SELF-ORGANIZING SYSTEMS
1963

Edited By

JAMES EMMETT GARVEY

Office of Naval Research
Pasadena, California

ACR-96

OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH
DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
WASHINGTON, D.C.

For sale by the Superintendent of Documents.
U.S. Government Printing Office
Washington, D.C., 20402—Price $1.50

CONTENTS

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]

FOREWORD