Bounds on the average sensitivity of nested canalizing functions.

Nested canalizing Boolean functions (NCF) play an important role in biologically motivated regulatory networks and in signal processing, in particular describing stack filters. It has been conjectured that NCFs have a stabilizing effect on the network dynamics. It is well known that the average sens...

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Main Authors: Johannes Georg Klotz, Reinhard Heckel, Steffen Schober
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3669309?pdf=render