A proposal of neuron filter: A constraint resolution scheme of neural networks for combinatorial optimization problems

IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences

Volumn E83-A, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1815-1822

  Takenaka, Yoichi ^a   Funabiki, Nobuo ^a   Higashino, Teruo ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Board level routing problem; Combinatorial optimization problem; Hopfileld type neural network; N queens problem; Neuron filter

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; NEURON FILTERS;

DIGITAL FILTERS;

EID: 0034270883     PISSN: 09168508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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