Reading material

Reading directions

Reading directions to the books can be found here.

Book, new for 2010

Stephen Marsland: Machine Learning, an Algorithmic Perspective
2009, CSC-Press
ISBN 1420067184

Book used 2005-2009

Laurene Fausett: Fundamentals of Neural Networks
1994, Prentice-Hall
ISBN 0-13-334186-0

Alternative Book, free on-line

Raul Rojas: Neural Networks - A Systematic Introduction
website
local copy of pdf
table of contents

Additional material

Lecture notes are found for the lectures via the course web page. These are not complete notes, so you must add you own notes to these for them to be useful.

For those who want to read more, the following sources may be of interest:

This is a short intro to RBFs and their use in networks.
These are some lecture notes on RBFs and use of these in networks.
Sutton & Barto: Reinforcement Learning
Richard Suttons and Andrew Bartows classic book about reiforcement learning. Ths is one of the best books in this field. Note that the complete book also is available on-line.
Harmon & Harmon: Reinforcement Learning: A Tutorial.
A pretty complete introduction to the topic.
Holst & Lansner: A Flexible and Fault Tolerant Query-Reply System based on a Bayesian Neural Network. IJNS 1993.
This is an article about the background to the probability based neural network and how it can be used for automatic generation of queries.