A series of nodal processors (10, 20,...N) and each processor includes a nodal weight delay circuit (36), delay schedule (46), and decision algorithm circuit (56). Each nodal processor is cross-connected to every other processor by lines (19). Each nodal processor (10, 20, etc.) output is fed to the network history memory (18) which provides the ''status'' of each nodal processor on each machine cycle. The processor-controller (70) then senses when the outputs of the nodal processors have settled into a relative ''unchanging state'' indicating that system energy (E) has been minimized and represents an optimum state.
NEUROCOMPUTER SYSTEM FOR SOLVING OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS