As we have seen in other chapters, the operation and performance of various receiver functions can be quite sensitive to knowledge of the timing (data transition epochs) of the received data symbols. Thus, the ability to accurately estimate this parameter and continuously update the estimate, i.e., perform symbol synchronization (sync), with little knowledge of other parameters is critical to s...

Symbol Grounding has originated in the domain of cognitive connectionism as an approach to a model of language acquisition.It has, however, transcended this restricted domain and its most prominent proponents now regard it as a technique which is of general importance to the connectionist-symbolic debate, especially for their integration into a common framework. This paper revisits the claims m...

0