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Take 15% Off with the Spring Sale!
Spring is here and NeuroDimension is excited to offer a Special Spring Sale! All NeuroDimension software can currently be purchased at 15% off the regular list prices. This offer is in addition to any educational discounts that may already apply.
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Don't wait too long – this offer ends April 30, 2004. Use offer code 78091 when placing your order. You can place your order today using our online order entry system at http://www.neurosolutions.com/order/
Note: This offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other special offer.
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Free Video Presentation: Introduction to Neural Networks
Our live neural network courses held twice per year in Orlando give participants a broad overview of both neural network theory and the NeuroSolutions software. One of the instructors recently recorded a 30-minute video presentation, which covers some of the introductory material presented in these courses. We have made this presentation available for free on our website so that everyone can take advantage of this material.
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To view this presentation now, visit:
http://www.neurosolutions.com/products/ns/nnandnsvideo.html
Register Now for the Neural Network Course
The next neural network course has been scheduled for May 24 - May 28, 2004 at the Grosvenor Resort in the Walt Disney World Resorts in Orlando, Florida.
This course is filling up, so be sure to sign up today!
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Our course format allows both novice and advanced users to find a suitable course. Offered courses include: "Introduction to NeuroSolutions", "Fundamentals of Neural Networks and NeuroSolutions", and "Advanced NeuroSolutions". The courses include a copy of our interactive book, "Neural and Adaptive Systems: Fundamentals Through Simulations".
For details on this new offering, or to sign-up from the Internet, see http://www.neurosolutions.com/products/course/may_2004.html
If you are not able to attend this specific course, but are interested in our neural network courses in general, please visit our course information page to take a quick survey and sign up for our course mailing list:
http://www.neurosolutions.com/products/course/live.html
For more information and samples of the interactive book, see http://www.neurosolutions.com/products/nsbook/
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NeuroSolutions v4.31 Now Available
NeuroSolutions v4.31 is now available for free download for all current and prospective customers. This release addresses a couple of minor bugs with OLE automation and repeated messages found in v4.3.
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A complete list of fixes and improvements can be found at
http://www.neurosolutions.com/downloads/nsimprove.html
If you already have NeuroSolutions v4.0 or higher installed on your computer, you can upgrade to the latest version by downloading and running the patch from
http://www.neurosolutions.com/downloads/patches.html
The complete installation program is available for download from
http://www.neurosolutions.com/download.html
NeuroSolutions for MATLAB v1.3.1 Now Available
NeuroSolutions for MATLAB v.1.3.1 is now available for free download for all current and prospective customers. This update addresses a couple of minor bugs found with unique system configurations.
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Additional information about NeuroSolutions for MATLAB and a free evaluation version are available from on the NeuroDimension website at
http://www.nd.com/nsml
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Deploying NeuroSolutions networks in MATLAB
The 15 flexible neural models included with NeuroSolutions for MATLAB are sufficient to solve many different types of problems. Many popular architectures are included, such as Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLP's), Support Vector Machines (SVM's), and Time-Lag Recurrent Networks (TLRN's). For developers and researchers requiring even more flexibility, NeuroSolutions for MATLAB can be integrated with NeuroSolutions through the Custom Solution Wizard to access virtually unlimited custom neural network architectures.
Creating Custom Neural Networks
The Custom Solution Wizard allows you take custom neural networks you have created with NeuroSolutions and generate them as DLL's you can use in other applications. The new Version 4.3 of this product introduces the ability to generate DLL's directly for use with NeuroSolutions for MATLAB.
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In addition to generating the neural network DLL, the Custom Solution Wizard also automatically loads the input and desired data into MATLAB and prints out the necessary training and testing code on the MATLAB command line. Your custom neural network is ready to use, complete with data.
Deploying Custom Neural Networks in MATLAB
The following three lines of MATLAB code are all it takes to use your generated NeuroSolutions neural network through NeuroSolutions for MATLAB:
mynet = nsnn;
mynet.customDLL = true;
mynet.dllPath = 'C:\My DLLs\myDLL.dll';
Your custom neural network is now ready to use in MATLAB. You can then use it the same way you would use any neural network in NeuroSolutions for MATLAB. For example, to train and test your network, you would use the following commands.
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mynet = nsTrain (mynet, myInputData, myDesiredData);
out = nsTest (mynet, myTestingData);
The NeuroSolutions for MATLAB Suite
NeuroSolutions, NeuroSolutions for MATLAB, the Custom Solution Wizard, and NeuroSolutions for Excel are available as a combined package called the NeuroSolutions for MATLAB Suite. This discounted bundle includes all of the product levels necessary to create and generate your own custom neural networks for use in NeuroSolutions for MATLAB.
For more information about NeuroSolutions for MATLAB and the NeuroSolutions for MATLAB Suite, visit the NeuroDimension website at
http://www.nd.com/nsml
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Predicting Beer Flavours from Chemical Analysis
C.I. Wilson & L. Threapleton
Coors Brewers, Technical Centre
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Coors Brewers Technical Centre is using NeuroSolutions in their research into predicting beer flavors from chemical analysis. The following abstract is taken from a paper they presented at the 29th European Brewing Congress in Dublin.
Can Beer Flavour Be Predicted from Analytical Results?
We all work in an industry where the consumer is king. We are constantly trying to evolve our products to satisfy the consumer's changing requirements whilst at the same time always looking for the opportunity to develop niche products for new markets. However the relationship between beer flavour and its chemical analysis is poorly understood. Should it prove possible to predict final beer flavours according to their chemical composition, then it would open up the possibility of 'tuning' such products to meet the expectations of the consumer. The challenge is “Can Beer Flavour Be Predicted From Analytical Results?”
Substantial empirical data exists, in disparate data sources, concerning product chemical and sensory analysis. However, currently there is no mechanism for linking them to each other. Any such relationships are undoubtedly complex and highly non-linear. In order to identify such relationships we have turned our attention to the modern techniques of artificial intelligence, and specifically neural networks and genetic algorithms. The former is associated with machine learning whilst the latter is associated with biological evolution. The development of both these fields can be traced back to the 1960s. However it is only recently, with the rapid expansion in computing power combined with the availability of packaged software solutions that these techniques have been moved from the computer science laboratory into industry.
Complete Paper Available
The entire paper is available for download in Word format from our website:
http://www.neurosolutions.com/resources/apps/beer.doc
Want to have your solutions spotlighted?
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http://www.neurosolutions.com/resources/apps/.
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