Building Case-Based Preliminary Design Systems: A Hopfield Network Approach

This paPer addresses the issue of building a case-based preliminary design system by using Hopfield networks. one limitation of Hopfield networks is that it cannot be tralned, i.e. the weights between two neurons must be set in advance. A pattern stored in Hopfield networks cannot be recalled if the pattern is not a local minimum.Two concepts are proposed to deal with this problem. They are the multiple training encoding method and the puppet encoding method. The multiple training encoding method, which gua…