ICANN, the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, is the official conference series of the European Neural Network Society which started in Helsinki in 1991. Since then ICANN has taken place in Brighton, Amsterdam, Sorrento, Paris, Bochum and Lausanne, and has become Europe's major meeting in the field of neural networks. This book contains the proceedings of ICANN 98, held 2-4 September 1998 in Skovde, Sweden. Of 340 submissions to ICANN 98, 180 were accepted for publication and presentation at the conference. In addition, this book contains seven invited papers presented at the conference. A conference of this size is obviously not organized by three individuals alone. We therefore would like to thank the following people and organizations for supporting ICANN 98 in one way or another: • the European Neural Network Society and the Swedish Neural Network Society for their active support in the organization of this conference, • the Programme Committee and all reviewers for the hard and timely work that was required to produce more than 900 reviews during April 1998, • the Steering Committee which met in Skovde in May 1998 for the final selection of papers and the preparation of the conference program, • the other Module Chairs: Bengt Asker (Industry and Research), Harald Brandt (Applications), Anders Lansner (Computational Neuroscience and Brain Theory), Thorsteinn Rognvaldsson (Theory), Noel Sharkey (co chair Autonomous Robotics and Adaptive Behavior), Bertil Svensson (Hardware and Implementations), • the conference secretary, Leila Khammari, and the rest of the

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Invited Presentations.- Oral Presentations: Theory: Theory I: Algorithms.- Theory II: Dynamical systems, Time Series.- Theory III: Signal Decomposition Methods.- Theory IV: Learning Theory.- Oral Presentations: Applications: Applications I: Process Control, Diagnosis.- Applications II: Image Processing.- Applications III: Speech, Telecom, Finance.- Applications IV: Medicine, Sequence Analysis.- Applications V: Hybrid Systems, General Techniques.- Oral Presentations: Computational Neuroscience and Brain Theory.- Oral Presentations: Connectionist Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence.- Oral Presentations: Autonomous Robotics and Adaptive Behavior.- Oral Presentations: Hardware and Implementations.- Contents, Volume 2: Poster Presentations Poster Presentations: Theory Spotlight Presentations: Theory I: Algorithms.- Spotlight Presentations: Theory II: Dynamical Systems, Time Series.- Spotlight Presentation: Theory IH: Signal Decomposition Methods.- Poster Session I: Theory.- PosterSession II: Theory.- Poster Presentations: Applications Spotlight Presentations: Applications I: Process Control, Diagnosis.- Spotlight Presentations: Applications II: Image Processing.- Spotlight Presentations: Applications III: Speech, Telecom, Finance.- Spotlight Presentations: Applications IV: Medicine, Sequence Analysis, Environment.- Poster Session I: Applications.- Poster Session II: Applications.- Poster Presentations: Computational Neuroscience and Brain Theory Spotlight Presentations: Computational Neuroscience and Brain Theory (1).- Spotlight Presentations: Computational Neuroscience and Brain Theory (2).- Poster Session I: Computational Neuroscience and Brain Theory.- Poster Session II: Computational Neuroscience and Brain Theory.- Poster Presentations: Connectionist Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence Spotlight Presentation: Connectionist Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence.- Poster Session I: Connectionist Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence.- Poster Presentations: Autonomous Robotics and Adaptive Behavior Spotlight Presentations: Autonomous Robotics and Adaptive Behavior (1).- Poster Session II: Autonomous Robotics and Adaptive Behavior.- Poster Presentations: Hardware and Implementations Spotlight Presentations: Hardware and Implementations.- Author Index.- Author Index.