Self-Organization and Associative Memory

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XV

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2. Various Aspects of Memory

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   Pages 1-29

3. Pattern Mathematics

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   Pages 30-67

4. Classical Learning Systems

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   Pages 68-81

5. A New Approach to Adaptive Filters

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   Pages 82-118

6. Self-Organizing Feature Maps

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   Pages 119-157

7. Optimal Associative Mappings

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   Pages 158-184

8. Pattern Recognition

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   Pages 185-209

9. More About Biological Memory

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10. Notes on Neural Computing

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    Pages 241-268

11. Optical Associative Memories

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    Pages 269-284

12. Back Matter

    Pages 285-312

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While the present edition is bibliographically the third one of Vol. 8 of the Springer Series in Information Sciences (IS 8), the book actually stems from Vol. 17 of the series Communication and Cybernetics (CC 17), entitled Associative Memory - A System-Theoretical Approach, which appeared in 1977. That book was the first monograph on distributed associative memories, or "content-addressable memories" as they are frequently called, especially in neural-networks research. This author, however, would like to reserve the term "content-addressable memory" for certain more traditional constructs, the memory locations of which are selected by parallel search. Such devices are discussed in Vol. 1 of the Springer Series in Information Sciences, Content-Addressable Memories. This third edition of IS 8 is rather similar to the second one. Two new discussions have been added: one to the end of Chap. 5, and the other (the L VQ 2 algorithm) to the end of Chap. 7. Moreover, the convergence proof in Sect. 5.7.2 has been revised.

• adaptation
• algorithm
• algorithms
• associative memory
• biology
• biophysics
• communication
• computer
• cybernetics
• information processing
• information science
• learning
• mathematical psychology
• memory
• simulation

• Laboratory of Computer and Information Sciences, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo 15, Finland

  Teuvo Kohonen

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