Multilayer perceptrons to approximate complex valued functions

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P Arena1, L Fortuna, R Re

  • 1Dipartimento Elettrico, Elettronico e Sistemistico University of Cantania, Italy.

International Journal of Neural Systems
|December 1, 1995
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