Territories,corridors, and networks: A biological model for the premodern state

When depicted on maps as homogenous territorial wholes, ancient states are visually summarized as static entities in a way that conceals the highly fluid dynamics of polity formation, maintenance, and growth. Models derived from studies of animal behavior show that “territory” does not consist of an undifferentiated use of the landscape. Instead, the concept of territory can be parsed into a series of resource‐rich nodes linked by corridors of access, surrounded by unutilized regions and boundaries marked at points of competition. Ancient human groups also can be analyzed as having perceived and occupied landscapes through strategies of flexible networks in which nodes and corridors were surrounded by unutilized spaces around which boundaries were selectively identified and defended. This strategy is identifiable in human social groups at different levels of complexity ranging from hunter‐gatherers through ancient chiefdoms and states. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Complexity 12: 28–35, 2007     

A novel approach based on recurrent neural networks applied to nonlinear systems optimization

This paper presents an efficient approach based on recurrent neural network for solving nonlinear optimization. More specifically, a modified Hopfield network is developed and its internal parameters are computed using the valid subspace technique. These parameters guarantee the convergence of the network to the equilibrium points that represent an optimal feasible solution. The main advantage of the developed network is that it treats optimization and constraint terms in different stages with no interference with each other. Moreover, the proposed approach does not require specification of penalty and weighting parameters for its initialization. A study of the modified Hopfield model is also developed to analyze its stability and convergence. Simulation results are provided to demonstrate the performance of the proposed neural network.     

关于环网G（N;S1,S2）的直径

本文首先给出了环网G(N;s_1,s_2)存在有限直径的充要条件;用初等数论方法给出了其直径的简明计算公式;最后讨论了类似文献[3]的环网直径的对偶性问题.     

Characterization of spherical particles using high-order neural networks and scanning flow cytometry

We retrieve the radius R, real n and imaginary k parts of the refractive index of homogeneous spherical particles using angular distribution of the light-scattering intensity. To solve the inverse light-scattering problem we use a high-order neural-network technique. The effect of network parameters on optimization is examined. The technique is evaluated for noise-corrupted input data at 0.6 μm<R<10.6 μm, 1.02<n<1.38, and 0<k<0.03. The errors of retrieval for nonabsorbing particles do not exceed 0.05 μm for radius and 0.015 for refractive index. The experimental verification is fulfilled by experimental data retrieved by means of a scanning flow cytometer. The light-scattering profiles of polystyrene beads and spherized red blood cells are processed with the high-order neural networks and a non-linear regression at Mie theory. The parameters retrieved by the high-order neural networks correlate well with the parameters retrieved by the least-square method.     

BP神经网络在光学相关器相关峰识别中的应用

光学相关识别是图像识别的重要方法，有效识别相关器输出平面的相关峰信号是保证光学相关器图像识别准确性的关键。由于激光器输出功率的波动、光学系统本身的误差以及SLM器件本身带来的噪声，采用一般的阈值方法很难达到理想的效果。该文提出对相关器的输出平面进行预处理，充分考虑相关信号的形状信息，提取感兴趣区域(ROI)，采用BP神经网络对输入矢量进行计算，可达到对相关峰信号和噪声的有效分类识别，从而提高了光学相关器识别的可靠性，降低了误判的概率。     

用神经网络鉴别退化图像的模糊类型

提出了一种用神经网络鉴别退化图像的模糊类型的方法。由于采用不同降质方法得到退化图像的频谱差异较大,以此作为判别依据,用概率神经网络实现了对四种模糊类型:离焦,矩形,运动和高斯模糊的鉴别。根据神经网络的鉴别结果决定点扩散函数的初始估计值,可大大地提高盲解恢复算法的复原质量和系统点扩散函数的估计精度,扩大了算法的实用范围。     

On Numerical Solution of Shape Inverse Problems

The new method is proposed for the numerical solution of a class of shape inverse problems. The size and the location of a small opening in the domain of integration of an elliptic equation is identified on the basis of an observation. The observation includes the finite number of shape functionals. The approximation of the shape functionals by using the so-called topological derivatives is used to perform the learning process of an artificial neural network. The results of computations for 2D examples show, that the method allows to determine an approximation of the global solution to the inverse problem, sufficiently closed to the exact solution. The proposed method can be extended to the problems with an opening of general shape and to the identification problems of small inclusions. However, the mathematical theory of the proposed approach still requires futher research. In particular, the proof of global convergence of the method is an open problem.     

基于反向传播神经网络的阻抗断层图像重建新方法

电阻抗成像是通过对物体表面电压、电流的测量来重建物体内部阻抗分布或变化图像的一种新颖计算机断层成像技术。阻抗断层图像重建是一种病态的、非线性的逆问题。提出了一种全新的阻抗断层图像重建方法，它利用反向传播神经网络来表征物体内部阻抗变化位置与物体表面电压变化大小的非线性映射关系，从而可以根据对物体表面测量电压的变化先准确定位阻抗变化区域，再用线性近似方法重建阻抗变化图像，这种方法不仅具有一定的抗噪能力，而且成像精度和空间分辨率都大大好于逆投影方法。     

基于半导体光放大器进行光标签提取的性能分析

利用半导体光放大器增益饱和数学模型，第一次分析了基于单个半导体放大器进行光标签提取的节点性能.通过对半导体光放大器的参量分析和优化，仿真显示，对于标签速率2.5 Gb/ s 、净荷速率40 Gb/s 的光分组包，提取的标签消光比可达到13 dB.     

基于DIGNET网络的数据融合方法

针对数据融合和目标识别的特点,提出了基于DIGNET自组织聚类人工神经网络的数据融合方法。考虑到多传感器系统测量多个参量的特点,用并行的子网络结构代替中间隐层,实现了基于决策层的信息融合目标识别。利用仿真数据对基于DIGNET的数据融合方法进行了实验研究。实验结果表明,该方法具有数据正确分类率高和抗噪能力强等优点,有效地实现了融合识别。将该方法应用于前视红外和可见光双传感器目标跟踪系统的数据融合识别是可行的。