Abstract
This paper deals with the features of a new wavelet network structure founded on several mother wavelets families. This new structure is similar to the classic wavelets network but it admits some differences eventually. The wavelet network basically uses the dilations and translations versions of only one mother wavelet to construct the network, but the new one uses several mother wavelets and the objective is to maximize the probability of selection of the best wavelets. Two methods are presented to assist the training procedure of this new structure. On one hand, we have an optimal selection technique that is based on an improved version of the Orthogonal Least Squares method; on the other, the Generalized Cross-Validation method to determine the number of wavelets to be selected for every mother wavelet. Some simulation results are reported to demonstrate the performance and the effectiveness of the new structure and the training procedure for function approximation in one and two dimensions.