Two Projection Pursuit Algorithms for Machine Learning under Non-Stationarity

Acknowledgements I am most grateful to Professor K.-R.Müller for having provided me the opportunity, not only to gain research experience in his IDA/Machine Learning Laboratory but in addition for employing me to do so. Without his assistance I would not have been able to complete my degree at the BCCN and continue to the PhD level in a dignified manner. I have greatly appreciated having been treated as an equal member of his research group, despite my Master's student's status, in being assigned research tasks of genuine scientific import and interest. In addition, I most heartily thank Samek for imparting to me their knowledge of Machine Learning and Neuroscience during my first two years at the TU Berlin and for their enthusiasm for the topics which I have pursued in this thesis. Chapters 2 and 3 of this thesis are, in addition, the result of collaboration with Paul, Frank and Wojciech. In addition I would like to thank Franz Kiraly and Wojciech Samek, once again, as well as Alex Schlegel and Danny Pankin for their comments on the manuscript. Moreover, I thank the remaining, numerous members of the Machine Learning Group and the BCCN with whom I have discussed ideas relating to Neuroscience, Machine and Margret Franke for assisting me in the demanding task of completing my degree within the allotted two year period. Finally, I would like to thank my parents, for their continued support during the transition I have made to this field and to my girlfriend Michaela for helping me not to lose sight of the idealism which originally brought me to this field.