Abstract
M.Ing. (Mechanical Engineering)
This thesis involves the development of a Neural Network software package within a Windows environment. This package is called NetPro. It contains most of the standard tools used in existing neural network packages e.g. shuffling of facts, automatic test file facts extraction, randomizing of weights values (before and during training), automatic/manual construction of network files, logging of network properties during training, noise can be added to inputs, etc. NetPro has three additional tools: (a) time
delay actions on inputs, (b) a neural network calculator, and (c) automatic saving of the best network during training. The calculator is used to calculate the number of training facts needed for optimum generalization ...