In this paper, a model of self-organizing spiking neural networks is introduced and applied to mobile robot environment representation and path planning problem. A network of spike-response-model neurons with a recurrent architecture is used to create robot’s internal representation from surrounding environment. The overall activity of network simulates a self-organizing system with unsupervise...

In this paper, a model of self-organizing spiking neural networks is introduced and applied to mobile robot environment representation and path planning problem. A network of spike-response-model neurons with a recurrent architecture is used to create robot’s internal representation from surrounding environment. The overall activity of network simulates a self-organizing system with unsupervise...

Network organizations are flexible organizations that change rapidly to address the events in their volatile environments. These organizations are preferred to traditional organizations. The property of network organization that affords them rapid change is called plasticity. A model is presented for spontaneously formed network organization and the quality of plasticity is discussed in the con...

present study seeks to investigate the existing canonical correlation among the effective factors including x variables that consist of environmental factors, inter-organizational factors and the creation factors of the perceptual value; on the components of competitiveness, as well as y variables consisting of enterprise performance against the market, the customers and the internal performanc...

Within a biological organism it is possible to identify a number of general functions facilitated by internal mutually connected mechanisms. The organization responsible for material and energy exchange with the environment and the integration of those into the operation of the organism is broadly classi ed as the metabolic system. The organization responsible for identi cation of external inva...

Five selected China IT business incubators are studied with grounded theory, after coding the interview data, we establish the model of influence factors that affect IT business incubator’s incubation performance with dimensions of the external factor, the internal factor and the associated factor. The external factors that affect the incubation performance are institution and industry environm...

Claude Bernard (1813-1878) was the founder of modern experimental physiology and one of the most famous French scientists of all time. Although he is particularly remembered today for his concept of the constancy of the internal environment, this idea had no impact in his lifetime. This article considers his achievements and some possible reasons for the delay in understanding his ideas about t...