What Is Neurocomputing?

During the past decade expert systems have become the first practical application of artificial intelligence. However, many expert system applications are rule-based systems, which require a time consuming and difficult knowledge acquisition process to extract expertise from domain experts[1,2,3]. Neurocomputing is the application of artificial neural networks to practical problems. An artificial neural network consists of processing elements (which is analogous to neurons in the biological neural system) in an interconnected network[4-11]. A processing element accepts inputs, processes these inputs, and sends a single output to other processing elements. A neural network application is built by using real-world problem-solving examples in a particular application area as trainin