The study of neural networks is enjoying a great renaissance, both in computational neuroscience, the development of information processing models of living bra

The two-volume set LNCS 4131 and LNCS 4132 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2006.

1. 1 The problem and the approach The model developed here, which is actually more a collection of com ponents than a single monolithic structure, traces a path