The Minimalᅠk-Core Problem for Modelingᅠ k-Assemblies

dc.citation.journalTitleThe Journal of Mathematical Neuroscienceen_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber5en_US
dc.contributor.authorWood, Cynthia I.en_US
dc.contributor.authorHicks, Illya V.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-04T18:26:23Zen_US
dc.date.available2016-04-04T18:26:23Zen_US
dc.date.issued2015en_US
dc.description.abstractThe concept of cell assembly was introduced by Hebb and formalized mathematically by Palm in the framework of graph theory. In the study of associative memory, a cell assembly is a group of neurons that are strongly connected and represent a "concept" of our knowledge. This group is wired in a specific manner such that only a fraction of its neurons will excite the entire assembly. We link the concept of cell assembly to the closure of a minimal k-core and study a particular type of cell assembly called k-assembly. The goal of this paper is to find all substructures within a network that must be excited in order to activate a k-assembly. Through numerical experiments, we confirm that fractions of these important subgroups overlap. To explore the problem, we present a backtracking algorithm to find all minimal k-cores of a given undirected graph, which belongs to the class of NP-hard problems. The proposed method is a modification of the Bron and Kerbosch algorithm for finding all cliques of an undirected graph. The results in the tested graphs offer insight in analyzing graph structure and help better understand how concepts are stored.en_US
dc.identifier.citationWood, Cynthia I. and Hicks, Illya V.. "The Minimalᅠk-Core Problem for Modelingᅠ k-Assemblies." <i>The Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience,</i> 5, (2015) Springer: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13408-015-0027-4.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13408-015-0027-4en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/88834en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSpringeren_US
dc.rightsThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.en_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.subject.keywordcell assemblyen_US
dc.subject.keywordmemoryen_US
dc.subject.keywordGraph theoryen_US
dc.subject.keywordk-Assemblyen_US
dc.subject.keywordcomplexityen_US
dc.subject.keywordk-Coreen_US
dc.titleThe Minimalᅠk-Core Problem for Modelingᅠ k-Assembliesen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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