Neural Networks: New articles 15-21 February 2013

1. Local minima in hierarchical structures of complex-valued neural networks  
Author(s): Tohru Nitta
   
2. Nucleo-olivary inhibition balances the interaction between the reactive and adaptive layers in motor control  
Author(s): Ivan Herreros, Paul F.M.J. Verschure
   
3. A supervised multi-spike learning algorithm based on gradient descent for spiking neural networks
Author(s): Yan Xu, Xiaoqin Zeng, Lixin Han, Jing Yang

4. Adaptive Markov chain Monte Carlo for auxiliary variable method and its application to parallel tempering
Author(s): Takamitsu Araki, Kazushi Ikeda

5. Efficient self-organizing multilayer neural network for nonlinear system modeling
Author(s): Hong-Gui Han, Li-Dan Wang, Jun-Fei Qiao

6. First experiments with PowerPlay
Author(s): Rupesh Kumar Srivastava, Bas R. Steunebrink, Jürgen Schmidhuber

Deadline extended for IJCNN 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) 2013 has been extended to 1 March 2013. Proposals for tutorials, workshops and panel sessions will also be accepted until this date. This conference will be held in Dallas, Texas, 4-9 August 2013.