Business Intelligence Assignment

 Complete the following assignment in one MS word document:

Chapter 5 –discussion question #1-4 & exercise 6 & internet exercise #7
When submitting work, be sure to include an APA cover page and include at least two APA formatted references (and APA in-text citations) to support the work this week.
All work must be original (not copied from any source).

Discussion question #1-4

 What is an artificial neural network and for what types  of problems can it be used? 

2. Compare artificial and biological neural networks. What  aspects of biological networks are not mimicked by artificial ones? What aspects are similar? 

3. What are the most common ANN architectures? For  what types of problems can they be used? 

4. ANN can be used for both supervised and unsupervised  learning. Explain how they learn in a supervised mode  and in an unsupervised mode. 

 exercise 6: 

 Go to Google Scholar (scholar.google.com). Conduct  a search to find two papers written in the last five years  that compare and contrast multiple machine-learning  methods for a given problem domain. Observe commonalities and differences among their findings and  prepare a report to summarize your understanding. 

 internet exercise #7 

go to  neuroshell.com click on the examples and look at the current examples listed, the Gee Whiz example is no longer on the page.