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                                      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