Neural Nets WIRN VIETRI-98: Proceedings of the 10th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets, Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy, 21–23 May 1998

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
In Memory of Marco Protasi....Pages 3-8
Computational Suspiciousness of Learning in Artificial Neural Nets....Pages 9-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Software Foundation Libraries for Intelligent Systems....Pages 19-39
Theoretical Approaches to On-line Learning in Smooth Multilayer Nets....Pages 40-59
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Combining Neural Networks and Hidden Markov Models for Speech Recognition....Pages 63-79
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
Cellular Neural Networks: an Approach to Circuit Design and Information Processing....Pages 83-99
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
Correlation Collapse under Persistent Input Derangement in the Nervous System. Fitting pRAM Models for Thalamo-cortical Circuits....Pages 103-112
A New Incremental Strategy for Function Approximation by Radial Basis Function Neural Networks....Pages 113-119
Soft-competitive versus EM learning in cortical map modeling....Pages 120-125
Spatio-temporal cortical activity patterns in cognitive tasks using fMRI....Pages 126-131
Support Vector Machine for Nonparametric Binary Hypothesis Testing....Pages 132-137
Learning the Amplitude of Activation Functions in Layered Networks....Pages 138-144
The BRAIN Learning Algorithm....Pages 145-152
Training Data Selection for Optimal Generalization with Noise Variance Reduction in Neural Networks....Pages 153-166
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Astronomical Object Recognition by means of Neural Networks....Pages 169-178
Learning to balance a pole on a movable cart through RL: what can be gained using Adaptive NN?....Pages 179-184
Mean-Field Neural Networks for Antenna Array Diagnostics....Pages 185-194
Initial Letter Spotting as a Complementary Feature for Lexical Filtering of Cursive Words....Pages 195-200
Visual Person Localization with Dynamic Neural Fields: Towards a Gesture Recognition System....Pages 201-206
Phoneme Classification using a Rasta-PLP preprocessing algorithm and a Time Delay Neural Network: Performance Studies....Pages 207-217
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
A Neural System for Remote Sensing Multispectral Image Classification....Pages 218-223
Invariance of WNNs Performance for Pattern Recognition Testing Translated Image Input Spaces....Pages 224-229
The CALMA project: Computer Assisted Library for MAmmography....Pages 230-235
Exploitation of Fuzzy Information for Tokamak Plasma Shape Recognition....Pages 236-241
New Results in Image Compression through M.A.I.A. Neural Networks....Pages 242-247
The Effect of Public Sector on the Financial Sector: An NN Approach in a View of Complexity.....Pages 248-254
A Hybrid Framework for Indoor Robot Navigation....Pages 255-263
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
Training Feedforward Neural Networks: Convergence and Robustness Analysis....Pages 267-272
Solving the Travelling Salesman Problem using the Kohonen Network Incorporating Explicit Statistics....Pages 273-282
Boosting Learning Algorithms for the Colorimetric Characterization of Color Printers....Pages 283-289
Handwritten Character Recognition with an Analog Feature Extraction Module....Pages 290-295
A High Performances and High Versatility Reconfigurable System for Fast Prototyping of Digital Neural Network Based on FPGA....Pages 296-303
A L -based Energy Function for SE Prediction....Pages 304-309
Robust Processing of Visual Evoked Potentials....Pages 310-318
Convergence Properties of the Circular Cascade Correlation algorithm....Pages 319-324
Neural Learning and Weight Flow on Stiefel Manifold....Pages 325-333
From Behavior to VHDL: A CAD Environment for SPNNs....Pages 334-339
Incremental Min-Max Network. Part 2: Continuous and Discrete Spaces....Pages 340-346
An Adaptable Boolean Neural Net Obtained by Connecting Seven Node Asssemblies....Pages 347-352
A Comparative Evaluation of Sequential Constructive Methods....Pages 353-358
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
A Unified Approach to Sequential Constructive Methods....Pages 359-364
SOMLib: A Distributed Digital Library System based on Self-Organizing Maps....Pages 365-370
Incremental Min-Max Network. Part 1: Continuous Spaces....Pages 371-376
Tangent Models: Comparing the TD-Neuron Constructive Algorithm versus SVD Based Algorithms....Pages 377-382
A Neural Multi-Agent Architecture for an Autonomous Mobile Robot Control....Pages 383-388
Back Matter....Pages 389-390