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This is the fourth and final volume of papers from a series of workshops called "Computational Learning Theory and `Natural' Learning Systems." The purpose of the workshops was to explore the emerging
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Papers from a September 2000 workshop examine the latest international research in the field, with emphasis on pneumatic and hydraulic components, and systems and their control. Material is in section
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Artificial neural networks are nonlinear mapping systems whose structure is looselybased on principles observed in the nervous systems of humans and animals. The basic idea is thatmassive systems of s
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