Seeking Independence Using Biologically-Inspired ANN’s
In this chapter, we make a case for research into the use of biologically-inspired artificial neural networks (BIANNs) in the search for independence. This may seem an odd case to have to make in a book derived from a workshop which followed the Seventh International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN99), the most prestigious ANN conference in Europe. However, as this book demonstrates, many of the methods currently being investigated by the neural network community are very different from the biologically-inspired networks which we will advocate.