________________________ NEURAL COMPUTING SURVEYS ------------------------ A refereed electronic journal published on the World Wide Web http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~jagota/NCS MISSION One way to cope with the exponential increase in the number of articles published in recent years is to ignore most of them. A second, perhaps more satisfying, approach is to provide a forum that encourages the regular production -- and perusal -- of high-quality survey articles. This is especially useful in an inter-disciplinary, evolving field such as Neural Computing. This journal aims to bring the second approach to bear. It is intended to + encourage researchers to write good survey papers. + provides an efficiently searchable repository -- perhaps the first that comes to mind -- for researchers to look at in times of need. TOPICS COVERED All aspects of Neural Computing. See the web site for details. BOARD OF ADVISORS Yaser Abu-Mostafa Caltech Shun-ichi Amari U. of Tokyo/Riken Michael Arbib USC Andy Barto UMASS Eric Baum NEC Research Institute Leo Breiman UC,Berkeley Gary Cottrell UCSD Thomas G. Dietterich Oregon State U Jeff Elman UCSD Scott Fahlman CMU Lee C. Giles NEC Research Institute David Haussler UCSC Geoffrey Hinton U. of Toronto Anil Jain Michigan State U. Michael Jordan MIT Bart Kosko USC Wolfgang Maass TU-Graz, Austria Eric Mjolsness UCSD Michael Mozer Colorado U. Erkki Oja Lappeenranta U. Tech. Richard Palmer Duke U. Terrence Sejnowski Salk Inst. Lokendra Shastri ICSI Eduardo Sontag Rutgers U. Dave Touretzky CMU Lei Xu CUHK MANAGING EDITOR Arun Jagota UCSC & ICSI-Berkeley (vis) jagota@icsi.berkeley.edu EDITORIAL BOARD Chuck Anderson Colorado State U. Suzanna Becker McMaster U. Yoshua Bengio bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca Tim X. Brown U. of Colorado Wray Buntine wray@buntine.brainstorm.net Joydeep Ghosh ghosh@ece.utexas.edu Zoubin Ghahramani zoubin@cs.toronto.edu Arun Jagota jagota@icsi.berkeley.edu Pascal Koiran koiran@lip.ens-lyon.fr Pekka Orponen orponen@math.jyu.edu Barak Pearlmutter barak.pearlmutter@alumni.cs.cmu.edu Michael Perrone mpp@watson.ibm.com Anand Rangarajan rangarajan-anand@cs.yale.edu Juergen Schmidhuber juergen@idsia.ch Hava Siegelmann iehava@ie.technion.ac.il Yoram Singer singer@research.att.com Ron Sun rsun@cs.ua.edu John-Shawe Taylor john@dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk Sebastian Thrun thrun+@cs.cmu.edu Xin Wang xwang@cs.ucla.edu FEATURES AT A GLANCE Survey-only Postscript & Hypertext Attachments allowed Peer-reviewed No length restrictions No delays upon acceptance Free FORMS & ATTACHMENTS Survey papers may take the form of an ESSAY or a COMPENDIUM. ATTACHMENTS to an accepted paper -- optional to the authors -- allow use of the capabilities of the web to connect to several kinds of material closely related to the original paper. A clear separation is made between attachments (which are unrefereed and changable) and the main paper (which is refereed and not changable). See the web site for more details. HOW TO SUBMIT Electronic submissions (in postscript format) are strongly encouraged, to any one of the editors based on matching area (see web site for listing of areas of editors). A Latex style file will be available for the NCS format. See the web site for details. PRINT VERSION A print version, published by some leading publisher as a "backup" to the electronic version, is being considered. FTP ACCESS Those without convenient access to the World Wide Web might use anonymous ftp as follows (see the README file there): ftp://ftp.icsi.berkeley.edu/pub/ai/jagota ______________________________________________________________________________