This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the 14th Italian Workshop on Neural Networks, WIRN VIETRI 2003, held in Vietri sul Mare, Italy in June 2003.
The 41 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and improved during two rounds of selection and refereeing. The papers are organized in topical sections on models for neural computation; architectures and algorithms; image and signal processing; applications; bioinformatics and statistics; and formats of knowledge: words, images, and narratives.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science Edited by G. Goos, J. Hartmanis, and J. van Leeuwen 2859 3 Berlin Heidelberg New York Hong Kong London Milan Paris Tokyo Bruno Apolloni Maria Marinaro Roberto Tagliaferri (Eds.) Neural Nets 14th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets, WIRN VIETRI 2003 Vietri sul Mare, Italy, June 4-7, 2003 Revised Papers 13 Series Editors Gerhard Goos, Karlsruhe University, Germany Juris Hartmanis, Cornell University, NY, USA Jan van Leeuwen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Volume Editors Bruno Apolloni Università di Milano, Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Informazione Via Comelico 39/41, 20135 Milano, Italy E-mail:
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