Neural Networks Volume 58, Pages 1-148, October 2014

Special Issue on Affective Neural Networks and Cognitive Learning Systems for Big Data Analysis
Edited by Amir Hussain, Erik Cambria, Björn Schuller and Newton Howard

1. Affective neural networks and cognitive learning systems for big data analysis  
Pages: 1-3
Author(s): Amir Hussain, Erik Cambria, Björn Schuller, Newton Howard
   
2. Discrete particle swarm optimization for identifying community structures in signed social networks
Pages: 4-13
Author(s): Qing Cai, Maoguo Gong, Bo Shen, Lijia Ma, Licheng Jiao
   
3. An incremental community detection method for social tagging systems using locality-sensitive hashing
Pages: 14-28
Author(s): Zhenyu Wu, Ming Zou
   
4. Affective topic model for social emotion detection
Pages: 29-37
Author(s): Yanghui Rao, Qing Li, Liu Wenyin, Qingyuan Wu, Xiaojun Quan
   
5. Modeling virtual organizations with Latent Dirichlet Allocation: A case for natural language processing
Pages: 38-49
Author(s): Alexander Gross, Dhiraj Murthy
   
6. Semi-supervised word polarity identification in resource-lean languages
Pages: 50-59
Author(s): Iman Dehdarbehbahani, Azadeh Shakery, Heshaam Faili
   
7. Incorporating conditional random fields and active learning to improve sentiment identification
Pages: 60-67
Author(s): Kunpeng Zhang, Yusheng Xie, Yi Yang, Aaron Sun, Hengchang Liu, Alok Choudhary
   
8. A classification of user-generated content into consumer decision journey stages
Pages: 68-81
Author(s): Silvia Vázquez, Óscar Muñoz-García, Inés Campanella, Marc Poch, Beatriz Fisas, Nuria Bel, Gloria Andreu
   
9. Sentiments analysis at conceptual level making use of the Narrative Knowledge Representation Language
Pages: 82-97
Author(s): Gian Piero Zarri
   
10. Exploring personalized searches using tag-based user profiles and resource profiles in folksonomy
Pages: 98-110
Author(s): Yi Cai, Qing Li, Haoran Xie, Huaqin Min
   
11. Community-aware user profile enrichment in folksonomy
Pages: 111-121
Author(s): Haoran Xie, Qing Li, Xudong Mao, Xiaodong Li, Yi Cai, Yanghui Rao
   
12. A multi-label, semi-supervised classification approach applied to personality prediction in social media
Pages: 122-130
Author(s): Ana Carolina E.S. Lima, Leandro Nunes de Castro
   
13. Semantically-based priors and nuanced knowledge core for Big Data, Social AI, and language understanding
Pages: 131-147
Author(s): Daniel Olsher

Neural Networks Volume 57, Pages 1-166, September 2014

Neuroscience

1. Bayesian common spatial patterns for multi-subject EEG classification
Author(s): Hyohyeong Kang, Seungjin Choi
Pages: 39-50
  
2. Estimating the correlation between bursty spike trains and local field potentials
Author(s): Zhaohui Li, Gaoxiang Ouyang, Li Yao, Xiaoli Li
Pages: 63-72

3. Effect of hybrid circle reservoir injected with wavelet-neurons on performance of echo state network
Author(s): Hongyan Cui, Chen Feng, Yuan Chai, Ren Ping Liu, Yunjie Liu
Pages: 141-151

Learning Systems

4. Noise model based image -support vector regression with its application to short-term wind speed forecasting
Author(s): Qinghua Hu, Shiguang Zhang, Zongxia Xie, Jusheng Mi, Jie Wan
Pages: 1-11
   
5. Using financial risk measures for analyzing generalization performance of machine learning models
Author(s): Akiko Takeda, Takafumi Kanamori
Pages: 29-38
   
6. Fast Gaussian kernel learning for classification tasks based on specially structured global optimization
Author(s): Shangping Zhong, Tianshun Chen, Fengying He, Yuzhen Niu
Pages: 51-62
   
7. Semi-supervised information-maximization clustering
Author(s): Daniele Calandriello, Gang Niu, Masashi Sugiyama
Pages: 103-111
   
8. Model-based policy gradients with parameter-based exploration by least-squares conditional density estimation
Author(s): Voot Tangkaratt, Syogo Mori, Tingting Zhao, Jun Morimoto, Masashi Sugiyama
Pages: 128-140

Mathematical and Computational Analysis

9. Periodicity and dissipativity for memristor-based mixed time-varying delayed neural networks via differential inclusions
Author(s): Lian Duan, Lihong Huang
Pages: 12-22
   
10. Comparing fixed and variable-width Gaussian networks
Author(s): Věra Kůrková, Paul C. Kainen
Pages: 23-28
   
11. Synchronization of memristor-based recurrent neural networks with two delay components based on second-order reciprocally convex approach
Author(s): A. Chandrasekar, R. Rakkiyappan, Jinde Cao, S. Lakshmanan
Pages: 79-93
   
12. Sudoku associative memory
Author(s): Jiann-Ming Wu, Pei-Hsun Hsu, Cheng-Yuan Liou
Pages: 112-127

Engineering and Applications

13. Neural network for solving Nash equilibrium problem in application of multiuser power control
Author(s): Xing He, Junzhi Yu, Tingwen Huang, Chuandong Li, Chaojie Li
Pages: 73-78
   
14. A new switching design to finite-time stabilization of nonlinear systems with applications to neural networks
Author(s): Xiaoyang Liu, Daniel W.C. Ho, Wenwu Yu, Jinde Cao
Pages: 94-102
   
15. Image denoising using nonsubsampled shearlet transform and twin support vector machines
Author(s): Hong-Ying Yang, Xiang-Yang Wang, Pan-Pan Niu, Yang-Cheng Liu
Pages: 152-165

Neural Networks Volume 56, Pages 1-68, August 2014

1. A global coupling index of multivariate neural series with application to the evaluation of mild cognitive impairment
Pages: 1-9
Author(s): Dong Wen, Qing Xue, Chengbiao Lu, Xinyong Guan, Yuping Wang, Xiaoli Li

2. Relative entropy minimizing noisy non-linear neural network to approximate stochastic processes
Pages: 10-21
Author(s): Mathieu N. Galtier, Camille Marini, Gilles Wainrib, Herbert Jaeger

3. Ideal regularization for learning kernels from labels
Pages: 22-34
Author(s): Binbin Pan, Jianhuang Lai, Lixin Shen

4. Grid topologies for the self-organizing map
Pages: 35-48
Author(s): Ezequiel López-Rubio, Antonio Díaz Ramos

5. Synaptic dynamics: Linear model and adaptation algorithm
Pages: 49-68
Author(s): Ali Yousefi, Alireza A. Dibazar, Theodore W. Berger

International Neural Network Society Call for Nominations for Senior Member

The International Neural Network Society (INNS) is calling for nominations for Senior Member. The requirements for Senior Member are as follows:

1. A regular or affiliate member of the INNS, who has been an INNS member for at least 5 consecutive years, can be nominated by an INNS member for Senior Member.

2. The nominee must have demonstrated a significant contribution to the theory and/or applications and/or education and promotion of the subject discipline, and this must be stated in the nomination letter.

3. Final confirmation of the 2014 Senior Members will be made by the INNS Board of Governors and appropriate announcements will then be made, at least on the INNS website, www.inns.org, and in the INNS magazine.

4. New Senior Members will receive an updated membership certificate.

For 2014, nomination letters and a CV of the candidate can be sent via e-mail to the INNS VP for Membership, Irwin King at king@cse.cuhk.edu.hk with the subject line: 2014 INNS SM Nomination, by Friday, June 27, 2014.

Neural Networks, Volume 55, Pages 1-110, July 2014

Neuroscience
1. Detecting cells using non-negative matrix factorization on calcium imaging data
Pages: 11-19
Author(s): Ryuichi Maruyama, Kazuma Maeda, Hajime Moroda, Ichiro Kato, Masashi Inoue, Hiroyoshi Miyakawa, Toru Aonishi

        
Learning Systems
2. Discrete-time online learning control for a class of unknown nonaffine nonlinear systems using reinforcement learning   
Pages: 30-41
Author(s): Xiong Yang, Derong Liu, Ding Wang, Qinglai Wei
        
3. Stochastic nonlinear time series forecasting using time-delay reservoir computers: Performance and universality   
Pages: 59-71
Author(s): Lyudmila Grigoryeva, Julie Henriques, Laurent Larger, Juan-Pablo Ortega
        
4. A general soft label based Linear Discriminant Analysis for semi-supervised dimensionality reduction   
Pages: 83-97
Author(s): Mingbo Zhao, Zhao Zhang, Tommy W.S. Chow, Bing Li

        
Mathematical and Computational Analysis
5. Exponential synchronization of delayed memristor-based chaotic neural networks via periodically intermittent control   
Pages: 1-10
Author(s): Guodong Zhang, Yi Shen

6. A collective neurodynamic optimization approach to bound-constrained nonconvex optimization
Pages: 20-29
Author(s): Zheng Yan, Jun Wang, Guocheng Li
        
7. Stability analysis of fractional-order Hopfield neural networks with time delays
Pages: 98-109
Author(s): Hu Wang, Yongguang Yu, Guoguang Wen

        
Engineering and Applications
8. Towards limb position invariant myoelectric pattern recognition using time-dependent spectral features   
Pages: 42-58
Author(s): Rami N. Khushaba, Maen Takruri, Jaime Valls Miro, Sarath Kodagoda
        
9. Model, analysis, and evaluation of the effects of analog VLSI arithmetic on linear subspace-based image recognition   
Pages: 72-82
Author(s): Gonzalo Carvajal, Miguel Figueroa

Neural Networks new articles 19-25 May, 2014

1. Comparing fixed and variable-width gaussian networks
Author(s): Věra Kůrková, Paul C. Kainen

Call for papers: IJCNN 2015

The 2015 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks will be held at the Killarney Convention Centre in Killarney, Ireland, July 12–16, 2015. The conference is organized jointly by the International Neural Network Society and the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and is the premiere international meeting for researchers and other professionals in neural networks and related areas.

The range of topics covered include, but is not limited to the following. (See http://ijcnn.org/2015 for a more detailed list of topics).

• Neural network theory & models
• Pattern recognition
• Computational neuroscience 
• Machine learning
• Cognitive models 
• Collective intelligence
• Brain-machine interfaces 
• Hybrid systems
• Embodied robotics 
• Self-aware systems
• Evolutionary neural systems 
• Data mining
• Neurodynamics 
• Sensor networks
• Neuroinformatics 
• Agent-based systems
• Neuroengineering 
• Computational biology
• Hardware, memristors 
• Bioinformatics
• Neural network applications 
• Artificial life
• Machine vision 
• Connectomics
• Big data 
• Deep learning

The conference will feature:

• Contributed technical talks and posters of latest research from around the world.
• Plenary lecturers by world-famous researchers in neural networks and related fields.
• Special sessions covering topics of active current interest.
• Pre-conference tutorials and post-conference workshops with presentations by experts.
• Challenging competitions on applying neural networks to hard computational problems.

Important Dates

Special session & competition proposals submission: November 10, 2014
Tutorial and workshop proposal submission: December 15, 2014
Paper submission: January 15, 2015
Paper decision notification: March 15, 2015
Camera-ready submission: April 15, 2015

Organizing Committee

General Chair
De-Shuang Huang, Tongji University, China
dshuang@tongji.edu.cn 

Program Chair
Yoonsuck Choe, Texas A&M University, USA
choe@tamu.edu
 
Technical Program Co-Chair
Haibo He, University of Rhode Island, USA
he@ele.uri.edu
 
Technical Program Co-Chair
Asim Roy, Arizona State University, USA
Asim.Roy@asu.edu
 
Plenary Chair
Carlo Morabito, Mediterranea Univ., Italy
 
Special Sessions Chair
Mike Gashler, University of Arkansas, USA
 
Tutorials Chair
Martin McGinnity, University of Ulster, UK
 
Workshop Chair
Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Ensta Paris Tech, France
 
Poster Session Chair
Xiao-Hua (Helen) Yu, Cal Polytech Univ., USA
 
Competition Chair
Abir Hussain, Liverpool John Moores U., UK
 
Panels Chair
Juyang (John) Weng, Michigan State U., USA
 
Awards Chair
Plamen Angelov, Lancaster University, UK
 
Web Reviews Chair
Tomasz Cholewo, Lexmark Int’l Inc., US
 
Sponsors & Exhibits Chair
Hanning Zhou, Zhigu Technology, China
 
Publications Chair
Amir Hussain, University of Stirling, UK
 
International Liaison
Nikola Kasabov, Auckland U. of Tech., New Zealand
 
European Liaison
Peter Erdi, Kalamazoo College, USA
 
Publicity Co-Chair
Yun Raymond Fu, Northeastern Univ., USA
 
Publicity Co-Chair
Bill Howell, Natural Resources Canada, Canada
 
Local Arrangements Chair
Kang Li, Queens Univ., Belfast, UK
 
Webmaster
Jaerock Kwon, Kettering University, USA