deadline: special issue on hybrid models

[Ron Sun]

            Call For Papers

special issue of IEEE Transaction on Neural Networks on

``Neural Networks and Hybrid Intelligent Models: Foundations, 
Theory,  and Applications''

Guest Editors: C. Lee Giles, Ron Sun, Jacek M. Zurada

Hybrid systems, the use of other intelligence paradigms with neural 
networks, are becoming more common and useful. In fact it can be 
argued that the success of neural networks has been from its ready 
incorporation of other information processing approaches,  
including pattern recognition, statistical inference, as well as 
symbolic processing. 

Some systems (especially those incorporating symbolic processing) 
have been known to some segments of the scientific community as 
high-level connectionist models. Other systems have been referred 
to as knowledge insertion and extraction. However, for the many 
applications, there exists little (1) theoretical foundation and 
(2) engineering methodology for effectively developing hybrid 
approaches. These two aspects are the topic of this special issue. 
Manuscripts are solicited in neural networks and hybrid models in 
the following areas 

- Theorectical foundations of hybrid models. Mathematical analysis, 
theories, critiques, case studies.

- Models incorporating other paradigms such as AI symbolic processing, 
machine learning, fuzzy systems, genetic algorithms, and other 
intelligent paradigms within neural networks. Techniques, 
methodologies, and analyses.
 
- Methodology of engineering design of hybrid systems.

- Innovative and non-trivial applications of hybrid models 
(for example, in natural language processing, signal and image processing, 
pattern recognition, and cognitive modeling).

Papers will undergo the standard review procedure of the IEEE 
Transactions on Neural Netwoks.  
The special issue will appear around November 1997.
Prospective authors should submit six (6) copies of the completed manuscript, 
on or before February 28, 1997, 
to one of the following three guest editors:

Dr. C. Lee Giles 
NEC Research Institute  
4 Independence Way 
Princeton, NJ 08540, USA 
Phone: 609-951-2642 
Fax 609-951-2482
Email: giles at research.nj.nec.com
Web: http://www.neci.nj.nec.com/homepages/giles.html

Prof. Ron Sun          
Department of Computer Science                     
The University of Alabama                           
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487                                
Phone: (205) 348-6363
Fax:   (205) 348-0219
Email: rsun at cs.ua.edu
Web: http://cs.ua.edu/faculty/sun/sun.html

Prof. Jacek M. Zurada
Electrical Engineering Department
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292, USA
Phone: (502) 852-6314      
Fax: (502) 852-6807
Email: j.zurada at ieee.org
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