PUBLICATIONS

Books

Complex Engineered Systems: Science Meets Technology Dan Braha, Ali A. Minai and Yaneer Bar-Yam (eds.), Springer-Verlag, 2006.

Unifying Themes in Complex Systems Volume IIIA: Overview Ali A. Minai and Yaneer Bar-Yam (eds.) Springer-Verlag, 2006.

Unifying Themes in Complex Systems Volume IIIB: New Research Ali A. Minai and Yaneer Bar-Yam (eds.) Springer-Verlag, 2006.

"Unifying Themes in Complex Systems, Volume II: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Complex Systems", Yaneer Bar-Yam and Ali A. Minai (Editors), Westview Press (Advanced Book Program), 2004.

Journal Publications

"Balancing Search and Target Response in Cooperative Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Teams", Yan Jin, Yan Liao, Ali A. Minai and Marios M. Polycarpou, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part B: Cybernetics 36: 571-587 (2006).

"Intelligent Sensor Activity Scheduling for Event Monitoring Networks", Sumathi Seetharaman and Ali A. Minai, International Journal of Lateral Computing 1: 32-39 (2005).

"Temporally Sequenced Intelligent Block-Matching and Motion-Segmentation Using Locally Coupled Networks", Xiaofu Zhang and Ali A. Minai, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks 15: 1202-1214 (2004).

"Phase-Transition in a Swarm Algorithm for Self-Organized Construction", Henri Leung, Ravi Kothari and Ali A. Minai, Physical Review E 68: 046111-9 (2003).

"Network Capacity Analysis for Latent Attractor Computation" , Simona Doboli and Ali A. Minai, Network: Computation in Neural Systems 14: 273-302 (2003).

"A Computational Model of the Interaction between External and Internal Cues for the Control of Hippocampal Place Cells", Simona Doboli, Ali A. Minai, and Phillip J. Best, Neurocomputing 52-54: 371-379.

"Spatial Processing in the Brain: The Activity of Hippocampal Place Cells" , Phillip J. Best, Aaron M. White, and Ali A. Minai, Annual Reviews of Neuroscience 24: 459-486 (2001) --- Invited Paper.

"An Attractor Model for Hippocampal Place Cell Hysteresis", Simona Doboli, Ali A. Minai, Phillip J. Best, and Aaron M. White, Neurocomputing 38-40: 1185-1191 (2001).

"Efficient Associative Memory using Small-World Architecture", Jason W. Bohland and Ali A. Minai, Neurocomputing 38-40: 489-496 (2001).

"Synchronization of randomly multiplexed chaotic systems with application to communication" , Shyam Sundar and Ali A. Minai, Physical Review Letters 85: 5456-5459 (2000).

"A Comparison of Context-Dependent Hippocampal Place Codes in 1-Layer and 2-Layer Recurrent Networks" , Simona Doboli, Ali A. Minai and Phillip J. Best, Neurocomputing 32-33: 353-358 (2000).

"Latent Attractors: A Model for Context-Dependent Place Representations in the Hippocampus" , Simona Doboli, Ali A. Minai, and Phillip J. Best, Neural Computation 12: 1003-1037 (2000).

"Using Chaos to Produce Synchronized Stochastic Dynamics in Non-Homogeneous Map Arrays with a Random Scalar Coupling" , Ali A. Minai, Physics Letters A 251: 31-38 (1999).

"Synchronization of Chaotic Maps through a Noisy Coupling Channel with Application to Digital Communication" , Ali A. Minai and Tirunelveli Anand, Physical Review E 59: 312-320 (1999).

"Synchronizing Multiple Chaotic Maps with a Randomized Scalar Coupling" , Ali A. Minai and Tirunelveli Anand, Physica D 125: 241-259 (1999).

"A Latent Attractors Model of Context-Selection in the Dentate Gyrus-Hilus System" , Simona Doboli, Ali A. Minai and Phillip J. Best, Neurocomputing 26-27: 671-676 (1999).

"Communicating with Noise: How Chaos and Noise Combine to Generate Secure Encryption Keys" , Ali A. Minai and T. Durai Pandian, CHAOS 8: 621-628 (1998).

"Stimulus-Induced Bifurcations in Discrete-Time Neural Oscillators" , Ali A. Minai and Tirunelveli Anand, Biological Cybernetics 79: 87-96 (1998).

"Chaos-Induced Synchronization in Discrete-Time Oscillators Driven by a Random Input" , Ali A. Minai and Tirunelveli Anand, Physical Review E 57: 1559-1562 (1998).

"Covariance Learning of Correlated Patterns in Competitive Networks" , Ali A. Minai, Neural Computation 8: 667-681 (1997).

"Setting the Activity Level in Sparse Random Networks", Ali A. Minai and William B. Levy, Neural Computation 6: 85-99 (1994).

"Perturbation Response in Feed-Forward Networks", Ali A. Minai and Ronald D. Williams, Neural Networks 7: 783-796 (1994).

"The Dynamics of Sparse Random Networks", Ali A. Minai and William B. Levy, Biological Cybernetics 70: 177-187 (1993).

"On the Derivatives of the Sigmoid", Ali A. Minai and Ronald D. Williams, Neural Networks 6: 845-853 (1993).

Book Chapters

"Latent Attractors: A General Paradigm for Context-Dependent Neural Computation", Simona Doboli and Ali A. Minai, in Trends in Neural Computation, K. Chen(ed.), Springer Verlag, to appear

"A General Approach to Swarm Coordination using Circle Formation", Karthikeyan Swaminathan and Ali A. Minai, in Stigmergic Optimization, A. Abraham, C. Grosan and V. Ramos(eds.), Springer Verlag, to appear.

"Complex Systems Engineering: A New Paradigm", Ali A. Minai, Dan Braha and Yaneer Bar-Yam, in Complex Engineered Systems: Science Meets Technology, D. Braha, A.A. Minai and Y. Bar-Yam(eds.), Springer Verlag, pp 1-22 (2006).

"Multi-Target Assignment and Path Planning for Groups of UAVs", Theju Maddula, Ali A. Minai and Marios Polycarpou, in Cooperative Control and Optimization, S. Butenko, R. Murphey and P. Pardalos (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp 261-272 (2004).

"Cooperative Real-Time Task Allocation Among Groups of UAVs", Yan Jin, Marios Polycarpou and Ali A. Minai, in Cooperative Control and Optimization, S. Butenko, R. Murphey and P. Pardalos (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp 207-224(2004).

"Different Hippocampal Place Cell Maps for Different Environments", Simona Doboli, Ali A. Minai and Phillip J. Best, in Neural Basis of Navigation: Evidence from Single Cell Recording , P. Sharp (ed.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp 23-39 (2001).

"Fast Back-Propagation with Adaptive Decoupled Momentum", Ali A. Minai and Ronald D. Williams, in Fast Learning and Invariant Object Recognition , B. Soucek (ed.), John Wiley and Sons, Inc., pp 9-26 (1992).

Refereed Conference Publications

"Impact of Heterogeneity on Coverage and Broadcast Reachability in Wireless Sensor Networks", Yun Wang, Xiaodong Wang, Dharma P. Agrawal and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN'06), Arlington, VA, October 2006.

"Obtaining Robust Wireless Sensor Networks Through Self-Organization of Heterogeneous Connectivity", Abhinay Venuturumilli and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS'06), Boston, MA, June 2006.

"Self-Organized Inference of Spatial Structure in Randomly Deployed Sensor Networks", Neena A. George, Ali A. Minai and Simona Doboli, Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS'06), Boston, MA, June 2006.

"Evidential Map-Building Approaches for Cooperative UAV Search", Yanli Yang, Ali A. Minai and Marios M. Polycarpou, Proceedings of the 2005 American Control Conference (ACC'05), 2005.

"Impact of System Design Parameters on Performance of Cooperative Agent Teams", Yan Jin, Yan Liao, Ali A. Minai and Marios M. Polycarpou, Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Control (ISIC'05), Limassol, Cyprus, June 2005.

"Intelligent Scheduling in Event-Monitoring Networks", Sumathi Seetharaman and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the 2004 World Congress on Lateral Computing (WCLC'04), Bangalore, India, December 2004.

"Balancing Search and Target Response in Cooperative UAV Teams", Yan Jin, Yan Liao, Marios M. Polycarpou and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC'04), pp. 2923-2928, 2004 --- Invited Paper.

"Decentralized Cooperative Search by Networked UAVs in an Uncertain Environment", Yanli Yang, Ali A. Minai and Marios M. Polycarpou, Proceedings of the 2004 American Control Conference (ACC'04), pp. 5558-5563, 2004

"Using Latent Attractors to Discern Temporal Order", Simona Doboli and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the 2004 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'04), Budapest, July 2004

"Effect of Noise on the Performance of the Temporally-Sequenced Intelligent Block-Matching and Motion-Segmentation Algorithm", Xiaofu Zhang and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the 2004 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'04), Budapest, July 2004

"Self-Organized Scheduling of Node Activity in Large Scale Sensor Networks", Sumathi Seetharaman and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS5), Boston, May 2004

"Shouters and Whisperers: Random Wireless Sensor Networks with Two-Tier Connectivity", Nagendra Marupaka and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS5), Boston, May 2004

"Cooperative Real-Time Search and Task Allocation in UAV Teams", Yan Jin, Ali A. Minai, and Marios M. Polycarpou, Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Decision and Control (CDC'03), Maui, December 2003 --- Invited Paper.

"SCRIBE: Self-Organized Contention and Routing in Intelligent Broadcast Environments", Rajkumar Arumugam, Vinod Subramanian and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of MILCOM'03, Boston, MA, (to appear).

"Latent Attractor Selection for Variable Length Episodic Context Stimuli with Distractors", Simona Doboli and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the 2003 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'03), Portland, OR, pp 1643-1648 (2003).

"Analysis of an Opportunistic Method for Cooperative Search by Mobile Agents", Yanli Yang, Ali A. Minai, and Marios M. Polycarpou, Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Decision and Control (CDC'02).

"Intelligent Broadcast for Large-Scale Sensor Networks", Rajkumar Arumugam, Vinod Subraminian, and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Complex Systems, Nashua, NH, (to appear). (Also available on InterJournal (paper no. 567)).

"Self-Organization of Geographical Routing in Large-Scale Sensor Networks", Vinod Subraminian, Rajkumar Arumugam, and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Complex Systems, Nashua, NH, (to appear). (Also available on InterJournal (paper no. 566)).

"Decentralized Cooperative Search in UAV's Using Opportunistic Learning", Yanli Yang, Ali A. Minai, and Marios M. Polycarpou, Proceedings of the 2002 AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, Monterey, CA (2002).

"Opportunistically Cooperative Neural Learning in Mobile Agents", Yanli Yang, Marios M. Polycarpou, and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Honolulu, HI, pp 2638-2643 (2002).

"Latent Attractor Selection in the Presence of Irrelevant Stimuli", Simona Doboli and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Honolulu, HI, 124-129 (2002).

"Data integration using data mining technique", Krishnamoorthy Janakiraman, Karen C. Davis and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of FLAIRS-2002, Pensacola, FL (2002).

"Detecting Corresponding Segments across Images Using Synchronizable Pulse-Coupled Neural Networks", Xiaofu Zhang and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Washington, DC, pp. 820-825, (2001).

"Progressive Attractor Selection in Latent Attractor Networks", Simona Doboli and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Washington, DC, pp. 308-313, (2001).

"Network Capacity for Latent Attractor Computation", Simona Doboli, Ali A. Minai, and Phillip J. Best, Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Como, Italy, pp. 222-228, (2000).

"ca: A system for Granular Processing of Sound using Cellular Automata", Shyamsundar Vaidhyanathan, Ali A. Minai, and Mara Helmuth, Proceedings of the 2nd COST G-6 Workshop on Digital Audio (DAFx99)}, NINU, Trondheim, (1999).

"Generating Smooth Context-Dependent Neural Representations", Simona Doboli, Ali A. Minai and Phillip J. Best, Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Washington, DC, Paper no. 280, (1999).

"Using Noise to Synchronize Chaotic Neural Oscillators" , Ali A. Minai and Tirunelveli Anand, Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Anchorage, Alaska, pp 1466-1471 (1998).

"Encoding Spatial Context: A Hypothesis on the Function of the Dentate Gyrus-Hilus System" , Ali A. Minai and Phillip J. Best, Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Anchorage, Alaska, pp 587-592 (1998).

"Socioeconomic Organization on Directional Resource Landscapes", James G. Uber and Ali A. Minai, to appear in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Complex Systems, Nashua, NH (1997) (Also available on InterJournal).

"Using Hysteresis to Improve Performance in Synchronous Networks" , Tirunelveli Anand and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Houston, TX, Vol. 2, pp 1216-1220, (1997)

"Control of CA3 Place Fields by the Dentate Gyrus: A Neural Network Model" , Ali A. Minai, in Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research, 1997 (Proceedings of the Fifth Computational Neuroscience Meeting, Cambridge, MA), J.M. Bower (ed.), Plenum Press, pp 411-416, (1997).

"A Covariance-Based Learning Rule for the Hippocampus", Thomas S. Green and Ali A. Minai, in Computational Neuroscience (Proceedings of the Fourth Computational Neuroscience Meeting, Monterey, CA), J.M. Bower (ed.), Academic Press, pp 21-26, (1996).

"Place Learning with a Stable Covariance-Based Learning Rule", Thomas S. Green and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the INNS World Congress on Neural Networks, Washington, D.C., Vol. II, pp 541-544, (1995).

"Disambiguation of Pattern Sequences with Recurrent Networks" , Ali A. Minai, Geoffrey L. Barrows, and William B. Levy, Proceedings of the INNS World Congress on Neural Networks - San Diego, vol. IV, pp 176-180, (1994).

"Sequence Learning in a Single Trial" , Ali A. Minai and William B. Levy, Proceedings of the INNS World Congress on Neural Networks, Portland, OR, Vol. II, pp 505-508, (1993).

"Predicting Complex Behavior in Sparse Asymmetric Networks", Ali A. Minai and William B. Levy, in C.L. Giles, S.J. Hanson, and J.D. Cowan (eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 5, San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, pp 556-563 (1993).

"Perturbation Response in Feed-Forward Neural Networks", Ali A. Minai and Ronald D. Williams, Proceedings of the 1992 IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Baltimore, MD, Vol. III: pp 857-862 (1992).

"Back-propagation Heuristics: A Study of the Extended Delta-Bar-Delta Algorithm", Ali A. Minai and Ronald D. Williams, Proceedings of the 1990 IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, San Diego, CA, Vol. 1, pp 595-600 (1990).

"Acceleration of Back-Propagation through Learning Rate and Momentum Adaptation", Ali A. Minai and Ronald D. Williams, Proceedings of the IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks-90-WASH-DC, Washington, DC, Vol. 1, pp 676-679 (1990).

"A Discrete Heuristics Approach to Predictive Evaluation of Semi-Custom IC Layouts", A.A. Minai, R.D. Williams and F.W. Blake, Proceedings of the 24th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, Miami, FL , pp 770-776 (1987).