New Book Announcement

[Amanda Sharkey]

The following book is now available:

COMBINING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETS: Ensemble and Modular Multi-Net Systems

Perspectives in Neural Computing Series

Edited: Amanda J.C. Sharkey

Publisher: Springer-Verlag London Ltd 1999 
http://www.springer.co.uk

Price: 39.50 pounds UK, 89.95 dollars US.

ISBN 1-85233-004-X

This volume consists of articles written by leading researchers in the
field of Combining Artificial Neural Nets, and as such provides unique
coverage of the area.  The techniques presented include ensemble-based
approaches, where a variety of methods are used to create a set of
different nets trained on the same task, and modular approaches, where
a task is decomposed into simpler problems.  The focus is on the
combination of Neural Nets, but many of the methods are applicable to
a wider variety of statistical methods.  The presentation of
techniques is accompanied by analysis and evaluation of their relative
effectiveness, and by reports on their application to a variety of
problems.

Chapters: 

1. "Multi-Net Systems"
    A. Sharkey

2. "Combining Predictors"
    L. Breiman

3. "Boosting Using Neural Networks"
    H. Drucker

4. "A Genetic Algorith Approach for Creating Neural Network Ensembles"
    D. Opitz and J. Shavlik

5. "Treating Harmful Collinearity in Neural Network Ensembles"
    S. Hashem

6. "Linear and Order Statistics Combiners for Pattern Classification"
    K. Tumer and J. Ghosh

7. "Variance Reduction via Noise and Bias Constraints"
    Y. Raviv and N. Intrator

8. "A Comparison of Visual Cue Combination Models" 
    I Fine and R. Jacobs

9. "Model Selection of Combined Neural Nets for Speech Recognition"
    C. Furlanello, D. Giuliani, S. Merler and E. Trentin

10. "Self-Organised Modular Neural Networks for Encoding Data"
     S. Luttrell

11. "Mixtures of X"
     R. Jacobs and M. Tanner

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