Advances in artificial neural networks, machine learning, and computational intelligence (ESANN 2013)

摘要

This special issue of Neurocomputing presents 14 original papers, which are extended versions of selected papers from the 21st European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN). ESANN is a single-track conference held annually in Bruges, Belgium, one of the most beautiful medieval towns in Europe, whose atmosphere favours efficient work as well as enjoyable cultural activities (Bruges is a UNESCO World Heritage site). ESANN is organised by Prof. M. Verleysen from Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium. The conference hosts a series of regular sessions about classification, clustering, recurrent networks, regression and forecasting, dimensionality reduction and feature selection, control and optimisation, etc. In addition, ESANN also welcomed in 2013 a few special sessions focussed on more particular topics like processing and analysis of hyperspectral data, machine learning for multimedia applications, developments in kernel design, human activity and motion disorder recognition (towards smarter interactive cognitive environments), and sparsity for interpretation and visualisation in inference models.