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General Information
- Name
- bps
- Source
- Prof. Eugene Norris
CS Dept. George Mason University Fairfax
- Price
- public domain, 100$ for sources and Documentation
- Target usage
-
education, experimentation; beginners, advanced
Model
- Network Architecture
-
just backpropagation with several hidden layers,
possibility to change every weight
by hand, no language
- Paradigms
-
- Limitations
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network type: only normal backpropagation
no limitations of number of nodes and number of connections mentioned
Implementation
- Display
-
values of units / link parameters, current status
- User Interface
-
shell + simple menue system
- Execution
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interactive, logging of commands and choosing menue items.
save / restore state (weights)
no debugging
- Data Format
-
ASCII
no encoding / compression
- Evaluation
-
- Performance
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uses whole PC (only version examined)
System Requirements
- Hardware
-
PC, VAX or Mac
- Operating System
-
DOS, VMR or MacOS,
- Display
-
mono / text
- Language
- ---
Installation and Documentation
- Installation
-
executable
- Sources available
- for additional fee (see above)
- Implementation language
-
- Documentation
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on-line help, tutorial / real manual for fee
- Support
- (e--mail--adress of author)
- User Groups
-