Evolution of Neural Network Models of Associative Memory

1995

• "Genetic Algorithm Enlarges the Capacity of Associative Memory." A. Imada and K. Araki (1995), Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA'95), Morgan Kaufman, pp.413--420. (15-20 July, 1995, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pensylvania, USA.)
• "Mutually Connected Neural Network Can Learn Some Patterns by Means of GA." A. Imada and K. Araki (1995), Proceedings of World Congress on Neural Networks (WCNN'95), Vol. 1, pp.803--806. (17-21 July, 1995, Renaissance Hotel, Washington DC, USA.)

1996

• "Evolution of Associative Memory with Environmental Change." A. Imada and K. Araki (1996), Poster presented at An Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE V). (16-18 May, 1996. Nara Prefecture Public Hall, Nara, Japan.)
• "Basin of Attraction of Associative Memory as it is Evolved by a Genetic Algorithm." A. Imada and K. Araki (1996), Proceedings of the 2nd Online Workshop on Evolutionary Computation (WEC2), pp.41--44.
• "Lamarckian Evolution of Associative Memory." A. Imada and K. Araki (1996), Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (ICEC'96), pp.676--680. (20-22 May, 1996. Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.)
• "Basin of Attraction of Associative Memory as it Evolves from Random Weights." A. Imada and K. Araki (1996), The 1st Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning (SEAL'96), pp.271--278. (9-12 November, 1996, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon, Korea.)

1997

• "Evolved Asymmetry and Dilution of Random Synaptic Weights in Hopfield Network Turn a Spin-glass Phase into Associative Memory." A. Imada and K. Araki (1997), The 2nd International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience (ICCIN'97), Proceedings of Joint Conference of Computer Science, vol. 1, pp.223--226. (2-5 March, 1997, Sheraton Imperial Hotel and Convention Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.)
• "Hopfield Model of Associative Memory as a Test Function of Evolutionary Computations." A. Imada and K. Araki (1997), The 1st International Workshop on Frontiers in Evolutionary Algorithms ( FEA'97), Proceedings of Joint Conference of Computer Science, vol. 1, pp.180--183. (2-5 March, 1997. Sheraton Imperial Hotel and Convention Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.)
• "The Baldwin Effect on the Evolution of Associative Memory." A. Imada and K. Araki (1997), Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms (ICANNGA'97), Springer Verlag pp.354--358. (2-4 April, 1997, University of East Angria, Norwich, England.)
• "Searching Real-Valued Synaptic Weights of Hopfield's Associative Memory using Evolutionary Programming." A. Imada and K. Araki (1997), Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming (EP'97), Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, No.1213, pp.13--22. (13-16 April, 1997. University Palace Hotel and Conference Center, Indianapolis, USA.)
• "Application of an Evolution Strategy to the Hopfield Model of Associative Memory." A. Imada and K. Araki (1997), Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (ICEC'97), pp.679--683. (13-16 April, 1997. University Palace Hotel and Conference Center, Indianapolis, USA.)
• "Random Perturbations to Hebbian Synapses of Associative Memory using a Genetic Algorithm." A. Imada and K. Araki (1997) Proceedings of International Work-Conference on Artifcial and Natural Neural Networks. (IWANN'97). Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, No.1240, pp.398--407. (4-6 June, 1997. Beatriz Hotel, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain.)
• "Evolution of Hopfield Model of Associative Memory by the Breeder Genetic Algorithm." A. Imada and K. Araki (1997), Proceedings of he 7th International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA'97), Morgan Kaufman, pp.784--791. (19-23 July, 1997. Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.)
• "Evolution of Random Synaptic Weights of the Hopfield Associative Memory: How Chaotic Trajectories Turn into Fixed Point Attractors?" A. Imada and K. Araki (1997), Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Neural Information Processing and Intelligent Information Systems (ICONIP'97): Progress in Connectionist-Based Information Systems. Vol.1, Springer Verlag, pp.452--455. (24-28 November, 1997, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand)
• "Evolution of Associative Memory using Diploid Chromosomes." A. Imada and K. Araki (1997), The 10th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Proceedings of the Workshop on Evolutionary computation, pp.24--36. (1 December, 1997, The Rendezvous Observation City Hotel, Perth, Australia.)

1998

• "What does the Landscape of a Hopfield Associative Memory Look Like?" A. Imada and K. Araki (1998), Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming (EP'98), Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp.647--656. (25-27 March, 1998, Mission Valley Marriott, San Diego, USA)
• "Explorations of Fitness Landscapes of a Hopfield Associative Memory with Random and Evolutionary Walks" A. Imada and K. Araki (1998), Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Knowledge-based Intelligent Electronic Systems (KES'98), Vol. 2, pp.364--369. (21-23 April, 1998, Adelaide Convention Center, North Terrace, Adelaide, Australia)
• "Does Diploidy Affect Evolutions of Hopfield Associative Memory?" A. Imada and K. Araki (1998), Proceedings of the 7th Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks (TAINN'98), pp.62--70. (24-26 June, 1998, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey)
• "Some Statistical Analyses of Fitness Landscape Created by the Hopfield Model of Associative Memory." A. Imada and K. Araki (1998), Proceedings of the International Technical Conference on Circuits/Systems, Computer and Communications (ITC-CSCC'98), Vol. 2, pp.1031--1034. (13-15 July, 1998, Sorak Hanwha Resort, Sokcho, Korea)
• "How Real-valued Random Synapses Evolve toward Symmetry with Diploid Chromosomes?'' A. Imada and K. Araki (1998), Proceedings of International ICSC/IFAC Symposium on Neural Computation (NC'98), pp.164--169. (23-25 September, 1998. Technical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria)
• "Can a Niching Method Locate Multiple Attractors Embedded in the Hopfield Network?'' A. Imada and K. Araki (1998), Proceedings of the 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning (SEAL'98), Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, No.1585, pp.325--332. (24-27 Nomvember, 1998. Canberra Rex Hotel, Canberra, Australia)

1999

• "A Genetic Algorithm using an Entropy based Selection Scheme." A. Imada (1999), Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence: Adaptive Systems (CIMAF'99), pp.159--166. (22-26 March, 1999. International Conference Center of Havana, Cuba)
• "What does a Peak in the Landscape of a Hopfield Associative Memory Look Like?" A. Imada (1999) Proceedings of International Work-Conference on Artifcial and Natural Neural Networks (IWANN'99), Vol. 1, Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, No.1606, pp.357--366. (2-4 June, 1999. Hotel Merria, Alicante, Spain)
• "A Multimodal GA and a Visualization Technique Applied to the Hopfield Model of Associative Memory." A. Imada (1999), Proceedings of the 8th Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks (TAINN'99), pp.20--29. (23-25 June, 1999, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey)
• "Downhill Walk from the Top of a Hill by Evolutionary Programming." A. Imada (1999), Proceedings of the Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'99), pp.1414--1418. (6-9 July, 1999, Mayflower Hotel, Washington D.C. USA)
• "Neural Network Model of Associative Memory: To Visualize Solutions in Weight Space. (Plenary Talk)." A. Imada (1999), Proceedings of the International Conference on Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence (ICNNAI'99), pp.26--31. (12-15 October, 1999, Brest Polytechnic Institute, Brest, Belarus)

2000

• "Error Correcting Capability of a Morphological Associative Memory" A. Imada (2000), Proceedings of the Brain Machine Workshop (BM'2000), pp.103--108. (20-22 December, 2000. Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey)

2001

• "A Visualization of Weight Solutions of a Neural Network Model of Associative Memory" A. Imada (2001), Proceedings of the Turkish Artificial and Nerve Network Symposium (TAINN'2001), pp.69--77. (21-22 June, 2001. Salamis Bay Conti Resort Hotel, Famagusta, North Cyprus)
• "EP Downhill Walkers Explore a Landscape in Weight Space of a Fully-connected Neural Network Model: Why does Hebbian Peak Resist to be Found? (Plenary Talk)" A. Imada (2001), Proceedings of the International Conference on Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence (ICNNAI'2001), pp.10--16. (2-4 October, 2001, Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, Minsk, Belarus)
• "Can Downhill Walkers from the top of a Hill Climb it again?" A. Imada (2001), Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS'2001). pp.158--165. (5-7 November, 2001, Hotel Merit Imra, Antalya, Turkey)

2002

• "A Random Behavior of Spiking Neurons: Towards Associative Memory." A. Imada (2002), Proceedings of the Annual Seminar Nonlinear Phenomena in Complex Systems (NPCS'2002) (13-16 May, 2002. Institute of Physics National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus)
• "Associative Memory by Evolving Spiking Neurons." A. Imada (2002), International Mathematical Conference: Eruginsky Lecture VIII (21-22 May, 2002. Brest State University, Brest, Belarus)
• "A Fate of Two Evolutionary Walkers after the Departure from the Origin." A. Imada (2002), Proceedings of the International Conference on Neural Networks and Soft Computing. (ICNNSC'2002) Advances in Soft Computing: Neural Networks and Soft Computing Physica-Verlag, pp.346--351. (11-15 June 2002. Siwarna Hotel, Zakopane, Poland)
• "An Observation of a Fitness Landscape via a Cross-section." A. Imada (2002), Proceedings of the 4th Argentine Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (ASAI'2002) in CDROM (9-13 September 2002. Universidad de Tecnologia Nacional, Santa Fe, Argentina)
• "Associative Memory by Evolving Spiking Neurons: A Comparison with Traditional Model (Plenary Talk)." A. Imada (2002), Book of abstracts Vol.1 of the 5th International Congress on Mathematical Modeling (ICMM'2002) P.13. (30 September - 6 October 2002. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Moscow region, Russia)

2003

• "Can climbers clime the peak to the top again? --- A fitness landscape on weight space of an application using spiking neurons under rate coding." A. Imada (2003), Proceedings of the 4th Argentine Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (ASAI'2002) in CDROM (3-5 September, 2003. Universidad Argentina de la Empresa (UADE), Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• "A Mesa Rather than a Peak? --- A fitness landscape on weight space of an application using spiking neurons under rate coding." A. Imada (2003), Proceedings of the Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications (IDAACS'2003), pp.106--108 (9-11 September, 2003. Lviv House of Scientists, Lviv, Ukraine)
• "A-mesa-in-deseart vs a-needle-in-haystack --- A fitness landscape on weight space of an application using spiking neurons under rate coding." A. Imada (2003), Proceedings of the International Conference on Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence (ICNNAI'2003), (to appear) (2-4 October, 2003, Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, Minsk, Belarus)

2004

• "How a Peak on a Completely-flatland-elsewhere can be Searched for? --- A Fitness Landscape of Associative Memory by Spiking Neurons." A. Imada (2004), Proceedings of the International Multi-Conference on Advanced Computer Systems and Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications (ACS-CISIM' 2004), Volume-2, pp. 141-150. (14-15 June, 2004. University of Finance and Management, Elk, Poland)
• "Can Artificial Immune System Search for a Needle in a Haystack?" A. Imada (2004), Proceedings of the 6th Argentine Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (ASAI'2004) (20 - 21 September, 2004 (a part of JAIIO --- Argentine Meetings on Informatics and Operations Research: 20 -24 September, 2004). Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina)

2005

• "Can a negative selection detect unique non-self cell in an infinitely large number of self cells?" A. Imada (2005), Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Information Processing (PRIP'2005), pp. 127--131. (18-20 May, 2005. ------, Minsk, Belarus)
• "Can a fuzzy rule look for a needle in a haystack?" A. Imada (2005), Proceedings of the 14th Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks (TAINN'2005), pp. 62--70. (16-17 June, 2005. The Cesme Grand Hotel Ontur, Cesme, Izmir, Turkey)
• "Can a negative selection detect an extremely few non-self among enormous amount of self cells? (Plenary Talk)." A. Imada (2005), Proceedings of the International Multi-Conference on Advanced Computer Systems and Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications (ACS-CISIM'2005), Vol. 1, pp. 89--95. (1-3 July, 2005. University of Finance and Management, Elk, Poland)
• "Can an Immuno-fuzzy Approach Detect Only a Few Non-self Cells Existed in an Enormous Amount of Self Cells?" A. Imada (2005), Proceedings of the Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications (IDAACS'2005), pp. 74--77 (5-7 September, 2005. Vitosha Hotel , Sofia, Burgalia)
• "Can a fuzzy rule extraction find an extremely tiny non-self region?" A. Imada (2005), Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks and Intelligent Ifnormation Processing (ANNIIP'2005) (In conjunction with ICINCO-2005), pp. 35--41. (13-14 September, 2005. The Barcelo Hotel Sants, Barcelona, Spain)

2006

• "How Many Parachutists will be Needed to Find a Needle in a Pastoral?" A. Imada (2006), Proceedings of the International Conference on Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence (ICNNAI'2006), pp.53--60. (31 May - 2 June, 2006. Brest State Technical University, Brest, Belarus)
• "When a Family of Iris Flower is Normal, Then are Others Abnormal?" A. Imada (2006), Proceedings of the International Multi-Conference on Advanced Computer Systems and Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications (ACS-CISIM'2005), Vol. 1, pp. 89--95. (18 Oct - 20 Oct, 2006. Miedzyzdroje, Poland)

2007

• "Finding a Needle in a Haystack: From Baldwin Effect to Quantum Computation. (Plenary Talk)." A. Imada (2007) Keynote Speech. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications. pp. (28 June - 30 June, 2007. University of Finance and Management, Elk, Poland)
• "Hinton & Nowlan's computational Baldwin effect revisit: Are we happy with it?" A. Imada (2007), Proceedings of the International Conference (Informacijos Mokslai 42-43 2007) associated with Kompiuterininku Dienos 2007 (KoDi'07) pp. 207 -- 212. (13 - 15 September 2007. KTU Panevezio Institutas, Panevezys, Lithania)
• "Can learning robot solve a 2-D jeep problem?" A. Imada (2007), Proceedings of the International Symposium on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment 2007 (AMiRE'2007) pp. 153 -- 160. (2 - 5 October 2007 Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• "Can a Learning Robot Survive in a Desert? -- A 2-D expansion of the Jeep Problem. (Plenary Lecture)" A. Imada (2007), 14th International Multi-conference: Advanced Computer Systems (ACS-2007) and Artificial Intelligence, Software Technologies Biometrics and Information Technology Security (AISBIS-2007) (Not in the proceedings.) (17-19 October, 2007. Miedzyzdroje, Poland)

2008

• "What We Can Do for Jeep in a Desert: Which is Cleverer -- Human or Learning-Machine?" A. Imada (2008), Proceedings of the International Conference on Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence (ICNNAI'2008), pp.264--267. (27-30 May, 2008, Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, Minsk, Belarus) ... It's strange enough to write this, but it was in the proceedings despite the fact that I'd dismissed this paper after submission and I didn't attend this conference.

2009

• "Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity to Make Robot Navigation More Intelligent." A. Imada (2009), Seminars of The Artificial Intelligence section of Lithuanian Computer Society (LIKS-AIS) (20 April 2009, Vilnius)
• "How can we design a more intelligent path-planning?" A. Imada (2009), Proceeding of KODI (1 - 4 June, 2009. Kaunas Technical University, Kaunas, Lithania)

2010

• "Is Artificial Neural Network Intelligent? (Kickoff talk at the roundtable discussion)" A. Imada (2010), Proceedings of the International Conference on Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence (ICNNAI'2010), pp.20--29. (1 - 4 June, 2010. Brest State Technical University, Brest, Belarus)

2011

• "Artificial Intelligence as a Fantasy and as a Reality." (Invited talk - not in the proceedings.) A. Imada (2011), Congress of Young IT Scientists 2011 (22-24 September, 2011. Miedzyzdroje, Poland)

2012

• "Intelligent machine? Then how intelligent?" (Plenary Lecture) A. Imada (2012), International Multi-conference: Advanced Computer Systems (ACS-2012) (22-24 May, 2012. Miedzyzdroje, Poland)
• "How to compare intelligence of two machines?" (Plenary Lecture - not in the proceedings.) Congress of Young IT Scientists 2012 (20-23 September, 2012. Miedzyzdroje, Poland)

2013

• "Intelligent machine? Then how intelligent?" A. Imada (2013), Seminars of The Artificial Intelligence section of Lithuanian Computer Society (LIKS-AIS) (22-24 May, 2013. vilnius, Lithania)
• "Intelligent artificial agent and Human machine interface" (Introductory talk in the invited session on "Artificial Intelligenc") Congress of Young IT Scientists 2013 (18-20 September, 2013. Sczczecin, Poland)

2014

• "A literature survey: Forest Management with Neural Network & Artificial Intelligence." A.Imada (2014) proceedings of 8th International Conference of Neural Network and Artificial Intelligence (ICNNAI-2014) to be published from Springer as CCIS volume, (3-6 June, 2014 Brest State Technical University, Belarus)
• "A literature review on "Formal Definitions of Machine Intelligence." (To break the ice of Round table discussion on "Whether Neural Networks can be intelligent like human?") A.Imada (2014) proceedings of 8th International Conference of Neural Network and Artificial Intelligence (ICNNAI-2014) to be published from Springer as CCIS volume, (3-6 June, 2014 Brest State Technical University, Belarus)

2016

• "Is AlphaGo Intelligent like Human?" (Plenary Lecture) International Multi-conference: Advanced Computer Systems (ACS-2016) (20-23 September, 2016. Miedzyzdroje, Poland)