This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2002, held in Madrid, Spain in August 2002. The 221 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 450 submissions. The book presents parts on computational neuroscience, connectionist cognitive science, data analysis and pattern recognition, kernel methods, robotics and control, selforganization, signal and time series analysis, and vision and image processing.