[comp.ai.neural-nets] Hopfield nets-- Help required

inde47d@jetson.uh.edu (10/06/90)

I am presently working on a constraint satisfaction problem and I hope to use
Hopfield net for this purpose. However I am having a slight problem with the 
mapping. The way my problem has been structured it is possible for more than
one neuron to go on in a given row or column (unlike the TSP problem where
only one neuron can go on in any given row or column). The total number of 
neurons that can go on in a given row or column is known.

I am having some difficulty in formulating the energy function for the above.
Has anybody else ever faced this problem and solved it. If so I would appre-
ciate some help.

Thank You.

Shiv


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Vaithyanathan Shivakumar

E-mail :  inde47d@elroy.uh.edu

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