Foreword
Welcome to the 2006 8th Seminar on Neural Network
Applications in Electrical Engineering (NEUREL-2006)!
The NEUREL
conferences have been organized as biennial events to allow scientists, experts
and engineers working in diverse areas to report their recent research in the
field of neural networks (NNs) and fuzzy systems, and to contribute to their
applications, mainly, but not only, in electrical engineering. A very strong
attention is addressed to biomedical aspects on NNs, as well. From the first
NEUREL, started in 1990 as a result of enthusiastic work of several professors,
particularly our late professor Rajko Tomović (1919-2001), up to now NEUREL conferences were organized despite very hard situation
in this region in last time. Despite the disintegration of the former
Yugoslavia, NEUREL Seminars have survived; the second NEUREL was held in winter
1992/93, under an enormous inflation in Yugoslavia, as a series of lectures
offered from Saturday-to-Saturday, and organized by our late professor Mirko
Milić (1932-1993). The third NEUREL was held in September 1995, following
the intentions of the first Seminar. The fourth NEUREL (in 1997) was organized
by the IEEE Yugoslavia CAS-SP Chapter and the IEEE Yugoslavia Section and was
very successful. The fourth, fifth (2000), sixth (2002), and seventh NEUREL
(2004), were also technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing
Society and/or the IEEE CAS Society and IEEE Artificial Intelligence Society
(now renamed to Computational Intelligence Society), as well as of the IEEE
Region 8.
The 8th NEUREL is
technically co-sponsored by IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, and IEEE Region
8. The conference topics cover many relevant aspects of the area of computational
intelligence. After reviewing submitted manuscripts, 33 papers, authored by more
than 100 authors/co-authors, from 16 countries, have been accepted for
presentation at the Conference. Note that two Special Sessions are organized as
well, covering two very actual fields: Application
of AI Methods in Semantic Analysis of Digital Media, and Analysis of Biomedical Signals by Using
Neural Networks
Besides, we have four Plenary Lectures
devoted to new trends in computational intelligence. All accepted papers are
printed in the Conference Proceedings and recorded on the Conference CD-ROM,
published through the IEEE Conference Publications Program. Selected papers is expected to
be published in the Journal of Automatic Control (ISSN
0354-124X, http://control.etf.bg.ac.yu/JAC/main.htm)
We would like to express our thanks to all the
contributors who submitted their papers to NEUREL-2006 for review. Certainly,
we could not have had such a high quality technical program without their
contributions. Also, our sincere thanks go to the reviewers, for their
dedicated efforts in reviewing the submitted papers. Technical and Organizing
Committees made exceptional efforts in organizing the Conference and in preparing
the Conference Proceedings, and we are grateful to them.
Also, we would like to express our gratitude to our friends and
sponsors. Without their help and support, the Conference definitely would not
be held.
The next NEUREL Conference is scheduled for 2008. We
do hope that we will meet again in NEUREL-2008, sharing our experiences.
Belgrade, September 2006
Editors:
Prof. Dr. Branimir Reljin
Prof. Dr. Srđan Stanković