Best Paper Awards of ANNIE '97

ANNIE 97 - Theoretical Developments in Techniques Award

Best Paper

Towards Finding the "Best" Representation for a Feedforward Neural Network

Farqad AlKhal
and
F.T. Sparrow

School of Industrial Engineering
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

First Runner-Up

Nested Adaptive Neural Network: A New Architecture

Jamshid Ghaboussi
and
M. Zhang
and
Xiping Wu
and
D. Pecknold

Department of Civil Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

Second Runner-Up

Prediction Based Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Environment

Sadayoshi Mikami

Chaotic Systems Engineering
Hokkaido University, Sapporo, JAPAN

ANNIE '97 - Novel Engineering Application Award

Best Paper

Image Enhancement Using Scale-Based Clustering Properties of the Radial Basis Function Network

J. Eledath
and
Joydeep Ghosh
Laboratory for Artificial Neural Systems, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

S.V. Ckaravarthy
Center for Theoretical Neuroscience
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

First Runner-Up

Wear Estimation for Turning Tools with Process-Specific Pre-Processing for Time-Delay Neural Networks

Bernhard Sick

University of Passau
Passau, GERMANY

Second Runners-Up

Improving Blow Molding Machine Performance with Neural Networks

Thomas L. Hemminger
and
Robert E. Farrell
School of Engineering and Engineering Technology
Penn State University, Behrend College, Erie, PA