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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society Volume 2007, Article ID 28960, 17 pages doi:10.1155/2007/28960 Research Article Delay-Dependent Asymptotic Stability of Cohen-Grossberg Models with Multiple Time-Varying Delays Xiaofeng Liao and Songtao Guo Received 4 November 2006; Accepted 1 March 2007 Dynamical behavior of a class of Cohen-Grossberg models with multiple time-varying delays is studied in detail. Sufficient delay-dependent criteria to ensure local and global asymptotic stabilities of the equilibrium of this network are derived by constructing suit- able Lyapunov functionals. The obtained conditions are shown to be less conservative and restrictive than those reported in the known literature. Some numerical examples are included to demonstrate our results. Copyright © 2007 X. Liao and S. Guo. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1. Introduction A large class of neural networks, which can function as stable content addressable memo- ries or CAMs [1, 2], had been proposed by Cohen and Grossberg. These Cohen-Grossberg networks were designed to include additive neural networks, later studied by Hopfield [3, 4], and shunting neural networks. In the original analysis, Cohen and Grossberg as- sumed that the weight matrix was symmetric. Meanwhile, the activation functions are assumed to be continuous, differentiable, monotonically increasing, and bounded, such as the sigmoid-type function. Usually, such systems have been investigated under the assumption of asymmetric connection weight and nonmonotonic activation function. However, monotonicity and differentiability of activation functions come form the exper- imental results of brain sciences, moreover, they have very strong biological background. On the other hand, realistic modeling