Recent years have witnessed a growth of interest in the special functions called ridge functions. These functions appear in various fields and under various gui

Presents the state of the art in the theory of ridge functions, providing a solid theoretical foundation.

Subject of multivariate splines presented from an elementary point of view; includes many open problems.

This volume presents new trends and developments in soft computing techniques. Topics include: neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, knowled

A review of radial basis founction (RBF) neural networks. A novel sequential learning algorithm for minimal resource allocation neural networks (MRAN). MRAN for