Der Band bietet eine Einfuhrung in die Konstruktion kunstlicher Gehirne und stellt Neurocomputer der zweiten Generation vor. Um kunstliche Gehirne zu konstruieren, werden Experiment, Theorie und Anwendung auf eine neue Art und Weise miteinander verbunden: Es geht um die Implementierung dynamischer, gepulster neuronaler Netze auf Halbleitern. Der Band ist das Ergebnis einer Kooperation zwischen Industrie und fuhrenden Forschergruppen auf den Gebieten Gehirnforschung, Neurowissenschaft, Ingenieurwissenschaft, Elektrotechnik und Informatik.

Contents include: the difficulty of modelling artificial brains; information processing in nets with constant synapses; theory of nets with constant or dynamic synapses; macro-dynamics of nets with constant synapses; information processing with dynamic synapses; and more.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the sixth International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 96, held in Bochum, Germany in July 1996.
The 145 papers included were carefully selected from numerous submissions on the basis of at least three reviews; also included are abstracts of the six invited plenary talks. All in all, the set of papers presented reflects the state of the art in the field of ANNs. Among the topics and areas covered are a broad spectrum of theoretical aspects, applications in various fields, sensory processing, cognitive science and AI,...

This well structured, interdisciplinary and introductory book on artificial brains presents the neurocomputer of the second generation. It uses experiment, theory and implementation in a balanced new way to construct artificial brains.