...

..., the formulation of manufacturing cells is equivalent to transforming a matrix representing the association of machine and parts into a block diagonal form. The pattern recognition capabilities of a neural network were used to transform matrices to represent manufacturing cells. The results are likely to be more...