“…The positive signals are called excitatory , while the negative signals are called inhibitory . It has been used in many applications, including image and video compression [ 30 , 31 ], the recognition of tumours from Magnetic Resonance Images of the human brain [ 32 ], toxicity prediction of chemical compounds [ 33 ], web search [ 34 ], and network routing and cloud management [ 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 ]. It is a special instance of the family of stochastic networks known as G-Networks [ 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 ] which have many different areas of application.…”