The construction of a Boolean competitive neural network using ideas from immunology

Neurocomputing

Volumn 50, Issue , 2003, Pages 51-85

  de Castro, Leandro Nunes ^a   Von Zuben, Fernando J ^a   de Deus Jr , Getúlio A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Clonal selection; Competitive neural networks; Immune system; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; IMMUNOLOGY; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MICROORGANISMS; MOLECULES; PROBLEM SOLVING;

NERVOUS COGNITION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUTOMATION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGY; LEARNING; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0037245203     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-2312(01)00698-1     Document Type: Article

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