Sponsors: Southeast University, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Chinese University of Hong Kong, University of Illinois at Chicago, and K. C. Wong Education Foundation of Hong Kong Technical Co-Sponsors: IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, IEEE Nanjing Section, International Neural Network Society, European Neural Network Society, and Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly FINAL PROGRAM June 3-7, 2007 Mandarin Garden Hotel, Nanjing, China http://www.acae.cuhk.edu.hk/~isnn2007 or http://liu.ece.uic.edu/ISNN07 Cover page is created using MS WORD. Keep the inside cover blank. Next page is the 1st page. 2007 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON NEURAL NETWORKS June 3–7, 2007 Mandarin Garden Hotel, Nanjing, China http://liu.ece.uic.edu/ISNN07, http://www2.acae.cuhk.edu.hk/»isnn2007 GREETINGS FROM THE GENERAL CHAIRS Welcome to ISNN 2007–the Fourth International Symposium on Neural Networks, which will be held in Nanjing, as a sequel of ISNN 2004/ISNN 2005/ISNN 2006. Nanjing is an old capital of China, a modern metropolitan with 2470-year history and rich cultural heritage. We hope that you have a technically rewarding experience as well as some memorable experiences in this great city. ISNN 2007 aims to provide a high-level international forum for scientists, engineers, and educators to present the state of the art of neural network research and applications in diverse fields. The symposium will feature plenary lectures given by worldwide renowned scholars, regular sessions with broad coverage, and some special sessions focusing on popular topics. Participants of ISNN 2007 will enjoy an extraordinary technical program thanks to the ISNN 2007 International Program Committee chaired by Zeng-Guang Hou and Huaguang Zhang and to Special Sessions Chairs Lei Guo and Wen Yu. Great thanks go to Publicity Chair Changyin Sun and Publications Chair Jinde Cao for their excellent work. Special thanks also go to other key conference organizing committee members including: Finance Chair Xinping Guan, Publicity Co-Chairs Zongli Lin and Weixing Zheng, Registration Chairs Hua Liang and Bhaskhar DasGupta, Local Arrangements Chairs Enrong Wang, Shengyuan Xu, and Junyong Zhai, Electronic Review Chair Xiaofeng Liao, and Symposium Secretariats Ting Huang and Jinya Song. We would like to also express our sincere gratitude to all reviewers of ISNN 2007 for the time and effort they have generously given to the symposium. We are very grateful to the National Natural Science Foundation of China, K. C. Wong Education Foundation of Hong Kong, the Southeast University of China, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the University of Illinois at Chicago for their financial support. We are also grateful to IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, International Neural Network Society, European Neural Network Society, and Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly for their technical co-sponsorship. We would like to thank the members of the advisory committee and the steering committee for their support. We would also like to thank the publisher, Springer-Verlag, for cooperation in publishing the proceedings in the prestigious series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Enjoy the symposium! ISNN 2007 General Chair ISNN 2007 General Co-Chair Derong Liu Marios M. Polycarpou University of Illinois at Chicago, USA University of Cyprus and Yanshan University, China [email protected] [email protected] 2007 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON NEURAL NETWORKS June 3–7, 2007 Mandarin Garden Hotel, Nanjing, China http://liu.ece.uic.edu/ISNN07, http://www2.acae.cuhk.edu.hk/»isnn2007 ISNN 2007 ORGANIZATION General Chair General Co-Chair Derong Liu Marios M. Polycarpou University of Illinois at Chicago, USA University of Cyprus and Yanshan University, China [email protected] [email protected] Program Chair Program Chair Zeng-Guang Hou Huaguang Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences Northeastern University, China [email protected] [email protected] Special Sessions Chair Special Sessions Chair Lei Guo Wen Yu Southeast University, China CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico [email protected] [email protected] Finance Chair Publicity Chair Xinping Guan Changyin Sun Yanshan University, China Hohai University, China [email protected] [email protected] Publicity Co-Chair Publicity Co-Chair Zongli Lin Weixing Zheng University of Virginia, USA University of Western Sydney, Australia [email protected] [email protected] Publications Chair Registrations Chair Jinde Cao Hua Liang Southeast University, China Hohai University, China [email protected] [email protected] Registrations Chair Local Arrangements Chair Bhaskar DasGupta Enrong Wang University of Illinois at Chicago Nanjing Normal University, China [email protected] [email protected] Local Arrangements Chair Local Arrangements Chair Junyong Zhai Shengyuan Xu Southeast University, China Nanjing Univ. of Science and Technology, China [email protected] [email protected] Electronic Review Chair Symposium Secretariats Xiaofeng Liao Ting Huang, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, USA Chongqing University, China Jinya Song, Hohai University, China xfl[email protected] [email protected], [email protected] 2 Organizing Chair Advisory Committee Chair Shumin Fei Shun-Ichi Amari Southeast University, China RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan [email protected] [email protected] Advisory Committee Chair Advisory Committee Chair Chunbo Feng Zhenya He Southeast University, China Southeast University, China [email protected] [email protected] Advisory Committee Members Hojjat Adeli Moonis Ali Ohio State University, USA Texas State University-San Marcos, USA [email protected] [email protected] Zheng Bao Tamer Basar Xidian University, China University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA [email protected] [email protected] Tianyou Chai Guoliang Chen Northeastern University, China University of Science and Technology of China [email protected] [email protected] Ruwei Dai Dominique M. Durand Chinese Academy of Sciences Case Western Reserve University, USA [email protected] [email protected] Russ Eberhart David Fogel Indiana Univ. Purdue Univ. Indpls., USA Natural Selection, Inc., USA [email protected] [email protected] Walter J. Freeman Toshio Fukuda University of California-Berkeley, USA Nagoya University, Japan drwjfi[email protected] [email protected] Kunihiko Fukushima Tom Heskes Kansai University, Japan University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands [email protected] [email protected] Okyay Kaynak Frank L. Lewis Bogazici University, Turkey University of Texas at Arlington, USA [email protected] [email protected] Deyi Li Yanda Li Nat. Natural Science Foundation of China Tsinghua University, China [email protected] [email protected] Ruqian Lu John MacIntyre Chinese Academy of Sciences University of Sunderland, UK [email protected] [email protected] Robert J. Marks II Anthony N. Michel Baylor University, USA University of Notre Dame, USA Robert [email protected] [email protected] 3 Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou Erkki Oja Rutgers University, USA Helsinki University of Technology, Finland [email protected] [email protected].fi Nikhil R. Pal Vincenzo Piuri Indian Statistical Institute University of Milan, Italy [email protected] [email protected] Jennie Si Youxian Sun Arizona State University, USA Zhejiang University, China [email protected] [email protected] Yuan Yan Tang Tzyh Jong Tarn Hong Kong Baptist University Washington University, USA [email protected] [email protected] Fei-Yue Wang Lipo Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences Nanyang Technological University, Singapore [email protected] [email protected] Shoujue Wang Paul J. Werbos Chinese Academy of Sciences National Science Foundation, USA [email protected] [email protected] Bernie Widrow Gregory A. Worrell Stanford University, USA Mayo Clinic, USA [email protected] [email protected] Hongxin Wu Youlun Xiong Chinese Academy of Space Technology Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China whx [email protected] [email protected] Lei Xu Shuzi Yang Chinese University of Hong Kong Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China [email protected] [email protected] Xin Yao Bo Zhang University of Birmingham, UK Tsinghua University, China [email protected] [email protected] Siying Zhang Nanning Zheng Qingdao University, China Xi’An Jiaotong University, China [email protected] [email protected] Jacek M. Zurada University of Louisville, USA [email protected] 4 Steering Committee Chair Steering Committee Co-Chair Jun Wang Zongben Xu Chinese University of Hong Kong Xi’An Jiaotong University, China [email protected] [email protected] Steering Committee Members Tianping Chen Andrzej Cichocki Fudan University, China Brain Science Institute, Japan [email protected] [email protected] Wlodzislaw Duch Chengan Guo Nicholaus Copernicus University, Poland Dalian University of Technology, China [email protected] [email protected] Anthony Kuh Xiaofeng Liao University of Hawaii, USA Chongqing University, China [email protected] xfl[email protected] Xiaoxin Liao Bao-Liang Lu Huazhong Univ. Science and Tech., China Shanghai Jiaotong University, China xiaoxin [email protected] [email protected] Chenghong Wang Leszek Rutkowski Nat. Natural Science Foundation of China Technical University of Czestochowa, Poland [email protected] [email protected] Zengqi Sun Donald C. Wunsch II Tsinghua University, China University of Missouri-Rolla, USA [email protected] [email protected] Gary G. Yen Zhang Yi Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, USA Univ. of Electronic Science and Technology, China [email protected] [email protected] Hujun Yin Liming Zhang University of Manchester, UK Fudan University, China [email protected] [email protected] Chunguang Zhou Jilin University, China [email protected] 5 2007 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON NEURAL NETWORKS Program Chair: Zeng-Guang Hou, Chinese Academy of Sciences Program Chair: Huaguang Zhang, Northeastern University, China ISNN 2007 International Program Committee Members: Shigeo Abe, Ajith Abraham, Khurshid Ahmad, Angelo Alessandri, Sabri Arik, K.