some recent papers which may be of interest to you.

[Laveen N. Kanal]

Laveen N. Kanal, " On pattern, categories, and alternate realities", published in
Pattern Recognition Letters, vol 14, pp. 241-255, March 1993, Elsevier/North-Holland.

Tbis is the text of the talk given by the author at The Hague, The Netherlands, 
when he received the King-Sun Fu award of the International Association for Pattern 
Recognition. 
                                 
                              Contents:

        Preamble
        Pattern
        Some sketches from the current pattern recognition scene
        Artificial neural networks
        Hybrid systems
       "Where's the AI?"
        Categorization
        Alternate realities 
        Prospects
        Concluding remarks

                         "Time goes, you say? Ah, no!
                          Alas Time stays, we go;"
                          
                          Pierre de Ronsard
                          The Paradox of Time
                          (Austin Dobson, tr)
Other Recent Papers:

 R. Bhatnagar & L.N. Kanal, "Structural and Probabilistic Knowledge for 
           Abductive Reasoning",IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and
           Machine Intelligence, special issue on Probabilistic Reasoning,
           March 1993.

 L. Kanal & S. Raghavan," Hybrid Systems- A Key to Intelligent Pattern 
           Recognition", IJCNN-92, Proc. Int. Joint. Conf on Neural Networks,
           June 1992.

 B.J. Hellstrom & L.N. Kanal, "Asymmetric Mean-Field Neural Networks for 
             Multiprocessor Scheduling", Neural Networks, Vol. 5, pp 671-686, 
             May 1992. 

 L.N. Kanal & G.R. Dattatreya, "Pattern Recognition", in S. Shapiro (ed), 
            Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, 2nd edition John Wiley 1992.

 R. Bhatnagar & L.N. Kanal, " Reasoning in Uncertain Domains-A Survey and 
            Commentary", in A. Kent & J.G. Williams (eds), Encyclopedia of 
            Computer Science and Technology,p. 297-316,(also in Encyclopedia 
            of Microcomputers, Marcel Dekker, Inc, 1992.

Laveen N. Kanal
Prof. of Computer Science
A.V. Williams Bldg.
Univ. of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
USA
kanal at cs.umd.edu