Contents

1 Introduction
 1.1 Topic of the seminar
 1.2 Scope of Computational Intelligence: Neural Networks and Kernel Methods
  1.2.1 International Organizations related to Computational Intelligence
  1.2.2 Scope of Scientific Journals strongly related to Computational Intelligence
  1.2.3 Scope of Scientific Conferences related to Computational Intelligence
 1.3 Summary and outline
2 Neural Networks
 2.1 Multilayer Neural Networks
 2.2 Modular Networks
 2.3 Hopfield Neural Networks
3 Kernel Methods
 3.1 Support Vector Machines
  3.1.1 Linear hard-margin SVMs
  3.1.2 Soft-margin SVMs
  3.1.3 Nonlinear SVMs
 3.2 Kernel Parameters
4 Computational Intelligence Models
 4.1 Neural Networks
 4.2 Kernel Methods
5 Concluding Remarks