Proceedings 5th Brazilian Symposium on Neural Networks (Cat. No.98EX209)

The following topics were dealt with: reinforcement learning; sliding mode control; early stopped learning; RAM-based nets; radial basis function nets; blind source separation; independent component analysis; feedforward net initialisation; combinatorial models; superpositions and Boolean functions; motor flux observation; censored production rules; robot gesture recognition; fault detection; robot motion; pattern classification; target recognition; face recognition; speaker identification; fuzzy sets; music analysis; image compression; speech recognition; sparse distributed memory; density estimation; somatosensory cortex simulation; multispectral image classification; a coprocessor; analogue hardware; monolithic neural coprocessors; document retrieval; a calorimeter; river flow forecasting; laryngeal pathology identification; chemistry; clustering; number sequence identification; power system protection; and hydrothermal power system scheduling