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This is part 3 (of 7) of a monthly posting to the Usenet newsgroup
comp.ai.neural-nets. See the part 1 of this posting for full information
what it is all about.

========== Questions ========== 
********************************

Part 1: Introduction

   What is this newsgroup for? How shall it be used?
   What is a neural network (NN)?
   What can you do with a Neural Network and what not?
   Who is concerned with Neural Networks?

Part 2: Learning

   What does 'backprop' mean? What is 'overfitting'?
   Why use a bias input? Why activation functions?
   How many hidden units should I use?
   How many learning methods for NNs exist? Which?
   What about Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Computation?
   What about Fuzzy Logic?
   How are NNs related to statistical methods?

Part 3: Information resources

   Good introductory literature about Neural Networks?
   Any journals and magazines about Neural Networks?
   The most important conferences concerned with Neural Networks?
   Neural Network Associations?
   Other sources of information about NNs?

Part 4: Datasets

   Databases for experimentation with NNs?

Part 5: Free software

   Freely available software packages for NN simulation?

Part 6: Commercial software

   Commercial software packages for NN simulation?

Part 7: Hardware

   Neural Network hardware?

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Subject: Good introductory literature about Neural
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Networks?
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0.) The best (subjectively, of course -- please don't flame me):
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Haykin, S. (1994). Neural Networks, a Comprehensive Foundation. Macmillan,
New York, NY. "A very readable, well written intermediate to advanced text
on NNs Perspective is primarily one of pattern recognition, estimation and
signal processing. However, there are well-written chapters on neurodynamics
and VLSI implementation. Though there is emphasis on formal mathematical
models of NNs as universal approximators, statistical estimators, etc.,
there are also examples of NNs used in practical applications. The problem
sets at the end of each chapter nicely complement the material. In the
bibliography are over 1000 references. If one buys only one book on neural
networks, this should be it."

Hertz, J., Krogh, A., and Palmer, R. (1991). Introduction to the Theory of
Neural Computation. Addison-Wesley: Redwood City, California. ISBN
0-201-50395-6 (hardbound) and 0-201-51560-1 (paperbound) Comments: "My first
impression is that this one is by far the best book on the topic. And it's
below $30 for the paperback."; "Well written, theoretical (but not
overwhelming)"; It provides a good balance of model development,
computational algorithms, and applications. The mathematical derivations are
especially well done"; "Nice mathematical analysis on the mechanism of
different learning algorithms"; "It is NOT for mathematical beginner. If you
don't have a good grasp of higher level math, this book can be really tough
to get through."

Masters,Timothy (1994). Practical Neural Network Recipes in C++. Academic
Press, ISBN 0-12-479040-2, US $45 incl. disks. "Lots of very good practical
advice which most other books lack."

Jacek M. Zurada (1992). Introduction To Artificial Neural Systems.
Hardcover, 785 Pages, 317 Figures, ISBN 0-534-95460-X, 1992, PWS Publishing
Company, Price: $56.75 (includes shipping, handling, and the ANS software
diskette). Solutions Manual available. Cohesive and comprehensive book on
neural nets; as an engineering-oriented introduction, but also as a research
foundation. Thorough exposition of fundamentals, theory and applications.
Training and recall algorithms appear in boxes showing steps of algorithms,
thus making programming of learning paradigms easy. Many illustrations and
intuitive examples. Winner among NN textbooks at a senior UG/first year
graduate level-[175 problems] Contents: Intro, Fundamentals of Learning,
Single-Layer & Multilayer Perceptron NN, Assoc. Memories, Self-organizing
and Matching Nets, Applications, Implementations, Appendix) 

1.) Books for the beginner:
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Aleksander, I. and Morton, H. (1990). An Introduction to Neural Computing.
Chapman and Hall. (ISBN 0-412-37780-2). Comments: "This book seems to be
intended for the first year of university education."

Beale, R. and Jackson, T. (1990). Neural Computing, an Introduction. Adam
Hilger, IOP Publishing Ltd : Bristol. (ISBN 0-85274-262-2). Comments: "It's
clearly written. Lots of hints as to how to get the adaptive models covered
to work (not always well explained in the original sources). Consistent
mathematical terminology. Covers perceptrons, error-backpropagation, Kohonen
self-org model, Hopfield type models, ART, and associative memories."

Dayhoff, J. E. (1990). Neural Network Architectures: An Introduction. Van
Nostrand Reinhold: New York. Comments: "Like Wasserman's book, Dayhoff's
book is also very easy to understand".

Fausett, L. V. (1994). Fundamentals of Neural Networks: Architectures,
Algorithms and Applications, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-334186-0. Also
published as a Prentice Hall International Edition, ISBN 0-13-042250-9.
Sample softeware (source code listings in C and Fortran) is included in an
Instructor's Manual. "Intermediate in level between Wasserman and
Hertz/Krogh/Palmer. Algorithms for a broad range of neural networks,
including a chapter on Adaptive Resonace Theory with ART2. Simple examples
for each network."

Freeman, James (1994). Simulating Neural Networks with Mathematica,
Addison-Wesley, ISBN: 0-201-56629-X. Helps the reader make his own NNs. The
mathematica code for the programs in the book is also available through the
internet: Send mail to MathSource@wri.com or try http://www.wri.com/ on the
World Wide Web.

Hecht-Nielsen, R. (1990). Neurocomputing. Addison Wesley. Comments: "A good
book", "comprises a nice historical overview and a chapter about NN
hardware. Well structured prose. Makes important concepts clear."

McClelland, J. L. and Rumelhart, D. E. (1988). Explorations in Parallel
Distributed Processing: Computational Models of Cognition and Perception
(software manual). The MIT Press. Comments: "Written in a tutorial style,
and includes 2 diskettes of NN simulation programs that can be compiled on
MS-DOS or Unix (and they do too !)"; "The programs are pretty reasonable as
an introduction to some of the things that NNs can do."; "There are *two*
editions of this book. One comes with disks for the IBM PC, the other comes
with disks for the Macintosh".

McCord Nelson, M. and Illingworth, W.T. (1990). A Practical Guide to Neural
Nets. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc. (ISBN 0-201-52376-0).
Comments: "No formulas at all"; "It does not have much detailed model
development (very few equations), but it does present many areas of
application. It includes a chapter on current areas of research. A variety
of commercial applications is discussed in chapter 1. It also includes a
program diskette with a fancy graphical interface (unlike the PDP
diskette)".

Muller, B. and Reinhardt, J. (1990). Neural Networks, An Introduction.
Springer-Verlag: Berlin Heidelberg New York (ISBN: 3-540-52380-4 and
0-387-52380-4). Comments: The book was developed out of a course on
neural-network models with computer demonstrations that was taught by the
authors to Physics students. The book comes together with a PC-diskette. The
book is divided into three parts: (1) Models of Neural Networks; describing
several architectures and learing rules, including the mathematics. (2)
Statistical Physiscs of Neural Networks; "hard-core" physics section
developing formal theories of stochastic neural networks. (3) Computer
Codes; explanation about the demonstration programs. First part gives a nice
introduction into neural networks together with the formulas. Together with
the demonstration programs a 'feel' for neural networks can be developed.

Orchard, G.A. & Phillips, W.A. (1991). Neural Computation: A Beginner's
Guide. Lawrence Earlbaum Associates: London. Comments: "Short user-friendly
introduction to the area, with a non-technical flavour. Apparently
accompanies a software package, but I haven't seen that yet".

Rao, V.B & H.V. (1993). C++ Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic. MIS:Press, ISBN
1-55828-298-x, US $45 incl. disks. "Probably not 'leading edge' stuff but
detailed enough to get your hands dirty!"

Wasserman, P. D. (1989). Neural Computing: Theory & Practice. Van Nostrand
Reinhold: New York. (ISBN 0-442-20743-3) Comments: "Wasserman flatly
enumerates some common architectures from an engineer's perspective ('how it
works') without ever addressing the underlying fundamentals ('why it works')
- important basic concepts such as clustering, principal components or
gradient descent are not treated. It's also full of errors, and unhelpful
diagrams drawn with what appears to be PCB board layout software from the
'70s. For anyone who wants to do active research in the field I consider it
quite inadequate"; "Okay, but too shallow"; "Quite easy to understand"; "The
best bedtime reading for Neural Networks. I have given this book to numerous
collegues who want to know NN basics, but who never plan to implement
anything. An excellent book to give your manager."

Wasserman, P.D. (1993). Advanced Methods in Neural Computing. Van Nostrand
Reinhold: New York (ISBN: 0-442-00461-3). Comments: Several neural network
topics are discussed e.g. Probalistic Neural Networks, Backpropagation and
beyond, neural control, Radial Basis Function Networks, Neural Engineering.
Furthermore, several subjects related to neural networks are mentioned e.g.
genetic algorithms, fuzzy logic, chaos. Just the functionality of these
subjects is described; enough to get you started. Lots of references are
given to more elaborate descriptions. Easy to read, no extensive
mathematical background necessary.

2.) The classics:
+++++++++++++++++

Kohonen, T. (1984). Self-organization and Associative Memory.
Springer-Verlag: New York. (2nd Edition: 1988; 3rd edition: 1989). Comments:
"The section on Pattern mathematics is excellent."

Rumelhart, D. E. and McClelland, J. L. (1986). Parallel Distributed
Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition (volumes 1 & 2).
The MIT Press. Comments: "As a computer scientist I found the two Rumelhart
and McClelland books really heavy going and definitely not the sort of thing
to read if you are a beginner."; "It's quite readable, and affordable (about
$65 for both volumes)."; "THE Connectionist bible".

3.) Introductory journal articles:
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Hinton, G. E. (1989). Connectionist learning procedures. Artificial
Intelligence, Vol. 40, pp. 185--234. Comments: "One of the better neural
networks overview papers, although the distinction between network topology
and learning algorithm is not always very clear. Could very well be used as
an introduction to neural networks."

Knight, K. (1990). Connectionist, Ideas and Algorithms. Communications of
the ACM. November 1990. Vol.33 nr.11, pp 59-74. Comments:"A good article,
while it is for most people easy to find a copy of this journal."

Kohonen, T. (1988). An Introduction to Neural Computing. Neural Networks,
vol. 1, no. 1. pp. 3-16. Comments: "A general review".

4.) Not-quite-so-introductory literature:
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Anderson, J. A. and Rosenfeld, E. (Eds). (1988). Neurocomputing: Foundations
of Research. The MIT Press: Cambridge, MA. Comments: "An expensive book, but
excellent for reference. It is a collection of reprints of most of the major
papers in the field." 

Anderson, J. A., Pellionisz, A. and Rosenfeld, E. (Eds). (1990).
Neurocomputing 2: Directions for Research. The MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.
Comments: "The sequel to their well-known Neurocomputing book."

Caudill, M. and Butler, C. (1990). Naturally Intelligent Systems. MIT Press:
Cambridge, Massachusetts. (ISBN 0-262-03156-6). Comments: "I guess one of
the best books I read"; "May not be suited for people who want to do some
research in the area".

Cichocki, A. and Unbehauen, R. (1994). Neural Networks for Optimization and
Signal Processing. John Wiley & Sons, West Sussex, England, 1993, ISBN
0-471-930105 (hardbound), 526 pages, $57.95. "Partly a textbook and partly a
research monograph; introduces the basic concepts, techniques, and models
related to neural networks and optimization, excluding rigorous mathematical
details. Accessible to a wide readership with a differential calculus
background. The main coverage of the book is on recurrent neural networks
with continuous state variables. The book title would be more appropriate
without mentioning signal processing. Well edited, good illustrations."

Khanna, T. (1990). Foundations of Neural Networks. Addison-Wesley: New York.
Comments: "Not so bad (with a page of erroneous formulas (if I remember
well), and #hidden layers isn't well described)."; "Khanna's intention in
writing his book with math analysis should be commended but he made several
mistakes in the math part".

Kung, S.Y. (1993). Digital Neural Networks, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs,
NJ.

Levine, D. S. (1990). Introduction to Neural and Cognitive Modeling.
Lawrence Erlbaum: Hillsdale, N.J. Comments: "Highly recommended".

Lippmann, R. P. (April 1987). An introduction to computing with neural nets.
IEEE Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Magazine. vol. 2, no. 4, pp
4-22. Comments: "Much acclaimed as an overview of neural networks, but
rather inaccurate on several points. The categorization into binary and
continuous- valued input neural networks is rather arbitrary, and may work
confusing for the unexperienced reader. Not all networks discussed are of
equal importance."

Maren, A., Harston, C. and Pap, R., (1990). Handbook of Neural Computing
Applications. Academic Press. ISBN: 0-12-471260-6. (451 pages) Comments:
"They cover a broad area"; "Introductory with suggested applications
implementation".

Pao, Y. H. (1989). Adaptive Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc. (ISBN 0-201-12584-6) Comments: "An
excellent book that ties together classical approaches to pattern
recognition with Neural Nets. Most other NN books do not even mention
conventional approaches."

Rumelhart, D. E., Hinton, G. E. and Williams, R. J. (1986). Learning
representations by back-propagating errors. Nature, vol 323 (9 October), pp.
533-536. Comments: "Gives a very good potted explanation of backprop NN's.
It gives sufficient detail to write your own NN simulation."

Simpson, P. K. (1990). Artificial Neural Systems: Foundations, Paradigms,
Applications and Implementations. Pergamon Press: New York. Comments:
"Contains a very useful 37 page bibliography. A large number of paradigms
are presented. On the negative side the book is very shallow. Best used as a
complement to other books".

Zeidenberg. M. (1990). Neural Networks in Artificial Intelligence. Ellis
Horwood, Ltd., Chichester. Comments: "Gives the AI point of view".

Zornetzer, S. F., Davis, J. L. and Lau, C. (1990). An Introduction to Neural
and Electronic Networks. Academic Press. (ISBN 0-12-781881-2) Comments:
"Covers quite a broad range of topics (collection of articles/papers ).";
"Provides a primer-like introduction and overview for a broad audience, and
employs a strong interdisciplinary emphasis".

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Subject: Any journals and magazines about Neural
================================================
Networks?
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[to be added: comments on speed of reviewing and publishing,
              whether they accept TeX format or ASCII by e-mail, etc.]

A. Dedicated Neural Network Journals:
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Title:   Neural Networks
Publish: Pergamon Press
Address: Pergamon Journals Inc., Fairview Park, Elmsford,
         New York 10523, USA and Pergamon Journals Ltd.
         Headington Hill Hall, Oxford OX3, 0BW, England
Freq.:   10 issues/year (vol. 1 in 1988)
Cost/Yr: Free with INNS or JNNS or ENNS membership ($45?),
         Individual $65, Institution $175
ISSN #:  0893-6080
WWW:     http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/inca/841
Remark:  Official Journal of International Neural Network Society (INNS),
         European Neural Network Society (ENNS) and Japanese Neural
         Network Society (JNNS).
         Contains Original Contributions, Invited Review Articles, Letters
         to Editor, Book Reviews, Editorials, Announcements, Software Surveys.

Title:   Neural Computation
Publish: MIT Press
Address: MIT Press Journals, 55 Hayward Street Cambridge,
         MA 02142-9949, USA, Phone: (617) 253-2889
Freq.:   Quarterly (vol. 1 in 1989)
Cost/Yr: Individual $45, Institution $90, Students $35; Add $9 Outside USA
ISSN #:  0899-7667
URL:     http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/jrnls-catalog/neural.html
Remark:  Combination of Reviews (10,000 words), Views (4,000 words)
         and Letters (2,000 words).  I have found this journal to be of
         outstanding quality.
         (Note: Remarks supplied by Mike Plonski "plonski@aero.org")

Title:   IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
Publish: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Address: IEEE Service Cemter, 445 Hoes Lane, P.O. Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ,
         08855-1331 USA. Tel: (201) 981-0060
Cost/Yr: $10 for Members belonging to participating IEEE societies
Freq.:   Quarterly (vol. 1 in March 1990)
Remark:  Devoted to the science and technology of neural networks
         which disclose significant  technical knowledge, exploratory
         developments and applications of neural networks from biology to
         software to hardware.  Emphasis is on artificial neural networks.
         Specific aspects include self organizing systems, neurobiological
         connections, network dynamics and architecture, speech recognition,
         electronic and photonic implementation, robotics and controls.
         Includes Letters concerning new research results.
         (Note: Remarks are from journal announcement)

Title:   International Journal of Neural Systems
Publish: World Scientific Publishing
Address: USA: World Scientific Publishing Co., 1060 Main Street, River Edge,
         NJ 07666. Tel: (201) 487 9655; Europe: World Scientific Publishing
         Co. Ltd., 57 Shelton Street, London WC2H 9HE, England.
         Tel: (0171) 836 0888; Asia: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.,
         1022 Hougang Avenue 1 #05-3520, Singapore 1953, Rep. of Singapore
         Tel: 382 5663.
Freq.:   Quarterly (Vol. 1 in 1990)
Cost/Yr: Individual $122, Institution $255 (plus $15-$25 for postage)
ISSN #:  0129-0657 (IJNS)
Remark:  The International Journal of Neural Systems is a quarterly
         journal which covers information processing in natural
         and artificial neural systems. Contributions include research papers,
         reviews, and Letters to the Editor - communications under 3,000
         words in length, which are published within six months of receipt.
         Other contributions are typically published within nine months.
         The journal presents a fresh undogmatic attitude towards this
         multidisciplinary field and aims to be a forum for novel ideas and
         improved understanding of collective and cooperative phenomena with
         computational capabilities.
         Papers should be submitted to World Scientific's UK office. Once a
         paper is accepted for publication, authors are invited to e-mail
         the LaTeX source file of their paper in order to expedite publication.

Title:   International Journal of Neurocomputing
Publish: Elsevier Science Publishers, Journal Dept.; PO Box 211;
         1000 AE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Freq.:   Quarterly (vol. 1 in 1989)
WWW:     http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/inca/505628

Title:   Neural Processing Letters
Publish: D facto publications
Address: 45 rue Masui; B-1210 Brussels, Belgium
         Phone: (32) 2 245 43 63;  Fax: (32) 2 245 46 94
Freq:    6 issues/year (vol. 1 in September 1994)
Cost/Yr: BEF 4400 (about $140)
ISSN #:  1370-4621
URL:     http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/neural-nets/NPL/NPL.html
FTP:     ftp://ftp.dice.ucl.ac.be/pub/neural-nets/NPL
Remark:  The aim of the journal is to rapidly publish new ideas, original
         developments and work in progress.  Neural Processing Letters
         covers all aspects of the Artificial Neural Networks field.
         Publication delay is about 3 months.

Title:   Neural Network News
Publish: AIWeek Inc.
Address: Neural Network News, 2555 Cumberland Parkway, Suite 299,
         Atlanta, GA 30339 USA. Tel: (404) 434-2187
Freq.:   Monthly (beginning September 1989)
Cost/Yr: USA and Canada $249, Elsewhere $299
Remark:  Commercial Newsletter

Title:   Network: Computation in Neural Systems
Publish: IOP Publishing Ltd
Address: Europe: IOP Publishing Ltd, Techno House, Redcliffe Way, Bristol
         BS1 6NX, UK; IN USA: American Institute of Physics, Subscriber
         Services 500 Sunnyside Blvd., Woodbury, NY  11797-2999
Freq.:   Quarterly (1st issue 1990)
Cost/Yr: USA: $180,  Europe: 110 pounds
Remark:  Description: "a forum for integrating theoretical and experimental
         findings across relevant interdisciplinary boundaries."  Contents:
         Submitted articles reviewed by two technical referees  paper's
         interdisciplinary format and accessability."  Also Viewpoints and
         Reviews commissioned by the editors, abstracts (with reviews) of
         articles published in other journals, and book reviews.
         Comment: While the price discourages me (my comments are based
         upon a free sample copy), I think that the journal succeeds
         very well.  The highest density of interesting articles I
         have found in any journal.
         (Note: Remarks supplied by kehoe@csufres.CSUFresno.EDU)

Title:   Connection Science: Journal of Neural Computing,
         Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Research
Publish: Carfax Publishing
Address: Europe: Carfax Publishing Company, PO Box 25, Abingdon, Oxfordshire
         OX14 3UE, UK.
         USA: Carfax Publishing Company, PO Box 2025, Dunnellon, Florida
         34430-2025, USA
         Australia: Carfax Publishing Company, Locked Bag 25, Deakin,
         ACT 2600, Australia
Freq.:   Quarterly (vol. 1 in 1989)
Cost/Yr: Personal rate:
         48 pounds (EC) 66 pounds (outside EC) US$118 (USA and Canada)
         Institutional rate:
         176 pounds (EC) 198 pounds (outside EC) US$340 (USA and Canada)

Title:   International Journal of Neural Networks
Publish: Learned Information
Freq.:   Quarterly (vol. 1 in 1989)
Cost/Yr: 90 pounds
ISSN #:  0954-9889
Remark:  The journal contains articles, a conference report (at least the
         issue I have), news and a calendar.
         (Note: remark provided by J.R.M. Smits "anjos@sci.kun.nl")

Title:   Sixth Generation Systems (formerly Neurocomputers)
Publish: Gallifrey Publishing
Address: Gallifrey Publishing, PO Box 155, Vicksburg, Michigan, 49097, USA
         Tel: (616) 649-3772, 649-3592 fax
Freq.    Monthly (1st issue January, 1987)
ISSN #:  0893-1585
Editor:  Derek F. Stubbs
Cost/Yr: $79 (USA, Canada), US$95 (elsewhere)
Remark:  Runs eight to 16 pages monthly. In 1995 will go to floppy disc-based
publishing with databases +, "the equivalent to 50 pages per issue are
planned." Often focuses on specific topics: e.g., August, 1994 contains two
articles: "Economics, Times Series and the Market," and "Finite Particle
Analysis - [part] II."  Stubbs also directs the company Advanced Forecasting
Technologies. (Remark by Ed Rosenfeld: ier@aol.com)

Title:   JNNS Newsletter (Newsletter of the Japan Neural Network Society)
Publish: The Japan Neural Network Society
Freq.:   Quarterly (vol. 1 in 1989)
Remark:  (IN JAPANESE LANGUAGE) Official Newsletter of the Japan Neural
         Network Society(JNNS)
         (Note: remarks by Osamu Saito "saito@nttica.NTT.JP")

Title:   Neural Networks Today
Remark:  I found this title in a bulletin board of october last year.
         It was a message of Tim Pattison, timpatt@augean.OZ
         (Note: remark provided by J.R.M. Smits "anjos@sci.kun.nl")

Title:   Computer Simulations in Brain Science

Title:   Internation Journal of Neuroscience

Title:   Neural Network Computation
Remark:  Possibly the same as "Neural Computation"

Title:   Neural Computing and Applications
Freq.:   Quarterly
Publish: Springer Verlag
Cost/yr: 120 Pounds
Remark:  Is the journal of the Neural Computing Applications Forum.
         Publishes original research and other information
         in the field of practical applications of neural computing.

B. NN Related Journals:
+++++++++++++++++++++++

Title:   Complex Systems
Publish: Complex Systems Publications
Address: Complex Systems Publications, Inc., P.O. Box 6149, Champaign,
         IL 61821-8149, USA
Freq.:   6 times per year (1st volume is 1987)
ISSN #:  0891-2513
Cost/Yr: Individual $75, Institution $225
Remark:  Journal COMPLEX SYSTEMS  devotes to rapid publication of research
         on science, mathematics, and engineering of systems with simple
         components but complex overall behavior. Send mail to
         "jcs@jaguar.ccsr.uiuc.edu" for additional info.
         (Remark is from announcement on Net)

Title:   Biological Cybernetics (Kybernetik)
Publish: Springer Verlag
Remark:  Monthly (vol. 1 in 1961)

Title:   Various IEEE Transactions and Magazines
Publish: IEEE
Remark:  Primarily see IEEE Trans. on System, Man and Cybernetics;
         Various Special Issues: April 1990 IEEE Control Systems
         Magazine.; May 1989 IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems.;
         July 1988 IEEE Trans. Acoust. Speech Signal Process.

Title:   The Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence
Publish: Taylor & Francis, Ltd.
Address: London, New York, Philadelphia
Freq.:   ? (1st issue Jan 1989)
Remark:  For submission information, please contact either of the editors:
         Eric Dietrich                        Chris Fields
         PACSS - Department of Philosophy     Box 30001/3CRL
         SUNY Binghamton                      New Mexico State University
         Binghamton, NY 13901                 Las Cruces, NM 88003-0001
         dietrich@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu  cfields@nmsu.edu

Title:   The Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Publish: Cambridge University Press
Remark:  (Expensive as hell, I'm sure.)
         This is a delightful journal that encourages discussion on a
         variety of controversial topics.  I have especially enjoyed
         reading some papers in there by Dana Ballard and Stephen
         Grossberg (separate papers, not collaborations) a few years
         back.  They have a really neat concept: they get a paper,
         then invite a number of noted scientists in the field to
         praise it or trash it.  They print these commentaries, and
         give the author(s) a chance to make a rebuttal or
         concurrence.  Sometimes, as I'm sure you can imagine, things
         get pretty lively.  I'm reasonably sure they are still at
         it--I think I saw them make a call for reviewers a few
         months ago.  Their reviewers are called something like
         Behavioral and Brain Associates, and I believe they have to
         be nominated by current associates, and should be fairly
         well established in the field.  That's probably more than I
         really know about it but maybe if you post it someone who
         knows more about it will correct any errors I have made.
         The main thing is that I liked the articles I read. (Note:
         remarks by Don Wunsch )

Title:   International Journal of Applied Intelligence
Publish: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Remark:  first issue in 1990(?)

Title:   Bulletin of Mathematica Biology

Title:   Intelligence

Title:   Journal of Mathematical Biology

Title:   Journal of Complex System

Title:   International Journal of Modern Physics C
Publish: USA: World Scientific Publishing Co., 1060 Main Street, River Edge,
         NJ 07666. Tel: (201) 487 9655; Europe: World Scientific Publishing
         Co. Ltd., 57 Shelton Street, London WC2H 9HE, England.
         Tel: (0171) 836 0888; Asia: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.,
         1022 Hougang Avenue 1 #05-3520, Singapore 1953, Rep. of Singapore
         Tel: 382 5663.
Freq:    bi-monthly
Eds:     H. Herrmann, R. Brower, G.C. Fox and S Nose

Title:   Machine Learning
Publish: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Address: Kluwer Academic Publishers
         P.O. Box 358
         Accord Station
         Hingham, MA 02018-0358 USA
Freq.:   Monthly (8 issues per year; increasing to 12 in 1993)
Cost/Yr: Individual $140 (1992); Member of AAAI or CSCSI $88
Remark:  Description: Machine Learning is an international forum for
         research on computational approaches to learning.  The journal
         publishes articles reporting substantive research results on a
         wide range of learning methods applied to a variety of task
         domains.  The ideal paper will make a theoretical contribution
         supported by a computer implementation.
         The journal has published many key papers in learning theory,
         reinforcement learning, and decision tree methods.  Recently
         it has published a special issue on connectionist approaches
         to symbolic reasoning.  The journal regularly publishes
         issues devoted to genetic algorithms as well.

Title:   INTELLIGENCE - The Future of Computing
Published by: Intelligence
Address: INTELLIGENCE, P.O. Box 20008, New York, NY 10025-1510, USA,
212-222-1123 voice & fax; email: ier@aol.com, CIS: 72400,1013
Freq.    Monthly plus four special reports each year (1st issue: May, 1984)
ISSN #:  1042-4296
Editor:  Edward Rosenfeld
Cost/Yr: $395 (USA), US$450 (elsewhere)
Remark:  Has absorbed several other newsletters, like Synapse/Connection
         and Critical Technology Trends (formerly AI Trends).
         Covers NN, genetic algorithms, fuzzy systems, wavelets, chaos
         and other advanced computing approaches, as well as molecular
         computing and nanotechnology.

Title:   Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General
Publish: Inst. of Physics, Bristol
Freq:    24 issues per year.
Remark:  Statistical mechanics aspects of neural networks
         (mostly Hopfield models).

Title:   Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Publish: The American Physical Society (Am. Inst. of Physics)
Freq:    Monthly
Remark:  Statistical mechanics of neural networks.

Title:   Information Sciences
Publish: North Holland (Elsevier Science)
Freq.:   Monthly
ISSN:    0020-0255
Editor:  Paul P. Wang; Department of Electrical Engineering; Duke University;
         Durham, NC 27706, USA

C. Journals loosely related to NNs:
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Title:   JOURNAL OF COMPLEXITY
Remark:  (Must rank alongside Wolfram's Complex Systems)

Title:   IEEE ASSP Magazine
Remark:  (April 1987 had the Lippmann intro. which everyone likes to cite)

Title:   ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Remark:  (Vol 40, September 1989 had the survey paper by Hinton)

Title:   COGNITIVE SCIENCE
Remark:  (the Boltzmann machine paper by Ackley et al appeared here
         in Vol 9, 1983)

Title:   COGNITION
Remark:  (Vol 28, March 1988 contained the Fodor and Pylyshyn
         critique of connectionism)

Title:   COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
Remark:  (no comment!)

Title:   JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Remark:  (several good book reviews)

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Subject: The most important conferences concerned with
======================================================
Neural Networks?
================

[to be added: has taken place how often yet; most emphasized topics;
 where to get proceedings/calls-for-papers etc. ]

A. Dedicated Neural Network Conferences:
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

1. Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Annually since 1988 in
   Denver, Colorado; late November or early December. Interdisciplinary
   conference with computer science, physics, engineering, biology,
   medicine, cognitive science topics. Covers all aspects of NNs.
   Proceedings appear several months after the conference as a book from
   Morgan Kaufman, San Mateo, CA. 
2. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) formerly
   co-sponsored by INNS and IEEE, no longer held. 
3. Annual Conference on Neural Networks (ACNN) 
4. International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN) Annually
   in Europe. First was 1991. Major conference of European Neur. Netw. Soc.
   (ENNS) 
5. WCNN. Sponsored by INNS. 
6. European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN). Anually since
   1993 in Brussels, Belgium; late April; conference on the fundamental
   aspects of artificial neural networks: theory, mathematics, biology,
   relations between neural networks and other disciplines, statistics,
   learning, algorithms, models and architectures, self-organization, signal
   processing, approximation of functions, evolutive learning, etc. Contact:
   Michel Verleysen, D facto conference services, 45 rue Masui, B-1210
   Brussels, Belgium, phone: +32 2 245 43 63, fax: + 32 2 245 46 94, e-mail:
   esann@dice.ucl.ac.be 
7. Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering (ANNIE) Anually since 1991 in
   St. Louis, Missouri; held in November. (Topics: NN architectures, pattern
   recognition, neuro-control, neuro-engineering systems. Contact: ANNIE;
   Engineering Management Department; 223 Engineering Management Building;
   University of Missouri-Rolla; Rolla, MO 65401; FAX: (314) 341-6567) 
8. many many more.... 

B. Other Conferences
++++++++++++++++++++

1. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 
2. Intern. Conf. on Acustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 
3. Intern. Conf. on Pattern Recognition. Held every other year. Has a
   connectionist subconference. Information: General Chair Walter G.
   Kropatsch <krw@prip.tuwien.ac.at> 
4. Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society 
5. [Vision Conferences?] 

C. Pointers to Conferences
++++++++++++++++++++++++++

1. The journal "Neural Networks" has a list of conferences, workshops and
   meetings in each issue. This is quite interdisciplinary. 
2. There is a regular posting on comp.ai.neural-nets from Paultje Bakker:
   "Upcoming Neural Network Conferences", which lists names, dates,
   locations, contacts, and deadlines. It is also available on the WWW from 
   http://www.neuronet.ph.kcl.ac.uk/neuronet/bakker.html 

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Subject: Neural Network Associations?
=====================================

1. International Neural Network Society (INNS).
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

   INNS membership includes subscription to "Neural Networks", the official
   journal of the society. Membership is $55 for non-students and $45 for
   students per year. Address: INNS Membership, P.O. Box 491166, Ft.
   Washington, MD 20749. 

2. International Student Society for Neural Networks
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
   (ISSNNets).
   +++++++++++

   Membership is $5 per year. Address: ISSNNet, Inc., P.O. Box 15661,
   Boston, MA 02215 USA 

3. Women In Neural Network Research and technology
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
   (WINNERS).
   ++++++++++

   Address: WINNERS, c/o Judith Dayhoff, 11141 Georgia Ave., Suite 206,
   Wheaton, MD 20902. Phone: 301-933-9000. 

4. European Neural Network Society (ENNS)
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

   ENNS membership includes subscription to "Neural Networks", the official
   journal of the society. Membership is currently (1994) 50 UK pounds (35
   UK pounds for students) per year. Address: ENNS Membership, Centre for
   Neural Networks, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, United
   Kingdom. 

5. Japanese Neural Network Society (JNNS)
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

   Address: Japanese Neural Network Society; Department of Engineering,
   Tamagawa University; 6-1-1, Tamagawa Gakuen, Machida City, Tokyo; 194
   JAPAN; Phone: +81 427 28 3457, Fax: +81 427 28 3597 

6. Association des Connexionnistes en THese (ACTH)
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

   (the French Student Association for Neural Networks); Membership is 100
   FF per year; Activities: newsletter, conference (every year), list of
   members, electronic forum; Journal 'Valgo' (ISSN 1243-4825); WWW page: 
   http://www.supelec-rennes.fr/acth/welcome.html ; Contact: acth@loria.fr 

7. Neurosciences et Sciences de l'Ingenieur (NSI)
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

   Biology & Computer Science Activity : conference (every year) Address :
   NSI - TIRF / INPG 46 avenue Felix Viallet 38031 Grenoble Cedex FRANCE 

8. IEEE Neural Networks Council
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

   Web page at http://www.ieee.org/nnc 

9. SNN (Foundation for Neural Networks)
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

   The Foundation for Neural Networks (SNN) is a university based non-profit
   organization that stimulates basic and applied research on neural
   networks in the Netherlands. Every year SNN orgines a symposium on Neural
   Networks. See http://www.mbfys.kun.nl/SNN/. 

You can find nice lists of NN societies in the WWW at 
http://www.emsl.pnl.gov:2080/docs/cie/neural/societies.html and at 
http://www.ieee.org:80/nnc/research/othernnsoc.html. 

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Subject: Other sources of information about NNs?
================================================

1. Neuron Digest
++++++++++++++++

   Internet Mailing List. From the welcome blurb: "Neuron-Digest is a list
   (in digest form) dealing with all aspects of neural networks (and any
   type of network or neuromorphic system)" To subscribe, send email to
   neuron-request@cattell.psych.upenn.edu comp.ai.neural-net readers also
   find the messages in that newsgroup in the form of digests. 

2. Usenet groups comp.ai.neural-nets (Oha!) and
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
   comp.theory.self-org-sys.
   +++++++++++++++++++++++++

   There is a periodic posting on comp.ai.neural-nets sent by
   srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) about Neural Network patents.
   There is an archive of comp.ai.neural-nets on the WWW at 
   http://asknpac.npac.syr.edu (this is experimental, so it may go away some
   day, please tell me then). 

3. Central Neural System Electronic Bulletin Board
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

   Modem: 409-737-5222; Sysop: Wesley R. Elsberry; 4160 Pirates' Beach,
   Galveston, TX 77554; welsberr@orca.tamu.edu. Many MS-DOS PD and shareware
   simulations, source code, benchmarks, demonstration packages, information
   files; some Unix, Macintosh, Amiga related files. Also available are
   files on AI, AI Expert listings 1986-1991, fuzzy logic, genetic
   algorithms, artificial life, evolutionary biology, and many Project
   Gutenberg and Wiretap etexts. No user fees have ever been charged. Home
   of the NEURAL_NET Echo, available thrugh FidoNet, RBBS-Net, and other
   EchoMail compatible bulletin board systems. 

4. Neural ftp archive site ftp.funet.fi
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

   Is administrating a large collection of neural network papers and
   software at the Finnish University Network file archive site ftp.funet.fi
   in directory /pub/sci/neural Contains all the public domain software and
   papers that they have been able to find. All of these files have been
   transferred from FTP sites in U.S. and are mirrored about every 3 months
   at fastest. Contact: neural-adm@ftp.funet.fi 

5. USENET newsgroup comp.org.issnnet
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

   Forum for discussion of academic/student-related issues in NNs, as well
   as information on ISSNNet (see question 'associations') and its
   activities. 

6. AI CD-ROM
++++++++++++

   Network Cybernetics Corporation produces the "AI CD-ROM". It is an
   ISO-9660 format CD-ROM and contains a large assortment of software
   related to artificial intelligence, artificial life, virtual reality, and
   other topics. Programs for OS/2, MS-DOS, Macintosh, UNIX, and other
   operating systems are included. Research papers, tutorials, and other
   text files are included in ASCII, RTF, and other universal formats. The
   files have been collected from AI bulletin boards, Internet archive
   sites, University computer deptartments, and other government and
   civilian AI research organizations. Network Cybernetics Corporation
   intends to release annual revisions to the AI CD-ROM to keep it up to
   date with current developments in the field. The AI CD-ROM includes
   collections of files that address many specific AI/AL topics including
   Neural Networks (Source code and executables for many different platforms
   including Unix, DOS, and Macintosh. ANN development tools, example
   networks, sample data, tutorials. A complete collection of Neural Digest
   is included as well.) The AI CD-ROM may be ordered directly by check,
   money order, bank draft, or credit card from: Network Cybernetics
   Corporation; 4201 Wingren Road Suite 202; Irving, TX 75062-2763; Tel
   214/650-2002; Fax 214/650-1929; The cost is $129 per disc + shipping
   ($5/disc domestic or $10/disc foreign) (See the comp.ai FAQ for further
   details) 

7. NN events server
+++++++++++++++++++

   There is a WWW page and an FTP Server for Announcements of Conferences,
   Workshops and Other Events on Neural Networks at IDIAP in Switzerland.
   WWW-Server: http://www.idiap.ch/html/idiap-networks.html, FTP-Server: 
   ftp://ftp.idiap.ch/html/NN-events/, 

8. World Wide Web
+++++++++++++++++

   In World-Wide-Web (WWW, for example via the xmosaic program) you can read
   neural network information for instance by opening one of the following
   uniform resource locators (URLs): http://www.neuronet.ph.kcl.ac.uk
   (NEuroNet, King's College, London), http://www.eeb.ele.tue.nl (Eindhoven,
   Netherlands), http://www.emsl.pnl.gov:2080/docs/cie/neural/ (Richland,
   Washington), http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~rschwaig/rschwaig/projects.html
   (Salzburg, Austria), http://http2.sils.umich.edu/Public/nirg/nirg1.html
   (Michigan), http://www.lpac.ac.uk/SEL-HPC/Articles/NeuralArchive.html
   (London), http://rtm.science.unitn.it/ Reactive Memory Search (Tabu
   Search) page (Trento, Italy), http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/art/ (ART WWW
   site, Leiden, Netherlands), 
   Many others are available too; WWW is changing all the time. 

9. Neurosciences Internet Resource Guide
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

   This document aims to be a guide to existing, free, Internet-accessible
   resources helpful to neuroscientists of all stripes. An ASCII text
   version (86K) is available in the Clearinghouse of Subject-Oriented
   Internet Resource Guides as follows:

   ftp://una.hh.lib.umich.edu/inetdirsstacks/neurosci:cormbonario, 
   gopher://una.hh.lib.umich.edu/00/inetdirsstacks/neurosci:cormbonario, 
   http://http2.sils.umich.edu/Public/nirg/nirg1.html. 

10. Academic programs list
++++++++++++++++++++++++++

   Rutvik Desai <rutvik@c3serve.c3.lanl.gov> has a compilation of acedemic
   programs offering interdeciplinary studies in computational neuroscience,
   AI, cognitive psychology etc. at 
   http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/rudesai/cogsci-prog.html 

   Links to neurosci, psychology, linguistics lists are also provided. 

11. INTCON mailing list
+++++++++++++++++++++++

   INTCON (Intelligent Control) is a moderated mailing list set up to
   provide a forum for communication and exchange of ideas among researchers
   in neuro-control, fuzzy logic control, reinforcement learning and other
   related subjects grouped under the topic of intelligent control. Send
   your subscribe requests to intcon-request@phoenix.ee.unsw.edu.au 

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