A Web-Based Tool For Teaching Neural Network Concepts

Although neural networks (NN) are important especially for engineers, scientists, mathematicians and statisticians, they may also be hard to understand In this article, application areas of NN are discussed, basic NN components are described and it is explained how an NN work A web-based simulation and visualization tool (EasyLearnNN) is developed using lava and lava 2D for teaching NN concepts Perceptron, ADALINE. Multilayer Perceptron, LVO and SOM models and related training algorithms are implemented As a result, comparison with other teaching methods of NN concepts is presented and discussed (c) 2009 Wiley Periodicals Inc Comput Appl Eng Educ 18 449-457, 2010. View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary com. DOI 10 1002/cae 20184