IWANN2003 sessions schedule

• Session: Plenary I  June, 3   09:00-10:00   Room: A
  ``Modeling Neuronal Firing in the Presence of Refractoriness'' (I-1)
  Luigi M. Ricciardi, G. Esposito, V. Giorno, C. Valerio
  Chair: José Mira
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: Neural Modeling I  June, 3   10:00-11:20   Room: A
  ``Spiking Neurons: from Neurophysiology to Implementation''
  Organizer & Chair: Eduardo Ros
  Co-Chair: José Mira
  • ``A Study of the Action Potential Initiation Site Along the Axosomatodendritic Axis of Neurons Using Compartmental Models'' (I-9)
    J. M. Ibarz, Oscar Herreras

  • ``Real Neurons and Neural Computation: A Summary of Thoughts'' (I-16)
    José Mira

  • ``Selective Inactivation of Neuronal Dendritic Domains: Computational Approach to Steady Potential Gradients'' (I-40)
    Iouliia Makarova, J. M. Ibarz, L. López-Aguado, Oscar Herreras

  • ``Post-synaptic Time-dependent Conductances in Spiking Neurons: FPGA Implementation of a Flexible Cell Model'' (II-145)
    Eduardo Ros, Rodrigo Agís, Richard R. Carrillo, Eva Martinez Ortigosa

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: Implementation I  June, 3   10:00-11:20   Room: B
  ``Hardware Implementation of Artificial Neural Networks''
  Organizer & Chair: Nadia Nedjah
  Co-Chair: Luiza de Macedo Mourelle
  • ``Hybrid Architecture based on Support Vector Machines'' (I-646)
    Haydemar Núñez, Cecilio Angulo Bahón, Andreu Català Mallofré

  • ``FPGA implementation of a perceptron-like Neural Network for embebbed applications'' (II-1)
    Eva Martinez Ortigosa, Antonio Cañas, Eduardo Ros, Richard R. Carrillo

  • ``NSP: a Neuro-Symbolic Processor'' (II-9)
    Ernesto Burattini, Massimo De Gregorio, Victor Mauro Goulart Ferreira, Felipe M. G. França

  • ``Reconfigurable Hardware Architecture for Compact and Efficient Stochastic Neuron'' (II-17)
    Nadia Nedjah, Luiza de Macedo Mourelle

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: AI & Cognition I  June, 3   10:00-11:20   Room: C
  ``AI & Cognition I''
  Organizer & Chair: Juan Vicente Sánchez-Andrés
  Co-Chair: Richard Duro
  • ``Intelligence and Computation: a View from Physiology'' (I-566)
    Juan Vicente Sánchez-Andrés

  • ``Introducing Long Term Memory in an ANN based Multilevel Darwinist Brain'' (I-590)
    Francisco Bellas, Richard Duro

  • ``Necessary First-Person Axioms of Neuroconsciousness'' (I-630)
    Igor Aleksander, Barry Dunmall

  • ``A neural approach to extended logic programs'' (I-654)
    Jesús Medina, Enrique Mérida Casermeiro, Manuel Ojeda-Aciego

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: Applications I  June, 3   10:00-11:20   Room: D
  ``Applications I''
  Organizer & Chair: Christian Jutten
  Co-Chair: Juan Manuel García Chamizo
  • ``Validation of a Cortical Electrode Model for Neuroprosthetics purposes'' (II-81)
    Francisco Garcia de Quiros, Maria Paula Bonomini, Jose Manuel Ferrández, Eduardo Fernandez

  • ``Feature vectors generation for detection of microcalcifications in digitized mammography using neural networks'' (II-583)
    Antonio Vega Corona, Antonio Álvarez-Vellisco, Diego Andina de la Fuente

  • ``Simulation of the Neuronal Regulator of the Lower Urinary Tract using a Multiagent System'' (II-591)
    Juan Manuel García Chamizo, Francisco Maciá Pérez, Antonio Soriano Payá, Daniel Ruiz Fernández

  • ``Neural network modeling of ambulatory systolic blood pressure for hypertension diagnosis'' (II-599)
    Shahram Hosseini, Christian Jutten, Sylvie Charbonnier

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: Neural Modeling II  June, 3   11:50-13:30   Room: A
  ``Neural Modeling II''
  Organizer & Chair: Luigi M. Ricciardi
  Co-Chair: José Mira
  • ``Synchronous firing in a population of inhibitory interneurons coupled by electrical and chemical synapses'' (I-24)
    Santi Chillemi, Angelo Di Garbo, Alessandro Panarese

  • ``Intermittent burst synchronization in neural networks'' (I-46)
    Christian Hauptmann, Annette Gail, Fotios Giannakopoulos

  • ``The Minimum-variance Theory Revisited'' (I-62)
    Jianfeng Feng

  • ``Sleep and wakefulness in the cuneate nucleus: a computational study'' (I-70)
    Eduardo Sánchez Vila, Senen Barro Ameneiro, Jorge Mariño, Antonio Canedo

  • ``Effects of different connectivity patterns in a model of cortical circuits'' (I-78)
    Carlos Aguirre Maeso, Doris Campos Castillo, Pedro Pascual Broncano, Eduardo Serrano Jerez

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: Self-organizing I  June, 3   11:50-13:30   Room: B
  ``Self-organizing I''
  Organizer & Chair: Alberto Prieto Espinosa
  Co-Chair: Juan J. Merelo Guervós
  • ``Supervised Classification with Associative SOM'' (I-334)
    Rafael del Hoyo Alonso, J. David Buldain Pérez, Alvaro Marco Marco

  • ``Neural Implementation of Dijkstra's Algorithm'' (I-342)
    Enrique Mérida Casermeiro, José Muñoz-Pérez, Rafaela Benitez Rochel

  • ``A statistical model of pollution-caused pulmonary crises'' (I-366)
    Daniel Rodríguez-Pérez, Jose L. Castillo, J.C. Antoranz

  • ``A new penalty-based method for model selection in regularized nonlinear models'' (I-374)
    Elisa Guerrero Vázquez, Joaquin Pizarro, Andrés Yáñez Escolano, Pedro L. Galindo

  • ``Data Driven Multiple Neural Network Models Generator Based on a Tree-like Scheduler'' (I-382)
    Kurosh Madani, Abdennasser Chebira, Mariusz Rybnik

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: ANN-ICA I  June, 3   11:50-13:30   Room: C
  ``Artificial Neural Networks and Independent Component Analysis''
  Organizer & Chair: Carlos G. Puntonet
  Co-Chair: Jordi Solé-Casals
  • ``Initialisation of Nonlinearities for PNL and Wiener Systems Inversion'' (II-225)
    Jordi Solé-Casals, Christian Jutten, Dinh-Tuan Pham

  • ``Blind separation of linear-quadratic mixtures of real sources using a recurrent structure'' (II-241)
    Shahram Hosseini, Yannick Deville

  • ``Advances in Neyman-Pearson Neural Detectors Design'' (II-249)
    Diego Andina de la Fuente, Santiago Torres-Alegre, Antonio Vega Corona, Antonio Álvarez-Vellisco

  • ``A novel unsupervised strategy to separate convolutive mixtures in the frequency domain'' (II-257)
    Adriana Dapena, Carlos Escudero

  • ``Application of Independent Component Analysis to Edge Detection and Watermarking'' (II-273)
    Susana Hornillo-Mellado, Ruben Martin Clemente, Jose I. Acha, Carlos G. Puntonet

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: Robotics I  June, 3   11:50-13:30   Room: D
  ``Bio-inspired Robots and Neural Computing''
  Organizer & Chair: Changjiu Zhou
  Co-Chair: Dario Maravall
  • ``A Recurrent Neural Network for Robotic Sensory-based Search'' (II-153)
    Dario Maravall, Javier de Lope, Miguel Angel Patricio Guisado

  • ``The Knowledge Engineering approach to Autonomous Robotics'' (II-161)
    José Mira, José Ramón Álvarez-Sánchez, Félix de la Paz López

  • ``Multimodule Artificial Neural Network Architectures for Autonomous Robot Control Through Behavior Modulation'' (II-169)
    José Antonio Becerra Permuy, José Santos Reyes, Richard Duro

  • ``Solving the Inverse Kinematics in Humanoid Robots: A Neural Approach'' (II-177)
    Javier de Lope, Telmo Zarraonandia, Rafaela Gonzalez-Careaga, Dario Maravall

  • ``Sensory Motor control scheme based on Kohonen maps and AVITE model'' (II-185)
    Juan Luis Pedreño Molina, Antonio Guerrero Gonzalez, Oscar Alberto Florez Giraldo, Javier Molina Vilaplana

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: Learning I  June, 3   16:00-18:00   Room: A
  ``Learning I''
  Organizer & Chair: Ajith Abraham
  Co-Chair: Javier de Lope
  • ``A learning rule to model the development of orientation selectivity in visual cortex'' (I-190)
    Jose M. Jerez, Miguel Atencia, Francisco Vico, Enrique Domínguez Merino

  • ``Sequence learning using the neural coding'' (I-198)
    Sorin Moga, Philippe Gaussier

  • ``Improved Kernel Learning Using Smoothing Parameter Based Linear Kernel'' (I-206)
    Shawkat Ali, Ajith Abraham

  • ``Automatic Car Parking: A Reinforcement Learning Approach'' (I-214)
    Dario Maravall, Miguel Angel Patricio Guisado, Javier de Lope

  • ``Discriminative Training of the Scanning N-Tuple Classifier'' (I-222)
    Simon M. Lucas

  • ``A Wrapper Approach with Support Vector Machines for Text Categorization'' (I-230)
    Elena Montañés, J. R. Quevedo, I Díaz

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: Genetic Algorithms I  June, 3   16:00-18:00   Room: B
  ``Genetic Algorithms for Problem Solving''
  Organizer & Chair: Ramiro Varela Arias
  Co-Chair: Camino Rodriguez Vela
  • ``A genetic algorithm for controlling elevator group systems'' (II-313)
    Pablo Cortes, Juan Larrañeta, Luis Onieva

  • ``Protein Structure Prediction Using Evolutionary Algorithms Hybridized with Backtracking'' (II-321)
    Carlos Cotta

  • ``Hybridizing a Genetic Algorithm with Local Search and Heuristic Seeding'' (II-329)
    Jorge Puente Peinador, Camino Rodriguez Vela, Carlos Prieto Cañal, Ramiro Varela Arias

  • ``A genetic algorithm for assembly sequence planning'' (II-337)
    Carmelo Del Valle, Rafael Martinez Gasca, Miguel Toro Bonilla, Eduardo F. Camacho

  • ``Genetic Algorithm applied to Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation Prediction'' (II-345)
    Sonia Mota, Eduardo Ros, Francisco de Toro, Julio Ortega Lopera

  • ``Optimizing supply strategies in the Spanish Electrical Market'' (II-353)
    E.A. de la Cal, Luciano Sanchez

  • ``Improving the efficiency of multiple sequence alignment by genetic algorithms'' (II-361)
    Juan Isidoro Seijas , Carmen Morató, Diego Andina de la Fuente, Antonio Vega Corona

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: ANN-ICA II  June, 3   16:00-18:00   Room: C
  ``Artificial Neural Networks and Independent Component Analysis II''
  Organizer & Chair: Jordi Solé-Casals
  Co-Chair: Carlos G. Puntonet
  • ``Evolutionary Algorithm Using Mutual Information for Independent Component Analysis'' (II-233)
    Fernando Rojas Ruiz, Carlos G. Puntonet, Manuel Rodríguez Alvarez, Ignacio Rojas

  • ``An improved geometric overcomplete blind source separation algorithm'' (II-265)
    Fabian Joachim Theis, Carlos G. Puntonet, Elmar Wolfgang Lang

  • ``A new Geometrical ICA-based method for Blind Separation of Speech Signals'' (II-281)
    Manuel Rodríguez Alvarez, Fernando Rojas Ruiz, Elmar Wolfgang Lang, Ignacio Rojas

  • ``A time-frequency blind source separation method based on segmented coherence function'' (II-289)
    Benoit Albouy , Yannick Deville

  • ``ISFET Source Separation based on linear ICA'' (II-297)
    Sergio Bermejo

  • ``An application of ICA to blind DS-CDMA detection: a joint optimization criterion'' (II-305)
    Iván Durán, Sergio A. Cruces-Alvarez

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: Images I  June, 3   16:00-18:00   Room: D
  ``Images I''
  Organizer & Chair: Manuel Graña Romay
  Co-Chair: Kostadin Koroutchev
  • ``A New Information Measure for Natural Images'' (II-520)
    Kostadin Koroutchev, Jose Dorronsoro

  • ``Defects Detection in Continuous Manufacturing by means of Convolutional Neural Networks'' (II-528)
    José Antonio Calderón Martínez, Pascual Campoy Cervera

  • ``Independent Component Analysis for Cloud Screening of Meteosat Images'' (II-551)
    Miguel Macías Macías, Carlos J. García Orellana, Horacio M. González Velasco, Ramón Gallardo Caballero

  • ``Neural Solutions for High Range Resolution Radar Classification'' (II-559)
    Roberto Gil Pita, Pilar Jarabo Amores, Raul Vicen Bueno, Manuel Rosa Zurera

  • ``On the application of Associative Morphological Memories to Hyperspectral Image Analysis'' (II-567)
    Manuel Graña Romay, Josune Gallego, F.J. Torrealdea, Alicia d'Anjou d'Anjou

  • ``A Generalized Eigendecomposition Approach Using Matrix Pencils to Remove Artefacts From 2D NMR Spectra'' (II-575)
    Kurt Stadlthanner, Ana Maria Tomé, Fabian Joachim Theis, Elmar Wolfgang Lang

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: Plenary II  June, 4   09:00-10:00   Room: A
  ``Resonant synchronization in networks of inhibitory neurons'' -
  Erik De Schutter
  Chair: Oscar Herreras
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: Neural Modeling III  June, 4   10:00-11:20   Room: A
  ``Neural Modeling III''
  Organizer & Chair: Igor Aleksander
  Co-Chair: Eduardo Sánchez
  • ``A Digital Neural Model of Visual Deficits in Parkinson's Disease'' (I-86)
    Igor Aleksander, Helen Morton

  • ``A functional spiking neuron hardware oriented model'' (I-136)
    Andres Upegui, Carlos-Andrés Peña-Reyes, Eduardo Sánchez

  • ``SO(2)-Networks as Neural Oscillators'' (I-144)
    Frank Pasemann, Manfred Hild, Keyan Zahedi

  • ``A Rotated Kernel Probabilistic Neural Network (RKPNN) for Multi-class Classification'' (I-152)
    Ingo Galleske, Juan Castellanos

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: Self-organizing II  June, 4   10:00-11:20   Room: B
  ``Self-organizing II''
  Organizer & Chair: Terence Kwok
  Co-Chair: Maria Angeles García-Bernal
  • ``Performance-Enhancing Bifurcations in a Self-organising Neural Network'' (I-390)
    Terence Kwok, Kate Smith

  • ``A Competitive Neural Network based on Dipoles'' (I-398)
    Maria Angeles García-Bernal, José Muñoz-Pérez, Jose Antonio Gómez Ruiz, Isidro Ladrón de Guevara-López

  • ``An N-parallel Multivalued Network: Applications to Travelling Salesman Problem'' (I-406)
    Enrique Mérida Casermeiro, José Muñoz-Pérez, Enrique Domínguez Merino

  • ``Parallel ACS for weighted MAX-SAT'' (I-414)
    Habiba Drias, Sarah Ibri

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: AI & Cognition II  June, 4   10:00-11:20   Room: C
  ``AI & Cognition II''
  Organizer & Chair: Carlos Hernandez-Espinosa
  Co-Chair: Juan R. Rabuñal
  • ``New Directions for Connectionist Language Modeling'' (I-598)
    María José Castro Bleda, Federico Prat

  • ``Rules and Generalization Capacity Extraction from ANN with GP'' (I-606)
    Juan R. Rabuñal, Julián Dorado, Alejandro Pazos Sierra, Daniel Rivero Cebrian

  • ``Rule Extraction from a Multilayer Feedforward Trained Network via Interval Arithmetic Inversion'' (I-622)
    Carlos Hernandez-Espinosa, Mercedes Fernandez-Redondo, Mamen Ortiz-Gomez

  • ``An Agent Based Approach of Collective Foraging'' (I-638)
    Marian Gheorghe, Carlos Martin-Vide, Victor Mitrana, Mario Pérez Jiménez

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: Robotics II  June, 4   10:00-11:20   Room: D
  ``Robotics II''
  Organizer & Chair: Eris Chinellato
  Co-Chair: Paola Baldassarri
  • ``Validation of Features for Characterizing Robot Grasps'' (II-193)
    Eris Chinellato, Antonio Morales Escrig, Pedro J. Sanz Valero, Angel P. del Pobil

  • ``Self-Organizing Maps versus Growing Neural Gas in a Robotic Application'' (II-201)
    Paola Baldassarri, Paolo Puliti, Anna Montesanto, Guido Tascini

  • ``Towards reactive navigation and attention skills for 3D intelligent characters'' (II-209)
    Lozano Ibañez Miguel

  • ``From Continuous Behaviour to Discrete Knowledge'' (II-217)
    Agapito Ledezma, Fernando Fernández, Ricardo Aler

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: Vision  June, 4   11:50-13:30   Room: A
  ``Dynamic visual attention''
  Organizer & Chair: Antonio Fernández-Caballero
  Co-Chair: Miguel Angel Fernández
  • ``Image Understanding analysis at the Knowledge Level as a Design Task'' (I-574)
    Mariano Rincón Zamorano, Margarita Bachiller Mayoral, José Mira, Rafael Martínez Tomás

  • ``Neurally Inspired Mechanisms for the Dynamic Visual Attention Map Generation Task'' (I-694)
    María.T. Lopez, Miguel Angel Fernández, Antonio Fernández-Caballero, Ana E. Delgado García

  • ``A Model of Dynamic Visual Attention for Object Tracking in Natural Image Sequences'' (I-702)
    Nabil Ouerhani, Heinz Hugli

  • ``neural competitive structures for segmentation based on motion features'' (I-710)
    Javier Diaz, Sonia Mota, Eduardo Ros, Guillermo Botella

  • ``Background Pixel Classification for Motion Detection in Video Image Sequences'' (I-718)
    Pedro Gil-Jiménez, Saturnino Maldonado-Bascón, Roberto Gil Pita, Hilario Gómez-Moreno

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: Implementation II  June, 4   11:50-13:30   Room: B
  ``Threshold Gates: Past, Present, and Future''
  Organizer & Chair: Valeriu Beiu
  Co-Chair: Snorre Aunet
  • ``A Binary Multiplier Using RTD Based Threshold Logic Gates'' (II-41)
    Peter M Kelly, James Thompson, Martin McGinnity, Liam P Maguire

  • ``Split-precharge differential noise-immune threshold logic gate (SPD-NTL)'' (II-49)
    Suryanarayana Tatapudi, Valeriu Beiu

  • ``UV-programmable Floating-Gate CMOS Linear Threshold Element 'P1N3''' (II-57)
    Snorre Aunet, Yngvar Berg

  • ``CMOS Implementation of Generalized Threshold Functions'' (II-65)
    Marius Padure, Sorin D. Cotofana, Stamatis Vassiliadis

  • ``A-DELTA: A 64-bit High Speed, Compact, Hybrid Dynamic-CMOS/Threshold-Logic Adder'' (II-73)
    Peter Celinski, Sorin D. Cotofana, Derek Abbott

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: Soft Computing I  June, 4   11:50-13:30   Room: C
  ``Soft Computing for Systems Engineering''
  Organizer & Chair: Gonzalo Joya
  Co-Chair: Miguel Atencia
  • ``Modelling the HIV-AIDS Cuban Epidemics with Hopfield Neural Networks'' (II-449)
    Miguel Atencia, Gonzalo Joya, Francisco Sandoval

  • ``Comparison of Neural Models, Off-line and On-line Learning Algorithms for a Benchmark Problem'' (II-457)
    António E. Ruano

  • ``Using Neural Networks in a Parallel Adaptative Algorithm for the System Identification Optimization'' (II-465)
    Juan Antonio Gómez Pulido, Sánchez Pérez Juan Manuel, Vega Rodríguez Miguel Angel

  • ``Nonlinear Parametric Model Identification using Genetic Algorithms'' (II-473)
    Liuva Mabys Pedroso Rodríguez, Aymee Marrero Severo, Hector de Arazoza

  • ``Input-Output Fuzzy Identification of Nonlinear Multivariable Systems. Application to a Case of AIDS Spread Forecast'' (II-481)
    Jose Ruiz-Gomez, M.J. Lopez-Baldan, A. Garcia-Cerezo

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: Bioinspired Applications  June, 4   11:50-13:30   Room: D
  ``Bioinspired Applications''
  Organizer & Chair: Joan Cabestany
  Co-Chair: Jose Manuel Ferrández
  • ``Solving SAT in Linear Time with a Neural-like Membrane System'' (I-662)
    Juan Pazos Sierra, Alfonso Rodríguez-Patón, Andrés Silva

  • ``An Exponential-Decay Synapse Integrated Circuit For Bio-inspired Neural Networks.'' (I-670)
    Ludovic Alvado, Sylvain Saighi, Jean Tomas, Sylvie Renaud

  • ``A high level synthesis of an auditory mechanical to neural transduction circuit'' (I-678)
    Jose Manuel Ferrández, Miguel Angel Sacristan, Victoria Rodellar, P. Gomez

  • ``Restriction Enzyme Computation'' (I-686)
    Olgierd Unold, Maciej Troc

  • ``COBRA: An Evolved Online Tool for Mammography Interpretation'' (I-726)
    Carlos-Andrés Peña-Reyes, Eduardo Sánchez, Rosa Villa, Luis Prieto

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: Learning II  June, 4   16:00-18:00   Room: A
  ``Learning II''
  Organizer & Chair: Pedro Isasi
  Co-Chair: Antonio Bahamonde
  • ``Robust Expectation Maximization Learning Algorithm for Mixture of Experts'' (I-238)
    Romina D. Torres Torres, Rodrigo J. Salas Fuentes, Hector Allende Olivares, Claudio Moraga

  • ``Choosing among algorithms to improve accuracy'' (I-246)
    J. R. Quevedo, Elías F. Combarro, Antonio Bahamonde

  • ``Evolutionary Approach to Overcome Initialization Parameters in Classification Problems'' (I-254)
    Pedro Isasi, Fernando Fernández

  • ``Text Categorisation Using a Partial-Matching Strategy'' (I-262)
    Jose Ranilla, I Díaz, J Fernández

  • ``A new learning method for single layer neural networks based on a regularized cost function'' (I-270)
    Juan A. Suárez-Romero, Oscar Fontenla Romero, Bertha Guijarro Berdiñas, Amparo Alonso Betanzos

  • ``A better selection of patterns in lazy learning radial basis neural networks'' (I-278)
    Pedro Isasi, Jose Valls, Inés María Galván

  • ``Auto-Adaptive Neural Network Tree Structure Based on Complexity Estimator'' (I-558)
    Mariusz Rybnik, Abdennasser Chebira, Kurosh Madani

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: Self-organizing III  June, 4   16:00-18:00   Room: B
  ``Self-organizing III''
  Organizer & Chair: Alberto Prieto Espinosa
  Co-Chair: Julio Ortega Lopera
  • ``Learning to Generate Combinatorial Action Sequences Utilizing the Initial Sensitivity of Deterministic Dynamical Systems'' (I-422)
    Ryunosuke Nishimoto, Jun Tani

  • ``BICONN: A Binary Competitive Neural Network'' (I-430)
    José Muñoz-Pérez, Maria Angeles García-Bernal, Isidro Ladrón de Guevara-López, Jose Antonio Gómez Ruiz

  • ``SASEGASA: An Evolutionary Algorithm for Retarding Premature Convergence by Self-Adaptive Selection Pressure Steering'' (I-438)
    Michael Franz Affenzeller, Stefan Wagner

  • ``Cooperative Ant Colonies for Solving the Maximum Weighted Satisfiability Problem'' (I-446)
    Habiba Drias, Amine Taibi, Sofiane Zekour

  • ``The Antiquadrupolar Phase of the Biquadratic Neural Network'' (I-462)
    David R. C. Dominguez

  • ``Studying the Capacity of Grammatical Encoding to Generate FNN Architectures'' (I-478)
    German Gutierrez Sanchez, Beatriz García, José Manuel Molina López, Araceli Sanchis de Miguel

  • ``Separable Recurrent Neural Networks Treated with Stochastic Velocities'' (I-542)
    Arnulfo Castellanos-Moreno

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: Soft Computing II  June, 4   16:00-18:00   Room: C
  ``Time-series prediction using soft-computing techniques''
  Organizer & Chair: Ignacio Rojas
  Co-Chair: Moisés Salmerón Campos
  • ``Neuro-fuzzy Modeling Applied to GIS: a Case Study for Solar Radiation'' (II-401)
    Mercedes Valdés Vela, Juan A. Botía, Antonio F. Gómez-Skarmeta

  • ``Evolutionary Multi-Model Estimators for ARMA System Modeling and Time Series Prediction'' (II-409)
    Grigorios Beligiannis, Spiridon Likothanassis, Lambros Skarlas

  • ``Real-coded GA for Parameter Optimization in Short-Term Load Forecasting'' (II-417)
    Hara Satpathy

  • ``Parallel Computation of an Adaptive Optimal RBF Network Predictor'' (II-425)
    Moisés Salmerón Campos, Julio Ortega Lopera, Carlos G. Puntonet, Miguel Damas Hermoso

  • ``New method for filtered ICA signals applied to volatile time series'' (II-433)
    J.M. Gorriz, Carlos G. Puntonet, Moisés Salmerón Campos, Julio Ortega Lopera

  • ``Robust Estimation of Confidence Interval in Neural Networks applied to Time Series'' (II-441)
    Rodrigo J. Salas Fuentes, Romina D. Torres Torres, Hector Allende Olivares, Claudio Moraga

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: Evolutionary Computation  June, 4   16:00-18:00   Room: D
  ``Evolutionary Computation''
  Organizer & Chair: Carlos Cotta
  Co-Chair: Gonzalo Joya
  • ``Optimal Phasor Measurement Unit Placement using Genetic Algorithms'' (I-486)
    Francisco J. Marín, F. García-Lagos, Gonzalo Joya, Francisco Sandoval

  • ``On the Evolutionary Inference on Temporal Boolean Networks'' (I-494)
    Carlos Cotta

  • ``Specifying evolutionary algorithms in XML'' (I-502)
    Juan J. Merelo Guervós, Pedro A. Castillo Valdivieso, Gustavo Romero López, Maribel García Arenas

  • ``Analysis of the Univariate Marginal Distribution Algorithm modeled by Markov chains'' (I-510)
    Cristina González, Juan D. Rodríguez, Jose A. Lozano, Pedro Larrañaga

  • ``Node level crossover applied to neural network evolution'' (I-518)
    Eloy Sanz-Tapia, Nicolás García-Pedrajas, Domingo Ortiz-Boyer, César Hervás-Martínez

  • ``Genetic Search of Block-Based Structures of Dynamical Process Models'' (I-526)
    Antonio Miguel López Rodríguez, Luciano Sanchez

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: Plenary III  June, 5   09:00-10:00   Room: A
  ``Hierarchical Neuro-Fuzzy Systems'' (I-126)
  Marley Vellasco, Marco Aurélio Pacheco, K. Figueiredo
  Chair: Alberto Prieto Espinosa
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: Neural Modeling IV  June, 5   10:00-11:20   Room: A
  ``Multimodal Integration of Information Sources''
  Organizer & Chair: Emilia I. Barakova
  Co-Chair: Tino Lourens
  • ``Interacting Modalities through Functional Brain Modeling'' (I-102)
    Tino Lourens, Emilia I. Barakova, Hiroshi Tsujino

  • ``Life-long learning: consolidation of novel events into dynamic memory representations'' (I-110)
    Emilia I. Barakova, Tino Lourens, Yoko Yamaguchi

  • ``Real-time Sound Source Localization and Separation based on Active Audio-Visual Integration'' (I-118)
    Hiroshi G. Okuno, Kazuhiro Nakadai

  • ``Numerosity and the Consolidation of Episodic Memory'' (I-614)
    J G (Iain) Wallace, Kevin Bluff

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: Genetic Algorithms II  June, 5   10:00-11:20   Room: B
  ``Genetic Algorithms II''
  Organizer & Chair: M. Parrilla Sánchez
  Co-Chair: Olga M. Perez
  • ``A real application example of a control structure selection by means of a multiobjetive genetic algorithm'' (II-369)
    M. Parrilla Sánchez, Joaquín Aranda Almansa

  • ``Weighting and Feature Selection on Gene-Expression Data by the Use of Genetic Algorithms'' (II-377)
    Olga M. Perez, Manuel Hidalgo-Conde, Francisco J. Marín, Oswaldo Trelles

  • ``Supervised Segmentation of the Cervical Cell Images by using the Genetic Algorithms'' (II-385)
    Nadia Lassouaoui, Latifa Hamami, Fairouz Chehbour

  • ``Using Genetic Algorithms for solving partitioning problem in codesign'' (II-393)
    Mouloud Koudil, Karima Benatchba, Daniel Dours

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: Softcomputing III  June, 5   10:00-11:20   Room: C
  ``Softcomputing III''
  Organizer & Chair: Amparo Alonso Betanzos
  Co-Chair: Valentina Colla
  • ``Recovering Missing Data with Functional and Bayesian Networks'' (II-489)
    Enrique Castillo, Noelia Sánchez Maroño, Amparo Alonso Betanzos, Carmen Castillo

  • ``Estimation of train speed via neuro-fuzzy techniques'' (II-497)
    Valentina Colla, Marco Vannucci, Monica Malvezzi, Benedetto Allotta

  • ``Neuro-Fuzzy Techniques for Image Tracking'' (II-504)
    José Manuel Molina López, Jesus Garcia, Javier de Diego, Javier I. Portillo

  • ``A Comparative Study of Fuzzy Classifiers on Breast Cancer Data'' (II-512)
    Ravi Jain, Ajith Abraham

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: Applications II  June, 5   10:00-11:20   Room: D
  ``Applications II''
  Organizer & Chair: Bernardino Arcay Varela
  Co-Chair: Luis Manuel Sarro Baro
  • ``ANN based tools in Astrophysics. Prospects and first results for GOA and the AVO'' (II-631)
    Luis Manuel Sarro Baro

  • ``An Artificial Neural Network Approach to Automatic Classification of Stellar Spectra'' (II-639)
    Alejandra Rodríguez Fernández, Carlos Dafonte Vázquez, Bernardino Arcay Varela, Minia Manteiga Outeiro

  • ``Non Linear Process Identification Using a Neural Network Based Multiple Models Generator'' (II-647)
    Kurosh Madani, Mariusz Rybnik, Abdennasser Chebira

  • ``Neural Networks & Antennas Design: an Application for Avoiding Interferences'' (II-750)
    Marcos Gestal, Julio Brégains, Juan Antonio Rodríguez, Julián Dorado

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: Posters  June, 5   11:50-13:30   Room: P
  ``Posters''
  Organizer & Chair: Juan Vicente Sánchez-Andrés
  Co-Chair: Gonzalo Joya
  • ``Stochastic Networks with Subthreshold Oscillations and Spiking Activity'' (I-32)
    Nazareth P. Castellanos, Francisco de Borja Rodríguez Ortiz, Pablo Varona

  • ``Diffusion Associative Network: Diffusive Hybrid Neuromodulation and Volume Learning'' (I-54)
    Pablo Fernández López, Carmen Paz Suárez Araujo, Patricio García Báez, Gustavo Sanchez Martín

  • ``Intersensorial summation as a nonlinear contribution to cerebral excitation'' (I-94)
    Isabel Gonzalo, Miguel A. Porras

  • ``Progressive Concept Formation in Self-organising Maps'' (I-326)
    Emilio Corchado, Colin Fyfe

  • ``Spurious minima and basins of attraction in higher-order Hopfield networks'' (I-350)
    Miguel Atencia, Gonzalo Joya, Francisco Sandoval

  • ``Cooperative Co-evolution of Multilayer Perceptrons'' (I-358)
    Pedro A. Castillo Valdivieso, Maribel García Arenas, Juan J. Merelo Guervós, Gustavo Romero López

  • ``Designing a Phenotypic Distance Index for Radial Basis Function Neural Networks'' (I-454)
    Jesús González, Ignacio Rojas, Héctor Pomares, Julio Ortega Lopera

  • ``Co-Evolutionary Algorithm for RBF by Self-Organizing Population of neurons'' (I-470)
    Antonio Jesús Rivera Rivas, Julio Ortega Lopera, Ignacio Rojas, M.J Del Jesus

  • ``Visualization of Neural Net Evolution'' (I-534)
    Gustavo Romero López, Maribel García Arenas, Pedro A. Castillo Valdivieso, Juan J. Merelo Guervós

  • ``Studying the Convergence of the CFA Algorithm'' (I-550)
    Jesús González, Ignacio Rojas, Héctor Pomares, Julio Ortega Lopera

  • ``New emulated discrete model of CNN architecture for FPGA and DSP applications'' (II-33)
    Jose Javier Martinez Alvarez, F. Javier Toledo Moreo, Jose Manuel Ferrández

  • ``XMLP: a Feed-Forward Neural Network with Two-Dimensional Layers and Partial Connectivity'' (II-89)
    Antonio Cañas, Eva Martinez Ortigosa, Antonio F. Díaz, Julio Ortega Lopera

  • ``Removal of Impulse Noise in Images by Means of the Use of Support Vector Machines'' (II-536)
    Hilario Gómez-Moreno, Saturnino Maldonado-Bascón, Francisco López Ferreras, Pedro Gil-Jiménez

  • ``Recognizing Images from ICA Filters and Neural Network Ensembles with Rule Extraction'' (II-544)
    Guido Bologna

  • ``Application of HLVQ and G-Prop neural networks to the problem of bankruptcy prediction'' (II-655)
    Pedro A. Castillo Valdivieso, Juan J. Merelo Guervós, Armando Vieira

  • ``Improved AURA k-nearest neighbour approach'' (II-663)
    Michael Weeks, Vicky Hodge, Simon O'Keefe, J. Austin

  • ``Web meta-search using Unsupervised Neural Networks'' (II-711)
    Sergio Bermejo, Javier Dalmau

  • ``Virtual Labs for Neural Networks E-Courses'' (II-719)
    Sergio Bermejo, Ferran Revilla, Joan Cabestany

  • ``Feedback Linearization Using Neural Networks: Application to an Electromechanical Process'' (II-758)
    Jose Ramón Alique, Rodolfo E. Haber, Angel Alique

  • ``Automatic Size Determination of Codifications for the Vocabularies of the RECONTRA Connectionist Translator'' (II-766)
    Gustavo A. Casañ Núñez, M. Asunción Castaño Alvarez

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: Plenary IV  June, 6   09:00-10:00   Room: A
  ``Another Applications of the SOM algorithm: how to use the Kohonen algorithm for forecasting'' -
  Marie Cottrell
  Chair: Francisco Sandoval
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: Functional Models  June, 6   10:00-11:20   Room: A
  ``Functional Models''
  Organizer & Chair: Jose Dorronsoro
  Co-Chair: Michel Verleysen
  • ``Independent Residual Analysis for Temporally Correlated Signals'' (I-158)
    Liqing Zhang, Andrzej Cichocki

  • ``MLP+H: a Hybrid Neural Architecture Formed by the Interaction of Hopfield and Multi-Layer Perceptron Neural Networks'' (I-166)
    Clayton Silva Oliveira, Emilio Del Moral Hernandez

  • ``Linear unit relevance in multiclass NLDA networks'' (I-174)
    Jose Dorronsoro, Ana González, Eduardo Serrano Jerez

  • ``Bootstrap for model selection: linear approximation of the optimism'' (I-182)
    Geoffroy Simon, Amaury Lendasse, Michel Verleysen

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: Speech Processing  June, 6   10:00-11:20   Room: B
  ``Non-linear Speech Processing (with NN)''
  Organizer & Chair: Marcos Faúndez-Zanuy
  Co-Chair: Carlos G. Puntonet
  • ``Non-Linear Speech coding with MLP, RBF and Elman based prediction'' (II-671)
    Marcos Faúndez-Zanuy

  • ``An Independent Component Analysis Evolution Based Method for Nonlinear Speech Processing'' (II-679)
    Fernando Rojas Ruiz, Carlos G. Puntonet, Ignacio Rojas, Julio Ortega Lopera

  • ``Generalizing Geometric ICA to Nonlinear Settings'' (II-687)
    Fabian Joachim Theis, Carlos G. Puntonet, Elmar Wolfgang Lang

  • ``An Adaptive Approach to Blind Source Separation Using a Self-Organzing Map and a Neural Gas'' (II-695)
    Fabian Joachim Theis, Manuel Rodríguez Alvarez, Carlos G. Puntonet, Elmar Wolfgang Lang

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: Aplications III  June, 6   10:00-11:20   Room: C
  ``Face Analysis using Neural Computing''
  Organizer & Chair: Javier Ruiz-del-Solar
  Co-Chair: Jose M. Jerez
  • ``Morphological Clustering of the SOM for Multi-dimensional Image Segmentation'' (I-582)
    Aureli Soria-Frisch, Mario Köppen

  • ``CBA generated receptive fields implemented in a Facial expression recognition task'' (I-734)
    Jose M. Jerez, Leonardo Franco, Ignacio Molina

  • ``A Hybrid Face Detector based on an Asymmetrical Adaboost Cascade Detector and a Wavelet-Bayesian-Detector'' (I-742)
    Rodrigo Verschae, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar

  • ``Neural Net Generation of Facial Displays in Talking Heads'' (I-750)
    Max H. Garzon, Kiran Rajaya

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: Applications IV  June, 6   10:00-11:20   Room: D
  ``Applications IV''
  Organizer & Chair: Juan A. Botía
  Co-Chair: Enrique Domínguez Merino
  • ``METALA: a Distributed System for Web Usage Mining'' (II-703)
    Juan A. Botía, Juan M. Hernansaez Amor, Antonio F. Gómez-Skarmeta

  • ``MISTRAL: A Knowledge-Based System for Distance Education that Incorporates Neural Networks Techniques for Teaching Decisions'' (II-726)
    Pedro Salcedo Lagos, M. Angélica Pinninghoff, Ricardo Contreras A.

  • ``A recurrent neural network model for the p-hub problem'' (II-734)
    Enrique Domínguez Merino, José Muñoz-Pérez, Enrique Mérida Casermeiro

  • ``Integrating Ensemble of Intelligent Systems for Modeling Stock Indices'' (II-774)
    Ajith Abraham, Andy AuYeung

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: Learning III  June, 6   11:50-13:30   Room: A
  ``Learning III''
  Organizer & Chair: José Muñoz-Pérez
  Co-Chair: Joern Fischer
  • ``A Fuzzy Prototype Induction Algorithm'' (I-286)
    Ines Gonzalez Rodriguez, Jonathan Lawry, Jim F Baldwin

  • ``A Recurrent Multivalued Neural Network for codebook generation in Vector Quantization'' (I-294)
    Rafaela Benitez Rochel, José Muñoz-Pérez, Enrique Mérida Casermeiro

  • ``The recurrent IML-network'' (I-302)
    Joern Fischer

  • ``Estimation of Multidimensional Regression Model with Multilayer Perceptrons'' (I-310)
    Joseph Rynkiewicz

  • ``Principal Components Analysis Competitive Learning'' (I-318)
    Ezequiel López-Rubio, José Muñoz-Pérez, Jose Antonio Gómez Ruiz

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: Nets Design  June, 6   11:50-13:30   Room: B
  ``Nets Design''
  Organizer & Chair: Michel Verleysen
  Co-Chair: Joan Cabestany
  • ``Current mode CMOS synthesis of a motor-control neural system'' (II-25)
    Ginés Domenech-Asensi, Ramon Ruiz-Merino, Hans Hauer, José Ángel Díaz-Madrid

  • ``An analogue current-mode hardware design proposal for preprocessing layers in ART-based neural networks'' (II-97)
    José Alejandro López Alcantud, José Ángel Díaz-Madrid, Hans Hauer, Ramon Ruiz-Merino

  • ``On the effects of dimensionality on data analysis with neural networks'' (II-105)
    Michel Verleysen, Damien François, Geoffroy Simon, Vincent Wertz

  • ``Hardware Optimization of a Novel Spiking Neuron Model for the POEtic tissue'' (II-113)
    Oriol Torres, Jan Eriksson, Juan M. Moreno Aróstegui, Alessandro Villa

  • ``Implementing a Margolus Neighborhood Cellular Automat on a FPGA'' (II-121)
    Joaquín Cerdá Boluda, Rafael Gadea Gironés, Guillermo Paya Vaya

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: Applications V  June, 6   11:50-13:30   Room: C
  ``Applications V''
  Organizer & Chair: Marley Vellasco
  Co-Chair: Carlos Hernandez-Espinosa
  • ``A Empirical Comparison of Training Algorithms for Radial Basis Functions'' (II-129)
    Mamen Ortiz-Gomez, Carlos Hernandez-Espinosa, Mercedes Fernandez-Redondo

  • ``Ensemble Methods for Multilayer Feedforward: A Experimental Study'' (II-137)
    Carlos Hernandez-Espinosa, Mercedes Fernandez-Redondo, Mamen Ortiz-Gomez

  • ``Multiple MLP Neural Networks Applied on the Determination of Segment Limits in ECG Signals'' (II-607)
    Alexandre Wolf, Carlos Hall Barbosa, Elisabeth Costa Monteiro, Marley Vellasco

  • ``Acoustic Features Analysis for Recognition of Normal and Hipoacusic Infant Cry Based on Neural Networks'' (II-615)
    José Orozco-García, Carlos A. Reyes-García

  • ``A Back Propagation Neural Network for Localizing Abnormal Cortical Regions in FDG PET Images in Epileptic Children'' (II-623)
    Siamak Pourabdollah Nejad, Otto Muzik, S. Draghici

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Session: Applications VI  June, 6   11:50-13:30   Room: D
  ``Applications VI''
  Organizer & Chair: Francisco Sandoval
  Co-Chair: Saturnino Maldonado-Bascón
  • ``A comparison of the performance of SVM and ARNI on Text Categorization with new filtering measures on an unbalanced collection'' (II-742)
    Elías F. Combarro, Elena Montañés, Jose Ranilla, J Fernández

  • ``Resolution of joint maintenance/production scheduling by sequential and integrated strategies'' (II-782)
    Fatima Benbouzid, Christophe Varnier, Nourredine Zerhouni

  • ``MLP and RBFN for detecting white gaussian signals in white gaussian interference'' (II-790)
    Pilar Jarabo Amores, Roberto Gil Pita, Manuel Rosa Zurera, Francisco López Ferreras

  • ``Feature reduction using Support Vector Machines for binary gas detection'' (II-798)
    Saturnino Maldonado-Bascón, Sherzad Al-Khalifa, Francisco López Ferreras

  • ``Artificial Neural Networks Applications for Total Ozone Time Series'' (II-806)
    Beatriz M. Monge Sanz, Nicolás J. Medrano Marqués