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Record Nr.

UNINA9910143596103321

Titolo

Bio-Inspired Applications of Connectionism : 6th International Work-Conference on Artificial and Natural Neural Networks, IWANN 2001 Granada, Spain, June 13-15, 2001, Proceedings, Part II / / edited by Jose Mira, Alberto Prieto

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2001

ISBN

3-540-45723-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2001.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (LIV, 852 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 0302-9743 ; ; 2085

Disciplina

573.8

Soggetti

Artificial intelligence

Computers

Algorithms

Neurosciences

Neurology 

Bioinformatics 

Computational biology 

Artificial Intelligence

Computation by Abstract Devices

Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity

Neurology

Computer Appl. in Life Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Bio-inspired Systems and Engineering -- Methodology for Nets Design, Nets Simulation and Implementation -- Image Processing -- Medical Applications -- Robotics -- General Applications.

Sommario/riassunto

Underlying most of the IWANN calls for papers is the aim to reassume some of the motivations of the groundwork stages of biocybernetics and the later bionics formulations and to try to reconsider the present value of two basic questions. The?rstoneis:“Whatdoesneurosciencebringintocomputation(thenew bionics)?” That is



to say, how can we seek inspiration in biology? Titles such as “computational intelligence”, “arti?cial neural nets”, “genetic algorithms”, “evolutionary hardware”, “evolutive architectures”, “embryonics”, “sensory n- romorphic systems”, and “emotional robotics” are representatives of the present interest in “biological electronics” (bionics). Thesecondquestionis:“Whatcanreturncomputationtoneuroscience(the new neurocybernetics)?” That is to say, how can mathematics, electronics, c- puter science, and arti?cial intelligence help the neurobiologists to improve their experimental data modeling and to move a step forward towards the understa- ing of the nervous system? Relevant here are the general philosophy of the IWANN conferences, the sustained interdisciplinary approach, and the global strategy, again and again to bring together physiologists and computer experts to consider the common and pertinent questions and the shared methods to answer these questions.