Optimality in Biological and Artificial Networks?

Daniel S. Levine, Wesley R. Elsberry

• Contents: Preface. Part I: What Is the Role of Optimality?D.S. Levine, Don't Just Stand There, Optimize Something! P.J. Werbos, Optimization: A Foundation for Understanding Consciousness. S. Leven, Negotiating Inside the Brain -- and Out: The Microfoundations Project. D.G. Stork, B. Jackson, S. Walker, Nonoptimality in a Neurobiological System. W.R. Elsberry, Optimality and Strategies in Biological and Artificial Neural Networks. M.R. DeYong, T. Eskridge, Properties of Optimality in Neural Networks. Part II: Quantitative Foundations of Neural Optimality.P.S. Prueitt, Optimality and Options in the Context of Behavioral Choice. I. Parberry, Knowledge, Understanding, and Computational Complexity. R.M. Golden, Optimal Statistical Goals for Neural Networks Are Necessary, Important, and Practical. G.D. Tattersall, Rule Induction and Mapping Completion in Neural Networks. R.E. Dorsey, J.D. Johnson, Evolution of Dynamic Reconfigurable Neural Networks: Energy Surface Optimality Using Genetic Algorithms. A. Jagota, Optimization by a Hopfield-Style Network. Part III: Optimality in Learning, Cognition, and Perception.D.C. Chance, J.Y. Cheung, S. Lykins, A.W. Lawton, An Examination of Mathematical Models of Learning in a Single Neuron. S. Bengio, Y. Bengio, J. Cloutier, J. Gescei, On the Optimization of a Synaptic Learning Rule. G.A. Carpenter, Spatial Pattern Learning, Catastrophic Forgetting, and Optimal Rules of Synaptic Transmission. H. Abdi, D. Valentin, A.J. O'Toole, A Generalized Autoassociator Model for Face Processing and Sex Categorization: From Principal Components to Multivariate Analysis. J. Bhaumik, B. Bhaumik, A Neural Network for Determining Subjective Contours. Part IV: Optimality in Decision, Communication, and Control.H. Ög(the g has an upsidedown circumflex -- a "v" to be found at the WordPerfect stage)men, R.V. Prakash, A Developmental Perspective to Neural Models of Intelligence and Learning. G-Z. Rosenstein, The Income-Choice Approach and Some Unsolved Problems of Psychopathology - A "Bridge Over Time." S. Candelaria de Ram, Communication Cognition: Interactive Nets We Weave, When We Practice to Perceive. R.T. Bradley, K.H. Pribram, Communication and Optimality in Biosocial Collectives.