title: Analog optimization with Wong's stochastic neural network.
abstract: We describe E. Wong's stochastic neural network (1989) and show that it can be used, in principle, to perform analog optimization. The optimization dynamics are analogous to those of simulated annealing. To show this, we use the theory developed in Holley and Stroock (1988) for the continuous-time simulated annealing process.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Electr. and Comput. Eng., Waterloo Univ., Ont.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kesidis