Subject: AANS/945126: Decision Finalized
From: Akira Imada <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: 02 Mar 2010 04:02:49 +0200

Dear Prof. Xu,

Following the review of your Research Article AANS/945126 titled "Robust exponential Stability in Mean Square for uncertain stochastic neural networks," by Yiming Chen, Zenghui Xu and Zhiquan Zhou, I regret to inform you that it was found unsuitable for publication in Advances in Artificial Neural Systems.

The reason is as follows. The authors failed to show the paper is unique and original.

The authors wrote "... in recent years, the study of stability analysis of neural networks has been attracting the interest of a great number of researchers ...," however the only three papers in 1995, 2002, and 2007 in the Reference list cannot appeal the claim. The same goes for the description "... a great number of researchers [4-7]."

On the other hand, the author claims "So far, there are only a few papers that have taken stochastic phenomenon into account in neural networks [8-11]." However, the reviewer found TENS OF (not ONLY A FEW) such papers which are not in the authors' Reference list.

The reviewer tried to read a number of those papers, and found lots of similarities with this paper submitted to this journal. Hence we have to conclude this paper claims nothing new at the best. Although the reviewer believes it's just due to a lack of survey, it might be taken as a plagiarism at the worst.

Thank you, anyway, for submitting your manuscript to Advances in Artificial Neural Systems.

Best regards,

Akira Imada
[email-masked]