Intelligent Systems

Published in honour of the 70th birthday of Yoh-Han Pao, George S. Dively Dis­ tinguished Professor of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, this festschrift embraces a remarkably diverse set of topics. Drawing from the fields of pattern recognition, engineering, artificial intelligence and artificial neural systems, it is a fitting testament to the extraordinary breadth of his professional in­ terests both in foundational research into the new technology of Intellig