4. IWANN 1997: Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain

Biological Foundations of Neural Computation

• Javier De Felipe:
  Microcircuits in the Brain. 1-14
  
• José Mira, Ana E. Delgado García:
  Some Reflections on the Relationships Between Neuroscience and Computation. 15-26
  
• Casto Rivadulla, Javier Cudeiro:
  Different Types of Temporal Correlations Obtained in Pairs of Thalamic Visual Neurons Suggest Different Functional Patterns of Connectivity. 27-34
  
• Enrique M. Muro, Pedro Isasi, Miguel A. Andrade, Federico Morán:
  Development of On-Off and Off-On Receptive Fields Using a Semistochastic Model. 35-43
  
• Shuy Shoham, Remus Osan, Josef Ammermüller, Almut Branner, Eduardo Fernández, Richard A. Normann:
  The Classification of Spatial, Chromatic, and Intensity Features of Simple Visual Stimuli by a Network of Retinal Ganglion Cells. 44-53
  
• Igor A. Shevelev, Konstantin A. Saltykov, George A. Sharaev:
  Geometric Model of Orientation Tuning Dynamics in Striate Neurons. 54-60
  
• J. A. Luis de la Iglesia, C. López-García:
  Neuronal Circuitry in the Medial Cerebral Cortex of Lizards. 61-71
  
• Rafael Alonso Solís, Ignacio López-Coviella, Francisco Javier Hernández Díaz, Pedro Abreu González, Eduardo Salido Ruíz, L. Tabares:
  Interactions Between Environmental and Hormonal Oscillations Induce Plastic Changes in a Simple Neuroendocrine Transducer. 72-81
  
• Pablo Varona, José Manuel Ibarz, Juan Alberto Sirüenza, Oscar Herreras:
  Current Source Density Analysis as a Tool to Constrain the Parameter Space in Hippocampal CAI Neuron Models. 82-90
  
• Nico Stollenwerk, Liset Menendez de la Prida, Juan Vicente Sánchez-Andrés:
  Spontaneous Activity of Hippocampal Cells in Various Physiological States. 91-102
  
• Boris Aleksandrovsky, Fernando Brücher, Gary Lynch, Richard Granger:
  Neural Network Model of Striatal Complex. 103-115
  
• Thomas J. Anastasio:
  Symmetry and Self-Organization of the Oculo-Motor Neural Integrator. 116-123
  
• José María Delgado-García, Agnès Gruart, J. A. Domingo, J. A. Trigo:
  Quantal Neural Mechanisms Underlying Movement Execution and Motor Learning. 124-132
  
• Jeffrey L. Krichmar, Giorgio A. Ascoli, Lawrence Hunter, James L. Olds:
  A Model of Cerebellar Saccadic Motor Learning Using Qualitative Reasoning. 133-145
  
• Etelvina Andreu, Raquel Pomares, Bernat Soria, Juan Vicente Sánchez-Andrés:
  Balance Between Intercellular Coupling and Input Resistence as a Necessary Requirement for Oscillatory Electrical Activity in Pancreatic beta-Cells. 146-153
  
• Liset Menendez de la Prida, Juan Vicente Sánchez-Andrés:
  Mechanisms of Synchronization in the Hyppocampus and Its Role Along Development. 154-161
  
• R. M. Reyes, Conrado J. Pérez Vicente:
  Analysis of Synfire Chains Above Saturation. 162-168
  
• Isabel Gonzalo:
  Allometry in the Justo Gonzalo's Model of the Sensorial Cortex. 169-177
  

Formal Tools and Computational Models of Neurons and Neural Net Architectures

• Roberto Moreno-Díaz:
  System Models of Retinal Cells: A Classical Example. 178-194
  
• José Mira, Juan Carlos Herrero, Ana E. Delgado García:
  A Generic Formulation of Neural Nets as a Model of Parallel and Self-Programming Computation. 195-206
  
• Juan Miguel Santos, Lidia Szczupak:
  Using an Artificial Neural Network for Studying the Interneuronal Layer of a Leech Neuronal Circuit. 207-216
  
• Victor Giménez, M. Pérez-Castellanos, J. Rios Carrion, Luis Fernando de Mingo López:
  Capacity and Parasitic Fixed Points Control in a Recursive Neural Network. 217-226
  
• Melanie Hilario, Ahmed Rida:
  The Use of Prior Knowledge in Neural Network Configuration and Training. 227-236
  
• Julio J. Valdés, Ricardo García:
  A Model for Heterogeneous Neurons and Its Use in Configuring Neural Networks for Classification Problems. 237-246
  
• Mehdi N. Shirazi, Yoshikazu Nishikawa:
  A Computation Theory for Orientation-Selective Simple Cells Based on the MAP Estimation Principle and Markov Random Fields. 247-256
  
• Anthony C. C. Coolen, Laura Viana:
  Competition Between Feed-Forward and Lateral Information Processing in Layered Neural Networks. 257-264
  
• Berthold Ruf:
  Computing Functions with Spiking Neurons in Temporal Coding. 265-272
  
• Leonardo Maria Reyneri:
  An Introduction to Fuzzy State Automata. 273-283
  
• Shun-ichi Amari, Noboru Murata:
  Statistical Analysis of Regularization Constant - From Bayes, MDL and NIC Points of View. 284-293
  
• R. Sanz Guadarrama, Yannis A. Dimitriadis, Gregorio Ismael Sainz Palmero, J. Manuel Cano Izquierdo, Juan López Coronado:
  Building Digital Libraries from Paper Documents, Using ART Based Neuro-Fuzzy Systems. 294-303
  
• José Santos Reyes, Manuel Cabarcos, Ramón P. Otero, José Mira:
  Parallelization of Connectionist Models Based on a Symbolic Formalism. 304-312
  
• Montserrat García del Valle, Carlos J. García Orellana, Francisco Javier López Aligué, M. Isabel Acevedo Sotoca:
  Generic Neural Network Model and Simulation Toolkit. 313-322
  
• Patrick M. Wong, Kok Wai Wong, Chun Che Fung, Tamás D. Gedeon:
  A Neural-Fuzzy Technique for Interpolating Spatial Data via the Use of Learning Curve. 323-329
  
• Bao-Liang Lu, Masami Ito:
  Task Decomposition Based on Class Relations: A Modular Neural Network Architecture for Pattern Classification. 330-339
  
• João Pedro Guerreiro Neto, José Félix Costa, Helder Coelho:
  Lower Bounds of Computational Power of a Synaptic Calculus. 340-348
  
• Andreas Hadjiprocopis, Peter Smith:
  Feed Forward Neural Network Entities. 349-359
  

Plasticity Phenomena (Maturing, Learning and Memory)

• J. G. (Iain) Wallace, Kevin Bluff:
  Astrocytes and Slow Learning in the Formation of Distal Cortical Associations. 360-369
  
• Lászlò Orzó, Elemér Lábos:
  Adaptation and Other Dynamic Effects on Neural Signal Transfer. 370-379
  
• Berthold Ruf, Michael Schmitt:
  Hebbian Learning in Networks of Spiking Neurons Using Temporal Coding. 380-389
  
• Jun Nishii:
  An Associative Learning Model for Coupled Neural Oscillators. 390-397
  
• Akira Imada, Keijiro Araki:
  Random Perturbations to Hebbian Synapses of Associative Memory Using a Genetic Algorithm. 398-407
  
• Margarita Kuzmina, Irina Surina:
  Phase Memory in Oscillatory Networks. 408-416
  
• Nabil H. Farhat, Emílio Del Moral Hernandez, Gee-Hyuk Lee:
  Strategies for Autonomous Adaptation and Learning in Dynamical Networks. 417-426
  
• Winfried A. Fellenz:
  Modeling in the Parallel Development of Multiple Featuremaps and Topography in Visual Cortex. 427-432
  
• Francisco de Borja Rodríguez Ortiz, Vicente López:
  Stability and Hebbian Learning in Populations of Probabilistic Neurons. 433-442
  
• Hervé Dedieu, A. Flanagan, A. Robert:
  Stochastic Approximation Techniques and Circuits and Systems Associated Tools for Neural Network Optimization. 443-452
  
• Mikel L. Forcada, Ramón P. Ñeco:
  Recursive Hetero-associative Memories for Translation. 453-462
  
• Naum N. Aizenberg, Igor N. Aizenberg:
  Universal Binary and Multi-values Neurons Paradigm: Conception, Learning, Applications. 463-472
  
• Ursula Iturranrán, Antonia J. Jones:
  Learning a Markov Process with a Synchronous Boltzmann Machine. 473-482
  
• Yasuo Matsuyama:
  The Alpha-EM Algorithm: A Block Connectable Generalized Learning Tool for Neural Networks. 483-492
  
• M. Asunción Castaño, Francisco Casacuberta, A. Bonet:
  Training Simple Recurrent Networks Through Gradient Descent Algorithms. 493-500
  
• Santiago Rementeria, Xabier Olabe:
  On Simultaneous Weight and Architecture Learning. 501-509
  
• Kalyani Govinda Char:
  Evolution of Structure and Learning - A GP approach. 510-517
  

Complex System Dynamics

• Satoshi Maekawa, Hidefumi Sawai:
  Self-Organizing Formation of Receptive Fields and Competitive Systems. 518-526
  
• Arnaud Ribert, Emmanuel Stocker, Yves Lecourtier, Abdel Ennaji:
  Optimizing a Neural Network Architecture with an Adaptive Parameter Genetic Algorithm. 527-535
  
• Antonio Bahamonde, Enrique A. de la Cal, José Ranilla, Jaime Alonso:
  Self-Organizing Symbolic Learned Rules. 536-545
  
• Jianfeng Feng, David Brown:
  Viewing a Class of Neurodynamics on Parameter Space. 546-555
  
• Gonzalo Joya Caparrós, Miguel A. Atencia Ruiz, Francisco Sandoval Hernández:
  Hopfield Neural Network Applied to Optimization Problems: Some Theoretical and Simulation Results. 556-565
  
• Camino R. Vela, Cesar Alonso, Ramiro Varela, Jorge Puente:
  A Genetic Approach to Computing Independent AND Parallelism in Logic Programs. 566-575
  
• F. Gagné, C. Blaise:
  Predicting Toxicity of Complex Mixtures by Artificial Neural Networks. 576-587
  
• Christophe G. Molina, William J. Fitzgerald, Peter J. W. Rayner:
  Regularisation by Convolution in Symmetric-alpha-Stable Function Networks. 588-596
  
• Igor Grabec, Simon Mandelj:
  Continuation of Chaotic Fields by RBFNN. 597-606
  
• A. Chinea, Juan Manuel Moreno, Jordi Madrenas, Joan Cabestany:
  Improving the Performance of Piecewise Linear Separation Incremental Algorithms for Practical Hardware Implementations. 607-616
  

Cognitive Science and AI

• Guido Bologna, Christian Pellegrini:
  Accurate Decomposition of Standard MLP Classification Responses into Symbolic Rules. 617-627
  
• Bertha Guijarro-Berdiñas, Amparo Alonso-Betanzos, Soledad Prados-Méndez, Olga Fernández-Chaves, Miguel Álvarez-Soane, Francisco Ucieda-Pardiñas:
  A Hybrid Intelligent System for the Preprocessing of Fetal Heart Rate Signals in Antenatal Testing. 628-633
  
• L. Andrew Coward:
  The Pattern Extraction Architecture: A Connectionist Alternative to the Von Neumann Architecture. 634-643
  
• Nicolae B. Szirbik:
  A Two-level Heterogeneous Hybrid Model. 644-650
  
• Jürgen Rahmel, Christian Blum, Peter Hahn:
  Interpretation of a Hierarchical Neural Network. 651-659
  
• José Barahona da Fonseca, Isabel Barahona da Fonseca, José Simões da Fonseca:
  Cognitive Processes in Social Interaction - A Neural Networks Approach. 660-667
  
• Hanna Majewski, Janet Wiles:
  Adding Phase to Recurrent Backpropagation Networks: An Application to Binding Tasks in Vision. 668-677
  
• Fernando J. Corbacho, Michael A. Arbib:
  Schema-Based Learning: Biologically Inspired Principles of Dynamic Organization. 678-687
  

Neural Nets Simulation, Emulation and Implementation

• Paolo Ienne:
  Digital Connectionist Hardware: Current Problems and Future Challenges. 688-713
  
• Alfred Strey:
  EpsiloNN - A Specification Language for the Efficient Parallel Simulation of Neural Networks. 714-722
  
• Simon M. Lucas:
  Forward-Backward Building Blocks for Evolving Neural Networks with Intrinsic Learning Behaviors. 723-732
  
• Nick K. Treadgold, Tamás D. Gedeon:
  A Cascade Network Algorithm Employing Progressive RPROP. 733-742
  
• Valeriu Beiu, Thierry de Pauw:
  Tight Bounds on the Size of Neural Networks for Classification Problems. 743-752
  
• Sorin Draghici, Ishwar K. Sethi:
  On the Possibilities of the Limited Precision Weights Neural Networks in Classification Problems. 753-762
  
• José Luis Bernier, Julio Ortega, Alberto Prieto:
  A Modified Backpropagation Algorithm to Tolerate Weight Errors. 763-771
  
• Stefan Rüping, Mario Porrmann, Ulrich Rückert:
  A High Performance SOFM Hardware-System. 772-781
  
• Andreas König:
  On Application Incentive and Constraints for Neural Network Hardware Development. 782-791
  
• Krste Asanovic:
  A Fast Kohonen Net Implementation for Spert-II. 792-800
  
• Jordi Madrenas, Gregorio Ruiz, Juan Manuel Moreno, Joan Cabestany:
  Synthesis and Optimization of a Bit-Serial Pipeline Kernel Processor. 801-810
  
• Francisco Colodro Ruiz, Antonio Jesús Torralba Silgado, Ramón González Carvajal, Leopoldo García Franquelo:
  A Hardware Implementation of CNNs Based on Pulse Stream Techniques. 811-816
  
• Bertrand Granado, Patrick Garda:
  Evaluation of the CNAPS Neuro-Computer for the Simulation of MLPs with Receptive Fields. 817-824
  
• Ramón González Carvajal, Antonio Jesús Torralba Silgado, Francisco Colodro Ruiz, Leopoldo García Franquelo:
  AFAN, a Tool for the Automatic Design of Fuzzy and Neural Controllers. 825-833
  
• Francisco Colodro Ruiz, Antonio Jesús Torralba Silgado, Ramón González Carvajal, Leopoldo García Franquelo:
  A Fully Stochastic Fuzzy Logic Controller. 834-840
  
• Abdennasser Chebira, Kurosh Madani, Gilles Mercier:
  Multi-neural Networks Hardware and Software Architecture: Application of the Divide To Simplify Paradigm DTS. 841-850
  
• José Matas, Luis García de Vicuña, Mariano López, Juan Manuel Moreno:
  A Fuzzy Controller for Switching Regulators with Programmable Control Surfaces. 851-860
  

Methodology for Data Analysis, Task Selection and Nets Design

• Marie Cottrell, Patrick Rousset:
  The Kohonen Algorithm: A Powerful Tool for Analyzing and Representing Multidimensional Quantitative and Qualitative Data. 861-871
  
• Anne Guérin-Dugué, Pascal Teissier, Jean-Luc Schwartz, Jeanny Hérault:
  Constrained Neural Network for Estimating Sensor Reliability in Sensors Fusion. 872-881
  
• Ignacio Rojas, Olga Valenzuela, Alberto Prieto:
  Statistical Analysis of the Main Parameters in the Definition of Radial Bases Function Networks. 882-891
  
• José R. Álvarez:
  Structural Level Comparison of Two Basic Paradigms in Neural Computation. 892-902
  
• Emilia I. Barakova, Lambert Spaanenburg:
  Symmetry: Between Indecision and Equality of Choice. 903-912
  
• Joachim Utans:
  A Non-convergent On-Line Training Algorithm for Neural Networks. 913-921
  
• Juan Manuel Moreno, Jordi Madrenas, Joan Cabestany, J. R. Laúna:
  Using Classical and Evolutive Neural Models in Industrial Applications: A Case Study for an Automatic Coin Classifier. 922-931
  
• Joaquín Dopazo, Huaichun Wang, José María Carazo:
  A New Type of Unsupervised Growing Neural Network for Biological Sequence Classification That Adopts the Topology of a Phylogenetic Tree. 932-941
  
• Emma Braithwaite, Jimmy Dripps, Andrew Lyon, Alan F. Murray:
  Classification of the Onset of Respiratory Difficulties in Ventilation Assisted Neonates. 942-951
  
• Vicente Moret-Bonillo, Jorge Díaz-Fernández, Elena Hernández-Pereira:
  A Neural Network Approach for Symbolic Interpretation in Critical Care. 952-961
  
• Richard J. Duro, José Santos Reyes:
  ECG Beat Classification with Synaptic Delay Based Artificial Neural Networks. 962-970
  
• Fidimahery Andrianasy, Maurice Milgram:
  Neural Network-Based Insulin Infusion Control for an Insulin-Pump, Using Discontinuous Blood Glucose Measurements. 971-977
  
• Ll. Porta, Rosa Villa, Luis Prieto, E. Andia, Elena Valderrama:
  Infraclinic Breast Carcinoma: Application of Neural Networks Techniques for the Indication of Radioguided Biopsias. 978-985
  
• Mario Reyes de los Mozos, Elena Valderrama, Rosa Villa, J. Roig, Alfonso Antón, José Carlos Pastor Jimeno:
  Detection of Glaucoma by Means on ANNs. 986-994
  
• Amparo Alonso-Betanzos, Eduardo Mosqueira-Rey, Belén Baldonedo del Río:
  A Comparative Analysis of the Neonatal Prognosis Problem Using Artificial Neural Networks, Statistical Techniques and Certainty Management Techniques. 995-1004
  

Neural Networks for Perception

• Reinhard Eckhorn:
  Models of Visual Processing Derived from Cortical Microelectrode Recordings. 1005-1027
  
• Michael H. W. Smart:
  Rotation Invariant IR Object Recognition Using Adaptive Kernel Subspace Projections with a Neural Network. 1028-1037
  
• Gonzalo Joya Caparrós, Francisco Sandoval Hernández:
  Neural Networks Based Projectivity Invariant Recognition of Flat Patterns. 1038-1047
  
• Lambert Spaanenburg, J. deGraaf, J. A. G. Nijhuis, H. Stevens, W. Wichers:
  The Instant Laboratory: Bringing Intelligence to the Workfloor. 1048-1057
  
• José Manuel Ferrández de Vicente, D. del Valle, María Victoria Rodellar Biarge, Pedro Gómez Vilda:
  A Biological Front-End Processing for Speech Recognition. 1058-1067
  
• Gustavo Hernández Ábrego, Enrique Monte, José B. Mariño:
  Non Parametric Coding of Speech by Means of a MLP with Hints. 1068-1074
  
• Abderrahim Labbi, Ruggero Milanese, Holger Bosch:
  Gray-Level Object Segmentation with a Network of FitzHugh-Nagumo Oscillators. 1075-1084
  
• Cristian Croll, Denis Pellerin, Jeanny Hérault:
  Multidimensional Filtering Inspired by Retino-cortical Projection: Application to Texture Segmentation. 1085-1094
  
• Alberto Prieto, Carlos García Puntonet, Beatriz Prieto, Manuel Rodríguez Álvarez:
  A Competitive Neural Network for Blind Separation of Sources Based on Geometric Properties. 1095-1106
  
• Chang-Han Yi, Robert Schlabbach, Holger Kroth, Heinrich Klar:
  A New Bio-inspired Algorithm for Early Vision Edge Detection and Image Segmentation. 1107-1114
  
• Naohiro Ishii, Ken-ichi Naka:
  Function of Biological Asymmetrical Neural Networks. 1115-1125
  
• Paul M. Hofman, A. John van Opstal:
  Identification of Spectral Features as Sound Localization Cues in the External Ear Acoustics. 1126-1135
  
• Felix Freitag, Enrique Monte:
  Phoneme Recognition by Means of Predictive Neural Networks. 1136-1143
  
• Yonggwan Won, Bae-Ho Lee, Yong-Chang Baek, Jung-Soo Lee:
  Shift-Invariant Fuzzy-Morphology Neural Network for Occluded Target Recognition. 1144-1153
  
• Marcos Faúndez-Zanuy, Enrique Monte, Francesc Vallverdú:
  A Comparative Study Between Linear and Nonlinear Speech Prediction. 1154-1163
  
• Peter Kalocsai:
  Recognition Model with Extension Fields. 1164-1173
  
• Juan J. Merelo Guervós, Alberto Prieto, Federico Morán, Roberto Marabini, José María Carazo:
  A GA-optimized Neural Network for Classification of Biological Particles from Electron-Microscopy Images. 1174-1182
  
• Jesús Brezmes Llecha, Nicolau Cañellas Alberich, Eduard Llobet Valero, Xavier Vilanova Salas, Xavier Correig Blanchar:
  Application of Artificial Neural Networks to the Design and Implementation of Electronic Olfactory Systems. 1183-1192
  
• David López Vilariño, Diego Cabello, Antonio Mosquera González, Xosé Manuel Pardo López:
  Application of a Multilayer Discrete-Time CNN to Deformable Models. 1193-1202
  
• Francisco Díaz Pérez, José Manuel Ferrández de Vicente, Pedro Gómez Vilda, María Victoria Rodellar Biarge, Victor Nieto Lluis:
  Spoken-Digit Recognition Using Self-Organizing Maps with Perceptual Pre-processing. 1203-1212
  

Neural Networks for Communications, Control and Robotics

• Carlos Santa Cruz, José R. Dorronsoro, Juan A. Sigüenza, Vicente López:
  Noise Discrimination and Autoassociative Neural Networks. 1213-1220
  
• Julio Ortega, Luis Parrilla, Alberto Prieto, Antonio Lloris-Ruíz, Carlos García Puntonet:
  Modified Boltzmann Machine for an Efficient Distributed Implementation. 1221-1232
  
• Arcadio Reyes, Eduardo Casilari, Antonio Díaz Estrella, Francisco Sandoval Hernández:
  Simulation of MPEG Video Traffic Using Neural Networks. 1233-1240
  
• Héctor M. Pérez Meana, Mariko Nakano-Miyatake:
  A Continuous Time Structure for Filtering and Prediction Using Hopfield Neural Networks. 1241-1250
  
• Andrés Pérez-Uribe, Eduardo Sanchez:
  Structure-Adaptable Neurocontrollers: A Hardware-Friendly Approach. 1251-1259
  
• C. García-Berdonés, J. Narváez, U. Fernández, Francisco Sandoval Hernández:
  A New QRS Detector Based on Neural Network. 1260-1269
  
• O. Bella, C. Cortés, A. Tomás:
  Application of Neural Networks for Local Modelization of the Boiler Furnace in Thermal Power Plants. 1270-1278
  
• Frank Pasemann, Ulf Dieckmann:
  Evolved Neurocontrollers for Pole-Balancing. 1279-1287
  
• Pedro Hernández-Arauzo, Secundino López-García, Antonio Bahamonde:
  Artificial Neural Networks for the Computation of Traffic Queues. 1288-1297
  
• Pedro Isasi, José M. Molina López, Araceli Sanchis de Miguel:
  Unsupervised Neural Network for Forecasting Alarms in Hydroelectric Power Plant. 1298-1306
  
• Torsten Felzer, Peter Hartmann, Karlheinz Hohm, Peter Marenbach:
  Motor Sequence Processing with an Artificial Learning System. 1307-1314
  
• Rafael L. Millán, José Manuel Quero Reboul, Leopoldo García Franquelo:
  On-line Continuous Weld Monitoring Using Neural Networks. 1315-1323
  
• Pedro Martín, José del R. Millán:
  Combining Reinforcement Learning and Differential Inverse Kinematics for Collision-Free Motion of Multilink Manipulators. 1324-1333
  
• Francisco Javier Marín Martín, Francisco Sandoval Hernández:
  Short-Term Peak Load Forecasting: Statistical Methods Versus Artificial Neural Networks. 1334-1343
  
• Enrique Cervera, Angel P. Del Pobil:
  Integration of Self-Organizing Feature Maps and Reinforcement Learning in Robotics. 1344-1354
  
• Ulrich Roth, Marc Walker, Arne Hilmann, Heinrich Klar:
  Dynamic Path Planning with Spiking Neural Networks. 1355-1363
  
• Roberto Iglesias, Carlos V. Regueiro, José Correa, Senén Barro:
  Implementation of a Basic Reactive Behavior in Mobile Robotics Through Artificial Neural Networks. 1364-1373
  
• Ghislain de Tremiolles, Pascal Tannhof, Brendan Plougonven, Claude Demarigny, Kurosh Madani:
  Visual Probe Mark Inspection, Using Hardware Implementation of Artificial Neural Networks, in VLSI Production. 1374-1383
  
• José M. Ramírez:
  Teleoreactive Neural Networks. 1384-1394