"Multi-Valued and Universal Binary Neurons deals with two new types of neurons, multivalued neurons and universal binary neurons. These neurons are based on complex number arithmetic and are hence much more powerful than the typical neurons used in artificial neural networks. The book is partitioned into 3 almost equally sized parts: a mathematical study of the unique features of these new neurons, learning of networks of such neurons, and applications of such neural networks. Most of this work was developed by the first two authors over a period of more than 10 years and was only available in Russian literature. With this book we present the first comprehensive treatment of this important class of neural networks in the open Western literature.". "Multi-Valued and Universal Binary Neurons is intended for anyone with a scholarly interest in neural networks theory applications and learning. It will also be of interest to researchers and practitioners in the fields of image processing pattern recognition control and robotics."--BOOK JACKET.