This special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks will be devoted to the area of neural networks as applied to financial engineering. For comparison purposes, discussion of other techniques from machine learning, artificial intelligence, genetic algorithms, fuzzy systems, pattern recognition, and related topics will also be considered. All contributed and invited papers will be refereed to ensure high quality of the results and their relevance to the readership of the Transaction. This announcement is also available in MS Word and PDF formats. However, the size of many data mining problems creates a challenge for commonly adopted conventional methods.
Issues related to the handling of categorical, imprecise or missing data are also important.
This special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks will be devoted to the rapidly emerging topic of neural networks for data mining and knowledge discovery. Although techniques from machine learning, artificial intelligence, fuzzy and genetic computing are also applicable and papers focused on hybrid approaches are welcome, the key focus of this journal implies that primary consideration will be given to the publication of papers which place emphasis on neural networks. Criteria to validate the extracted information should be provided for data mining methods. Dr. Joachim M. Buhmann Institut fuer Informatik Universitaet Bonn Roemerstr. To facilitate fast review process, electronic submissions are encouraged in pdf or postscript format to any of the guest editors by June 15, 1999.