A new result on the global convergence of Hopfield neural networks

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1514-1515

  Liu, Xiwu ^a,b   Chen, Tianping ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HEBEI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Global stability; Hopfield neural networks; Stability

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; THEOREM PROVING;

GLOBAL STABILITY; HOPFIELD NEURAL NETWORK; INTERCONNECTION MATRIX;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 0036803073     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2002.803358     Document Type: Article

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