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. Language: English