Computational Methods in Neural Modeling: 7th International Work-Conference on Artificial and Natural Neural Networks, IWANN 2003 Maó, Menorca, Spain, June 3–6, 2003 Proceedings, Part I

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by  L.M. Ricciardi, G. Esposilo, V. Giorno, C. Valerio (auth.), José Mira, José R. Álvarez (eds.)

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Computational Methods
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7th International Work-Conference on
ArtificialandNaturalNeuralNetworks,IWANN2003
Maó, Menorca, Spain, June 3-6, 2003
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Preface
The global purpose of IWANN conferences has been to provide a broad and in-
terdisciplinary forum for the interplay between neuroscience and computation.
Our dream has been, and still is: (1) find ways to understand the physiolog-
ical, symbolic and cognitive nature of the nervous system (NS) with the help
of computational and engineering tools; and (2) find rich and insightful sources
of inspiration in biology, to develop new materials, mechanisms and problem-
solving methods (PSM) of value in engineering and computation. As all of us
know well, this dreamstarted with the Ancient Greeks, reappearedin the foun-
dational stage of neurocybernetics and bionics, and is now broadly accepted in
the scientific community under different labels such as computational neuro-
science (CN) andartificialneuralnets (ANN), orgenetic algorithmsandhybrid
neuro-fuzzy systems.
We have also to recognize that there is a considerable lack of credibility
associated with CN and ANN among some researchers, both from biology and
from the engineering and computation area. Potential causes of this scepticism
could be the lack of methodology, formal tools, and real-world applications, in
the engineering area, and the lack also of formal tools for cognitive process
modeling. There is also the possibility of the computational paradigm being
inappropriate to explain cognition, because of the “representational” character
ofanycomputationalmodel.Some“moresituated”approachesarelookingback
to the “neurophysiological epistemology” of the 1960’s (mind in a body) to
searchdirectlyforthemechanismsthatcouldembodythecognitiveprocess,and
this means some fresh air for our old dream of connectionism. The tremendous
difficulties of these fields (CN and ANN) and of the questions addressed (How
does the NS work, and how can we mimic this work in a non-trivial manner?)
justify the delay in getting proper answers.
We hope that the papers in these two volumes and the discussions during
this seventh working conference will help us to create some new critique and a
constructiveatmosphere.Theneuralmodelingcommunityandallthepeopleen-
gagedinthe connectionistperspective ofknowledgeengineeringwouldcertainly
benefit from this new atmosphere.
IWANN2003,the7thInternationalWork-ConferenceinArtificialandNatu-
ralNeuralNetworkstookplace in Ma´o,Menorca,Spain,during June 3–6,2003,
addressing the following topics:
Mathematical and computational methods in neural modeling. Lev-
els of analysis. Brain theory. Neural coding. Mathematical biophysics. Popula-
tiondynamicsandstatisticalmodeling.Diffusionprocesses.Dynamicalbinding.
Synchronization. Resonance. Regulatory mechanisms. Cellular automata.
Neurophysiological data analysis and modeling. Ionic channels.
Synapses. Neurons. Circuits. Biophysical simulations.
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Structural and functional models of neurons. Analogue, nonlinear,
recurrent,RBF,PCA,digital,probabilistic,Bayesian,fuzzyandobject-oriented
formulations.
Learning and other plasticity phenomena.Supervised,non-supervised,
reinforcement and statistical algorithms. Hybrid formulations. Incremental and
decremental architectures. Biological mechanisms of adaptation and plasticity.
Development and maturing.
Complex systems dynamics.Statisticalmechanics.Attractors.Optimiza-
tion, self-organization and cooperative-competitive networks. Evolutionary and
genetic algorithms.
Cognitive Processes and Artificial Intelligence. Perception (visual,
auditive, tactile, proprioceptive). Multi-sensory integration. Natural language.
Memory. Decision making. Planning. Motor control. Neuroethology. Knowledge
modeling. Multi-agent systems. Distributed AI. Social systems.
Methodology for nets design, simulation and implementation.Data
analysis,taskidentificationandrecursivedesign.Developmentenvironmentsand
editing tools. Implementation. Evolving hardware.
Bio-inspired systems and engineering.Bio-cyberneticsandbionics.Sig-
nalprocessing,neuralprostheses,retinomorphicsystems,andotherneuraladap-
tive prosthetic devices. Molecular computing.
Applications. Artificial vision, speech recognition, spatio-temporal plan-
ning and scheduling.Data mining. Sources separation.Applications of ANNs in
robotics, astrophysics, economics, the Internet, medicine, education and indus-
try.
IWANN 2003 was organized by the Universidad Nacional de Educacio´n a
Distancia, UNED, Madrid, in cooperation with IFIP (Working Group in Neu-
ral Computer Systems, WG10.6) and the Spanish RIG IEEE Neural Networks
Council.
Sponsorship was obtained from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia y Tec-
nolog´ıaunder project TIC2002-10752-Eand the organizinguniversity (UNED).
The papers presented here correspond to talks delivered at the conference.
After the evaluation process, 197 papers were accepted for oral or poster pre-
sentation, according to the recommendations of referees and the author’s pref-
erences. We have organized these papers into two volumes arranged basically
followingthetopicslistincludedinthecallforpapers.Thefirstvolume,entitled
“Computational Methods in Neural Modeling,” is divided into six main parts
and includes the contributions on: biological models, functional models, learn-
ing,self-organizingsystems,artificialintelligenceandcongnition,andbioinspired
developments.
In the second volume, “Artificial Neural Nets Problem-Solving Methods,”
we haveincluded the contributionsdealing withnets design,simulations,imple-
mentations, and application developments.
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the members of the orga-
nizing and program committees, in particular to F´elix de la Paz L´opez, to the
referees,andtotheorganizersofpre-organizedsessionsfortheirinvaluableeffort
Preface VII
in helping with the preparation of this conference. Thanks also to the invited
speakers for their effort in preparing the plenary lectures.
Last,butnotleast,theeditorswouldliketothankSpringer-Verlag,inpartic-
ularAlfredHofmann,forthecontinuousandexcellentcooperativecollaboration,
fromthe firstIWANNinGranada(1991,LNCS540),tothesuccessivemeetings
in Sitges (1993, LNCS 686), Torremolinos (1995, LNCS 930), Lanzarote (1997,
LNCS 1240), Alicante (1999, LNCS 1606 and 1607), again in Granada (2001,
LNCS 2084 and 2085), and now in Mao´.
June 2003 Jos´e Mira
Jos´e R. A´lvarez
Congress Board
Alberto Prieto Espinosa, Universidad de Granada (Spain)
Joan Cabestany i Moncusi, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (Spain)
Francisco Sandoval Hern´andez, Universidad de Ma´laga (Spain)
Local Organizing Committee
Oscar Herreras, Hospital Ramo´n y Cajal (Spain)
Miguel Angel V´azquez Segura, UNED (Spain)
Jos´e Ramo´n A´lvarez S´anchez, UNED (Spain)
Organization Staff
F´elix de la Paz L´opez, UNED (Spain)
Invited Speakers
Erik de Schutter, University of Antwerp (Belgium)
Luigi M. Ricciardi, Universita´ di Napoli Federico II (Italy)
Marley Vellasco, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Field Editors
Miguel Atencia, Universidad de Ma´laga (Spain)
Emilia I. Barakova, RIKEN (Japan)
Valeriu Beiu, Washington State University (USA)
Carlos Cotta, University of Ma´laga (Spain)
Marcos Fau´ndez-Zanuy, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (Spain)
Miguel Angel Fern´andez, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (Spain)
Antonio Fern´andez-Caballero, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (Spain)
Carlos G. Puntonet, Universidad de Granada (Spain)
Gonzalo Joya, Universidad de Ma´laga (Spain)
Dario Maravall, Universidad Polit´ecnica de Madrid (Spain)
Luiza de Macedo Mourelle, State University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Nadia Nedjah, State University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Ignacio Rojas, Universidad de Granada (Spain)
Eduardo Ros, Univesidad de Granada (Spain)
Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Universidad de Chile (Chile)
Mois´es Salmero´n Campos, Universidad de Granada (Spain)
Jordi Sol´e-Casals, Universitat de Vic (Spain)
Ramiro Varela Arias, Universidad de Oviedo (Spain)
Changjiu Zhou, Singapore Polytechnic (Singapore)
Organization IX
Scientific Committee (Referees)
Ajith Abraham, Oklahoma State University (USA)
Igor Aizenberg, Neural Networks Technologies Ltd. (Israel)
Igor Aleksander, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (UK)
Amparo Alonso Betanzos, Universidade da Corun˜a (Spain)
Jos´e Ramo´n A´lvarez S´anchez, UNED (Spain)
Miguel Atencia, Universidad de Ma´laga (Spain)
Antonio Bahamonde, Universidad de Oviedo en Gijo´n (Spain)
Emilia I. Barakova, RIKEN (Japan)
Senen Barro Ameneiro, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
Valeriu Beiu, Washington State University (USA)
Gustavo A. Camps i Valls, Universitat de Val`encia (Spain)
Andreu Catal`a Mallofr´e, Universitat Polit`ecnica de Catalunya (Spain)
Carlos Cotta, Universidad de Ma´laga (Spain)
F´elix de la Paz L´opez, UNED (Spain)
Angel P. del Pobil, Universitat Jaume-I (Spain)
Ana E. Delgado Garcia, UNED (Spain)
Jose Dorronsoro, Universidad Auto´noma de Madrid (Spain)
Richard Duro, Universidade da Corun˜a (Spain)
Reinhard Eckhorn, Philips University (Germany)
Marcos Fau´ndez-Zanuy, Universitat Polit`ecnica de Catalunya (Spain)
Jianfeng Feng, Sussex University (UK)
Antonio Fern´andez-Caballero, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (Spain)
Jose Manuel Ferr´andez, Univ. Polit´ecnica de Cartagena (Spain)
Kunihiko Fukushima, Tokyo University of Technology (Japan)
Carlos G. Puntonet, Universidad de Granada (Spain)
Manuel Gran˜a Romay, Universidad Pais Vasco (Spain)
Oscar Herreras, Hospital Ramo´n y Cajal (Spain)
Gonzalo Joya, Universidad de Ma´laga (Spain)
Elka Korutcheva, UNED (Spain)
Dario Maravall, Universidad Polit´ecnica de Madrid (Spain)
Jos´e Mira, UNED (Spain)
Javier Molina Vilaplana, Universidad Polit´ecnica de Cartagena (Spain)
Juan M. Moreno Ar´ostegui, Universidad Polit´ecnica de Catalun˜a (Spain)
Luiza de Macedo Mourelle, State University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Nadia Nedjah, State University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Julio Ortega Lopera, Universidad de Granada (Spain)
Alberto Prieto Espinosa, Universidad de Granada (Spain)
John Rinzel, New York University (USA)
Eduardo Ros, Universidad de Granada (Spain)
Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Universidad de Chile (Chile)
Mois´es Salmero´n Campos, Universidad de Granada (Spain)
Eduardo S´anchez Vila, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
Francisco Sandoval, Universidad de Ma´laga (Spain)
Jos´e Santos Reyes, Universidade da Corun˜a (Spain)