Adaptive cooperative systems

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    • Beckerman, Martin

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Adaptive cooperative systems

Martin Beckerman

(Adaptive and learning systems for signal processing, communications, and control)

Wiley, 1997

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A co-operative process is one in which locally organized elements interact in a co-operative manner to achieve an overall, global order. Such processes are widespread in physical and biological systems - their elements may be pixels in a digital image, neurons in the central nervous system, or atoms in a solid lattice. In this work, the author presents a theory of co-operative computation, as applied to perceptual inferencing problems. The problems addressed include: the integration of multiple sensory information (multi-user fusion); figure-ground segregation; the segmentation of visual images; attention; the self-organization of feature detecting neurons; and short-term plasticity.

Table of Contents

  • Thermodynamics, statistical mechanics and the metropolis algorithm
  • co-operativity in lattice systems
  • simulated annealing
  • the patterning of neural connections
  • Markov random fields
  • the approach to equilibrium
  • synaptic plasticity
  • rhythms and synchrony.

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