On equilibria, stability, and instability of Hopfield neural networks

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 534-540

  Guan, Zhi Hong ^a   Chen, Guanrong ^b   Qin, Yi ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; LYAPUNOV METHODS; THEOREM PROVING;

HOPFIELD NEURAL NETWORKS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 0033733827     PISSN: 10459227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/72.839023     Document Type: Article

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