Sun, who respectively presented the lectures "Computation in Neuromorphic Analog VLSI Systems", "On Connectionism and Rule Extraction", "Beyond Simple Rule Extraction: Acquiring Planning Knowledge from Neural Networks" (the last two papers being part of the special session mentioned below).

Section 1 - Invited Paper.- Computation in Neuromorphic Analog VLSI Systems.- Section 2 - Review Paper.- Neurofuzzy Approximator Based on Mamdani’s Model.- Section 3 - Eduardo R. Caianiello Lecture.- Topics in Blind Signal Processing by Neural Networks.- Section 4 - Mark Aizerman Lecture.- Fuzzy Measures and the Choquet Integral for Group Multicriteria Decision Making.- Section 5 - Architectures and Algorithms.- Solving Min Vertex Cover with Iterated Hopfield Networks.- Recursive Processing of Directed Acyclic Graphs.- Detecting Uncertainty Regions for Characterizing Classification Problems.- Support Vector Machines for Uncertainty Region Detection.- A Learning Algorithm for Piecewise Linear Regression.- Specific Sequence Learning by an Adaptable Boolean Neural Network.- Node Relevance Determination.- Learning Distributed Representations of Relational Data Using Linear Relational Embedding.- Payoff-Monotonic Game Dynamics for the Maximum Clique Problem.- Phase Transitions in a Neural Model of Problem Solving.- A Cortical Architecture for the Binocular Perception of Motion-in-Depth.- Section 6 - Image and Signal Processing.- A Neural Network-Based Approach to System Identification for Whitening Interferometer Spectra.- A Neural Cursive Character Recognizer.- Optimal Parameters in Neural Network Models for Speech Phoneme Characterization.- Signal Classification Using Neural Networks.- Applying LSTM to Time Series Predictable Through Time-Window Approaches.- Standard Error Estimation in Neural Network Regression Models: The AR-Sieve Bootstrap Approach.- Fuzzy Connections in Realistic Real-Time Facial Amination.- Section 7 - Applications.- An Acoustic Passive Detector for Traffic Counts with Neural Networks.- A Fuzzy-G.M.D.H. Approach to V.a.R..- Self-Organizing Maps forContent-Based Music Clustering.- Development of a Fuzzy Logic Control for Dialysis Application.- Evaluation of Teaching Activity Through a Fuzzy System.- A Neural Solution to the Symbol Grounding Problem.- Hole Identification System in Conducting Plates by Using Wavelet Networks.- Neuro-Fuzzy Techniques to Estimate and Predict Atmospheric Pollutant Levels.- Section 8 - Special Session: From Synapses to Rules.- On Connectionism and Rule Extraction.- Beyond Simple Rule Extraction: Acquiring Planning Knowledge from Neural Networks.- Twisting Features with Properties.- Neural Nets and the Puzzle of Intentionality.- Where Thought Lives: Place or Palace?.- Author Index.