Edited By
JAMES EMMETT GARVEY
Office of Naval Research
Pasadena, California
ACR-96
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| Foreword | iv |
| The Ionic Hypothesis and Neuron Models | 1 |
| —E. R. Lewis | |
| Fields and Waves in Excitable Cellular Structures | 19 |
| —R. M. Stewart | |
| Multi-Layer Learning Networks | 37 |
| —R. A. Stafford | |
| Adaptive Detection of Unknown Binary Waveforms | 46 |
| —J. J. Spilker, Jr. | |
| Conceptual Design of Self-Organizing Machines | 52 |
| —P. A. Kleyn | |
| A Topological Foundation for Self-Organization | 65 |
| —R. I. Ścibor-Marchocki | |
| On Functional Neuron Modeling | 71 |
| —C. E. Hendrix | |
| Selection of Parameters for Neural Net Simulations | 76 |
| —R. K. Overton | |
| Index of Invited Participants | 77 |
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The papers appearing in this volume were presented at a Symposiumon Self-Organizing Systems, which was sponsored by the Office ofNaval Research and held at the California Institute of Technology,Pasadena, California, on 14 November 1963. The Symposium was organizedwith the aim of providing a critical forum for the presentation anddiscussion of contemporary significant research efforts, with theemphasis on relatively uncommon approaches and methods in an earlystate of development. This aim and nature dictated that the Symposiumbe in effect a Working Group, with numerically limited invitationalparticipation.
The papers which were presented and discussed did in fact serveto introduce several relatively unknown approaches; some of thespeakers were promising young scientists, others had become known forcontributions in different fields and were as yet unrecognized fortheir recent work in self-organization. In addition, the papers as a