Explorations in Stochastic Diusion Search: soft- and hardware implementations of biologically inspired Spiking Neuron Stochastic Diusion Networks

Stochastic Diffusion Search, a probabilistic pattern matching algorithm, has been applied to a variety of problems with great success, and its basic properties have been studied in detail. Although parallel in nature, most of the applications are implemented in software on serial machines. This report aims at giving an overview of possible modifications towards efficient implementation in parallel hardware and towards implementations as networks of biologically inspired Spiking Neurons, in both hardand software.

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