Front matter
1-14
Microcircuits in the brain
Javier DeFelipe
15-26
Some reflections on the relationships between neuroscience and computation
J. Mira and A. E. Delgado
27-34
Different types of temporal correlations obtained in pairs of thalamic visual neurons suggest different functional patterns of connectivity
Casto Rivadulla and Javier Cudeiro
35-43
Development of on-off and off-on receptive fields using a semistochastic model
E. M. Muro, P. Isasi, M. A. Andrade and F. Morán
44-53
The classification of spatial, chromatic, and intensity features of simple visual stimuli by a network of retinal ganglion cells
Shuy Shoham, Remus Osan, Josef Ammermuller, Almut Branner and Eduardo Fernandez, et al.
54-60
Geometric model of orientation tuning dynamics in striate neurons
Igor A. Shevelev, Konstantin A. Saltykov and George A. Sharaev
61-71
Neuronal circuitry in the medial cerebral cortex of lizards
J. A. Luis de la Iglesia and C. Lopez-Garcia
72-81
Interactions between environmental and hormonal oscillations induce plastic changes in a simple neuroendocrine transducer
R. Alonso, I. López-Coviella, F. Hernández-Díaz, P. Abreu and E. Salido, et al.
82-90
Current Source Density analysis as a tool to constrain the parameter space in hippocampal CA1 neuron models
Pablo Varona, José Manuel Ibarz, Juan Alberto Sigüenza and Oscar Herreras
91-102
Spontaneous activity of hippocampal cells in various physiological states
Nico Stollenwerk, Liset Menéndez de la Prida and Juan Vicente Sanchez-Andrés
103-115
Neural network model of striatal complex
Boris Aleksandrovsky, Fernando Brücher, Gary Lynch and Richard Granger
116-123
Symmetry and self-organization of the oculomotor neural integrator
Thomas J. Anastasio
124-132
Quantal neural mechanisms underlying movement execution and motor learning
J. M. Delgado-García, A. Gruart, J. A. Domingo and J. A. Trigo
133-145
A model of cerebellar saccadic motor learning using qualitative reasoning
J. L. Krichmar, G. A. Ascoli, L. Hunter and J. L. Olds
146-153
Balance between intercellular coupling and input resistance as a necessary requirement for oscillatory electrical activity in pancreatic β-cells
E. Andreu, R. Pomares, B. Soria and J. V. Sanchez-Andres
154-161
Mechanisms of synchronization in the hippocampus and its role along development
L. Menendez de la Prida and Juan V. Sanchez-Andres
162-168
Analysis of synfire chains above saturation
R. M. Reyes and C. J. Pérez Vicente
169-177
Allometry in the Justo Gonzalo's model of the sensorial cortex
Isabel Gonzalo
178-194
Systems models of retinal cells: A classical example
Roberto Moreno-Díaz
195-206
A generic formulation of neural nets as a model of parallel and self-programming computation
J. Mira, J. C. Herrero and A. E. Delgado
207-216
Using an artificial neural network for studying the interneuronal layer of a leech neuronal circuit
Juan Miguel Santos and Lidia Szczupak
217-226
Capacity and parasitic fixed points control in a recursive neural network
V. Giménez, M. Pérez-Castellanos, J. Rios Carrion and F. de Mingo
227-236
The use of prior knowledge in neural network configuration and training
Melanie Hilario and Ahmed Rida
237-246
A model for heterogeneous neurons and its use in configuring neural networks for classification problems
Julio J. Valdés and Ricardo García
247-256
A computation theory for orientation-selective simple cells based on the MAP estimation principle and Markov random fields
Mehdi N. Shirazi and Yoshikazu Nishikawa
257-264
Competition between feed-forward and lateral information processing in layered neural networks
A. C. C. Coolen and L. Viana
265-272
Computing functions with spiking neurons in temporal coding
Berthold Ruf
273-283
An introduction to Fuzzy State Automata
L. M. Reyneri
284-293
Statistical analysis of regularization constant — From Bayes, MDL and NIC points of view
Shun-ichi Amari and Noboru Murata
294-303
Building digital libraries from paper documents, using ART based neuro-fuzzy systems
R. Sanz Guadarrama, J. M. Cano Izquierdo, Y. A. Dimitriadis, G. I. Sainz Palmero and J. Lopez Coronado
304-312
Parallelization of connectionist models based on a symbolic formalism
J. Santos, M. Cabarcos, R. P. Otero and J. Mira
313-322
Generic neural network model and simulation toolkit
Montserrat García del Valle, Carlos García-Orellana, Francisco J. López-Aligué and Isabel Acevedo-Sotoca
323-329
A neural-fuzzy technique for interpolating spatial data via the use of learning curve
P. M. Wong, K. W. Wong, C. C. Fung and T. D. Gedeon
330-339
Task decomposition based on class relations: A modular neural network architecture for pattern classification
Bao-Liang Lu and Masami Ito
340-348
Lower bounds of computational power of a synaptic calculus
João Pedro Neto, J. Félix Costa and Helder Coelho
349-359
Feed Forward Neural Network entities
Andreas Hadjiprocopis and Peter Smith
360-369
Astrocytes and slow learning in the formation of distal cortical associations
J. G. Wallace and K. Bluff
370-379
Adaptation and other dynamic effects on neural signal transfer
László Orzó and Elemér Lábos
380-389
Hebbian learning in networks of spiking neurons using temporal coding
Berthold Ruf and Michael Schmitt
390-397
An associative learning model for coupled neural oscillators
Jun Nishii
398-407
Random perturbations to Hebbian synapses of associative memory using a genetic algorithm
Akira Imada and Keijiro Araki
408-416
Phase memory in oscillatory networks
M. G. Kuzmina and I. I. Surina
417-426
Strategies for autonomous adaptation and learning in dynamical networks
Nabil H. Farhat, Emilio Del Moral Hernandez and Gee-Hyuk Lee
427-432
Modeling the parallel development of multiple featuremaps and topography in visual cortex
Winfried A. Fellenz
433-442
Stability and hebbian learning in populations of probabilistic neurons
Francisco B. Rodríguez and Vicente López
443-452
Stochastic approximation techniques and circuits and systems associated tools for neural network optimization
H. Dedieu, A. Flanagan and A. Robert
453-462
Recursive hetero-associative memories for translation
Mikel L. Forcada and Ramón P. Ñeco
463-472
Universal Binary and Multi-Valued Neurons paradigm: Conception, learning, applications
Naum N. Aizenberg and Igor N. Aizenberg
473-482
Learning a Markov process with a synchronous Boltzmann machine
Ursula Iturrarán and Antonia J. Jones
483-492
The α-EM algorithm: A block connectable generalized leaning tool for neural networks
Yasuo Matsuyama
493-500
Training simple recurrent networks through gradient descent algorithms
M. A. Castaño, F. Casacuberta and A. Bonet
501-509
On simultaneous weight and architecture learning
Santiago Rementeria and Xabier Olabe
510-517
Evolution of structure and learning — A GP approach
K. Govinda Char
518-526
Self-organizing formation of receptive fields and competitive systems
Satoshi Maekawa and Hidefumi Sawai
527-535
Optimizing a neural network architecture with an adaptive parameter genetic algorithm
Arnaud Ribert, Emmanuel Stocker, Yves Lecourtier and Abdel Ennaji
536-545
Self-organizing symbolic learned rules
Antonio Bahamonde, Enrique A. de la Cal, José Ranilla and Jaime Alonso
546-555
Viewing a class of neurodynamics on parameter space
Jianfeng Feng and David Brown
556-565
Hopfield neural network applied to optimization problems: Some theoretical and simulation results
G. Joya, M. A. Atencia and F. Sandoval
566-575
A genetic approach to computing Independent And Parallelism in logic programs
Camino R. Vela, Cesar Alonso, Ramiro Varela and Jorge Puente
576-587
Predicting toxicity of complex mixtures by artificial neural networks
F. Gagné and C. Blaise
588-596
Regularisation by Convolution in Symmetric-α-Stable function networks
Christophe G. Molina, William J. Fitzgerald and Peter J. W. Rayner
597-606
Continuation of chaotic fields by RBFNN
Igor Grabec and Simon Mandelj
607-616
Improving the performance of Piecewise linear Separation incremental algorithms for practical hardware implementations
A. Chinea, J. M. Moreno, J. Madrenas and J. Cabestany
617-627
Accurate decomposition of standard MLP classification responses into symbolic rules
Guido Bologna and Christian Pellegrini
628-633
A hybrid intelligent system for the pre-processing of Fetal Heart rate signals in antenatal testing
Bertha Guijarro-Berdiñas, Amparo Alonso-Betanzos, Soledad Prados-Méndez, Olga Fernández-Chaves and Miguel Alvarez-Seoane, et al.
634-643
The pattern extraction architecture: A connectionist alternative to the von Neumann architecture
L. Andrew Coward
644-650
A two-level heterogeneous hybrid model
Nicolae B. Szirbik
651-659
Interpretation of a hierarchical neural network
Jürgen Rahmel, Christian Blum and Peter Hahn
660-667
Cognitive processes in social interactions — A neural networks' approach
J. Barahona da Fonseca, I. Barahona da Fonseca and J. Simöes da Fonseca
668-677
Adding phase to recurrent backpropagation networks: An application to binding tasks in vision
Hanna Majewski and Janet Wiles
678-687
Schema-based learning: Biologically inspired principles of dynamic organization
Fernando J. Corbacho and Michael A. Arbib
688-713
Digital connectionist hardware: Current problems and future challenges
Paolo Ienne
714-722
EpsiloNN — A specification language for the efficient parallel simulation of neural networks
Alfred Strey
723-732
Forward-backward building blocks for evolving neural networks with intrinsic learning behaviours
S. M. Lucas
733-742
A cascade network algorithm employing Progressive RPROP
N. K. Treadgold and T. D. Gedeon
743-752
Tight bounds on the size of neural networks for classification problems
Valeriu Beiu and Thierry de Pauw
753-762
On the possibilities of the limited precision weights neural networks in classification problems
Sorin Draghici and Ishwar K. Sethi
763-771
A modified backpropagation algorithm to tolerate weight errors
Jose L. Bernier, Julio Ortega and Alberto Prieto
772-781
A high performance SOFM hardware-system
S. Rüping, M. Porrmann and U. Rückert
782-791
On application incentive and constraints for neural network hardware development
Andreas König
792-800
A fast Kohonen net implementation for spert-II
Krste Asanović
801-810
Synthesis and optimization of a bit-serial pipeline kernel processor
Jordi Madrenas, Gregorio Ruiz, Juan Manuel Moreno and Joan Cabestany
811-816
A hardware implementation of CNNs based on Pulse Stream Techniques
F. Colodro, A. Torralba, R. González and L. G. Franquelo
817-824
Evaluation of the CNAPS neuro-computer for the simulation of MLPS with receptive fields
Bertrand Granado and Patrick Garda
825-833
AFAN, a tool for the automatic design of fuzzy and neural controllers
R. G. Carvajal, A. Torralba, F. Colodro and L. G. Franquelo
834-840
A fully stochastic fuzzy logic controller
F. Colodro, A. Torralba, R. González and L. G. Franquelo
841-850
Multi-Neural Networks hardware and software architecture: Application of the divide to simplify paradigm DTS
A. Chebira, K. Madani and G. Mercier
851-860
A fuzzy controller for switching regulators with programmable control surfaces
José Matas, Luis García de Vicuña, Mariano López and Juan Manuel Moreno
861-871
The Kohonen algorithm: A powerful tool for analysing and representing multidimensional quantitative and qualitative data
Marie Cottrell and Patrick Rousset
872-881
Constrained neural network for estimating sensor reliability in sensors fusion
Anne Guérin-Dugué, Pascal Teissier, Jean-Luc Schwartz and Jeanny Hérault
882-891
Statistical analysis of the main parameters in the definition of Radial Basis Function networks
I. Rojas, O. Valenzuela and A. Prieto
892-902
Structural level comparison of two basic paradigms in neural computation
José R. Álvarez
903-912
Symmetry: Between indecision and equality of choice
E. I. Barakova and L. Spaanenburg
913-921
A non-convergent on-line training algorithm for neural networks
Joachim Utans
922-931
Using classical and evolutive neural models in industrial applications: A case study for an automatic Coin Classifier
J. M. Moreno, J. Madrenas, J. Cabestany and J. R. Laúna
932-941
A new type of unsupervised growing neural network for biological sequence classification that adopts the topology of a phylogenetic tree
Joaquín Dopazo, Huaichun Wang and José María Carazo
942-951
Classification of the onset of respiratory difficulties in ventilation assisted neonates
Emma Braithwaite, Jimmy Dripps, Andrew Lyon and Alan F. Murray
952-961
A neural network approach for symbolic interpretation in critical care
Vicente Moret-Bonillo, Jorge Díaz Fernández and Elena Hernández Pereira
962-970
ECG beat classification with synaptic delay based artificial neural networks
R. J. Duro and J. Santos
971-977
Neural network-based insulin infusion control for an insulin-pump, using discontinuous blood glucose measurements
Fidimahery Andrianasy and Maurice Milgram
978-985
Infraclinic breast carcinoma: Application of neural networks techniques for the indication of radioguided biopsias
Ll. Porta, R. Villa, L. Prieto, E. Andia and E. Valderrama
986-994
Detection of Glaucoma by means of ANNs
M. Reyes de los Mozos, E. Valderrama, R. Villa, J. Roig and A. Antón, et al.
995-1004
A comparative analysis of the neonatal prognosis problem using artificial neural networks, statistical techniques and certainty management techniques
A. Alonso-Betanzos, E. Mosqueira-Rey and B. Baldonedo del Río
1005-1027
Models of visual processing derived from cortical microelectrode recordings
Reinhard Eckhorn
1028-1037
Rotation invariant IR object recognition using adaptive kernel subspace projections with a neural network
Michael H. W. Smart
1038-1047
Neural networks based projectivity invariant recognition of flat patterns
G. Joya and F. Sandoval
1048-1057
The instant laboratory: Bringing intelligence to the workfloor
L. Spaanenburg, J. deGraaf, J. A. G. Nijhuis, H. Stevens and W. Wichers
1058-1067
A biological front-end processing for speech recognition
J. M. Ferrández, D. del Valle, V. Rodellar and P. Gómez
1068-1074
Non parametric coding of speech by means of a MLP with hints
Gustavo Hernández Ábrego, Enric Monte and José B. Mariño
1075-1084
Gray-level object segmentation with a network of FitzHugh-Nagumo oscillators
Abderrahim Labbi, Ruggero Milanese and Holger Bosch
1085-1094
Multidimensional filtering inspired by retino-cortical projection: Application to texture segmentation
C. Croll, D. Pellerin and J. Hérault
1095-1106
A competitive neural network for blind separation of sources based on geometric properties
Alberto Prieto, Carlos G. Puntonet, Beatriz Prieto and Manuel Rodríguez-Alvarez
1107-1114
A new bio-inspired algorithm for early vision edge detection and image segmentation
Chang-Han Yi, Robert Schlabbach, Holger Kroth and Heinrich Klar
1115-1125
Function of biological asymmetrical neural networks
Naohiro Ishii and Ken-ichi Naka
1126-1135
Identification of spectral features as sound localization cues in the external ear acoustics
Paul Hofman and John van Opstal
1136-1143
Phoneme recognition by means of predictive neural networks
F. Freitag and E. Monte
1144-1153
Shift-invariant fuzzy-morphology neural network for occluded target recognition
Yonggwan Won, Bae-Ho Lee, Yong-Chang Baek and Jung-Soo Lee
1154-1163
A comparative study between linear and nonlinear speech prediction
Marcos Faúndez, Enric Monte and Francesc Vallverdú
1164-1173
Recognition model with extension fields
Peter Kalocsai
1174-1182
A GA-optimized neural network for classification of biological particles from electron-microscopy images
J. J. Merelo, A. Prieto, F. Morán, R. Marabini and J. M. Carazo
1183-1192
Application of artificial neural networks to the design and implementation of electronic olfactory systems
J. Brezmes, N. Canyellas, E. Llobet, X. Vilanova and X. Correig
1193-1202
Application of a multilayer discrete-time CNN to deformable models
D. L. Vilariño, D. Cabello, A. Mosquera and J. M. Pardo
1203-1212
Spoken-digit recognition using self-organizing maps with perceptual pre-processing
F. Díaz, J. M. Ferrández, P. Gómez, V. Rodellar and V. Nieto
1213-1220
Noise discrimination and autoassociative neural networks
C. Santa Cruz, J. R. Dorronsoro, J. A. Sigüenza and V. López
1221-1232
Modified Boltzmann machine for an efficient distributed implementation
Julio Ortega, Luis Parrilla, Alberto Prieto, Antonio Lloris and Carlos G. Puntonet
1233-1240
Simulation of MPEG video traffic using neural networks
A. Reyes, E. Casilari, A. Díaz-Estrella and F. Sandoval
1241-1250
A continuous time structure for filtering and prediction using Hopfield Neural Networks
Hector Perez-Meana and Mariko Nakano-Miyatake
1251-1259
Structure-adaptable neurocontrollers: A hardware-friendly approach
Andrés Pérez-Uribe and Eduardo Sanchez
1260-1269
A new QRS detector based on neural network
C. García-Berdonés, J. Narváez, U. Fernández and F. Sandoval
1270-1278
Application of Neural Networks for local modeliation of the boiler furnace in thermal power plants
O. Bella, C. Cortés and A. Tomás
1279-1287
Evolved neurocontrollers for pole-balancing
Frank Pasemann and Ulf Dieckmann
1288-1297
Artificial neural networks for the computation of traffic queues
Pedro Hernández-Arauzo, Secundino López-García and Antonio Bahamonde
1298-1306
Unsupervised neural network for forecasting alarms in hydroelectric power plant
P. Isasi-Viñuela, J. M. Molina-López and A. Sanchis de Miguel
1307-1314
Motor sequence processing with an artificial learning system
Torsten Felzer, Peter Hartmann, Karlheinz Hohm and Peter Marenbach
1315-1323
On-line continuous weld monitoring using neural networks
Rafael L. Millau, José M. Quero and Leopoldo G. Franquelo
1324-1333
Combining reinforcement learning and differential inverse kinematics for collision-free motion of multilink manipulators
Pedro Martin and José del R. Millán
1334-1343
Short-term peak load forecasting: Statistical methods versus Artificial Neural Networks
F. J. Marín and F. Sandoval
1344-1354
Integration of Self-Organizing Feature Maps and reinforcement learning in robotics
Enric Cervera and Angel P. del Pobil
1355-1363
Dynamic path planning with spiking neural networks
Ulrich Roth, Marc Walker, Arne Hilmann and Heinrich Klar
1364-1373
Implementation of a basic reactive behavior in mobile robotics through artificial neural networks
R. Iglesias, C. V. Regueiro, J. Correa and S. Barro
1374-1383
Visual probe mark inspection, using hardware implementation of artificial neural networks, in VLSI production
Ghislain de Trémiolles, Pascal Tannhof, Brendan Plougonven, Claude Demarigny and Kurosh Madani
1384-1393
Teleoreactive neural networks
José Ramirez
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