Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2006: 16th International Conference, Athens, Greece, September 10-14, 2006, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

The two-volume set LNCS 4131 and LNCS 4132 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2006. The set presents 208 revised full papers, carefully reviewed and selected from 475 submissions. This first volume presents 103 papers, organized in topical sections on feature selection and dimension reduction for regression, learning algorithms, advances in neural network learning methods, ensemble learning, hybrid architectures, and more.