A nonlinear model to generate the winner-take-all competition

Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 435-442

  Li, Shuai ^a   Wang, Yunpeng ^b   Yu, Jiguo ^c   Liu, Bo ^d  

^a Stevens Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b University of Miami College of Engineering   (United States)

^c QUFU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Negative feedback; Nonlinear; Positive feedback; Winner take all

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS; FEEDBACK; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

CONTINUOUS-TIME DYNAMICS; CONVERGENCE RATES; DYNAMIC COMPETITIONS; GLOBAL CONVER-GENCE; NON-LINEAR PHENOMENA; NONLINEAR; NUMERICAL RESULTS; WINNER TAKE ALLS;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 84867462356     PISSN: 10075704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2012.07.021     Document Type: Article

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