Modular Integration of Connectionist and Symbolic Processing in Knowledge-Based Systems

MIX is an ESPRIT project aimed at developing strategies and tools for integrating symbolic and neural methods in hybrid systems. The project arose from the observation that current hybrid systems are generally small-scale experimental systems which couple one symbolic and one connectionist model, often in an ad hoc fashion. Hence the objective of building a versatile testbed for the design, prototyping and assessment of a variety of hybrid models or architectures, in particular those which combine diverse neural network models with rule/model-based, cased-based, and fuzzy reasoning. A multiagent approach has been chosen to facilitate modular implementation of these hybrid models, which will be tested in the context of real-world applications in the steel and automobile industries.

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