Modeling self-developing biological neural networks

Recent progress in chips–neuron interface suggests real biological neurons as long-term alternatives to silicon transistors. The first step to designing such computing systems is to build an abstract model of self-assembled biological neural networks, much like computer architects manipulate abstract models of transistors. In this article, we propose a model of the structure of biological neural networks. Our model reproduces most of the graph properties exhibited by Caenorhabditis elegans, including its small-world structure and allows generating surrogate networks with realistic biological structure, as would be needed for complex information processing/computing tasks.