2007 International Symposium on Neural Networks

June 3-7, 2007, Mandarin Garden Hotel, Nanjing, China.
http://www.acae.cuhk.edu.hk/~isnn2007 or http://liu.ece.uic.edu/ISNN07


Network Thinking & Network Intelligence

Deyi Li, National Natural Science Foundation of China

    Abstract: Network becomes the engine of scientific research activities in the 21st century, and the hot topic across disciplines. It challenges traditional logic thinking and symbolic problem solving which is developed in the 50-year history of AI. Network thinking, a special form of visual thinking, is a thinking behavior based on two-dimensional topology and typical characteristics, while logic thinking is usually based on one-dimensional language, such as symbolic logic and predicate calculus. Network intelligence, differing from intelligence network and distributed intelligence, takes network topology as knowledge representation.