Neural Network World; International Journal on Neural and Mass - Parallel Computing and Information Systems

Use of the Internet in Medical Decision-Making: A Model Developed for Diabetes Prediction

The Internet has become an important source of information for physicians seeking immediate data for the management of patients and for those developing decision-making methodologies and guidelines for clinical practice. In this study, components and subsystems of a medical decision support system are presented. An artificial neural network model, which is one of the subsystems of the differential diagnosis component, has been proposed as a reasoning tool to support medical diagnosis. The inp...

The Social Side and Time Dimension of Self-Representation in Agents Using Modular Neural Networks

An important cognitive feature-shared only by humans and a few other species- is self-consciousness. It has been defined as "the possession of the concept of the self and the ability to use this concept in thinking about oneself". Self-consciousness undoubtedly depends on some kind of self-representation, although the nature of this self-representation in intelligent beings is still unknown. In recent years, several cognitive scientists have proposed self-represent at ion models. Nevertheless...

Isas: Interactive Software for Assisting Shuffling Process

This paper presents ISAS (Interactive Software for Assisting Shuffling Process), software that has been designed and developed by the authors as a tool for assisting users conducting DNA shuffling experiments in laboratories. ISAS can be defined as a new friendly dialog box-based environment which provides many different functions for DNA analyses, including (a) the evaluation of the adequacy of parental sequences as candidates for undergoing shuffling processes and (b) the evaluation of the ...