Neural Nets WIRN VIETRI-97: Proceedings of the 9th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets, Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy, 22–24 May 1997

Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Latent Variables, Topographic Mappings and Data Visualization....Pages 3-32
Front Matter....Pages 33-33
Fuzzy Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition....Pages 35-83
A Unifying View of Gradient Calculations and Learning for Locally Recurrent Neural Networks....Pages 84-97
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Employment of a Progressive Learning Neural Network for Identification and Control....Pages 101-111
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
What Size Needs Testing?....Pages 115-123
Entropy Based Comparison of Neural Networks for Classification....Pages 124-132
A Hebbian model for Space Representation....Pages 133-138
Sequences of Discrete Hopfield’s Networks for the Maximum Clique Problem....Pages 139-146
Rates of Approximation of Multivariable Functions by One-hidden-layer Neural Networks....Pages 147-152
Energy Functional and Fixed Points of a Neural Network....Pages 153-161
A Distribution-Free VC-Dimension-Based Performance Bound....Pages 162-168
Attractor Neural Networks as Models of Semantic Memory....Pages 169-174
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
Image Reconstruction Using A Hierarchical RBF Network Architecture....Pages 177-182
Word Recognition by MLP-based Character Spotting and Dynamic Programming....Pages 183-188
Video Data Compression Using Multilayer Perceptrons....Pages 189-194
Speeding Up Neural Network Execution: An Application To Speech Recognition....Pages 195-200
Periodicity Analysis of Unevenly Spaced Data by Means of Neural Networks....Pages 201-212
Computational Maps for Articulatory Speech Synthesis....Pages 213-218
A Neural Solution for a Mobile Robot Navigation into Unknown Indoor Environments Using Visual Landmarks....Pages 219-224
Front Matter....Pages 225-225
An Application of the Bootstrap 632+ Rule to Ecological Data....Pages 227-232
Front Matter....Pages 225-225
Are Hybrid Fuzzy-Neural Systems Actually Useful in Plasma Engineering?....Pages 233-238
MAIA Neural Network: An Application to the Railway Anti-Skating System....Pages 239-244
On the Cognitive Behaviour of a Multi-Layer Perceptron in Forecasting Meteorological Visibility....Pages 245-251
Classifying Magnetic Resonance Spectra of Brain Neoplasms Using Fuzzy and Robust Gold Standard Adjustments....Pages 252-256
Self-organization with a large medical database: Using GTM for prediction and clustering....Pages 257-262
Icarus Platform....Pages 263-268
Front Matter....Pages 269-269
Plastic Tabu Search for Training Multilayer Perceptrons....Pages 271-276
Training Analog VLSI Multi Layer Perceptron Networks with Continuous Time Back Propagation....Pages 277-284
EM Algorithm: A Neural Network View....Pages 285-292
HW/SW Co-Design of a Complete Pre-Processing/Recognition System Based on Sgs-Thomson OCR Analog Chip....Pages 293-298
Interval Arithmetic Perceptron with pruning capability....Pages 299-304
Hidden Recursive Models....Pages 305-311
Geometrical Constructive Algorithms of Binary Neural Networks....Pages 312-317
On the Adaptable Boolean Neural Net Paradigm....Pages 318-323
Cluster Connections: A visualization technique to reveal cluster boundaries in self-organizing maps....Pages 324-329
Discriminative Least Squares Learning for Fast Adaptive Neural Equalization....Pages 330-335
Back Matter....Pages 337-338