Neural Nets WIRN VIETRI-97 Proceedings of the 9th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets, Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy, 22–24 May 1997

Section 1 - Invited Paper.- Latent Variables, Topographic Mappings and Data Visualization.- Section 2 - Review Papers.- Fuzzy Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition.- A Unifying View of Gradient Calculations and Learning for Locally Recurrent Neural Networks.- Section 3 - Eduardo R. Caianiello Lecture.- Employment of a Progressive Learning Neural Network for Identification and Control.- Section 4 - Mathematical Models.- What Size Needs Testing?.- Entropy Based Comparison of Neural Networks for Classification.- A Hebbian Model for Space Representation.- Sequences of Discrete Hopfield’s Networks for the Maximum Clique Problem.- Rates of Approximation of Multivariable Functions by One-Hidden-Layer Neural Networks.- Energy Functional and Fixed Points of a Neural Network.- A Distribution-Free VC-Dimension-Based Performance Bound.- Attractor Neural Networks as Models of Semantic Memory.- Section 5 - Pattern Recognition and Robotics.- Image Reconstruction Using a Hierarchical RBF Network Architecture.- Word Recognition by MLP-Based Character Spotting and Dynamic Programming.- Video Data Compression Using Multilayer Perceptrons.- Speeding Up Neural Network Execution: An Application to Speech Recognition.- Periodicity Analysis of Unevenly Spaced Data by Means of Neural Networks.- Computational Maps for Articulatory Speech Synthesis.- A Neural Solution for a Mobile Robot Navigation into Unknown Indoor Environments Using Visual Landmarks.- Section 6 - Applications.- An Application of the Bootstrap 632+ Rule to Ecological Data.- Are Hybrid Fuzzy-Neural Systems Actually Useful in Plasma Engineering?.- MAIA Neural Network: An Application to the Railway Anti-Skating System.- On the Cognitive Behaviour of a Multi-Layer Perceptron in Forecasting Meteorological Visibility.- Classifying Magnetic Resonance Spectra of Brain Neoplasms Using Fuzzy and Robust Gold Standard Adjustments.- Self-Organization with a Large Medical Databases Using GTM for Prediction and Clustering.- Icarus Platform: Software Integration of Several Intelligent Systems.- Section 7 - Architectures and Algorithms.- Plastic Tabu Search for Training Multilayer Perceptrons.- Training Analog VLSI Multi Layer Perceptron Networks with Continuous Time Back Propagation.- EM Algorithm: A Neural Network View.- HW/SW Co-Design of a Complete Pre-Processing/Recognition System Based on Sgs-Thomson OCR Analog Chip.- Interval Arithmetic Perceptron with Pruning Capability.- Hidden Recursive Models.- Geometrical Constructive Algorithms of Binary Neural Networks.- On the Adaptable Boolean Neural Net Paradigm.- Cluster Connections: A Visualization Technique to Reveal Cluster Boundaries in Self-Organizing Maps.- Discriminative Least Squares Learning for Fast Adaptive Neural Equalization.- Author Index.