Artificial neural networks to systems, man, and cybernetics: Characteristics, structures, and applications

The goal of this special issue is to present recent high-quality papers that deal with the applications of artificial neural networks (ANN's) to systems, man, and cybernetics (SMC), This special issue explores the state-of-the art in the applications of ANN to the SMC community. ANN's technology has reached a degree of maturity as evidenced by the increasing number of applications including the ones that have been reduced to practice. In this editorial, we present background and theoretical information related to ANN's, general characteristics, models, applications, and structures of ANN's.