May 2014 Seminar by Francis Cabarle at RGNC

Post date: May 21, 2014 12:37:10 PM

Estimados compañeros,

El próximo martes 27 de mayo, a las 10:00 en el seminario del módulo H,

tendremos una sesión de seminario impartido por Francis Cabarle,

estudiante de doctorado que está de estancia en nuestro grupo por un año.

El seminario tiene como título "On Some Recent Efforts In Spiking

Computations". Más información: https://www.gcn.us.es/seminar_cabarle_14

Ruego deis difusión y vuestra asistencia.

-- English version

Dear colleagues,

Next Tuesday, May 27, at 10:00 at out seminar, Francis Cabarle is going

to deliver the seminar entitled "On Some Recent Efforts In Spiking

Computations". More information, https://www.gcn.us.es/seminar_cabarle_14

Details of the seminar are as follows:

On Some Recent Efforts In Spiking Computations

SEMINAR

Speaker: Francis G. Cabarle, Ph.D. student,

Membrane Computing Research Group, ACLAB,

University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City (Philippines)

Title: On Some Recent Efforts In Spiking Computations

Abstract: Spiking neural P systems (SNP systems) are a class of parallel and distributed biologically inspired models based on the spiking of neurons. SNP systems were initiated by Ionescu, Paun, and Yokomori in 2006. Such systems can be treated as a network of spike processors. Information can be encoded in the form of time intervals between spikes, or the multiplicity of spikes at a certain time. Computational universality and efficient solutions to hard problems are some of the known results in SNP systems literature.

In this talk, we first briefly recall previous efforts by the speaker, as well as colleagues, in the area of SNP systems: graphics processing unit simulations, SNP system variants, transformations between variants and other models, computational universality. We then examine the structural plasticity feature of neurons from neuroscience: neurons can ``rewire'' their connections by synaptogenesis or novel synapse creation, as well as by synapse deletion. This feature is then used to introduce SNP systems with structural plasticity (SPSNP systems). SPSNP systems were recently shown to be universal. We end the talk by outlining further ideas on SNP and SPSNP systems.

Information:

• Date: Tuesday, 27-05-2014
• Time: 10:00.
• Place: Seminar room H1.50 (First floor, Módulo H, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática, Universidad de Sevilla)
• Language: English