Evolving spiking networks with variable memristors

Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1275-1282

  Howard, Gerard ^a   Gale, Ella ^a   Bull, Larry ^a   De Lacy Costello, Ben ^a   Adamatzky, Andy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Constructivism; Memristors; Neuro evolution; Self adaptation; STDP

Indexed keywords

CONNECTION WEIGHTS; CONNECTIVITY PATTERN; CONSTRUCTIVISM; EVOLUTIONARY DESIGN PROCESS; EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS; MEMRISTOR; NEURO-EVOLUTION; NEURO-EVOLUTIONARY SYSTEMS; ROBOTIC NAVIGATION; SELF ADAPTATION; SPIKING NETWORKS; STDP;

BIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; MEMRISTORS; RESISTORS;

PASSIVE FILTERS;

EID: 84860415001     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2001576.2001748     Document Type: Conference Paper

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