TABLE OF CONTENTS The authors would like to thank Dr. M. Kam, Dr. J.-C. Chow and Dr. H. H. Yan for their contribution to part of the research effort presented in this paper. Part of the material on multi-layer perceptrons has been reproduced from Reference 30 with the kind permission of the editor of the conference proceedings. The authors would further like to thank Dr. A. Germond for his valuable comments and discussions. Part of the material on Kohonen networks has been reprinted from References 23 and 53 with the kind permission of CRL Publishing Ltd. Thanks go further to the National Science Foundation for the support given under NSF Grant ECS-8922142 and to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne for the financial support of part of the research reported in this chapter.
