Nontrivial global attractors in 2-D multistable attractor neural networks

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1842-1851

  Zou, Lan ^a   Tang, Huajin ^b   Tan, Kay Chen ^c   Zhang, Weinian ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Attractor networks; Degenerate equilibrium; Global attractivity; Linear threshold activation function; Multistability

Indexed keywords

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ACTIVATION FUNCTIONS; ATTRACTOR DYNAMICS; ATTRACTOR NETWORKS; ATTRACTOR NEURAL NETWORKS; FEASIBLE SOLUTION; GLOBAL ATTRACTIVITY; MULTI STABILITIES; NETWORK PARAMETERS;

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LINEAR MODELS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NONLINEAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 75549090612     PISSN: 10459227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNN.2009.2032269     Document Type: Article

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