1 Introduction -- 1 What is a Neural Network? -- 2 Computing with Neural Networks -- 3 Building the Correct Neural Network -- 4 When are Neural Networks Appropriate? -- 2 Neural Networks for Switching -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Switching -- 3 Neural Circuit Design -- 4 Neural Approaches to Switching -- 5 Conclusion -- 3 Routing in Random Multistage Interconnection Networks -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Communication System -- 3 Exhaustive Search and Greedy Routing -- 4 The Neural Network Router -- 5 Performance Measures for Routers -- 6 Simulation Results -- 7 Analysis -- 8 Conclusions and Future Work -- 4 ATM Traffic Control Using Neural Networks -- 1 Introduction -- 2 ATM Traffic Control -- 3 Neural Network Applications in the ATM Network -- 4 Adaptive Call Admission Control -- 5 Adaptive Link Capacity Control -- 6 Further Research Directions -- 5 Learning from Rare Events: Dynamic Cell Scheduling for ATM Networks -- 1 Introduction -- 2 ATM Networking -- 3 On-Line Dynamic Programming -- 4 Experimental Evaluation -- 5 Simulations -- 6 Conclusions -- 6 A Neural Model for Adaptive Congestion Control in ATM Networks -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Problem Formulation -- 3 Adaptive Learning Rate Algorithm -- 4 Neural Network Control Scheme -- 5 Simulation Results -- 6 Summary -- 7 Structure and Performance of Neural Nets in Broadband System Admission Control -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Neural Networks for Connection Admission Control -- 3 Example of a Neural Network for Admission Control -- 4 Conclusions -- 8 Neural Network Channel Equalization -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Brief Introduction to Digital Transmission Theory -- 3 Signal Detection and Estimation -- 4 Two Dimensional Signalling and Complex Neural Networks -- 5 Summary -- 9 Neural Networks as Excisers for Spread Spectrum Communication Systems -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Time Domain Processing -- 3 Conclusions -- 10 Static and Dynamic Channel Assignment Using Simulated Annealing -- 1 Problem Description -- 2 Existing Approaches -- 3 Applying Simulated Annealing to the Static CAP -- 4 Simulated Annealing in a Running System -- 5 Conclusions -- 11 Cellular Mobile Communication Design Using Self-Organizing Feature Maps -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Mobile Network Planning -- 3 Traffic Density Determination using a Self-organizing Feature Map -- 4 The Main Algorithm -- 5 Experimental Results -- 6 Conclusions -- 12 Automatic Language Identification Using Telephone Speech -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background -- 3 A Telephone Speech Corpus For Automatic Language Identification -- 4 Human Listening Experiments -- 5 A Segmental Approach to Automatic Language Identification -- 6 Summary and Future Work -- 13 Text-Independent Talker Verification Using Cohort Normalized Scores -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Talker Identification Background -- 3 Related Work -- 4 Cohort Normalization -- 5 STIMIT -- 6 Talker Identification System -- 7 Vector Quantization -- 8 Experiments on 90 Talkers -- 9 Experiments on All 630 Talkers -- 10 Multilayer Perceptron -- 11 Fixed Versus Variable Training Sentences -- 12 Preliminary Experiment on Real Telephone Speech -- 13 Discussion -- 14 Conclusion -- 14 Neural Network Applications in Character Recognition and Document Analysis -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Character Recognition Process -- 3 The Basic Recognizer: LeNet -- 4 Segmentation -- 5 Normalization -- 6 Finding the Region of Interest -- 7 Additional Applications -- 8 Conclusions -- 15 Image Vector Quantization by Neural Networks -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Neural Networks for Vector Quantization -- 3 Neural Networks for Adaptive Vector Quantization -- 4 Conclusions -- 16 Managing the Infoglut: Information Filtering Using Neural Networks -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Previous work on filtering -- 3 Neural Networks for Filtering -- 4 Reinforcement learning - AIR -- 5 An Unsupervised Classifier - ART -- 6 Experimental determination of filter validity -- 7 Future Directions -- 17 Empirical Comparisons of Neural Networks and Statistical Methods for Classification and Regression -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Two Problems -- 3 Regression and Classification Methodologies -- 4 Results on Regression for Switch Memory -- 5 Results on Classification of DSO-Rate Traffic -- 6 Discussion -- 18 A Neurocomputing Approach to Optimizing the Performance of a Satellite Communication Network -- 1 Satellite Communications -- 2 The Self-organization Method -- 3 The Cost Minimization Method -- 4 Discussion.