Advances in Natural Computation (vol. # 4222) : Second International Conference, ICNC 2006, Xi'an, China, September 24-28, 2006, Proceedings, Part II

This is volume I of the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Natural Computation, ICNC 2006. After a demanding review process 168 carefully revised full papers and 86 revised short papers were selected from 1915 submissions for presentation in two volumes. This first volume includes 130 papers related to artificial neural networks, natural neural systems and cognitive science, neural network applications, as well as evolutionary computation: theory and algorithms.