Best Paper Awards of ANNIE 94'

ANNIE 94 - Best Novel in Engineering Paper Winners

Best Paper

Skin Cancer Diagnosis Using Hierarchical Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems

F. Ercal, H.C. Lee, and W.V. Stoecker,
Department of Computer Science
University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, MO 65401

R.H. Moss
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, MO 65401

Best Paper

Immunized Neurocontrol for a Remotely Piloted Aircraft

J.C. Neidhoefer and K. Krishnakumar
Box 870280, Department of Aerospace Engineering
The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487

First Runner Up

Fractal Estimation of Flank Wear in Turning using Time-Delay Neural Networks

Satish T.S. Bukkapatnam, Soundar R.T. Kumara,
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Akhlesh Lakhtakia
Engineering Science and Mechanics
The Pennsylvania State University

ANNIE 94 - Best Theoretical Development Paper Winners

Best Paper

A Wavelet Neural Network for Function Approximation and Network Optimization

Kunikazu Kobayashi and Toyoshi Torioka
Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering
Faculty of Engineering, Yamaguchi University
2557 Tokiwadai, Ube-shi, Yamaguchi 755, JAPAN

First Runner Up

Theory of Hybrid Artificial Neural Networks Model with Magnetic Field Information

Haibin Liu and Yukinori Kakazu
Dept. of Precision Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Hokkaido University, N13-W8, Sapporo 060, JAPAN

Second Runner Up

Feed-Forward Neural Architectures for Membership Estimation and Fuzzy Classification

G. Purushothaman and N.B. Karayiannis
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204-4793