Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mathematical and theoretical methods -- Evolutionary computation -- Neurocomputational inspired models -- Learning and adaptation -- Radial basic functions structures -- Self-organizing networks and methods -- Support vector machines -- Cellular neural networks -- Hybrid systems -- Neuroengineering and hardware implementations -- Pattern recognition -- Perception and robotics -- Applications on data analysis and preprocessing -- Applications on data mining -- Applications on signal processing -- Applications on image processing -- Applications on forecasting -- Applications on independent component analysis and blind source separation -- Applications on power systems -- Other applications.

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