Skip to content
Wed, Oct 14, 2026 / Ideas for a clearer worldINDEPENDENT INSIGHTS · PRACTICAL TOOLS · EXPLAINERS
Sign in
THE KNOWLEDGE LIBRARY

Latest articles

Basics

Unsupervised Learning

As the name suggests, this type of learning is done without the supervision of a teacher. This learning…

July 15, 2021 · Rajil TL
Basics

Supervised Learning

As the name suggests, supervised learning takes place under the supervision of a teacher. This learning process is dependent. During…

July 15, 2021 · Rajil TL
Basics

Learning and Adaptation

As stated earlier, ANN is completely inspired by the way biological nervous system, i.e. the human brain works.…

July 15, 2021 · Rajil TL
Basics

Artificial Neural Network – Basic Concepts

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) or connectionist systems are computing systems inspired by the biological neural networks that constitute animal brains. Such systems learn (progressively…

July 15, 2021 · Rajil TL
Basics

Distributed Reasoning

Introduction There are many reasons why we might want to implement or adopt a distributed approach to reasoning…

July 15, 2021 · Rajil TL
Basics

Bayesian networks

These are also called Belief Networks or Probabilistic Inference Networks. Initially developed by Pearl (1988). The basic idea is: Knowledge in…

July 15, 2021 · Rajil TL
Basics

Dempster-Shafer Models

This can be regarded as a more general approach to representing uncertainty than the Bayesian approach. Bayesian methods…

July 15, 2021 · Rajil TL
Basics

Belief Models and Certainty Factors

This approach has been suggested by Shortliffe and Buchanan and used in their famous medical diagnosis MYCIN system.…

July 15, 2021 · Rajil TL