What are the major benefits of neural networks?

Benefits of Neural Networks

Nonlinearly -- Important for inherently nonlinear signals.

Mapping input signals to desired response - supervised learning.

Adaptively -- Adapt weights to environment and retrained easily.

Evidential Response -- confidence level improves classification.

Contextual Information -- KR by structure and activation state of NN.

Fault Tolerent -- graceful degradation of performance if damaged.

VLSI Implementability -- due to NNs massively parallal nature.

Uniformity of Analysis and Design -- same notion used in all domains.

Neurobiological Analogy -- Research tool for interpretation of neurobiological phenomenon.

HERE ARE SOME POPULAR APPLICATIONS [ANNs]

Financial, Stock Market Prediction, Credit Worthiness, Credit Rating, Bankruptcy Prediction, Property Appraisal, Fraud Detection, Price Forecasts, Economic Indicator Forecasts, Medical, Medical Diagnosis, Detection and Evaluation of Medical Phenomena

Patient's Length of Stay Forecasts, Treatment Cost Estimation, Industrial Process Control

Quality Control, Temperature and Force Prediction, Science, Pattern Recognition,

Recipes and Chemical Formulation Optimization, Chemical Compound Identification

Physical System Modeling, Ecosystem Evaluation, Polymer Identification, Recognizing Genes, Botanical Classification, Signal Processing: Neural Filtering, Biological Systems Analysis, Ground Level Ozone Prognosis, Odor Analysis and Identification, Educational

Teaching Neural Networks, Neural Network Research, College Application Screening

Predict Student Performance, DATA MINING, Prediction, Classification, Change and Deviation Detection, Knowledge Discovery, Response Modeling, Time Series Analysis

Sales and Marketing, Sales Forecasting, Targeted Marketing, Service Usage Forecasting

Retail Margins Forecasting, Operational Analysis, Retail Inventories Optimization

Scheduling Optimization, Managerial Decision Making, Cash Flow Forecasting

HR Management, Employee Selection and Hiring, Employee Retention, Staff Scheduling

Personnel Profiling, Energy, Electrical Load Forecasting, Energy Demand Forecasting,

Short and Long-Term Load Estimation, Predicting Gas/Coal Index Prices, Power Control Systems, Hydro Dam Monitoring, Other --- Sports Betting, Making Horse and Dog Racing Picks, Quantitative Weather Forecasting, Games Development, Optimization Problems, Routing, Agricultural Production Estimates