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Modeling growth and dynamics of neural networks via message passing in Erlang: neural models have a natural home in message passing functional programming languages

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Trevor Bain,

Patrick Campbell,

Jonas KarlssonAuthors Info & Claims

Erlang '11: Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Erlang

Pages 94 - 97

https://doi.org/10.1145/2034654.2034674

Published: 23 September 2011 Publication History

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Erlang is well suited as a platform for modeling neural dynamics and development. We overview similarities between neural architecture and language paradigms in Erlang, specifically functional programming, message passing, distributed computing and concurrency. We present examples of using Erlang to model neural dynamics and development respectively. Finally, we synthesize these two examples into an artificial retina and then we conclude with an overview of ongoing work.

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Modeling growth and dynamics of neural networks via message passing in Erlang: neural models have a natural home in message passing functional programming languages
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Distributed artificial intelligence

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Erlang '11: Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Erlang

September 2011

108 pages

ISBN:9781450308595

DOI:10.1145/2034654

General Chair:
Kenji Rikitake
Kyoto University, Japan
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Erik Stenman
Klarna AB, Sweden

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ICFP '11: ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming

September 23, 2011

Tokyo, Japan

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Erlang '11 Paper Acceptance Rate 10 of 14 submissions, 71%;

Overall Acceptance Rate 51 of 68 submissions, 75%

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