Neural Nets: 13th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets, WIRN VIETRI 2002 Vietri sul Mare, Italy, May 30 – June 1, 2002 Revised Papers

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 13th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets, WIRN VIETRI 2002, held in Vietri sul Mare, Italy in May/June 2002. The 21 revised full papers presented together with three invited papers were carefully reviewed and revised during two rounds of selection and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on architectures and algorithms, image and signal processing applications, and learning in neural networks. Ensembles of Learning Machines....Pages 3-20 Learning Preference Relations from Data....Pages 23-32 Increasing the Biological Inspiration of Neural Networks....Pages 35-43 Hybrid Automatic Trading Systems: Technical Analysis & Group Method of Data Handling....Pages 47-55 Interval TOPSIS for Multicriteria Decision Making....Pages 56-63 A Distributed Algorithm for Max Independent Set Problem Based on Hopfield Networks....Pages 64-74 Extended Random Neural Networks....Pages 75-82 Generalized Independent Component Analysis as Density Estimation....Pages 83-89 Spline Recurrent Neural Networks for Quad-Tree Video Coding....Pages 90-98 MLP Neural Network Implementation on a SIMD Architecture....Pages 99-106 A New Approach to Detection of Muscle Activation by Independent Component Analysis and Wavelet Transform....Pages 109-116 Learning to Balance Upright Posture: What can be Learnt Using Adaptive NN Models?....Pages 117-123 Detection of Facial Features....Pages 124-131 A Two Stage Neural Architecture for Segmentation and Superquadrics Recovery from Range Data....Pages 132-139 Automatic Discrimination of Earthquakes and False Events in Seismological Recording for Volcanic Monitoring....Pages 140-145 A Comparison of Signal Compression Methods by Sparse Solution of Linear Systems....Pages 146-151 Fuzzy Time Series for Forecasting Pollutants Concentration in the Air....Pages 152-159 Real-Time Perceptual Coding of Wideband Speech by Competitive Neural Networks....Pages 160-167 Sound Synthesis by Flexible Activation Function Recurrent Neural Networks....Pages 168-177 Mathematical Modelling of Generalization....Pages 181-189 Structural Complexity and Neural Networks....Pages 190-216 Bayesian Learning Techniques: Application to Neural Networks with Constraints on Weight Space....Pages 216-232 A Short Review of Statistical Learning Theory....Pages 233-242 Increasing the Biological Inspiration of Neural Networks....Pages 243-252

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 13th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets, WIRN VIETRI 2002, held in Vietri sul Mare, Italy in May/June 2002.
The 21 revised full papers presented together with three invited papers were carefully reviewed and revised during two rounds of selection and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on architectures and algorithms, image and signal processing applications, and learning in neural networks.

Compiled from the post-proceedings of the 13th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets, this book contains 21 revised full papers and three invited papers. They are organized in topical sections on architectures and algorithms, image and signal processing applications, and learning in neural networks.