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Edited Books
Unifying Themes in
Complex Systems Volume IX
Alfredo J. Morales, Carlos Gershenson, Dan Braha, Ali A. Minai and Yaneer
Bar-Yam (eds.) Springer-Verlag/NECSI, 2018.
Unifying
Themes in Complex Systems Volume VIII
Hiroki Sayama, Ali A. Minai, Dan Braha and Yaneer Bar-Yam (eds.) NECSI
Knowledge Press, 2011.
Conflict
and Complexity: CounteringTerrorism, Insurgency, Ethnic and Regional Violence Phillip V. Fellman, Yaneer Bar-Yam and Ali A. Minai (eds.)
Springer-Verlag/NECSI, 2015.
Unifying Themes in Complex
Systems Volume VII Ali A.
Minai, Dan Braha and Yaneer Bar-Yam (eds.) Springer-Verlag/NECSI, 2012.
Unifying
Themes in Complex Systems Volume VI
Ali A. Minai, Dan Braha and Yaneer Bar-Yam (eds.) Springer-Verlag/NECSI, 2009.
Unifying Themes in Complex
Systems Volume V Ali A. Minai, Dan Braha and Yaneer
Bar-Yam (eds.) Springer-Verlag/NECSI, 2011.
Unifying
Themes in Complex Systems Volume IV
Ali A. Minai and Yaneer Bar-Yam (eds.) Springer-Verlag, 2008.
Complex
Engineered Systems: Science Meets Technology Dan Braha, Ali A. Minai and Yaneer Bar-Yam (eds.),
Springer-Verlag, 2006.
Unifying
Themes in Complex Systems Volume IIIB: New Research Ali A. Minai and Yaneer Bar-Yam (eds.) Springer-Verlag,
2006.
Unifying
Themes in Complex Systems Volume IIIA: Overview Ali A. Minai and Yaneer Bar-Yam (eds.) Springer-Verlag,
2006.
Unifying
Themes in Complex Systems, Volume II: Proceedings of the Second International
Conference on Complex Systems,
Yaneer Bar-Yam and Ali A. Minai (Editors), Westview Press (Advanced Book
Program), 2004.
Review Articles
"Computational
Models of Cognitive and Motor Control", Ali A. Minai, in Springer Handbook of Computational
Intelligence, J. Kacprzyk and W. Pedrycz (eds.), Springer Verlag (2015).
"Spatial
Processing in the Brain: The Activity of Hippocampal Place Cells" , Phillip J. Best, Aaron M. White, and Ali A. Minai, Annual
Reviews of Neuroscience 24: 459-486 (2001).
Research Publications by Topic
Human Systems
Human
Networks
"Agents
of Influence in Social Networks",
Amer G. Ghanem, Srinivasa Vedanrayanan and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the
Eleventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
(AAMAS’2012), June 2012.
"Semantic
Knowledge Inference from Online News Media Using an LDA-NLP Approach", Sarjoun Doumit and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, August 2011, pp. 3068-3071.
"Online
News Media Bias Analysis Using an LDA-NLP Approach", Sarjoun Doumit and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the International
Conference on Complex Systems, June 2011, pp. 249-263.
"A
Multi-Agent Model for the Co-Evolution of Ideas and Communities", Amer Ghanem, Ali A. Minai and James G. Uber, Proceedings
of the World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Barcelona, Spain, July
2010, pp. 388-395.
"Modeling
Ideational Creativity in Groups",
Paul B. Paulus, Daniel S. Levine, Vincent Brown, Ali A. Minai and Simona
Doboli, Small Groups Research 41: 688-724(2010).
"Socioeconomic
Organization on Directional Resource Landscapes", James G. Uber and Ali A.
Minai, Proceedings of the International Conference on Complex
Systems, Nashua, NH (1997) (Also available on InterJournal).
Analysis
and Modeling of Texts
"Divergent
Thinking in a Neurodynamical Model of Ideation", Mei Mei and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the International
Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Vancouver, Canada, July 2016.
"ANSWER:
An Unsupervised Attractor Network Method for Detecting Salient Words in Text
Corpora", Madhavan Candadai, Aashay
Vanarase, Mei Mei, and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the International Joint
Conference on Neural Networks, Killarney, Ireland, July 2015.
"Effect
of Associative Rules on the Dynamics of Conceptual Combination in a
Neurodynamical Model",
Sarjoun Doumit and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the International Joint
Conference on Neural Networks, Killarney, Ireland, July 2015.
"Chunks of
Thought: Finding Salient Semantic Structures in Texts", Mei Mei, Aashay Vanarase and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of
the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Beijing, China, July
2014.
"Thinking
in Prose and Poetry: A Semantic Neural Model", Sarjoun Doumit and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Dallas, TX, July 2013.
"Semantic
Knowledge Inference from Online News Media Using an LDA-NLP Approach", Sarjoun Doumit and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, August 2011, pp. 3068-3071.
"Online
News Media Bias Analysis Using an LDA-NLP Approach", Sarjoun Doumit and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the
International Conference on Complex Systems, June 2011, pp. 249-263.
Cognitive Models and Computational
Neuroscience
Models
of Thought, Creativity and Innovation
"Divergent
Thinking in a Neurodynamical Model of Ideation", Mei Mei and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the International
Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Vancouver, Canada, July 2016.
"Effect
of Associative Rules on the Dynamics of Conceptual Combination in a
Neurodynamical Model",
Sarjoun Doumit and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the International Joint
Conference on Neural Networks, Killarney, Ireland, July 2015.
"Chunks of
Thought: Finding Salient Semantic Structures in Texts", Mei Mei, Aashay Vanarase and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of
the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Beijing, China, July
2014.
"Thinking
in Prose and Poetry: A Semantic Neural Model", Sarjoun Doumit and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Dallas, TX, July 2013.
"Modeling
the Effect of Timing on the Idea Generation Process", Simona Doboli, Matthew Jacques, Ali Minai, Paul Paulus,
Runa Korde and Alex Doboli, Proceedings of the International Joint Conference
on Neural Networks, Dallas, TX, July 2013.
"Connectivity
and Thought: The Influence of Semantic Network Structure in a Neurodynamical
Model of Thinking", Nagendra
Marupaka, Laxmi R. Iyer and Ali A. Minai, Neural Networks 32:
147-158(2012).
"Connectivity
and Creativity in Semantic Neural Networks", Nagendra Marupaka and Ali A. Minai , Proceedings of the
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, August 2011, pp. 3127-3133.
"A
Neurodynamical Model of Context-Dependent Category Learning", Laxmi Iyer and Ali A. Minai , Proceedings of the
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, August 2011, pp. 2975-2982.
"A
Multi-Agent Model for the Co-Evolution of Ideas and Communities", Amer Ghanem, Ali A. Minai and James G. Uber, Proceedings
of the World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Barcelona, Spain, July
2010, pp. 388-395.
"Modeling
Ideational Creativity in Groups",
Paul B. Paulus, Daniel S. Levine, Vincent Brown, Ali A. Minai and Simona
Doboli, Small Groups Research 41: 688-724(2010).
"Neurocognitive
Spotlights: Configuring Domains for Ideation", Laxmi R. Iyer, Vaidehi Venkatesan and Ali A. Minai,
Proceedings of the World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Barcelona,
Spain, July 2010 pp. 3026-3033.
"A
Synergistic View of Autonomnous Cognitive Systems", Ali A. Minai, Mithun Perdoor, Kiran V. Byadarhaly, Suresh
Vasa and Laxmi R. Iyer, Proceedings of the World Congress on Computational
Intelligence, Barcelona, Spain, July 2010, pp 498-505.
"Neural
Dynamics of Idea Generation and the Effects of Priming", Laxmi R. Iyer, Simona Doboli, Ali A. Minai, Vincent R.
Brown, Daniel S. Levine and Paul B. Paulus, Neural Networks 22:
674-686 (2009).
"A Graded
Attractors: Configuring Context-Dependent Workspaces for Ideation", Ali A. Minai, Laxmi R. Iyer, Divyachapan Padur, Simona
Doboli and Vincent R. Brown, Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium on
Brain-Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA'09), Arlington, VA, November 2009.
"A Dynamical
Connectionist Model of Idea Generation", Ali A. Minai, Laxmi R. Iyer, Divyachapan Padur and Simona
Doboli, Proceedings of the INNS/IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural
Networks, Atlanta, GA, June 2009, pp. 2109-2116.
"Effects of
Relevant and Irrelevant Primes on Idea Generation: A Computational Model", Laxmi R. Iyer, Ali A. Minai, Vincent R. Brown, Paul B.
Paulus and Simona Doboli, Proceedings of the INNS/IEEE International Joint
Conference on Neural Networks, Atlanta, GA, June 2009, pp. 1380-1387.
"A
Conceptual Neural Model of Idea Generation", Simona Doboli, Vincent R. Brown and Ali A. Minai,
Proceedings of the INNS/IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks,
Atlanta, GA, June 2009, pp. 723-729.
"Modularity
and Self-Organized Functional Architectures in the Brain", Laxmi Iyer, Ali A. Minai, Simona Doboli and Vincent R.
Brown,Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Complex Systems,
Boston, MA, October 2007.
"Adaptive
Dynamic Modularity in a Connectionist Model of Context-Dependent Idea
Generation", Simona Doboli, Ali A. Minai and
Vincent R. Brown , Proceedings of the INNS/IEEE International Joint Conference
on Neural Networks, Orlando, FL, August 2007.
Models
of Synergistic Motor Control and Sequence Learning
"Reliable
Storage and Recall of Aperiodic Spatiotemporal Activity Patterns Using
Scaffolded Attractors",
M. Furqan Afzal and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the International Joint
Conference on Neural Networks, Vancouver, Canada, July 2016.
"A
Hierarchical Model of Synergistic Motor Control", Kiran V. Byadarhaly and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Dallas, TX, July 2013.
"A
Modular Neural Model of Motor Synergies", Kiran V. Byadarhaly, Mithun C. Perdoor and Ali A. Minai, Neural
Networks 32: 96-108 (2012).
"A Neural
Model of Motor Synergies",
Kiran V. Byadarhaly, Mithun Perdoor and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, August 2011, pp. 2961-2968.
"A Spiking
Neural Model for the Spatial Coding of Cognitive Response Sequences", Suresh Vasa, Tao Ma, Kiran V. Byadarhaly, Mithun Perdoor
and Ali A. Minai , Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on
Development and Learning, Ann Arbor, MI, August 2010 pp. 140-146.
"A
Synergistic View of Autonomnous Cognitive Systems", Ali A. Minai, Mithun Perdoor, Kiran V. Byadarhaly, Suresh
Vasa and Laxmi R. Iyer, Proceedings of the World Congress on Computational
Intelligence, Barcelona, Spain, July 2010, pp 498-505.
"Learning
Complex Population-Coded Sequences",
Kiran V. Byadarhaly, Mithun Perdoor, Suresh Vasa, Emmanuel Fernandez and Ali A.
Minai, in Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2009 (Lecture Notes in Computer
Science 5769), C. Alippi, M. Polycarpou, C. Panayiotou, G. Ellinas (eds.),
pp. 296-305 (2009).
"Modularity
and Self-Organized Functional Architectures in the Brain", Laxmi Iyer, Ali A. Minai, Simona Doboli and Vincent R.
Brown,Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Complex Systems,
Boston, MA, October 2007.
Neural
Models of Temporal Information Processing and Sequence Learning
"Reliable
Storage and Recall of Aperiodic Spatiotemporal Activity Patterns Using Scaffolded
Attractors", M. Furqan Afzal and Ali A. Minai,
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks,
Vancouver, Canada, July 2016.
"A Spiking
Neural Model for the Spatial Coding of Cognitive Response Sequences", Suresh Vasa, Tao Ma, Kiran V. Byadarhaly, Mithun Perdoor
and Ali A. Minai , Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on
Development and Learning, Ann Arbor, MI, August 2010 pp. 140-146.
"Learning
Complex Population-Coded Sequences",
Kiran V. Byadarhaly, Mithun Perdoor, Suresh Vasa, Emmanuel Fernandez and Ali A.
Minai, in Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2009 (Lecture Notes in Computer
Science 5769), C. Alippi, M. Polycarpou, C. Panayiotou, G. Ellinas (eds.),
pp. 296-305 (2009).
"Using
Latent Attractors to Discern Temporal Order", Simona Doboli and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the 2004
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'04), Budapest, July
2004
"Latent
Attractor Selection for Variable Length Episodic Context Stimuli with
Distractors", Simona Doboli and Ali A. Minai,
Proceedings of the 2003 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
(IJCNN'03), Portland, OR, pp 1643-1648 (2003).
"Latent
Attractor Selection in the Presence of Irrelevant Stimuli", Simona Doboli and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the 2002
IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Honolulu, HI,
124-129 (2002).
"Progressive
Attractor Selection in Latent Attractor Networks", Simona Doboli and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the 2001
IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Washington, DC,
pp. 308-313, (2001).
"Disambiguation
of Pattern Sequences with Recurrent Networks" , Ali A. Minai, Geoffrey L. Barrows, and William B. Levy,
Proceedings of the INNS World Congress on Neural Networks - San Diego, vol. IV,
pp 176-180, (1994).
"Sequence
Learning in a Single Trial"
, Ali A. Minai and William B. Levy, Proceedings of the INNS World Congress on
Neural Networks, Portland, OR, Vol. II, pp 505-508, (1993).
Models
of Place Fields and Sequence Learning in the Hippocampus
"Latent
Attractors: A General Paradigm for Context-Dependent Neural Computation", Simona Doboli and Ali A. Minai, in Trends in Neural
Computation, K. Chen and L. Wang (eds.), Springer Verlag (2007).
"Using
Latent Attractors to Discern Temporal Order", Simona Doboli and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the 2004
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'04), Budapest, July
2004
"Network
Capacity Analysis for Latent Attractor Computation" , Simona Doboli and Ali A. Minai, Network: Computation in
Neural Systems 14: 273-302 (2003).
"Latent
Attractor Selection for Variable Length Episodic Context Stimuli with
Distractors", Simona Doboli and Ali A. Minai,
Proceedings of the 2003 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
(IJCNN'03), Portland, OR, pp 1643-1648 (2003).
"Latent
Attractor Selection in the Presence of Irrelevant Stimuli", Simona Doboli and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the 2002
IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Honolulu, HI,
124-129 (2002).
"A
Computational Model of the Interaction between External and Internal Cues for
the Control of Hippocampal Place Cells", Simona Doboli, Ali A. Minai, and Phillip J. Best, Neurocomputing
52-54: 371-379 (2002).
"Different Hippocampal Place Cell Maps for Different
Environments", Simona Doboli, Ali A. Minai and Phillip J. Best, in Neural
Basis of Navigation: Evidence from Single Cell Recording , P. Sharp (ed.),
Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp 23-39 (2001).
"An
Attractor Model for Hippocampal Place Cell Hysteresis", Simona Doboli, Ali A. Minai, Phillip J. Best, and Aaron M.
White, Neurocomputing 38-40: 1185-1191 (2001).
"Progressive
Attractor Selection in Latent Attractor Networks", Simona Doboli and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the 2001
IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Washington, DC,
pp. 308-313, (2001).
"Network
Capacity for Latent Attractor Computation", Simona Doboli, Ali A. Minai, and Phillip J. Best,
Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural
Networks, Como, Italy, pp. 222-228, (2000).
"A
Comparison of Context-Dependent Hippocampal Place Codes in 1-Layer and 2-Layer
Recurrent Networks"
, Simona Doboli, Ali A. Minai and Phillip J. Best, Neurocomputing 32-33:
353-358 (2000).
"Latent
Attractors: A Model for Context-Dependent Place Representations in the
Hippocampus" , Simona Doboli, Ali A. Minai, and
Phillip J. Best, Neural Computation 12: 1003-1037 (2000).
"A
Latent Attractors Model of Context-Selection in the Dentate Gyrus-Hilus
System" , Simona Doboli, Ali A. Minai and
Phillip J. Best, Neurocomputing 26-27: 671-676 (1999).
"Generating
Smooth Context-Dependent Neural Representations", Simona Doboli, Ali A. Minai and Phillip J. Best,
Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural
Networks, Washington, DC, Paper no. 280, (1999).
"Encoding
Spatial Context: A Hypothesis on the Function of the Dentate Gyrus-Hilus
System" , Ali A. Minai and Phillip J. Best,
Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural
Networks, Anchorage, Alaska, pp 587-592 (1998).
"Control of
CA3 Place Fields by the Dentate Gyrus: A Neural Network Model" , Ali A. Minai, in Computational Neuroscience: Trends in
Research, 1997 (Proceedings of the Fifth Computational
Neuroscience Meeting, Cambridge, MA), J.M. Bower (ed.), Plenum
Press, pp 411-416, (1997).
"A Covariance-Based Learning Rule for the
Hippocampus", Thomas S. Green and Ali A. Minai, in Computational
Neuroscience (Proceedings of the Fourth Computational Neuroscience
Meeting, Monterey, CA), J.M. Bower (ed.), Academic Press, pp
21-26, (1996).
"Place Learning with a Stable Covariance-Based Learning
Rule", Thomas S. Green and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the INNS World
Congress on Neural Networks, Washington, D.C., Vol. II, pp 541-544, (1995).
"Disambiguation
of Pattern Sequences with Recurrent Networks" , Ali A. Minai, Geoffrey L. Barrows, and William B. Levy,
Proceedings of the INNS World Congress on Neural Networks - San Diego, vol. IV,
pp 176-180, (1994).
"Sequence
Learning in a Single Trial"
, Ali A. Minai and William B. Levy, Proceedings of the INNS World Congress on
Neural Networks, Portland, OR, Vol. II, pp 505-508, (1993).
Attractor-Based
Neural Computation
"Reliable
Storage and Recall of Aperiodic Spatiotemporal Activity Patterns Using
Scaffolded Attractors",
M. Furqan Afzal and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the International Joint
Conference on Neural Networks, Vancouver, Canada, July 2016.
"Divergent
Thinking in a Neurodynamical Model of Ideation", Mei Mei and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the International
Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Vancouver, Canada, July 2016.
"ANSWER:
An Unsupervised Attractor Network Method for Detecting Salient Words in Text
Corpora", Madhavan Candadai, Aashay
Vanarase, Mei Mei, and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the International Joint
Conference on Neural Networks, Killarney, Ireland, July 2015.
"Effect
of Associative Rules on the Dynamics of Conceptual Combination in a
Neurodynamical Model",
Sarjoun Doumit and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the International Joint
Conference on Neural Networks, Killarney, Ireland, July 2015.
"Chunks of
Thought: Finding Salient Semantic Structures in Texts", Mei Mei, Aashay Vanarase and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of
the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Beijing, China, July
2014.
"Thinking
in Prose and Poetry: A Semantic Neural Model", Sarjoun Doumit and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Dallas, TX, July 2013.
"A
Hierarchical Model of Synergistic Motor Control", Kiran V. Byadarhaly and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Dallas, TX, July 2013.
"Modeling
the Effect of Timing on the Idea Generation Process", Simona Doboli, Matthew Jacques, Ali Minai, Paul Paulus,
Runa Korde and Alex Doboli, Proceedings of the International Joint Conference
on Neural Networks, Dallas, TX, July 2013.
"Connectivity
and Thought: The Influence of Semantic Network Structure in a Neurodynamical
Model of Thinking", Nagendra
Marupaka, Laxmi R. Iyer and Ali A. Minai, Neural Networks 32:
147-158(2012).
"A
Modular Neural Model of Motor Synergies", Kiran V. Byadarhaly, Mithun C. Perdoor and Ali A. Minai, Neural
Networks 32: 96-108 (2012).
"Connectivity
and Creativity in Semantic Neural Networks", Nagendra Marupaka and Ali A. Minai , Proceedings of the
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, August 2011, pp. 3127-3133.
"A
Neurodynamical Model of Context-Dependent Category Learning", Laxmi Iyer and Ali A. Minai , Proceedings of the
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, August 2011, pp. 2975-2982.
"A Neural
Model of Motor Synergies",
Kiran V. Byadarhaly, Mithun Perdoor and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, August 2011, pp. 2961-2968.
"A Spiking
Neural Model for the Spatial Coding of Cognitive Response Sequences", Suresh Vasa, Tao Ma, Kiran V. Byadarhaly, Mithun Perdoor
and Ali A. Minai , Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on
Development and Learning, Ann Arbor, MI, August 2010 pp. 140-146.
"Neurocognitive
Spotlights: Configuring Domains for Ideation", Laxmi R. Iyer, Vaidehi Venkatesan and Ali A. Minai,
Proceedings of the World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Barcelona,
Spain, July 2010 pp. 3026-3033.
"A
Synergistic View of Autonomnous Cognitive Systems", Ali A. Minai, Mithun Perdoor, Kiran V. Byadarhaly, Suresh
Vasa and Laxmi R. Iyer, Proceedings of the World Congress on Computational
Intelligence, Barcelona, Spain, July 2010, pp 498-505.
"Neural
Dynamics of Idea Generation and the Effects of Priming", Laxmi R. Iyer, Simona Doboli, Ali A. Minai, Vincent R.
Brown, Daniel S. Levine and Paul B. Paulus, Neural Networks 22:
674-686 (2009).
"A Graded
Attractors: Configuring Context-Dependent Workspaces for Ideation", Ali A. Minai, Laxmi R. Iyer, Divyachapan Padur, Simona
Doboli and Vincent R. Brown, Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium on Brain-Inspired
Cognitive Architectures (BICA'09), Arlington, VA, November 2009.
"Learning
Complex Population-Coded Sequences",
Kiran V. Byadarhaly, Mithun Perdoor, Suresh Vasa, Emmanuel Fernandez and Ali A.
Minai, in Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2009 (Lecture Notes in Computer
Science 5769), C. Alippi, M. Polycarpou, C. Panayiotou, G. Ellinas (eds.),
pp. 296-305 (2009).
"A Dynamical
Connectionist Model of Idea Generation", Ali A. Minai, Laxmi R. Iyer, Divyachapan Padur and Simona
Doboli, Proceedings of the INNS/IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural
Networks, Atlanta, GA, June 2009, pp. 2109-2116.
"Effects of
Relevant and Irrelevant Primes on Idea Generation: A Computational Model", Laxmi R. Iyer, Ali A. Minai, Vincent R. Brown, Paul B.
Paulus and Simona Doboli, Proceedings of the INNS/IEEE International Joint
Conference on Neural Networks, Atlanta, GA, June 2009, pp. 1380-1387.
"A
Conceptual Neural Model of Idea Generation", Simona Doboli, Vincent R. Brown and Ali A. Minai,
Proceedings of the INNS/IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks,
Atlanta, GA, June 2009, pp. 723-729.
"Modularity
and Self-Organized Functional Architectures in the Brain", Laxmi Iyer, Ali A. Minai, Simona Doboli and Vincent R.
Brown,Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Complex Systems,
Boston, MA, October 2007.
"Adaptive
Dynamic Modularity in a Connectionist Model of Context-Dependent Idea
Generation", Simona Doboli, Ali A. Minai and
Vincent R. Brown , Proceedings of the INNS/IEEE International Joint Conference
on Neural Networks, Orlando, FL, August 2007.
"Latent
Attractors: A General Paradigm for Context-Dependent Neural Computation", Simona Doboli and Ali A. Minai, in Trends in Neural Computation,
K. Chen and L. Wang (eds.), Springer Verlag (2007).
"Using
Latent Attractors to Discern Temporal Order", Simona Doboli and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the 2004
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'04), Budapest, July
2004
"Network
Capacity Analysis for Latent Attractor Computation" , Simona Doboli and Ali A. Minai, Network: Computation in
Neural Systems 14: 273-302 (2003).
"Latent
Attractor Selection for Variable Length Episodic Context Stimuli with
Distractors", Simona Doboli and Ali A. Minai,
Proceedings of the 2003 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
(IJCNN'03), Portland, OR, pp 1643-1648 (2003).
"Latent
Attractor Selection in the Presence of Irrelevant Stimuli", Simona Doboli and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the 2002
IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Honolulu, HI,
124-129 (2002).
"A
Computational Model of the Interaction between External and Internal Cues for
the Control of Hippocampal Place Cells", Simona Doboli, Ali A. Minai, and Phillip J. Best, Neurocomputing
52-54: 371-379 (2002).
"Spatial Processing
in the Brain: The Activity of Hippocampal Place Cells" , Phillip J. Best, Aaron M. White, and Ali A. Minai, Annual
Reviews of Neuroscience 24: 459-486 (2001) --- Invited Paper.
"Different Hippocampal Place Cell Maps for Different
Environments", Simona Doboli, Ali A. Minai and Phillip J. Best, in Neural
Basis of Navigation: Evidence from Single Cell Recording , P. Sharp (ed.),
Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp 23-39 (2001).
"An
Attractor Model for Hippocampal Place Cell Hysteresis", Simona Doboli, Ali A. Minai, Phillip J. Best, and Aaron M.
White, Neurocomputing 38-40: 1185-1191 (2001).
"Progressive
Attractor Selection in Latent Attractor Networks", Simona Doboli and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the 2001
IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Washington, DC,
pp. 308-313, (2001).
"Network
Capacity for Latent Attractor Computation", Simona Doboli, Ali A. Minai, and Phillip J. Best,
Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural
Networks, Como, Italy, pp. 222-228, (2000).
"A
Comparison of Context-Dependent Hippocampal Place Codes in 1-Layer and 2-Layer
Recurrent Networks"
, Simona Doboli, Ali A. Minai and Phillip J. Best, Neurocomputing 32-33:
353-358 (2000).
"Latent
Attractors: A Model for Context-Dependent Place Representations in the
Hippocampus" , Simona Doboli, Ali A. Minai, and
Phillip J. Best, Neural Computation 12: 1003-1037 (2000).
"A
Latent Attractors Model of Context-Selection in the Dentate Gyrus-Hilus
System" , Simona Doboli, Ali A. Minai and
Phillip J. Best, Neurocomputing 26-27: 671-676 (1999).
"Generating
Smooth Context-Dependent Neural Representations", Simona Doboli, Ali A. Minai and Phillip J. Best,
Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural
Networks, Washington, DC, Paper no. 280, (1999).
"Encoding
Spatial Context: A Hypothesis on the Function of the Dentate Gyrus-Hilus
System" , Ali A. Minai and Phillip J. Best,
Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural
Networks, Anchorage, Alaska, pp 587-592 (1998).
"Control of
CA3 Place Fields by the Dentate Gyrus: A Neural Network Model" , Ali A. Minai, in Computational Neuroscience: Trends in
Research, 1997 (Proceedings of the Fifth Computational
Neuroscience Meeting, Cambridge, MA), J.M. Bower (ed.), Plenum
Press, pp 411-416, (1997).
Complex Systems and Networks
Complex
Systems Engineering
"Complex
Systems Engineering: A New Paradigm",
Ali A. Minai, Dan Braha and Yaneer Bar-Yam, in Complex Engineered Systems:
Science Meets Technology, D. Braha, A.A. Minai and Y. Bar-Yam(eds.),
Springer Verlag, pp 1-22 (2006).
"A
General Approach to Swarm Coordination using Circle Formation", Karthikeyan Swaminathan and Ali A. Minai, in Stigmergic
Optimization, A. Abraham, C. Grosan and V. Ramos(eds.), Springer Verlag
(2005).
Analysis
of Neural Signals and Brain Networks
"Presurgical language localization with visual naming
associated ECoG high- gamma modulation in pediatric drug-resistant
epilepsy", Ravindra Arya, J. Adam Wilson, Hisako Fujiwara, Leonid Rozhkov,
James L. Leach, Anna W. Byars, Hansel M. Greiner, Jennifer Vannest, §Jason
Buroker, Griffin Milsap, Brian Ervin, Ali Minai, Paul S. Horn, Katherine D.
Holland, Francesco T. Mangano, Nathan E. Crone, and Douglas F. Rose, Epilepsia
58(4):663-673 (2017). doi: 10.1111/epi.13708
Computational
Biology
"Investigating the predictability of essential genes across
distantly related organisms using an integrative approach", Jingyuan Deng,
Lei Deng, Shengchang Su, Minlu Zhang, Xiaodong Lin, Lan Wei, Ali A. Minai,
Daniel J. Hassett and Long J. Lu , Nucleic Acids Research 39: 795-807(2011).
"A Modular
Gene Regulatory Network Model of Ontogenesis", Amer Ghanem and Ali A. Minai , Proceedings of the Seventh
International Conference on Complex Systems, Boston, MA, October 2007.
"Phase-Transition
in a Swarm Algorithm for Self-Organized Construction", Henri Leung, Ravi Kothari and Ali A. Minai, Physical
Review E 68: 046111-9 (2003).
Cooperative
Control of UAV Teams and Swarms
"On the Varying
Benefit of Communication between Mobile Agents in a Decentralized Team", Yan Liao, Ali A. Minai and Marios M. Polycarpou,
Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Multiconference on Systems and Control, St.
Petersburg, Russia, July 2009.
"Exploration
for Agents with Different Personalities in Unknown Environments", Sarjoun Doumit and Ali A. Minai , Proceedings of the Sixth
International Conference on Complex Systems, Boston, MA, October 2007.
"Multi-UAV
Cooperative Search Using an Opportunistic Learning Method", Yanli Yang, Marios M. Polycarpou and Ali A. Minai, ASME
Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control 129: 716-728
(2007).
"Balancing
Search and Target Response in Cooperative Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
Teams", Yan Jin, Yan Liao, Ali A. Minai
and Marios M. Polycarpou, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
- Part B: Cybernetics 36: 571-587 (2006).
"Distributed
Resource Exploitation for Mobile Sensor Agents in Dynamic Environments", Sarjoun Doumit and Ali A. Minai , Proceedings of the Sixth
International Conference on Complex Systems, Boston, MA, June 2006.
"A
General Approach to Swarm Coordination using Circle Formation", Karthikeyan Swaminathan and Ali A. Minai, in Stigmergic
Optimization, A. Abraham, C. Grosan and V. Ramos(eds.), Springer Verlag
(2005).
"Evidential
Map-Building Approaches for Cooperative UAV Search", Yanli Yang, Ali A. Minai and Marios M. Polycarpou,
Proceedings of the 2005 American Control Conference (ACC'05), 2005.
"Impact of
System Design Parameters on Performance of Cooperative Agent Teams", Yan Jin, Yan Liao, Ali A. Minai and Marios M. Polycarpou,
Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Control (ISIC'05),
Limassol, Cyprus, June 2005.
"Multi-Target
Assignment and Path Planning for Groups of UAVs", Theju Maddula, Ali A. Minai and Marios Polycarpou, in Cooperative
Control and Optimization, S. Butenko, R. Murphey and P. Pardalos (eds.),
Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp 261-272 (2004).
"Cooperative
Real-Time Task Allocation Among Groups of UAVs", Yan Jin, Marios Polycarpou and Ali A. Minai, in Cooperative
Control and Optimization, S. Butenko, R. Murphey and P. Pardalos (eds.),
Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp 207-224(2004).
"Balancing
Search and Target Response in Cooperative UAV Teams", Yan Jin, Yan Liao, Marios M. Polycarpou and Ali A. Minai,
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC'04), pp.
2923-2928, 2004 --- Invited Paper.
"Decentralized
Cooperative Search by Networked UAVs in an Uncertain Environment", Yanli Yang, Ali A. Minai and Marios M. Polycarpou,
Proceedings of the 2004 American Control Conference (ACC'04), pp. 5558-5563,
2004
"Phase-Transition
in a Swarm Algorithm for Self-Organized Construction", Henri Leung, Ravi Kothari and Ali A. Minai, Physical
Review E 68: 046111-9 (2003).
"Cooperative
Real-Time Search and Task Allocation in UAV Teams", Yan Jin, Ali A. Minai, and Marios M. Polycarpou,
Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Decision and Control (CDC'03), Maui,
December 2003 --- Invited Paper.
"Analysis of an Opportunistic Method for Cooperative
Search by Mobile Agents", Yanli Yang, Ali A. Minai, and Marios M.
Polycarpou, Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Decision and Control
(CDC'02).
"Decentralized
Cooperative Search in UAV's Using Opportunistic Learning", Yanli Yang, Ali A. Minai, and Marios M. Polycarpou,
Proceedings of the 2002 AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference,
Monterey, CA (2002).
"Opportunistically
Cooperative Neural Learning in Mobile Agents", Yanli Yang, Marios M. Polycarpou, and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings
of the 2002 IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks,
Honolulu, HI, pp 2638-2643 (2002).
Coupled
Oscillators and Chaotic Synchronization
"Synchronization
of randomly multiplexed chaotic systems with application to communication" , Shyam Sundar and Ali A. Minai, Physical Review Letters
85: 5456-5459 (2000).
"Using Chaos
to Produce Synchronized Stochastic Dynamics in Non-Homogeneous Map Arrays with
a Random Scalar Coupling"
, Ali A. Minai, Physics Letters A 251: 31-38 (1999).
"Synchronization
of Chaotic Maps through a Noisy Coupling Channel with Application to Digital
Communication" , Ali A.
Minai and Tirunelveli Anand, Physical Review E 59: 312-320
(1999).
"Synchronizing
Multiple Chaotic Maps with a Randomized Scalar Coupling" , Ali A. Minai and Tirunelveli Anand, Physica D 125:
241-259 (1999).
"Communicating
with Noise: How Chaos and Noise Combine to Generate Secure Encryption
Keys" , Ali A. Minai and T. Durai
Pandian, CHAOS 8: 621-628 (1998).
"Chaos-Induced
Synchronization in Discrete-Time Oscillators Driven by a Random Input" , Ali A. Minai and Tirunelveli Anand, Physical Review E
57: 1559-1562 (1998).
"Stimulus-Induced
Bifurcations in Discrete-Time Neural Oscillators" , Ali A. Minai and Tirunelveli Anand, Biological
Cybernetics 79: 87-96 (1998).
"Using
Noise to Synchronize Chaotic Neural Oscillators" , Ali A. Minai and Tirunelveli Anand, Proceedings of the
1998 IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Anchorage,
Alaska, pp 1466-1471 (1998).
Sensor
Networks
"Self-Organization
of Sensor Networks with Heterogeneous Connectivity", Arun Prasath, Abhinay Venuturumilli, Aravind Ranganathan
and Ali A. Minai, in Sensor Networks: Where Theory Meets Practice, G.
Ferrari(ed.), Springer Verlag, (to appear)(2010).
"Self-Organized
Hebbian Inference of Environment Topology by Distributed Sensor Networks", Payal Shah, Hemant Ramaswami and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings
of the INNS/IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Orlando,
FL, August 2007.
"Discovering
Adaptive Heuristics for Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks by Mining Evolved Optimal
Configurations", Prasanna
Ranganathan, Aravind Ranganathan, Kenneth Berman and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings
of the 2006 World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Vancouver, Canada,
July 2006.
"Impact of
Heterogeneity on Coverage and Broadcast Reachability in Wireless Sensor
Networks", Yun Wang, Xiaodong Wang, Dharma P.
Agrawal and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on
Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN'06), Arlington, VA, October 2006.
"A
Self-Organizing Heuristic for Building Optimal Heterogeneous Ad-Hoc Sensor
Networks", Prasanna Ranganathan, Aravind
Ranganathan, Ali A. Minai and Kenneth Berman, Proceedings of the IEEE
International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC’06), Ft.
Lauderdale, FL, April 2006.
"Obtaining
Robust Wireless Sensor Networks Through Self-Organization of Heterogeneous
Connectivity", Abhinay
Venuturumilli and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the 2006 International
Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS'06), Boston, MA, June 2006.
"Self-Organized
Inference of Spatial Structure in Randomly Deployed Sensor Networks", Neena A. George, Ali A. Minai and Simona Doboli,
Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS'06),
Boston, MA, June 2006.
"Intelligent
Sensor Activity Scheduling for Event Monitoring Networks", Sumathi Seetharaman and Ali A. Minai, International
Journal of Lateral Computing 1: 32-39 (2005).
"Intelligent
Scheduling in Event-Monitoring Networks", Sumathi Seetharaman and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the
2004 World Congress on Lateral Computing (WCLC'04), Bangalore, India, December
2004.
"Self-Organized
Scheduling of Node Activity in Large Scale Sensor Networks", Sumathi Seetharaman and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the
Fifth International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS5), Boston, May 2004
"Shouters
and Whisperers: Random Wireless Sensor Networks with Two-Tier
Connectivity", Nagendra
Marupaka and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on
Complex Systems (ICCS5), Boston, May 2004
"SCRIBE:
Self-Organized Contention and Routing in Intelligent Broadcast
Environments", Rajkumar
Arumugam, Vinod Subramanian and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of MILCOM'03, Boston,
MA (2003).
"Intelligent
Broadcast for Large-Scale Sensor Networks", Rajkumar Arumugam, Vinod Subraminian, and Ali A. Minai,
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Complex Systems, Nashua, NH.
(Also available on InterJournal (paper no. 567)).
"Self-Organization
of Geographical Routing in Large-Scale Sensor Networks", Vinod Subraminian, Rajkumar Arumugam, and Ali A. Minai,
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Complex Systems, Nashua, NH.
(Also available on InterJournal (paper no. 566)).
Cellular
Automata
"A Modular
Gene Regulatory Network Model of Ontogenesis", Amer Ghanem and Ali A. Minai , Proceedings of the Seventh
International Conference on Complex Systems, Boston, MA, October 2007.
"ca: A system for Granular Processing of Sound using
Cellular Automata", Shyamsundar Vaidhyanathan, Ali A. Minai, and Mara
Helmuth, Proceedings of the 2nd COST G-6 Workshop on Digital Audio (DAFx99)},
NINU, Trondheim, (1999).
Neural Networks
"Feature
Selection using Multiple Auto-Encoders ", Xinyu Guo, Ali A. Minai, and Long J. Lu, Proceedings of
the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Anchorage, Alaska, May
2017.
"Reliable
Storage and Recall of Aperiodic Spatiotemporal Activity Patterns Using
Scaffolded Attractors",
M. Furqan Afzal and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the International Joint
Conference on Neural Networks, Vancouver, Canada, July 2016.
"Divergent
Thinking in a Neurodynamical Model of Ideation", Mei Mei and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the International
Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Vancouver, Canada, July 2016.
"ANSWER:
An Unsupervised Attractor Network Method for Detecting Salient Words in Text
Corpora", Madhavan Candadai, Aashay
Vanarase, Mei Mei, and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the International Joint
Conference on Neural Networks, Killarney, Ireland, July 2015.
"Effect
of Associative Rules on the Dynamics of Conceptual Combination in a
Neurodynamical Model",
Sarjoun Doumit and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the International Joint
Conference on Neural Networks, Killarney, Ireland, July 2015.
"Chunks of
Thought: Finding Salient Semantic Structures in Texts", Mei Mei, Aashay Vanarase and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of
the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Beijing, China, July
2014.
"Thinking
in Prose and Poetry: A Semantic Neural Model", Sarjoun Doumit and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Dallas, TX, July 2013.
"A
Hierarchical Model of Synergistic Motor Control", Kiran V. Byadarhaly and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Dallas, TX, July 2013.
"Modeling
the Effect of Timing on the Idea Generation Process", Simona Doboli, Matthew Jacques, Ali Minai, Paul Paulus,
Runa Korde and Alex Doboli, Proceedings of the International Joint Conference
on Neural Networks, Dallas, TX, July 2013.
"Connectivity
and Thought: The Influence of Semantic Network Structure in a Neurodynamical
Model of Thinking", Nagendra
Marupaka, Laxmi R. Iyer and Ali A. Minai, Neural Networks 32:
147-158(2012).
"A
Modular Neural Model of Motor Synergies", Kiran V. Byadarhaly, Mithun C. Perdoor and Ali A. Minai, Neural
Networks 32: 96-108 (2012).
"Connectivity
and Creativity in Semantic Neural Networks", Nagendra Marupaka and Ali A. Minai , Proceedings of the
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, August 2011, pp. 3127-3133.
"A
Neurodynamical Model of Context-Dependent Category Learning", Laxmi Iyer and Ali A. Minai , Proceedings of the International
Joint Conference on Neural Networks, August 2011, pp. 2975-2982.
"A Neural
Model of Motor Synergies",
Kiran V. Byadarhaly, Mithun Perdoor and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, August 2011, pp. 2961-2968.
"A Spiking
Neural Model for the Spatial Coding of Cognitive Response Sequences", Suresh Vasa, Tao Ma, Kiran V. Byadarhaly, Mithun Perdoor
and Ali A. Minai , Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on
Development and Learning, Ann Arbor, MI, August 2010 pp. 140-146.
"Neurocognitive
Spotlights: Configuring Domains for Ideation", Laxmi R. Iyer, Vaidehi Venkatesan and Ali A. Minai,
Proceedings of the World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Barcelona,
Spain, July 2010 pp. 3026-3033.
"A
Synergistic View of Autonomnous Cognitive Systems", Ali A. Minai, Mithun Perdoor, Kiran V. Byadarhaly, Suresh
Vasa and Laxmi R. Iyer, Proceedings of the World Congress on Computational
Intelligence, Barcelona, Spain, July 2010, pp 498-505.
"Neural
Dynamics of Idea Generation and the Effects of Priming", Laxmi R. Iyer, Simona Doboli, Ali A. Minai, Vincent R.
Brown, Daniel S. Levine and Paul B. Paulus, Neural Networks 22:
674-686 (2009).
"A Graded
Attractors: Configuring Context-Dependent Workspaces for Ideation", Ali A. Minai, Laxmi R. Iyer, Divyachapan Padur, Simona
Doboli and Vincent R. Brown, Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium on
Brain-Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA'09), Arlington, VA, November 2009.
"Learning
Complex Population-Coded Sequences",
Kiran V. Byadarhaly, Mithun Perdoor, Suresh Vasa, Emmanuel Fernandez and Ali A.
Minai, in Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2009 (Lecture Notes in Computer
Science 5769), C. Alippi, M. Polycarpou, C. Panayiotou, G. Ellinas (eds.),
pp. 296-305 (2009). Proceedings of the INNS/IEEE International Joint Conference
on Neural Networks, Atlanta, GA, June 2009, pp. 723-729.
"Stable-yet-Switchable
(SyS) Attractor Networks",
Subramoniam Perumal and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the INNS/IEEE
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Atlanta, GA, June 2009, pp.
2509-2516.
"A Dynamical
Connectionist Model of Idea Generation", Ali A. Minai, Laxmi R. Iyer, Divyachapan Padur and Simona
Doboli, Proceedings of the INNS/IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural
Networks, Atlanta, GA, June 2009, pp. 2109-2116.
"Effects of
Relevant and Irrelevant Primes on Idea Generation: A Computational Model", Laxmi R. Iyer, Ali A. Minai, Vincent R. Brown, Paul B.
Paulus and Simona Doboli, Proceedings of the INNS/IEEE International Joint
Conference on Neural Networks, Atlanta, GA, June 2009, pp. 1380-1387.
"A
Conceptual Neural Model of Idea Generation", Simona Doboli, Vincent R. Brown and Ali A. Minai,
Proceedings of the INNS/IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks,
Atlanta, GA, June 2009, pp. 723-729.
"Modularity
and Self-Organized Functional Architectures in the Brain", Laxmi Iyer, Ali A. Minai, Simona Doboli and Vincent R.
Brown,Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Complex Systems,
Boston, MA, October 2007.
"Adaptive
Dynamic Modularity in a Connectionist Model of Context-Dependent Idea
Generation", Simona Doboli, Ali A. Minai and
Vincent R. Brown , Proceedings of the INNS/IEEE International Joint Conference
on Neural Networks, Orlando, FL, August 2007.
"Latent
Attractors: A General Paradigm for Context-Dependent Neural Computation", Simona Doboli and Ali A. Minai, in Trends in Neural
Computation, K. Chen and L. Wang (eds.), Springer Verlag (2007).
"Temporally
Sequenced Intelligent Block-Matching and Motion-Segmentation Using Locally
Coupled Networks", Xiaofu
Zhang and Ali A. Minai, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks 15:
1202-1214 (2004).
"Using
Latent Attractors to Discern Temporal Order", Simona Doboli and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the 2004
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'04), Budapest, July
2004
"Effect of
Noise on the Performance of the Temporally-Sequenced Intelligent Block-Matching
and Motion-Segmentation Algorithm",
Xiaofu Zhang and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the 2004 International Joint
Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'04), Budapest, July 2004
"Network
Capacity Analysis for Latent Attractor Computation" , Simona Doboli and Ali A. Minai, Network: Computation in
Neural Systems 14: 273-302 (2003).
"Latent
Attractor Selection for Variable Length Episodic Context Stimuli with
Distractors", Simona Doboli and Ali A. Minai,
Proceedings of the 2003 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
(IJCNN'03), Portland, OR, pp 1643-1648 (2003).
"Latent
Attractor Selection in the Presence of Irrelevant Stimuli", Simona Doboli and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the 2002
IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Honolulu, HI,
124-129 (2002).
"Efficient
Associative Memory using Small-World Architecture", Jason W. Bohland and Ali A. Minai, Neurocomputing 38-40:
489-496 (2001).
"Progressive
Attractor Selection in Latent Attractor Networks", Simona Doboli and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the 2001
IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Washington, DC,
pp. 308-313, (2001).
"Detecting
Corresponding Segments across Images Using Synchronizable Pulse-Coupled Neural
Networks", Xiaofu Zhang and Ali A. Minai,
Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural
Networks, Washington, DC, pp. 820-825, (2001).
"Network
Capacity for Latent Attractor Computation", Simona Doboli, Ali A. Minai, and Phillip J. Best,
Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural
Networks, Como, Italy, pp. 222-228, (2000).
"Generating
Smooth Context-Dependent Neural Representations", Simona Doboli, Ali A. Minai and Phillip J. Best,
Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural
Networks, Washington, DC, Paper no. 280, (1999).
"Stimulus-Induced
Bifurcations in Discrete-Time Neural Oscillators" , Ali A. Minai and Tirunelveli Anand, Biological
Cybernetics 79: 87-96 (1998).
"Using
Hysteresis to Improve Performance in Synchronous Networks" , Tirunelveli Anand and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the
1997 IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Houston, TX,
Vol. 2, pp 1216-1220, (1997)
"Covariance
Learning of Correlated Patterns in Competitive Networks" , Ali A. Minai, Neural Computation 8: 667-681
(1997).
"A Covariance-Based Learning Rule for the
Hippocampus", Thomas S. Green and Ali A. Minai, in Computational
Neuroscience (Proceedings of the Fourth Computational Neuroscience
Meeting, Monterey, CA), J.M. Bower (ed.), Academic Press, pp
21-26, (1996).
"Place Learning with a Stable Covariance-Based Learning
Rule", Thomas S. Green and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the INNS World
Congress on Neural Networks, Washington, D.C., Vol. II, pp 541-544, (1995).
"Setting the Activity Level in Sparse Random
Networks", Ali A. Minai and William B. Levy, Neural Computation 6:
85-99 (1994).
"Perturbation
Response in Feed-Forward Networks",
Ali A. Minai and Ronald D. Williams, Neural Networks 7: 783-796
(1994).
"Disambiguation
of Pattern Sequences with Recurrent Networks" , Ali A. Minai, Geoffrey L. Barrows, and William B. Levy,
Proceedings of the INNS World Congress on Neural Networks - San Diego, vol. IV,
pp 176-180, (1994).
"The Dynamics of Sparse Random Networks", Ali A.
Minai and William B. Levy, Biological Cybernetics 70: 177-187
(1993).
"On
the Derivatives of the Sigmoid",
Ali A. Minai and Ronald D. Williams, Neural Networks 6: 845-853
(1993).
"Sequence
Learning in a Single Trial"
, Ali A. Minai and William B. Levy, Proceedings of the INNS World Congress on
Neural Networks, Portland, OR, Vol. II, pp 505-508, (1993).
"Predicting Complex Behavior in Sparse Asymmetric
Networks", Ali A. Minai and William B. Levy, in C.L. Giles, S.J. Hanson,
and J.D. Cowan (eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 5, San
Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, pp 556-563 (1993).
"Fast Back-Propagation with Adaptive Decoupled Momentum",
Ali A. Minai and Ronald D. Williams, in Fast Learning and Invariant Object
Recognition , B. Soucek (ed.), John Wiley and Sons, Inc., pp 9-26 (1992).
"Perturbation Response in Feed-Forward Neural
Networks", Ali A. Minai and Ronald D. Williams, Proceedings of the 1992
IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Baltimore, MD,
Vol. III: pp 857-862 (1992).
"Back-propagation Heuristics: A Study of the Extended
Delta-Bar-Delta Algorithm", Ali A. Minai and Ronald D. Williams,
Proceedings of the 1990 IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural
Networks, San Diego, CA, Vol. 1, pp 595-600 (1990).
"Acceleration of Back-Propagation through Learning Rate
and Momentum Adaptation", Ali A. Minai and Ronald D. Williams, Proceedings
of the IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks-90-WASH-DC,
Washington, DC, Vol. 1, pp 676-679 (1990).
Other Topics
"Data integration using data mining technique",
Krishnamoorthy Janakiraman, Karen C. Davis and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of FLAIRS-2002,
Pensacola, FL (2002).
"A Discrete Heuristics Approach to Predictive
Evaluation of Semi-Custom IC Layouts", A.A. Minai, R.D. Williams and F.W.
Blake, Proceedings of the 24th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, Miami, FL
, pp 770-776 (1987). Last modified: February 2015