IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS AND LEARNING SYSTEMS

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DERONG LIU Institute of Automation Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences University of Illinois Beijing 100190, China Chicago, IL 60607 USA Email: ieeetnnls@gmail.com

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HOJJAT ADELI Ohio State Univ., USA CHARLES ANDERSON Colorado State Univ., USA AHMAD TAHER AZAR Benha University, Egypt BART BAESENS Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium MARCO BAGLIETTO DIST-Univ. of Genova, Italy GIORGIO BATTISTELLI University of Florence, Italy EDUARDO BAYRO-CORROCHANO CINVESTAV Unidad Guadalajara, Mexico PANTELIS BOUBOULIS University of Athens, Greece IVO BUKOVSKY Czech Technical Univ. in Prague, Czech Republic CRISTIANO CERVELLERA Institute of Intelligent Systems for Automation, NRC, Italy BADONG CHEN Xian Jiaotong Univ., China HUNG-YUAN CHUNG National Central Univ., Taiwan PAU-CHOO (JULIA) CHUNG National Cheng Kung Univ., Taiwan SERGIO CRUCES University of Seville, Spain CARLOTTA DOMENICONI George Mason University, USA EL-SAYED EL-ALFY King Fahd Univ. of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia DAVID ELIZONDO De Montfort University, U.K. MAURIZIO FILIPPONE Univ. of Glasgow, U.K. FAKHRI KARRAY University of Waterloo, Canada RHEE MAN KIL Sungkyunkwan University, Korea LI-WEI (LEO) KO National Chiao-Tung Univ., Taiwan ROBI POLIKAR Rowan Univ., USA DANIL PROKHOROV Toyota Research Institute NA, USA DRAGUNA VRABIE United Technologies Research Center, USA CONG WANG South China University of Technology, China

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Digital Object Identier 10.1109/TNNLS.2013.2273008