Volume 13, Number 3                                                                                   April 2000

     Neural Networks Letters

J. Ito, K. Kaneko 275 Self-organized hierarchical structure in a plastic network of chaotic units

M. Martin-Valdivia, A. Ruiz-Sepulveda, F. Triguero-Ruiz, 283 Improve local minima of Hopfiled networks with augmented Lagrange multipliers for large scale TSPs

    Current Opinions

D. Husmeier  287 Learning non-stationary conditional probability distributions

     Psychology and Cognitive Science

G. J. ven Tonder, Y. Ejima,  291 The patchwork engine: image segmentation from shape symmetries

     Neuroscience and Neuropsychology

S. M. Stringer, E. T. Rolls 305 Position invariant recognition in the visual system with cluttered environments

     Mathematical and Computational Analysis

K. Fukumizu, S. Amari, 317 Local minima and plateaus in hierarchical structure of multilayer perceptrons

M. A. R. Leisink, H. J. Kappen, 329 Learning in higher order Boltzmann machines using linear response
Y. Xia, J. Wang  337 A recurrent neural network for solving linear projection equations
S. J. Perantonis, V. Virvilis, 351 Efficient perceptron learning using constrained steepest descent
M. A. Kon, L. Plaskota 365 Information complexity of neural networks

    Technology

A. Datta, S. Pal, N. R. Pal 377 A connectionist model for convex-hull of a planar set
S. He, K. Reif, R. Unbehauen, 385 Multilayer neural networks for solving a class of partial differential equations

     Book review

R. D. S. Raizada  R.A. Wilson, F.C. Keil (Eds.); 397 A fruitful blend, or a trinket-box? A book review of the MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999, 964 pp., ISBN 0-262-73124-X, $149.95