
Natural Algorithms—GA, SA, ANN, TS 365
Key Terms
1. Hopfi eld network is a form of recurrent ar-
tifi cial neural network invented by John Hop-
fi eld. Hopfi eld nets serve as content-address-
able memory systems with binary threshold
units. They are guaranteed to converge to a
stable state.
2. Tabu search is a mathematical optimization
method, belonging to the class of local
search techniques. Tabu search enhances
the performance of a local search method by
using memory structures.
3. Artifi cial neural networks is an
interconnected group of artifi cial neurons
that uses a mathematical or computational
model for information processing based on ...