Table of Contents

• Are There Universal Principles of Brain Computation?Stephen Grossberg. 1-6
• Modeling Cortical NetworksLiset Menendez de la Prida. 7-14
• Cooperative Organization of Connectivity Patterns and Receptive Fields in the Visual Pathway: Application to Adaptive ThresholdingJosé Mira, Angeles Manjarrés Riesco, S. Ros, Ana E. Delgado García, José R. Álvarez. 15-23
• Neurobiological Inspiration for the Architecture and Functioning of Cooperating Neural NetworksFrédéric Alexandre, Frédéric Guyot. 24-30
• Synaptic Modulation Based Artificial Neural NetworksRichard J. Duro, José Santos Reyes, A. Gómez. 31-36
• Self-Organization of Cortical Receptive Fields and Columnar Structures in a Hebb Trained Neural NetworkMartin Stetter, M. Kussinger, A. Schels, E. Seeger, Elmar Wolfgang Lang. 37-44
• An Analytical Solution of the Compartment Model for Use in Logical Learning in Artificial Neural NetworksJaap Hoekstra, Mohamed Maouli. 45-52
• Should ANN be ANGN?J. G. (Iain) Wallace, Kevin Bluff. 53-60
• Modeling Retinal High and Low Contrast Sensitivity FiltersTino Lourens. 61-68
• Neural Micro-Structures. Three Simple ModelsJosé Miró-Nicolau. 69-75
• Adaptive Hierarchical StructuresA. Daffertshofer, H. Haken. 76-84
• Optimal Range of Input Resistance in the Oscillatory Behavior of the Pancreatic beta-CellEtelvina Andreu, Bernat Soria, S. Bolea, Juan Vicente Sánchez-Andrés. 85-89
• A Computational Model of Periodic-Pattern-Selective CellsPeter Kruizinga, Nicolai Petkov. 90-99
• Modeling and Analysis of Some Neural Mechanisms for the Genesis and Control of Respiratory PatternIlya A. Rybak, Julian F. R. Paton, James S. Schwaber. 100-107
• A Neural Network Model for Plasticity in Adult Striate CortexFederico Morán, Miguel A. Andrade. 108-113
• Regenerative-Type Neural InterfaceElena Valderrama, Rosa Villa, Enric Cabruja, Paco Garrido, Xavier Navarro, Miquel Buti, Santiago Calvet. 114-120
• New Perspectives in Auditory Coding: Bases for a New Cochlear Behavioural ModelRosa Villa, J. Aguiló. 121-129
• Nervous System as a Closed Neural Network: Behavioral and Cognitive ConsequencesJorge Mpodozis, Juan-Carlos Letelier, Humberto R. Maturana. 130-136
• Local Accumulation of Persistent Activity at Synaptic Level: Application to Motion AnalysisMiguel Angel Fernández, José Mira, María T. López, José R. Álvarez, Angeles Manjarrés Riesco, Senén Barro. 137-143
• High Order Boltzmann Machines with Continuous Units: Some Experimental ResultsManuel Graña, Alicia D Anjou, F. Xabier Albizuri, A. de la Hera, I. Garcia. 144-150
• An Adaptive Control Model of a Locomotion by the Central Pattern GeneratorJun Nishii. 151-157
• Self-Consistent Neural Receptive FieldsIgor Grabec. 158-165
• A Simple Probabilistic Neural Model Producing Multimodal ISHsPaul M. Hofman, Francisco de Borja Rodríguez Ortiz, Juan A. Sigüenza, Vicente López, Santiago Carrillo-Menéndez. 166-173
• An Associative Neural Network to Model the Developing Mammalian HippocampusMaria Teresa Signes Pont, Juan Vicente Sánchez-Andrés. 174-179
• The Implementation of Propositional Logic in Random Neural NetworksMarc-Denis Weitze, G. L. Hofacker. 180-188
• A Learning Rule for Extracting Temporal InvariancesJames V. Stone, Alistair Bray. 189-194
• The Influence of the Sigmoid Function Parameters on the Speed of Backpropagation LearningJun Han, Claudio Moraga. 195-201
• General Transient Length Upper Bound for Recurrent Neural NetworksA. M. C.-L. Ho, Philippe De Wilde. 202-208
• On Some Methods in NeuromathematicsRoberto Moreno-Díaz Jr., K. Nicholas Leibovic. 209-215
• Logistic Networks With DNA-Like Encoding and InteractionsNabil H. Farhat, Emílio Del Moral Hernandez. 216-222
• A Review on the Stochastic Firing Behaviour of Real Neurons and How it can be ModelledChris Christodoulou, Trevor G. Clarkson. 223-230
• The BP-lambdaL1 Algorithm: Non-Chaotic and Accelerated Learning in a MLP NetworkBertrand Augereau, Thierry Simon, Jacky Bernard, Bernard Heit. 231-238
• Analysis of Pruning in Backpropagation Networks for Artificial and Real Worls Mapping ProblemsTeo Jasic, Hean Lee Poh. 239-245
• Oscillatory Networks with Hebbian Matrix of ConnectionsMargarita Kuzmina, Eduard A. Manykin, Irina Surina. 246-251
• A new Algorithm for Implementing a Recursive Neural NetworkVictor Giménez, Pedro Gómez Vilda, E. Torrano, M. Pérez-Castellanos. 252-259
• Visual Information Processing from the Viewpoint of Symbolic OperationsJosé Barahona da Fonseca, Isabel Barahona da Fonseca, José Simões da Fonseca. 260-267
• Dentritic Computation in the BrainIsabel Barahona da Fonseca, José Barahona da Fonseca, José Simões da Fonseca. 268-275
• Stochastic Neuronal Models with Realistic Synaptic Inputs and Oscillatory InputsPavel Hruby. 276-282
• A Neural Paradigm for Controlling Autonomous Systems with Reflex Behaviour and Learning CapabilityGonzalo Joya Caparrós, Francisco Sandoval Hernández. 283-290
• Fast Automatic Architecture Selection on RBF NetworksAna M. González, Carlos Santa Cruz, Vicente López, José R. Dorronsoro. 291-297
• Collective Behaviour of a Chain of Hopfield Subnetworks Interconnected UnidirectionallyLaura Viana. 298-307
• A Comparative Study of Three Neuronal Networks that use Soft CompetitionKate Butchart, Neil Davey, Rod Adams. 308-314
• Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms for the Attitude Control ProblemDimitris C. Dracopoulos, Antonia J. Jones. 315-321
• Self-Organising Artificial Neural NetworksJohn A. Flanagan, Martin Hasler. 322-329
• A Distributed Classifier Based on Yprel Networks CooperationEmmanuel Stocker, Yves Lecourtier, Abdel Ennaji. 330-337
• A Fractal Selforganizing Map with Partially Chaotic NeuronsA. Kosak, Karl Goser. 338-344
• Multiple Self-Organizing Maps for Supervised LearningEnrique Cervera, Angel P. Del Pobil. 345-352
• An Application of the Saturated Attractor Analysis to Three Typical ModelsJianfeng Feng, Brunello Tirozzi. 353-360
• Learning in Evolutive Neural Architectures: An Ill-Posed Problem?Christian Jutten. 361-373
• Automatic Scaling using Gamma Learning for Feedforward Neural NetworksAndries Petrus Engelbrecht, Ian Cloete, Jaco Geldenhuys, Jacek M. Zurada. 374-381
• Determining the Significance of Input Parameters using Sensitivity AnalysisAndries Petrus Engelbrecht, Ian Cloete, Jacek M. Zurada. 382-388
• Multi-Valued Neurons: Learning, Networks, Application to Image Recognition and Extrapolation of Temporal SeriesNaum N. Aizenberg, Igor N. Aizenberg, Georgy A. Krivosheev. 389-395
• Individual Evolutionary Algorithm and its Application to Learning of Nearest Neighbor Based MLPQiangfu Zhao, Tatsuo Higuchi. 396-403
• A Practical View of Suboptimal Bayesian Classification with Radial Gaussian KernelsJean-Luc Voz, Michel Verleysen, Philippe Thissen, Jean-Didier Legat. 404-411
• Schema Based Learning & Learning to DetourFernando J. Corbacho, Michael A. Arbib. 412-418
• Neurons with Continuous Varying Activation in Self-Organizing MapsJosef Göppert, Wolfgang Rosenstiel. 419-426
• Improving Back-Propagation: Epsilon-Back-PropagationLuis A. Trejo, Carlos Sandoval. 427-432
• Finite State Automata and Connectionist Machines: A SurveyM. Asunción Castaño, Enrique Vidal, Francisco Casacuberta. 433-440
• Learning Transformed Prototypes (LTP) - A Statistical Pattern Classification Technique of Neural NetworksY. Guan, Trevor G. Clarkson, John G. Taylor. 441-447
• Fuzzy Function Estimators as Basis on Learning from ExperienceRamon Ferreiro Garcia, F. J. Perez Castelo. 448-453
• Connectionists and Statisticans, Friends or Foes?Arthur Flexer. 454-461
• Unsupervised Neural Networks for Speech Perception with Cochlear Implant Systems for the Profoundly DeafManfred Leisenberg. 462-470
• Obstacle Avoidance by Means of an Operant Conditioning ModelEduardo Zalama Casanova, Paolo Gaudiano, Juan López Coronado. 471-477
• Qualitative Approach to Gradient Based Learning AlgorithmsBernardo Morcego Seix, Andreu Català Mallofré, Núria Piera Carreté. 478-485
• Character Recognition with Neural AssembliesFrancisco J. Vico, F. Ortega, J. Almaraz, Francisco Sandoval Hernández. 486-491
• Learning by Attentional ScanningZoltan Schreter. 492-497
• The Synthesis of the Ranked Neural Networks Applying Genetic Algorithm with the Dynamic Probability of MutationJoanna Lis. 498-504
• Global Versus Local Heuristic Terminal AttractorFrancisco Javier Marín Martín, F. García, Francisco Sandoval Hernández. 505-512
• Dynamic Learning of Radial Basis Functions for Fuzzy ClusteringAndreas Kanstein, Karl Goser. 513-518
• Incremental Learning with a Stopping Criterion - Experimental ResultsRachida Chentouf, Christian Jutten. 519-526
• Learning Algorithm with Gaussian Membership Function for Fuzzy RBF Neural NetworksD. Benitez-Diaz, J. Garcia-Quesada. 527-534
• Neural Network InitializationGeorg Thimm, Emile Fiesler. 535-542
• Bidirectional Neural Networks Reduce Generalization ErrorA. F. Nejad, Tamás D. Gedeon. 543-550
• Balancing Bias and Variance: Network Topology and Pattern Set Reduction TechniquesTamás D. Gedeon, Patrick M. Wong, D. Harris. 551-558
• Priming an Artificial Neural ClassifierDidier Puzenat. 559-565
• Artificial Neuroconsciousness an UpdateIgor Aleksander. 566-583
• Physical and Linguistic problems in the Modelling of Consciousness by Neural NetworksPhilippe De Wilde. 584-588
• A Neural Network Model for the Velocity Vector of an Object and its Consistency with Psychological PhenomenaKen-ichiro Miura, Takashi Nagano. 589-596
• Implementation and Evaluation of a Relevance Feedback Device Based on Neural NetworksFabio Crestani. 597-604
• Second-Order Recurrent Neural Networks Can Learn Regular Grammars from Noisy StringsRafael C. Carrasco, Mikel L. Forcada. 605-610
• Extracting DNF Rules from Artificial Neural NetworksH. L. Viktor, Ian Cloete. 611-618
• Dynamic Symbol Grounding, State Construction and the Problem of TeleologyErich Prem. 619-626
• Analysis of Industrial Economics by means of Neural NetsEnrique Monte, J. M. Calvet, S. Vilarrubla. 627-633
• Effects of Spatial Frequency and Stimulus Size on the Orientation Sensitivity of HumansF. Díaz-Otero, A. Caballero, A. Lorenzo, Juan A. Sigüenza. 634-641
• Object Oriented Design of a Simulator for Large BP Neural NetworksJean-Marc Adamo, Davide Anguita. 642-649
• Introducing XSim: A Neural Network Simulator that Incorporates Biological ParametersPablo Varona, Juan A. Sigüenza. 650-657
• NETTOOL: A Hybrid Connectionist-Symbolic Development EnvironmentJosé Santos Reyes, Ramón P. Otero, José Mira. 658-665
• EL-SIM: a Development Environment for Neuro-Fuzzy Intelligent ControllersMarcello Chiaberge, G. Di Bene, S. Di Pascoli, R. Lambert, Beatrice Lazzerini, Adriana Maggiore, Leonardo Maria Reyneri. 666-672
• Packlib, an Interactive Environment to Develop Modular Software for Data ProcessingYves Cheneval. 673-682
• NSL-Neural Simulation LanguageAlfredo Weitzenfeld. 683-688
• Low-Cost Accelerator for the Simulation of Cellular Neural NetworksAntonio Jesús Torralba Silgado. 689-695
• A VLSI System for Neural Bayesian and LVQ ClassificationPhilippe Thissen, Michel Verleysen, Jean-Didier Legat, Jordi Madrenas, Jordi Domínguez. 696-703
• An Associative Processor Dedicated to Classification by Neural MethodsPhilippe Thissen, Michel Verleysen, Jean-Didier Legat. 704-711
• Hardware-Oriented Models for VLSI Implementation of Self-Organizing MapsBonifacio Martín-del-Brío, Javier Blasco-Alberto. 712-719
• Hardware Requirements for Spike-Processing Neural NetworksUlrich Roth, Axel Jahnke, Heinrich Klar. 720-727
• A VLSI Approach to the Implementation of Additive and Shunting Neural NetworksFrancisco J. Pelayo, Eduardo Ros Vidal, P. Martin-Smith, F. J. Fernández, Alberto Prieto. 728-735
• A Low-Power Analog Implementation of Cellular Neural NetworksMancia Anguita, Francisco J. Pelayo, F. J. Fernández, Alberto Prieto. 736-743
• Asynchronously Parallel Boltzmann Machines Mapped onto Distributed-Memory MultiprocessorsJosé Manuel Benitez Sánchez, Julio Ortega, Ignacio Requena. 744-751
• A Coprocessor Card for Fast Neural Network EmulationF. Castillo, Jose A. García, Juan Manuel Moreno, Joan Cabestany. 752-760
• Digital Hardware Implementation of ROI Incremental AlgorithmsJuan Manuel Moreno, Jordi Madrenas, S. San Anselmo, F. Castillo, Joan Cabestany. 761-770
• Comparing Implementations of Radial Basis Function Neural Networks on Three Parallel MachinesN. Maria, Anne Guérin-Dugué, Juan Manuel Moreno, François Blayo. 771-780
• Implementing Radial Basis Functions Neural Networks on the Systolic MANTRA MachineFrançois Blayo, Anne Guérin-Dugué, N. Maria. 781-788
• A Mixed Parallel-Sequential SHNN for Large NetworksAntonio Jesús Torralba Silgado, Francisco Colodro Ruiz, Leopoldo García Franquelo. 789-793
• A Modular VLSI Architecture for Neural Networks ImplementationO. Vermesan. 794-799
• A Massively Parallel Neurocomputer with a Reconfigurable Arithmetical UnitAlfred Strey, Narcís Avellana, Raul Holgado, J. Alberto Fernández, Ramon Capillas, Elena Valderrama. 800-806
• An All-Optical Propagation Multilayer Neural NetworkI. Saxena, Emile Fiesler. 807-814
• A VLSI Current Mode Synapse ChipDavid J. Mayes, Alister Hamilton. 815-821
• Optimal Mapping of Neural Networks onto FPGA s - A New Constructive Algorithm -Valeriu Beiu, John G. Taylor. 822-829
• A CPWM Synapsis for Weighted Radial Basis FunctionsE. Miranda, Leonardo Maria Reyneri. 830-837
• Test Pattern Generation for Analog Circuits Using Neural Networks and Evolutive AlgorithmsJosé Luis Bernier, Juan J. Merelo Guervós, Julio Ortega, Alberto Prieto. 838-844
• About Some Perception Problems in Neural NetworksJeanny Hérault. 845-859
• Optimization Neural Networks for Image SegmentationDavid López Vilariño, Diego Cabello, Antonio Mosquera González. 860-867
• Segmentation of Range Images: A Neural Network ApproachW. P. Cheung, C. K. Lee, K. C. Li. 868-874
• A Neural Architecture for Preattentive Segmentation of Sewage Pipes Video ImagesJavier Ruiz-del-Solar, Mario Köppen. 875-881
• A CNN Model for Grey Scale Image ProcessingMiguel A. Jaramillo Morán, Francisco Javier López Aligué, Miguel Macías Macías, M. Isabel Acevedo Sotoca. 882-889
• Kohonen s Self Organizing Maps for Contour Segmentation of Gray Level and Color ImagesRené Natowicz. 890-897
• A Geometrical Based Procedure for Source Separation Mapped to a Neural NetworkCarlos García Puntonet, Manuel Rodríguez Álvarez, Alberto Prieto. 898-905
• Quasi-Optimum Combination of Multilayer Perceptrons for Adaptive Multiclass Pattern RecognitionAlberto Ruiz García, Francisco J. Arcas Túnez. 906-912
• A Text Recognition System Based on a Neural Network and on a Deformed SystemJavier Echanobe, José Ramón González de Mendívil, José Ramón Garitagoitia. 913-918
• Simultaneous Recognition of Multiple Objects Using the MEM ModelSoheil Shams. 919-925
• On-line Handwritten Character Recognition by a Hybrid Method based on Neural Networks and Pattern MatchingJung-Wook Cho, Soo-Young Lee, Cheol Hoon Park. 926-933
• Analysis and Application of the STORE Neural Model in Recognizing Handwritten SymbolsJ. Pérez Maroto, Yannis A. Dimitriadis, J. Manuel Cano Izquierdo, Juan López Coronado. 934-941
• An Adaptive Orthogonal Associative Memory and its Application to Character RecognitionFrancisco Ibarra Picó, Juan Manuel García Chamizo, Ramón Rizo Aldeguer, D. Corredor Lacha. 942-947
• Texture Classification on Real Time Using Semi-cover Vector and and Orthogonal Neural NetworkD. Asensi Muñoz, A. Almagro León, Francisco Ibarra Picó. 948-955
• An Architecture for Texture Segmentation: from Energy Features to Region DetectionP. M. Palagi, Anne Guérin-Dugué. 956-962
• A Lattice-Based Time-Delay Neural Network for Speech ProcessingPedro Gómez Vilda, María Victoria Rodellar Biarge, Victor Nieto Lluis, M. A. Hombrados. 963-970
• Acquisition of Internal Representation by Learning of Identity-mapping Using Overload LearningItsuki Noda. 971-978
• A Multiacuity Connectionist Model for Local Speed EstimationCesar Bandera, I. M. Conde, J. Jerez, M. González, Francisco J. Vico, F. Ortega. 979-986
• Using Artificial Neural Networks for Ultrasonic Signals Processing from Simple Geometric ShapesFernando Arroyo, Ana Gonzalo, J. R. Hilera. 987-992
• A Hierarchical Neural Network for Mobile Visual Tracking with a Robot HeadDarío Maravall Gómez-Allende, Luis Baumela. 993-1000
• Short Term Load Forecasting Using Neural NetsRicardo Salem Zebulum, Karla Guedes, Marley B. R. Vellasco, Marco Aurélio Cavalcanti Pacheco. 1001-1008
• Image Compression Using Feedforward Neural Networks - Hierarchical ApproachStanislaw Osowski, Robert Waszczuk, Piotr Bojarczak. 1009-1015
• Neural Approaches to Robot Control: Four Representative ApplicationsCarme Torras, Gabriela Cembraño, José del R. Millán, Gordon Wells. 1016-1035
• On Line Identification of Causal Relationships Between Variables in the Feed Water System of a Nuclear Power PlantJosé R. Álvarez, José Mira, R. A. Fernández, L. Sainz, V. Arroyo, Ana E. Delgado García. 1036-1044
• Dynamic Neural Units for Nonlinear Dynamic Systems IdentificationMihiar Ayoubi, M. Schäfer, S. Sinsel. 1045-1051
• Optimal Identification Using Feed-Forward Neural NetworksV. Vergara, S. Sinne, Claudio Moraga. 1052-1059
• Recurrent Neural Networks for Identification of FrictionM. Domínguez, J. M. Michelin, J. M. Martinez. 1060-1067
• Solving and End-Effector Positioning Problem by Hopfield Neural NetworkSalvatore Cavalieri, M. Martini. 1068-1075
• Visuomotor Control using an Artificial Neural NetworkP. F. McGuire, Gabriele M. T. D Eleuterio. 1076-1083
• Learning the Visuomotor Coordination of a Mobile Robot by Using the Invertible Kohonen MapCristina Versino, Luca Maria Gambardella. 1084-1091
• Neural Networks for Automatic Fuzzy Control System DesignJesús E. Villadangos, José Ramón González de Mendívil, Carlos F. Alastruey, José Ramón Garitagoitia. 1092-1098
• Supervised Classification With Variable Kernel EstimatorsPierre Comon, Yves Cheneval. 1099-1106
• Daily Electrical Power Curves: Classification and Forecasting Using a Kohonen MapMarie Cottrell, Bernard Girard, Yvonne Girard, Corinne Muller, Patrick Rousset. 1107-1113
• CMAC Real-Time Adaptive Control Implementation on a D.S.P. Based CardGilles Mercier, Kurosh Madani. 1114-1120
• Neural Networks in Digital Data TransmissionInma Ortuño Ortin, Joan Serra-Sagristà. 1121-1127
• A New Neural Network Approach to the Floorplanning of Hierarchical VLSI DesignsMorteza Saheb Zamani, Graham R. Hellestrand. 1128-1134
• A Neural Network Approach to Quality Control ChartsThomas Stützle. 1135-1141
• Bankruptcy Prediction with Artificial Neural NetworksEugenio Fernández, Ignacio Olmeda. 1142-1146