. multilayer perceptron;. the Hopfield network;. associative memory models;. clustering models and algorithms;. t he radial basis function network;. recurrent neural networks;. nonnegative matrix factorization;. independent component analysis;.probabilistic and Bayesian networks; and. fuzzy sets and logic.

Introduction.- Fundamentals of Machine Learning.- Perceptrons.- Multilayer perceptrons: architecture and error backpropagation.- Multilayer perceptrons: other learing techniques.- Hopfield networks, simulated annealing and chaotic neural networks.- Associative memory networks.- Clustering I: Basic clustering models and algorithms.- Clustering II: topics in clustering.- Radial basis function networks.- Recurrent neural networks.- Principal component analysis.- Nonnegative matrix factorization and compressed sensing.- Independent component analysis.- Discriminant analysis.- Support vector machines.- Other kernel methods.- Reinforcement learning.- Probabilistic and Bayesian networks.- Combining multiple learners: data fusion and emsemble learning.- Introduction of fuzzy sets and logic.- Neurofuzzy systems.- Neural circuits.- Pattern recognition for biometrics and bioinformatics.- Data mining.