The Combinatorial Neural Network: A Connectionist Model for Knowledge Based Systems

This paper describes the Combinatorial Neural Model, a high order neural network suitable for classification tasks. The model is based on the fuzzy sets theory, neural sciences and expert knowledge analysis results. The model presents interesting properties such as: modularity, explanation capacity, concomitant knowledge and data representation, high speed of training, incremental learning, generalization capacity, feature selection, processing of uncertain and incomplete data, fault tolerance.