Im Mittelpunkt dieses modernen und spezialisierten Bandes stehen adaptive Strukturen und unüberwachte Lernalgorithmen, besonders im Hinblick auf effektive Computersimulationsprogramme. Anschauliche Illustrationen und viele Beispiele sowie eine interaktive CD-ROM ergänzen den Text.

Andrzej Cichocki received the M.Sc. (with honors), Ph.D. and Dr.Sc. (Habilitation) degrees, all in electrical engineering, from Warsaw University of Technology in Poland.

Since 1972, he has been with the Institute of Theory of Electrical Engineering, Measurement and Information Systems, Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology, where he obtain a title of a full Professor in 1995.

He spent several years at University Erlangen-Nuerenberg in Germany, at the Chair of Applied and Theoretical Electrical Engineering directed by Professor Rolf Unbehauen, as an Alexander-von-Humboldt Research Fellow and Guest Professor. In 1995-1997 he was a team leader of the laboratory for Artificial Brain Systems, at Frontier Research Program RIKEN (Japan), in the Brain Information Processing Group.