Transcriber’s Notes: Underscores “_” before and after a word or phrase indicate _italics_ in the original text. Equal signs “=” before and after a word or phrase indicate =bold= in the original text. A single underscore after a symbol indicates a subscript. Carat symbol “^” designates a superscript. A bold arrow in front of a letter indicates a vector, e.g. ⮕M means “the vector M”. Small capitals have been converted to SOLID capitals. Illustrations have been moved so they do not break up paragraphs. Typographical and punctuation errors have been silently corrected. SELF-ORGANIZING SYSTEMS 1963 =Edited By= =JAMES EMMETT GARVEY= _Office of Naval Research Pasadena, California_ =ACR-96= =OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY WASHINGTON, D.C.= For sale by the Superintendent of Documents. U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C., 20402—Price $1.50 CONTENTS Foreword iv The Ionic Hypothesis and Neuron Models 1 —E. R. Lewis Fields and Waves in Excitable Cellular Structures 19 —R. M. Stewart Multi-Layer Learning Networks 37 —R. A. Stafford Adaptive Detection of Unknown Binary Waveforms 46 —J. J. Spilker, Jr. Conceptual Design of Self-Organizing Machines 52 —P. A. Kleyn A Topological Foundation for Self-Organization 65 —R. I. Ścibor-Marchocki On Functional Neuron Modeling 71 —C. E. Hendrix Selection of Parameters for Neural Net Simulations 76 —R. K. Overton Index of Invited Participants 77 FOREWORD The papers appearing in this volume were presented at a Symposium on Self-Organizing Systems, which was sponsored by the Office of Naval Research and held at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, on 14 November 1963. The Symposium was organized with the aim of providing a critical forum for the presentation and discussion of contemporary significant research efforts, with the emphasis on relatively uncommon approaches and methods in an early state of development. This aim and nature dictated that the Symposium be in effect a Working Group, with numerically limited invitational participation.