Machine generated contents note: Series Editor's Preface v -- Volum e Editor's Prefacevii -- Chapter 1 Dimensionality Reduction Techniques for Interactive -- Visualization, Exploratory Data Analysis, and Classification1 -- A. KOnig -- Chapter 2 The Self-Organizing Map as a Tool in Knowledge Engineering 83 -- J. Himberg, J. Ahola, E. Alhoniemi, J. Vesanto and 0. Simula -- Chapter 3 Classification of Oceanic Water Types Using Self-organizing -- Feature Maps66 -- E. J. Ainsworth -- Chapter 4 Feature Selection by Artificial Neural Network for -- Pattern Classification 59 -- B. Chakraborty -- Chapter 5 MLP Based Character Recognition using Fuzzy Features and -- a Genetic Algorithm for Feature Selection 011 -- S. Sural and P K. Das -- Chapter 6 A New Clustering with Estimation of Cluster Number Based -- on Genetic Algorithms241 -- K. Imai, N. Kamiura and Y. Hata -- Chapter 7 Associative Classification Method361 -- A. Kanagawa and H. Takahashi -- Chapter 8 Recgonition of Shapes and Shape Changes in 3D-Objects -- by GRBF Network: A Structural Learning Algorithm to -- Explore Small-Sized Networks181 -- M. Okamoto, M. Hirakawa, N. Kinoshita, T Katsuki, -- T. Miyazaki, and M. Ishibashi -- Chapter 9 Non-Linear Discriminant Analysis Using Feed-Forward -- Neural Networks 691 -- T. Koshimizu and M. Tsujitani -- Chapter 01 Minimizing the Measurement Cost in the Classification -- of New Samples by Neural-Network-Based Classifiers522 -- H. Ishibuchi and M. Nii -- Chapter 11 Extraction of Fuzzy Rules from Numerical Data for Classifiers942 -- N. R. Pal and A. Sarkar -- Chapter 21 Genetic Programming Based Texture Filtering Framework572 -- M. Koppen and B. Nickolay -- Chapter 31 A Texture Image Segmentation Method Using Neural -- Networks and Binary Features503 -- J. Zhang and S. Oe -- Chapter 41 Image Retrieval System Based on Subjective Information033 -- K. Yoshida, T. Kato and T Yanaru -- About the Authors153 -- Keyword Index783