Artificial Neural Networks — ICANN 2002

The International Conferences on Arti?cial Neural Networks, ICANN, have been held annually since 1991 and over the years have become the major European meeting in neural networks. This proceedings volume contains all the papers presented at ICANN 2002, the 12th ICANN conference, held in August 28– 30, 2002 at the Escuela T´ecnica Superior de Inform´atica of the Universidad Aut´onoma de Madrid and organized by its Neural Networks group. ICANN 2002 received a very high number of contributions, mor