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IWANN2001

6th INTERNATIONAL WORK-CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL AND NATURAL NEURAL NETWORKS

Biological and Artificial Computation: Methodologies, Neural Modeling and Bioengineering Applications.

FINAL PROGRAM

Granada, Spain.

June 13-15, 2001.

Organized by

Dpto. Inteligencia Artificial. Univ. Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED).

Dpto. Arquitectura y Tecnología de Computadores. Univ. de Granada (UGR).

Contact URL http://iwann.dia.uned.es/iwann2001/

DETAILED SESSIONS

• Session: Plenary I  June, 13   10:00-11:00   Room: A
  ``Dendrites: the Last-Generation Computers'' (I-1)
  Oscar Herreras, J. M. Ibarz, L. López-Aguado, Pablo Varona
  Chair: José Mira
  
• Session: Neural Modelling I  June, 13   11:30-13:10   Room: A
  Chair: Oscar Herreras
  Co-Chair: José Mira
  • ``A Neural Network Model of Working Memory: Processing of 'What' and 'Where' Information '' (I-122)
    Tetsuto Minami, Toshio Inui
  • ``A cuneate-based network and its application as a spatio-temporal filter in mobile robotics'' (II-418)
    Eduardo Sánchez Vila, Manuel Mucientes Molina, Senen Barro Ameneiro
  • ``Algorithmic extraction of morphological statistics from electronic archives of neuroanatomy'' (I-30)
    Ruggero Scorcioni, Giorgio A. Ascoli
  • ``What can we Compute with Lateral Inhibition Circuits?'' (I-38)
    José Mira, Ana E. Delgado García
  • ``Neuronal Models With Current Inputs'' (I-47)
    Jianfeng Feng
  
  
• Session: Hybrid  June, 13   11:30-13:10   Room: B
  Chair: Christian W. Omlin
  Co-Chair: José Ramón Álvarez-Sánchez
  • ``DIAGEN-WebDB: A Connectionist Approach to Medical Knowledge Representation and Inference'' (I-769)
    José Mira, Rafael Martínez Tomás, José Ramón Álvarez-Sánchez, Ana E. Delgado García
  • ``Automatic symbolic modelling of co-evolutionarily learned robot skills'' (I-795)
    Agapito Ismael Ledezma Espino, Antonio Berlanga de Jesús, Ricardo Aler
  • ``An Integration Principle for Multimodal Sensor Data Based on Temporal Coherence of Self-Organized Patterns.'' (II-55)
    Emilia I. Barakova
  • ``Knowledge-Based Neural Networks for Modelling Time Series'' (II-579)
    Jacobus van Zyl, Christian W. Omlin
  
  
• Session: Robotics I  June, 13   11:30-13:10   Room: C
  ``Autonomous Mobile Robotics''
  Organizer & Chair: Dario Maravall
  Co-Chair: Changjiu Zhou
  • ``Landmark Recognition for Autonomous Navigation Using Odometric Information and a Network of Perceptrons'' (II-451)
    Javier de Lope, Dario Maravall
  • ``Topological Maps for Robot´s Navigation: A Conceptual Approach'' (II-459)
    Félix de la Paz López, José Ramón Álvarez-Sánchez
  • ``Information Integration for Robot Learning Using Neural Fuzzy Systems'' (II-468)
    Changjiu Zhou, Yanseng Yang, J. Kanniah
  • ``Incorporating Perception-based Information in Reinforcement Learning Using Computing with Words'' (II-476)
    Changjiu Zhou, Yanseng Yang, Xinle Jia
  • ``Cellular Neural Networks for Mobile Robot Vision'' (II-484)
    Marco Balsi, Alessandro Maraschini, Giada Apicella, Sonia Luengo , Jordi Solsona Pallarès, Xavier Vilasís Cardona
  
  
• Session: Neural Modelling II  June, 13   15:00-17:00   Room: A
  Chair: Igor A. Shevelev
  Co-Chair: Jose Manuel Ferrández
  • ``Decoding the Population Responses of Retinal Ganglions Cells using Information Theory'' (I-55)
    Jose Manuel Ferrández, Markus Bongard, Francisco Garcia de Quiros, Jose Angel Bolea, Josef Ammermüller, Richardd Normann, Eduardo Fernandez
  • ``Numerical study of effects of co-transmission by substance P and acetylcholine on synaptic plasticity in myenteric neurons'' (I-63)
    Roustem Miftakhov, James Christensen
  • ``Sensitivity of simulated striate neurons to cross-like stimuli based on disinhibitory mechanism'' (I-81)
    Konstantin A. Saltykov, Igor A. Shevelev
  • ``Synchronisation mechanisms in neuronal networks'' (I-87)
    Santi Chillemi, Michele Barbi, Angelo Di Garbo
  • ``Detection of Oriented Repetitive Alternating Patterns in Color Images -A Computational Model of Monkey Grating Cells'' (I-95)
    Tino Lourens, Hiroshi G. Okuno, Hiroaki Kitano
  • ``Orientation Selectivity of Intracortical Inhibitory Cells in the Striate Visual Cortex: A Computational Theory and a Neural Circuitry'' (I-130)
    Mehdi N. Shirazi
  
  
• Session: Formal Models I  June, 13   15:00-17:00   Room: B
  Chair: Karl Goser
  Co-Chair: Juan Castellanos
  • ``A Recurrent Multivalued Neural Network for the N-queens Problem.'' (I-519)
    Enrique Mérida Casermeiro, José Muñoz-Pérez, Rafaela Benitez Rochel
  • ``Studying Neural Networks of Bifurcating Recursive Processing Elements - Quantitative Methods for Architecture Design and Performance Analysis'' (I-543)
    Emilio Del Moral Hernandez
  • ``Topology-preserving elastic nets'' (I-551)
    Valery Tereshko
  • ``Optimization with Linear Constraints in the Neural Network'' (I-558)
    Mikiya Oota, Naohiro Ishii, Kouichiro Yamauchi, Mayumi Nakamura
  • ``Study of Chaos in a Simple Discrete Recurrence Neural Network'' (I-576)
    Jose D. Piñeiro Vera, Roberto Marichal, Lorenzo Moreno, José Sigut, Evelio José González
  • ``Solving NP-Complete Problems With Networks of Evolutionary Processors'' (I-618)
    Juan Castellanos, Carlos Martin-Vide, Victor Mitrana, Jose M. Sempere
  
  
• Session: Cognitive I  June, 13   15:00-17:00   Room: C
  Chair: Igor Aleksander
  Co-Chair: J G (Iain) Wallace
  • ``Seeing is Believing:Depictive Neuromodelling of Visual Awareness '' (I-762)
    Igor Aleksander, Helen Morton, Barry Dunmall
  • ``Conceptual Spaces as Voltage Maps'' (I-779)
    Janet Aisbett
  • ``ANNs and the Neural Basis for General Intelligence'' (I-803)
    J G (Iain) Wallace, Kevin Bluff
  • ``Conjecturing the Cognitive Plausibility of an ANN Theorem-Prover'' (I-818)
    Iara Moema Oberg Vilela, Priscila Machado Vieira Lima
  • ``Using Contextual Information To Selectively Adjust Preprocessing Parameters'' (II-696)
    Predrag Neskovic, Leon Cooper
  • ``Knowledge and Intelligence'' (I-810)
    Juan Carlos Herrero González
  
  
• Session: Formal Models II  June, 13   17:30-18:50   Room: A
  Chair: Shun-ichi Amari
  Co-Chair: José Félix Costa
  • ``Interpreting Neural Networks in the frame of the Logic of Lukasiewicz'' (I-138)
    Claudio Moraga, Luis Salinas
  • ``Verifying Properties of Neural Networks'' (I-154)
    Pedro Rodrigues, José Félix Costa, Hava Siegelmann
  • ``The General Neural-Network Paradigm for Visual Cryptography'' (I-192)
    Tai-Wen Yue, Suchen Chiang
  • ``Generalization Error and Training Error at Singularities of Multilayer Perceptrons'' (I-321)
    Shun-ichi Amari, Tomoko Ozeki, Hyeyoung Park
  
  
• Session: Functional Networks  June, 13   17:30-18:50   Room: B
  ``Functional Networks''
  Organizer & Chair: Amparo Alonso Betanzos
  Co-Chair: Enrique Castillo Ron
  • ``A measure of noise immutity for functional networks'' (I-289)
    Enrique Castillo Ron, Oscar Fontenla Romero, Bertha Guijarro Berdiñas, Amparo Alonso Betanzos
  • ``A Functional-Neural Network for Post-Nonlinear Independent Component Analysis'' (I-297)
    Oscar Fontenla Romero, Bertha Guijarro Berdiñas, Amparo Alonso Betanzos
  • ``Optimal Modular Feedfroward Neural Nets based on Functional Network Architectures'' (I-304)
    Antonio S. Cofiño, José Manuel Gutiérrez
  • ``Optimal Transformations in Multiple Linear Regression Using Functional Networks'' (I-312)
    Enrique Castillo Ron, Ali S. Hadi, Beatriz Lacruz Casaucau
  
  
• Session: Medical Images  June, 13   17:30-18:50   Room: C
  Chair: Christian Mies
  Co-Chair: L. Hamami
  • ``An automatic system for the location of the optic nerve head from 2D images'' (II-319)
    Margarita Bachiller Mayoral, Mariano Rincón Zamorano, José Mira, Julian García Feijó
  • ``Can ICA Help Classify Skin Cancer And Benign Lesions?'' (II-328)
    Christian Mies, Christoph Bauer, Guenther Ackermann, Wolfgang Baeumler, Christoph Abels, Carlos Garcia Puntonet, Elmar Wolfgang Lang, Manuel Rodríguez Alvarez
  • ``An Approach Fractal and Analysis of Variogram for Edge Detection of Biomedical Images'' (II-336)
    L. Hamami, N. Lassouaoui
  • ``Foetal Age and Weight Determination Using a Lateral Interaction Inspired Net'' (II-660)
    Antonio Fernández-Caballero, José Mira, Francisco Javier Gómez, Miguel Angel Fernández
  
  
• Session: Posters  June, 13   18:50-20:10   Room: P
  Chair: Dario Maravall
  Co-Chair: Jose Dorronsoro
  • ``Neurobiological Modeling of Bursting Response during Visual Attention'' (I-72)
    Reza Rajimehr, Leila Montaser Kouhsari
  • ``Time-Dispersive Effects in the J. Gonzalo's Research on Cerebral Dynamics'' (I-146)
    Isabel Gonzalo Fonrodona, Miguel Angel Porras Borrego
  • ``Algorithms and Implementation Architectures for Hebbian Neural Networks'' (I-162)
    J. Andrés Berzal Fernández, Pedro J. Zufiria
  • ``Two Dimensional Evaluation Reinforcement Learning'' (I-367)
    Hiroyuki Okada, Hiroshi Yamakawa, Takashi Omori
  • ``Comparing the Learning Processes of Cognitive Distance Learning and Search based Agent'' (I-375)
    Hiroshi Yamakawa, Yuji Miyamoto, Hiroyuki Okada
  • ``Practical Consideration on Generalization Property of Natural Gradient Learning'' (I-399)
    Hyeyoung Park
  • ``Analysis of Scaling Exponents of Waken and Sleeping Stage in EEG'' (I-447)
    Jong-Min Lee, Dae-Jin Kim, In-Young Kim, Sun I. Kim
  • ``A Comparison of Several Evolutionary Heuristics for the Frequency Assignment Problem'' (I-471)
    Carlos Cotta, José María Troya
  • ``Richer Network Dynamics of Intrinsically Non-Regular Neurons Measured through Mutual Information'' (I-487)
    Francisco de Borja Rodríguez Ortiz, Pablo Varona, Ramón Huerta, Mikhail I. Rabinovich, Henry D. I. Abarbanel
  • ``RBF Neural Networks, Multiobjective Optimization and Time Series Forecasting'' (I-495)
    Jesús González, Ignacio Rojas Ruiz, Héctor Pomares, Julio Ortega Lopera
  • ``Evolving RBF Neural Networks'' (I-503)
    Victor Manuel Rivas Santos, Pedro A. Castillo Valdivieso, Juan J. Merelo Guervós
  • ``A Novel Approach to Self-Adaptation of Neuro-Fuzzy Controllers in Real Time'' (I-527)
    Héctor Pomares, Ignacio Rojas Ruiz, Jesús González, Miguel Damas Hermoso
  • ``Expert Mutation Operators for the Evolution of Radial Basis Function Neural Networks'' (I-535)
    Jesús González, Ignacio Rojas Ruiz, Héctor Pomares, Moisés Salmerón
  • ``Optimizing RBF Networks with Cooperative/Competitive Evolution of Units and Fuzzy Rules'' (I-567)
    Antonio Jesús Rivera Rivas, Julio Ortega Lopera, Ignacio Rojas Ruiz, Alberto Prieto Espinosa
  • ``Using SOM for Neural Network Visualization'' (I-626)
    Gustavo Romero López, Pedro A. Castillo Valdivieso, Juan J. Merelo Guervós, Alberto Prieto Espinosa
  • ``Determining Hyper-Planes to Generate Symbolic Rules'' (I-787)
    Guido Bologna
  • ``NeuSim: A Modular Neural Networks Simulator for Beowulf Clusters'' (II-72)
    Carlos J. García Orellana, Ramón Gallardo Caballero, Horacio M. González Velasco, Francisco J. López Aligué
  • ``Extension of HUMANN for dealing with noise and with classes of different shape and size: A parametric study'' (II-96)
    Patricio García Báez, Carmen Paz Suárez Araujo, Pablo Fernández López
  • ``Assesing the Noise Immunity of Radial Basis Function Neural Networks'' (II-136)
    José Luis Bernier, Jesús González, Antonio Cañas, Julio Ortega Lopera
  • ``Analyzing Boltzmann Machine Parameters for Fast Convergence'' (II-144)
    Francisco Javier Salcedo, Julio Ortega Lopera, Alberto Prieto Espinosa
  • ``Dynamic Topology Networks for Colour Image Compression'' (II-168)
    Ezequiel López-Rubio, José Muñoz-Pérez, Jose Antonio Gómez Ruiz
  • ``Image Restoration Using Neural Networks'' (II-227)
    Souheila Ghennam, Khier Benmahammed
  • ``Image Quality Enhancement for Liquid Bridge Parameter Estimation with DTCNN'' (II-246)
    Miguel A. Jaramillo-Morán, J. Álvaro Fernández, José M. Montanero, Fernando Zayas
  • ``Some examples for solving Clinical Problems using Neural Networks.'' (II-345)
    Antonio José Serrano López, Emilio Soria Olivas, Gustavo A. Camps i Valls, José David Martín Guerrero, N. Victor Jiménez
  • ``Medical Images Analysis: An Application of Artificial Neural Networks in The Diagnosis of Human Tissues'' (II-353)
    Elias Restum Antonio, Luiz, Neto Biondi, Vincenzo De Roberto, Fernando Hideo Fukuda
  • ``Detection of Microcalcifications in Mammograms by the Combination of a Neural Detector and Multiscale Feature Enhancement'' (II-385)
    Diego Andina de la Fuente, Antonio Vega Corona
  • ``Early detection and diagnosis of faults in an AC motor using neuro fuzzy techniques: FasArt+ Fuzzy k nearest neighbors'' (II-571)
    Javier Juez Santamaría, Gregorio Ismael Sainz Palmero, Eduardo Julio Moya de la Torra, Jose Ramón Perán González
  • ``Using Artificial Neural Network to Define Fuzzy Comparators in FSQL with the Criterion of some Decision-Maker'' (II-587)
    Ramón Carrasco, José Galindo, Amparo Vila
  • ``Blind Source Separation in the Frequency Domain: A Novel Solution to the Amplitude and the Permutation Indeterminacies'' (II-603)
    Adriana Dapena, Luis Castedo Ribas
  • ``Real-time Wavelet Transform for Image Processing on the Cellular Neural Network Universal Machine'' (II-636)
    Victor M. Preciado
  • ``Inference of Stochastic Regular Languages through Simple Recurrent Networks with Time Dealys'' (II-671)
    Gustavo A. Casañ Núñez, M. Asunción Castaño Alvarez
  • ``Wood Texture Analysis by Combining the Connected Elements Histogram and Artificial Neural Networks'' (II-160)
    Miguel Angel Patricio Guisado, Dario Maravall
  
  
  
• Session: Plenary II  June, 14   09:00-10:00   Room: A
  ``Mutual Inhibition in Neural Networks'' -
  John Rinzel
  Chair: J. V. Sánchez-Andrés
  
• Session: Plenary III  June, 14   10:00-11:00   Room: A
  ``Design and Codesign of Neuro-Fuzzy Hardware'' (II-14)
  Leonardo Maria Reyneri
  Chair: Alberto Prieto Espinosa
  
• Session: Learning I  June, 14   11:30-13:10   Room: A
  ``Kernel Machines. Kernel-based Learning Methods''
  Organizer & Chair: Andreu Català Mallofré
  Co-Chair: J. Cabestany
  • ``STAR - Sparsity Through Automated Rejection'' (I-650)
    Robert Burbidge, Matthew W. B. Trotter, Bernard Buxton, Sean B Holden
  • ``Ordinal Regression with K-SVCR Machines'' (I-658)
    Cecilio Angulo Bahón, Andreu Català Mallofré
  • ``Large Margin Nearest Neighbor Classifiers'' (I-666)
    Sergio Bermejo , J. Cabestany
  • ``Reduced Support Vector Selection by Linear Programs'' (I-674)
    Winfried A. Fellenz
  • ``Edge Detection in Noisy Images Using the Support Vector Machines'' (I-682)
    Hilario Gómez-Moreno, Saturnino Maldonado-Bascón, Francisco López Ferreras
  
  
• Session: Genetic Algorithms I  June, 14   11:30-13:10   Room: B
  Chair: Xavier Blasco Ferragud
  Co-Chair: Pedro Isasi
  • ``Model Based Predictive Control using Genetic algorithms. Application to greenhouses climate control.'' (I-454)
    Xavier Blasco Ferragud, Miguel Andres Martinez Iranzo, Juan S. Senent Español, Javier Sanchis Saez
  • ``Nonlinear Parametric Model Identification with Genetic Algorithms. Application to a Thermal Process.'' (I-463)
    Xavier Blasco Ferragud, Juan Manuel Herrero Durá, Miguel Andres Martinez Iranzo, Juan S. Senent Español
  • ``GA techniques applied to contour search in images of bovine livestock'' (I-479)
    Horacio M. González Velasco, Carlos J. García Orellana, Miguel Macías Macías, M. Isabel Acevedo Sotoca
  • ``Evolutionary Cellular Configurations for Designing Feed-Forward Neural Networks Architectures'' (I-511)
    German Gutierrez Sanchez, Pedro Isasi, José Manuel Molina López, Araceli Sanchis de Miguel, Inés María Galván
  • ``Genetic Algorithm versus Scatter Search and Solving Hard MAX-W-SAT Problems'' (I-583)
    Habiba Drias
  
  
• Session: Robotics II  June, 14   11:30-13:10   Room: C
  ``Neural Computation in Robotics''
  Organizer & Chair: Carolina Chang
  Co-Chair: Jose M. Ramirez
  • ``Learning to predict variable-delay rewards and its role in autonomous developmental robotics'' (II-492)
    Andres Perez-Uribe, Michele Courant
  • ``Robust chromatic identification and Tracking'' (II-500)
    Jose M. Ramirez, Gianmichele Grittani
  • ``Sequence Learning in Mobile Robots using Avalanche Neural Networks'' (II-508)
    Gerardo Quero, Carolina Chang
  • ``Investigating Active Patern Recognition in an Imitative Game'' (II-516)
    Sorin Moga, Philippe Gaussier, Mathias Quoy
  • ``Towards an on-line neuralconditioning model for mobile robots'' (II-524)
    Erol Sahin
  
  
• Session: Formal Models III  June, 14   15:00-17:00   Room: A
  ``Higher Order Neural Networks''
  Organizer & Chair: José Santos Reyes
  Co-Chair: Richard Duro
  • ``Pi-DTB, Discrete Time Backpropagation with Product Units'' (I-203)
    José Santos Reyes, Richard Duro
  • ``Neocognitron-type Network for Recognizing Rotated and Shifted Patterns with Reduction of Resources'' (I-211)
    Shunji Satoh, Shogo Miyake, Hirotomo Aso
  • ``Classification with Synaptic Radial Basis Units'' (I-219)
    J. David Buldain Pérez
  • ``A Randomized Hypercolumn Model and Gesture Recognition'' (I-231)
    Naoyuki Tsuruta, Yuichiro Yoshiki, Tarek El. Tobely
  • ``Heterogeneous Kohonen Networks'' (I-239)
    Sergio Negri, Lluis Belanche Muñoz
  • ``Divided-Data Analysis in a Financial Case Classification with Multi-dendritic Neural Networks'' (I-249)
    J. David Buldain Pérez
  
  
• Session: Medical Applications  June, 14   15:00-17:00   Room: B
  Chair: J. V. Sánchez-Andrés
  Co-Chair: Hiroyuki Aoki
  • ``Feature Selection, Ranking of Each Feature and Classification for the Diagnosis of Community Acquired Legionella Pneumonia'' (II-361)
    Enric Monte-Moreno, Jordi Solé-Casals, José Antonio Fiz, Nieves Sopena
  • ``Rotation-Invariant Image Association for Endoscopic Positional Identification Using Complex-Valued Associative Memories'' (II-369)
    Hiroyuki Aoki, Eiju Watanabe, Atsushi Nagata, Yukio Kosugi
  • ``A Multi Layer Perceptron Approach for Predicting and Modeling the Dynamical Behavior of Cardiac Ventricular Repolarisation'' (II-377)
    Rajai El Dajani, Maryvonne Miquel, Paul Rubel
  • ``An Auto-learning System for the Classification of Fetal Heart Rate Decelerative Patterns'' (II-393)
    Bertha Guijarro Berdiñas, Amparo Alonso Betanzos, Oscar Fontenla Romero, Olga García Dans, Noelia Sánchez Maroño
  • ``Neuro-Fuzzy Nets in Medical Diagnosis: The DIAGEN Case Study of Glaucoma'' (II-401)
    Enrique J. Carmona Suárez, José Mira, Julian García Feijó, Manuel G. de la Rosa
  
  
• Session: Images I  June, 14   15:00-17:00   Room: C
  ``Application of neural networks in image processing and image recognition''
  Organizer & Chair: Igor Aizenberg
  Co-Chair: J.M. Moreno Aróstegui
  • ``Classification of the Images of Gene Expression Patterns using Neural Networks Based on Multi-Valued Neurons'' (II-219)
    Igor Aizenberg, Ekaterina Myasnikova, Maria Samsonova
  • ``Neural Network Based on Multi-Valued Neurons: Application in Image Recognition, Type of Blur and Blur Parameters Identification '' (II-254)
    Igor Aizenberg, Naum Aizenberg, Constantine Butakoff
  • ``A Comparative Study of ICA Filter Structures Learnt from Natural and Urban Images'' (II-295)
    C. Ziegaus, Elmar Wolfgang Lang
  • ``Neural Edge Detector -a good mimic of conventional one yet robuster against noise-'' (II-303)
    Kenji Suzuki, Isao Horiba, Noboru Sugie
  • ``Neural Networks for Image Restoration from the Magnitude of its Fourier Transform'' (II-311)
    Adrian Burian, Jukka Saarinen, Pauli Kuosmanen
  • ``A Comparative Study of two Neural Models for Cloud Screening of Iberian Peninsula Meteosat Images'' (II-184)
    Miguel Macías Macías, Francisco J. López Aligué, Antonio Serrano Pérez, Antonio Astilleros Vivas
  
  
• Session: Learning II  June, 14   17:30-18:50   Room: A
  Chair: Joern Fischer
  Co-Chair: Marcelino Lazaro
  • ``Bistable Gradient Neural Networks: their Computational Properties'' (I-329)
    Vladimir Chinarov, Michael Menzinger
  • ``Inductive Bias In Recurrent Neural Networks'' (I-336)
    Sean Snyders, Christian W. Omlin
  • ``Accelerating the Convergence of EM-Based Training Algorithms for RBF Networks'' (I-344)
    Marcelino Lazaro, Ignacio Santamaria, Carlos Pantaleon
  • ``Fast function approximation with hierarchical neural networks and their application to a Reinforcement Learning Agent'' (I-360)
    Joern Fischer, Ralph Breithaupt, Mathias Bode
  
  
• Session: ANN-Fuzzy  June, 14   17:30-18:50   Room: B
  ``Artificial Neural Networks and Fuzzy Techniques''
  Organizer & Chair: Jose Manuel Benitez Sanchez
  Co-Chair: Marley Vellasco
  • ``The Hierarchical Neuro-Fuzzy BSP Model: An Application in Electric Load Forecasting'' (I-170)
    Flavio Joaquim de Souza, Marley Vellasco, Marco Aurélio Pacheco
  • ``Neuro-Fuzzy Systems: State-of-the-Art Modeling Techniques'' (I-265)
    Ajith Abraham
  • ``Generating linear regression rules from neural networks using local least squares approximation'' (I-273)
    Rudy Setiono
  • ``Speech Recognition using Fuzzy Second-Order Recurrent Neural Networks'' (I-281)
    A. Blanco, M. Delgado, M. Carmen Pegalajar, Ignacio Requena Ramos
  
  
• Session: Optimisation  June, 14   17:30-18:50   Room: C
  ``Neural networks for optimisation''
  Organizer & Chair: Kate Smith
  Co-Chair: Senen Barro Ameneiro
  • ``Nonlinear system dynamics in the normalisation process of a self-organising neural network for combinatorial optimisation'' (I-730)
    Terence Kwok, Kate Smith
  • ``Continuous function optimisation via gradient descent on a neural network approxmiation function'' (I-738)
    Kate Smith, Gupta Jatinder
  • ``An Evolutionary Algorithm for the Design of Hybrid Fiber Optic-Coaxial Cable Networks in Small Urban Areas'' (I-746)
    Pablo Cortes, Fernando Guerrero, David Canca, Jose Manuel Garcia
  • ``Channel Assignment For Mobile Communications Using Stochastic Chaotic Simulated Annealing'' (I-754)
    Lipo Wang, Sa Li
  
  
• Session: Learning III  June, 14   18:50-20:10   Room: A
  Chair: Jianfeng Feng
  Co-Chair: Andries Petrus Engelbrecht
  • ``Expansive and Competitive Neural Networks'' (I-352)
    Jose Antonio Gómez Ruiz, José Muñoz-Pérez, Ezequiel López-Rubio, Maria Angeles Garcia Bernal
  • ``Selective Learning for Multilayer Feedforward Neural Networks'' (I-383)
    Andries Petrus Engelbrecht
  • ``Novel Training Algorithm Based on Quadratic Optimisation Using Neural Networks'' (I-407)
    Ganesh Arulampalam, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum
  • ``Non-Symmetric Support Vector Machines'' (I-415)
    Jianfeng Feng
  
  
• Session: Simulation  June, 14   18:50-20:10   Room: B
  Chair: Paul Bourret
  Co-Chair: Julio Ortega Lopera
  • ``Curved kernel neural network for functions approximation'' (II-80)
    Paul Bourret, Bruno Pelletier
  • ``Evenet 2000: Designing and Training Arbitrary Neural Networks in Java'' (II-104)
    Evelio José González, Alberto Hamilton, Lorenzo Moreno, José Sigut, Roberto Marichal
  • ``Neyman-Pearson Neural Detectors'' (II-111)
    Diego Andina de la Fuente, José L. Sanz-González
  • ``A penalization criterion based on noise behaviour for model selection'' (II-152)
    Joaquin Pizarro, Pedro L. Galindo, Elisa Guerrero Vázquez, Andrés Yáñez Escolano
  
  
• Session: Images II  June, 14   18:50-20:10   Room: C
  Chair: Pedro Isasi
  Co-Chair: Taichi Hayasaka
  • ``Analysis on the Viewpoint Dependency in 3-D Object Recognition by Support Vector Machines'' (II-176)
    Taichi Hayasaka, Eiichi Ohnishi, Shigeki Nakauchi, Shiro Usui
  • ``A Growing Cell Neural Network Structure for On-line Signature Recognition'' (II-192)
    Karina Toscano-Medina, Gabriel Sanchez-Perez, Mariko Nakano-Miyatake, Héctor Pérez-Meana
  • ``Automatic Generation of Digital Filters by NN Based Learning: An application on Paper Pulp Inspection'' (II-235)
    Pascual Campoy Cervera, David F. Muñoz García, Daniel Peña, José Antonio Calderón Martínez
  • ``Analyzing wavelets components to perform face recognition'' (II-262)
    Pedro Isasi, Manuel Velasco, Javier Segovia
  
  
  
• Session: Plenary IV  June, 15   09:00-10:00   Room: A
  ``From Embryonics to POEtic MAchines'' (II-1)
  Daniel Mange
  Chair: J. Cabestany
  
• Session: Learning IV  June, 15   10:00-11:00   Room: A
  Chair: Jose Dorronsoro
  Co-Chair: Felipe M. G. França
  • ``Natural gradient learning in NLDA networks'' (I-424)
    Jose Dorronsoro, Ana González, Carlos Santa Cruz
  • ``AUTOWISARD: Unsupervised Modes for the WISARD'' (I-432)
    Iuri Wickert, Felipe M. G. França
  • ``Neural Steering: Difficult and Impossible Sequential Problems for Gradient Descent'' (I-439)
    Gordon Milligan, Michael K. Weir, Jonathan P. Lewis
  
  
• Session: Speech Processing I  June, 15   10:00-11:00   Room: B
  ``Nonlinear speech processing (with nnets)''
  Organizer & Chair: Marcos Faundez-Zanuy
  Co-Chair: Jose Dorronsoro
  • ``Nonlinear Synthesis of Vowels in the LP Residual Domain with a Regularized RBF Network'' (II-746)
    Erhard Rank, Gernot Kubin
  • ``Nonlinear vectorial prediction with neural nets'' (II-754)
    Marcos Faundez-Zanuy
  • ``Simultaneous parallel processing of object and position by temporal correlation'' (II-64)
    Luis F. Lago-Fernandez, Gustavo Deco
  
  
• Session: Implementation  June, 15   10:00-11:00   Room: C
  Chair: Daniel Mange
  Co-Chair: Kurosh Madani
  • ``A field-programmable conductance array IC for biological neurons modeling'' (II-31)
    Vincent Douence, Sylvie Renaud-Le Masson, Sylvain Saighi, Gwendal Le Masson
  • ``A 2-by-n Hybrid Cellular Automaton Implementation Using a Bio-Inspired FPGA'' (II-39)
    Hector F. Restrepo, Daniel Mange
  • ``ZISC-036 Neuro-Processor Based Image Processing'' (II-200)
    Kurosh Madani, Ghislain de Trémiolles, Pascal Tannhof
  
  
• Session: SOM  June, 15   11:30-13:10   Room: A
  Chair: Marie Cottrell
  Co-Chair: F.J. Pelayo
  • ``Comparison of supervised self-organizing maps using Euclidian or Mahalanobis distance in classification context'' (I-634)
    françoise Fessant, Patrice Aknin, Latifa Oukhellou, Sophie Midenet
  • ``Distance between Kohonen classes visualization tool to use SOM in data set analysis and representation'' (II-119)
    Patrick Rousset, Christiane Guinot
  • ``Self-Organizing Map for Hyperspectral Image Analysis'' (II-208)
    Pablo Martínez Cobo, Pedro Luis Aguilar Mateos, Rosa M. Pérez Utrero, Marino Linaje Trigueros, Juan Carlos Preciado, Antonio Plaza Miguel
  • ``Autoorganized Structures for extraction of Perceptual Primitives'' (II-628)
    Marta Penas, María J. Carreira, Manuel G. Penedo
  • ``Neural Classification and traditional data analysis: an application to households' living conditions'' (II-738)
    Sophie Ponthieux, Marie Cottrell
  
  
• Session: Evolutionary Comp.  June, 15   11:30-13:10   Room: B
  ``Evolutionary Computation''
  Organizer & Chair: Carlos Cotta
  Co-Chair: Francisco Sandoval
  • ``Initialization in Genetic Algorithms for Constraint Satisfaction Problems'' (I-690)
    Camino Rodriguez Vela, Ramiro Varela Arias, Jorge Puente Peinador
  • ``Evolving High-Posterior Self-Organizing Maps'' (I-698)
    Jorge Muruzábal
  • ``Using Statistical Techniques to Predict GA Performance'' (I-706)
    Rafael Nogueras, Carlos Cotta
  • ``Multilevel GA for the complete development of ANN'' (I-714)
    Julian Dorado, Antonino Santos, Juan R. Rabuñal
  • ``Graph based GP applied to dynamical systems modelling'' (I-722)
    Antonio Miguel López Rodríguez, Hilario López García, Luciano Sanchez
  
  
• Session: Robotics III  June, 15   11:30-13:10   Room: C
  Chair: Leonardo Maria Reyneri
  Co-Chair: Paolo Puliti
  • ``Parametric neurocontroller for positioning of an anthropomorfic finger based on an oponent driven-tendon transmission system'' (II-47)
    Juan Ignacio Mulero Martínez, Jorge Feliú Batlle, Juan López Coronado
  • ``Evolving Brain Structures for Robot Control'' (II-410)
    Frank Pasemann, Ulrich Steinmetz, Martin Huelse, Bruno Lara Guzman
  • ``An application of Fuzzy State Automata: motion control of an hexapod walking machine'' (II-426)
    Daniele Morano, Leonardo Maria Reyneri
  • ``Neural Adaptive Force Control for Compliant Robots'' (II-436)
    Nadia Saadia, Yassine Amirat, Jean Pontnaut , Amar Ramdane-Cherif
  • ``Reactive navigation using reinforment learning techniques in situations of POMDPs.'' (II-444)
    Paolo Puliti, Guido Tascini, Anna Montesanto
  
  
• Session: BSS-ICA I  June, 15   15:00-17:00   Room: A
  ``Blind Source Separation and Independent Component Analysis: from theory to applications I''
  Organizer & Chair: Christian Jutten
  Co-Chair: Juha Karhunen
  • ``Adaptive ICA with Order statistics in Multidmensional Scenarios'' (II-770)
    Yolanda Blanco, Santiago Zazo, José M Páez-Borrallo
  • ``Pattern Repulsion Revistited'' (II-778)
    Fabian J. Theis, Christoph Bauer, Carlos Garcia Puntonet, Elmar Wolfgang Lang
  • ``The minimum entropy and cumulants based contrast functions for blind source extraction'' (II-786)
    Sergio A. Cruces-Alvarez, Andrzej Cichocki, Shun-ichi Amari
  • ``Feature Extraction in Digital Mammography: An Independent Component Analysis Approach'' (II-794)
    Athanasios Koutras, Ioanna Christoyianni, Evangelos Dermatas, George Kokkinakis
  • ``Blind source separation in convolutive mixtures: a hybrid approach for colored sources'' (II-802)
    Frederic Abrard, Yannick Deville
  • ``A Conjugate Gradient Method and Simulated Annealing for Blind Separation of Sources'' (II-810)
    Ruben Martin Clemente, Carlos Garcia Puntonet, Jose I. Acha
  
  
• Session: Formal Models IV  June, 15   15:00-17:00   Room: B
  ``Computational Models''
  Organizer & Chair: Eduardo Sánchez Vila
  Co-Chair: Ernesto Pereda
  • ``Homogeneity in the electrical activity pattern as a function of intercellular coupling in cell networks'' (I-14)
    Etelvina Andreu, R. Pomares, Bernat Soria, J. V. Sánchez-Andrés
  • ``Strategies for the Optimization of Large Scale Networks of Integrate and Fire Neurons'' (I-113)
    Manuel Antonio Sánchez-Montañés Isla
  • ``Synchronization in Brain, Asssessment by Electroencephalographic Signals'' (I-108)
    Ernesto Pereda, Joydeep Bhattacharya
  • ``A realistic Computational Model of the Local Circuitry of the Cuneate Nucleus '' (I-21)
    Eduardo Sánchez Vila, Senen Barro Ameneiro, J. Mariño, Antonio Canedo
  • ``The Chemical Metaphor in Neural Computation'' (I-180)
    J. Barahona da Fonseca, I. Barahona da Fonseca, Carmen Paz Suárez Araujo, J. Simöes da Fonseca
  • ``Connectionist Models of Cortico-Basal Ganglia Adaptive Neural Networks During Learning of Motor Sequential Procedures'' (I-391)
    Javier Molina Vilaplana, Jorge Feliú Batlle, Juan López Coronado
  
  
• Session: Applications I  June, 15   15:00-17:00   Room: C
  Chair: Manuel Graña Romay
  Co-Chair: Moisés Salmerón
  • ``Classification of Specular Object based on Statistical Learning Theory'' (II-555)
    Tae Soo Yun
  • ``A Thermocouple Model Based on Neural Networks'' (II-531)
    Nicolás J. Medrano Marqués, Rafael del Hoyo Alonso, Bonifacio Martín del Brío
  • ``On the application of heteroassociative morphological memories to face localization'' (II-563)
    Bogdan Raducanu, Manuel Graña Romay
  • ``Predictive Classification for Integrated Pest Management by Clustering in NN Output Space'' (II-595)
    Moisés Salmerón, Diego Guidotti, Ruggero Petacchi, Leonardo Maria Reyneri
  • ``Evaluation, Classification and Clustering with Neuro-Fuzzy Techniques in Integrate Pest Management'' (II-611)
    Elena Bellei, Diego Guidotti, Ruggero Petacchi, Leonardo Maria Reyneri, Italo Rizzi
  • ``Inaccessible Parameters Monitoring in Industrial Environment: a Neural Based Approach'' (II-619)
    Kurosh Madani, Ion Berechet
  
  
• Session: BSS-ICA II  June, 15   17:30-18:50   Room: A
  ``Blind Source Separation and Independent Component Analysis: from theory to applications II''
  Organizer & Chair: Christian Jutten
  Co-Chair: Carlos Garcia Puntonet
  • ``Separation of sources based on the partitioning of the space of observations'' (II-762)
    Manuel Rodríguez Alvarez, Carlos Garcia Puntonet, Ignacio Rojas Ruiz
  • ``The problem of overlearning in high-order ICA approaches: analysis and solutions'' (II-818)
    Jaakko Särelä, Ricardo N Vigário
  • ``Equi-convergence Algorithm for blind separation of sources with arbitrary distributions'' (II-826)
    Liqing Zhang, Shun-ichi Amari, Andrzej Cichocki
  • ``Separating convolutive mixtures by mutual information minimization'' (II-834)
    Massoud Babaie-Zadeh, Christian Jutten, Kambiz Nayebi
  
  
• Session: Genetic Algorithms II  June, 15   17:30-18:50   Room: B
  Chair: Michael Franz Affenzeller
  Co-Chair: Nadia Jacoby
  • ``A New Approach to Evolutionary Computation: Segregative Genetic Algorithms (SEGA)'' (I-591)
    Michael Franz Affenzeller
  • ``Evolution of firms in complex worlds: generalized NK model'' (I-599)
    Nadia Jacoby
  • ``Learning Adaptive Parameters with Restricted Genetic Optimization Method'' (I-609)
    Santiago Garrido, Luis Moreno
  • ``Introducing multi-objective optimization in cooperative coevolution of neural networks'' (I-642)
    Nicolás García-Pedrajas, Eloy Sanz-Tapia, Domingo Ortiz-Boyer, César Hervás-Martínez
  
  
• Session: Applications II  June, 15   17:30-18:50   Room: C
  ``Management of Power Electric Networks''
  Organizer & Chair: Gonzalo Joya
  Co-Chair: Francisco Sandoval
  • ``Electric Power System's Stability Assessment and Online-Provision of Control Actions Using Self-Organizing Maps'' (II-704)
    Carsten Leder, Christian Rehtanz
  • ``Neural Networks for Contingency Evaluation and Monitoring in Power Systems'' (II-711)
    Francisco García-Lagos, Gonzalo Joya, Francisco Javier Marín, Francisco Sandoval
  • ``Hybrid Framework for Neuro-Dynamic Programming Application to Water Supply Networks '' (II-719)
    Miguel Damas Hermoso, Moisés Salmerón, Julio Ortega Lopera, Gonzalo Olivares Ruiz
  • ``Classification of disturbances in electrical signals using neural networks'' (II-728)
    Carlos León, Antonio López Ojeda, Juan Carlos Montaño, Iñigo Monedero
  
  
• Session: Speech Processing II  June, 15   18:50-20:10   Room: A
  Chair: Akira Kurematsu
  Co-Chair: Bonifacio Martín del Brío
  • ``Man-Machine Voice Interface Using a Commercially Available Neural Chip'' (II-271)
    Nicolás J. Medrano Marqués, Bonifacio Martín del Brío
  • ``Partial Classification in Speech Recognition Verification'' (II-279)
    Gustavo Hernandez Abrego, Israel Torres Sanchez
  • ``Speaker Recognition Using Gaussian Mixture Model'' (II-287)
    Eric Simancas-Acevedo, Akira Kurematsu, Mariko Nakano-Miyatake, Héctor Pérez-Meana
  
  
• Session: Applications III  June, 15   18:50-20:10   Room: B
  Chair: José Luis Bernier
  Co-Chair: Olga M. Perez
  • ``Optimal Genetic Representation of Complete Strictly-Layered Feedforward Neural Networks'' (II-127)
    Spyros Raptis, Spyros Tzafestas, Hermione Karagianni
  • ``Improving biological sequence property distances using a genetic algorithm'' (II-539)
    Olga M. Perez, Francisco Javier Marín, Oswaldo Trelles
  • ``OBLIC: Classification System using Evolutionary Algorithm'' (II-644)
    Jose Luis Alvarez Macias, Jacinto Mata Vazquez, Jose Cristobal Riquelme Santos
  • ``Character Feature Extraction Using Polygonal Projection Sweep (Contour Detection)'' (II-687)
    Roberto Rodrigues, Gizelle K. Vianna, Antonio C. G. Thomé
  
  
• Session: Applications IV  June, 15   18:50-20:10   Room: C
  Chair: Ajith Abraham
  Co-Chair: Carlos Garcia Puntonet
  • ``Repeated Measures Multiple Comparison Procedures Applied to Model Selection in Neural Networks'' (II-88)
    Elisa Guerrero Vázquez, Andrés Yáñez Escolano, Pedro L. Galindo, Joaquin Pizarro
  • ``Data Mining applied to Irrigation Water Management'' (II-547)
    Juan A. Botia, Antonio F. Gomez Skarmeta, Mercedes Valdés Vela, Antonio Manuel Padilla Urrea
  • ``Is Neural Network a Reliable Forecaster on Earth-A MARS Query!'' (II-679)
    Ajith Abraham, Dan Steinberg
  • ``Design of a Pre-processing Stage for Avoiding the Dependence on TSNR of a Neural Radar Detector'' (II-652)
    Pilar Jarabo Amores, Manuel Rosa Zurera, Francisco López Ferreras
  
  

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