Advances in Neural Network Research and Applications (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, 67)

This book is a part of the Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2010), held on June 6-9, 2010 in Shanghai, China. Over the past few years, ISNN has matured into a well-established premier international symposium on neural networks and related fields, with a successful sequence of ISNN series in Dalian (2004), Chongqing (2005), Chengdu (2006), Nanjing (2007), Beijing (2008), and Wuhan (2009). Following the tradition of ISNN series, ISNN 2010 provided a high-level international forum for scientists, engineers, and educators to present the state-of-the-art research in neural networks and related fields, and also discuss the major opportunities and challenges of future neural network research. Over the past decades, the neural network community has witnessed significant breakthroughs and developments from all aspects of neural network research, including theoretical foundations, architectures, and network organizations, modeling and simulation, empirical studies, as well as a wide range of applications across different domains. The recent developments of science and technology, including neuroscience, computer science, cognitive science, nano-technologies and engineering design, among others, has provided significant new understandings and technological solutions to move the neural network research toward the development of complex, large scale, and networked brain-like intelligent systems. This long-term goals can only be achieved with the continuous efforts from the community to seriously investigate various issues on neural networks and related topics.

This book is a part of the Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2010), held on June 6-9, 2010 in Shanghai, China. ISNN 2010 received numerous submissions from about thousands of authors in about 40 countries and regions across six continents . Based on the rigorous peer-reviews by the program committee members and the reviewers, 108 high-quality papers were selected for publications in Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE) Proceedings. These papers cover all major topics of the engineering designs and applications of neural network research. In addition to the contributed papers, the ISNN 2010 technical program included four plenary speeches by Andrzej Cichocki (RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan), Chin-Teng Lin (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan), DeLiang Wang (Ohio State University, USA), Gary G. Yen (Oklahoma State University, USA).