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Tutorial
May 31, 2006, 15:40-17:40, Room A
Artificial Neural Networks: Fundamentals and Selected Open Problems
S.T. Fife Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, USA |
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (1998-2003) |
Summary: The opening part of the talk introduces basic premises of neurocomputing and modeling with neural networks. Neuromorphic models facilitate data-driven approximation, feature and knowledge extraction, dimensionality reduction, visualization, and logic rule discovery. The modeling often involves handling of heterogenous, subjective, imprecise and noisy data. This part concludes with providing overview of various architectures and their connections with classic approximation techniques. Selected applications are also discussed.
The second part of the presentation outlines open challenges of the field. They include weak neurobiological analogies, black box nature of the models and open question of their optimality. The concluding part of the talk reviews selected open aspects of associative memories, of dynamic programming and the capabilities of perceptron networks for producing understandable IF-THEN rules.
Biosketch
Dr. Jacek M. Zurada is the Samuel T. Fife Alumni Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky. He was the co-editor of the 2000 MIT Press volume Knowledge-Based Neurocomputing, and the author of the 1992 PWS text Introduction to Artificial Neural Systems. He is the author or co-author of more than 250 journal and conference papers in the area of neural networks and VLSI circuits. In 1998-2003 he was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks.
Dr. Zurada was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part I and Part II, and a member of the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of IEEE. Dr. Zurada served as the President of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society in 2004-05. He is a Distinguished Speaker of IEEE CIS and an IEEE Fellow. He has received a number of awards for distinction in research and teaching, including the Membership in Polish Academy of Sciences and the Title of the Professor by the President of Poland.
