Neural Nets WIRN VIETRI-98

Section 1 - Marco Protasi Lectures.- In Memory of Marco Protasi.- Computational Suspiciousness of Learning in Artificial Neural Nets.- Section 2 - Invited Papers.- Software Foundation Libraries for Intelligent Systems.- Theoretical Approaches to On-Line Learning in Smooth Multilayer Nets.- Section 3 - Review Paper.- Combining Neural Networks Hidden Markov Models for Speech Recognition.- Section 4 - Eduardo R. Caianiello Lecture.- Cellular Neural Networks: An Approach to Circuit Design Information Processing.- Section 5 - Mathematical Models.- Correlation Collapse Under Persistent Input Derangement in the Nervous System. Fitting pRAM Models for Thalamo-Cortical Circuits.- A New Incremental Strategy for Function Approximation by Radial Basis Function Neural Networks.- Soft-Competitive Versus EM Learning in Cortical Map Modeling.- Spatio-Temporal Cortical Activity Patterns in Cognitive Tasks Using fMRI.- Support Vector Machine for Nonparametric Binary Hypothesis Testing.- Learning the Amplitude of Activation Functions in Layered Networks.- The BRAIN Learning Algorithm.- Training Data Selection for Optimal Generalization with Noise Variance Reduction in Neural Networks.- Section 6 - Pattern Recognition and Signal Processing.- Astronomical Object Recognition by Means of Neural Networks.- Learning to Balance a Pole on a Movable Cart Through RL: What Can Be Gained Using Adaptive NN?.- Mean-Field Neural Networks for Antenna Array Diagnostics.- Intitial Letter Spotting as a Complementary Feature for Lexical Filtering of Cursive Words.- Visual Person Localization with Dynamic Neural Fields: Towards a Gesture Recognition System.- Phoneme Classification Using a Rasta-PLP Preprocessing Algorithm and a Time Delay Neural Network: Performance Studies.- A Neural System forRemote Sensing Multispectral Image Classification.- Invariance of WNNs Performance for Pattern Recognition Testing Translated Image Input Spaces.- The CALMA Project: Computer Assisted Library for MAmmography.-