************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS NEUROCOMPUTING An International Journal published by Elsevier Science B.V., vol. 36-41, 24 issues, in 2001 ISNN 0925-2312, URL: http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/neucom Special Issue on Neural Pattern Recognition Paper Submission Deadline: June 30th, 2001 Neural Pattern Recognition has been traditionally considered as an alternative approach to pattern recognition, different from the conventional statistical and structural approaches. There have been much success in practical pattern recognition applications using neural networks including Multilayer Perceptrons, Radial Basis Functions, and Self-Organizing Maps among others. Lately, there has been strong convergence between neural and statistical classifiers, exemplified by algorithms like Bayesian learning, the Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm for mixture modeling, Support Vector Machines (SVM), or Independent Component Analysis (ICA) for feature extraction to mention just a few. The Neurocomputing journal invites original contributions for the forthcoming special issue on Neural Pattern Recognition from a broad scope of areas. Some topics relevant to this special issue include, but are not restricted to: -- Theoretical foundations -- Neural architectures for pattern recognition -- Hybrid recognition systems -- Relationship between neural and statistical classifiers -- Unsupervised learning in feature extraction -- Use of spiking neurons in pattern recognition -- Key applications including classification, clustering, data mining, bioinformatics, speech recognition, character recognition, 3-D object recognition, etc. Please send two hardcopies of the manuscript before June 30th, 2001, to: V. David Sanchez A., Neurocomputing - Editor in Chief - Advanced Computational Intelligent Systems P.O. Box 60130, Pasadena, CA 91116-6130 U.S.A. Street address: 1149 Wotkyns Drive Pasadena, CA 91103 Fax: +1-626-793-5120 Email: vdavidsanchez@earthlink.net including abstract, keywords, a cover page containing the title and author names, corresponding author name's complete address including telephone, fax, and email address, and clear indication to be a submission to the Special Issue on Neural Pattern Recognition. Guest Editors Krzysztof J. Cios University of Colorado at Denver Computer Science and Engineering Department U.S.A. Phone: (303) 556-4314 Fax: (303)556-8369 Email: kcios@carbon.cudenver.edu Kunihiko Fukushima The University of Electro-Communications Dept. of Information and Communication Engineering 1-5-1, Chofugaoka, Chyofu-shi, Tokyo 182-8585 Japan Fax +81-424-43-5291 Email: fukushima@ice.uec.ac.jp Erkki Oja, Helsinki University of Technology. Laboratory of Computer and Information Science P.O. Box 5400, 02015 HUT Finland Phone +358-9-4513265 Fax. +358-9-4513277 Email Erkki.Oja@hut.fi V. David Sanchez A., Neurocomputing - Editor in Chief - Advanced Computational Intelligent Systems P.O. Box 60130 Pasadena, CA 91116-6130 U.S.A. Fax: +1-626-793-5120 Email: vdavidsanchez@earthlink.net