Editorial for Special Issue on ICONIP 2013

It has been over 20 years since the first International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP) held in Seoul, Korea. ICONIP2013 was held in Daegu, Korea, during November 3–7, 2013. ICONIP is the annual conference of the Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly (APNNA). The aim of this conference series is to provide a platform for the community to present their latest results and to discuss research directions in the field of neural information processing. ICONIP 2013 received more than 400 submissions from 30 countries and regions across six continents. On the basis of a scrupulous peer review process, where each submission was evaluated by at least two qualified reviewers, about 180 highquality papers were selected for oral presentations. This special issue is aimed at disseminating the latest development of learning algorithms and neural networks. The papers solicited here are selected from papers presented in the ICONIP2013. Six extended papers are included in this issue and each of them has gone through an additional peer review process. They were evaluated by at least two additional qualified reviewers. We include the papers with the best representation and achievement in their respective fields: