This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks,ICANN 2001, held in Vienna, Austria in August 2001. The 171 revised papers presented together with three invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from around 300 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on data analysis and pattern recognition, theory, kernel methods, topographic mapping, independent component analysis, signal processing, time series processing, agent-based economic modeling, selforganization and dynamical systems, robotics and control, vision and image processing, computational neuroscience, and connectionist and cognitive science.
