We propose a heuristic for solving the maximum independent set
problem for a set of processors in a network with arbitrary
topology. We assume an asynchronous model of computation and we use
modified Hopfield neural networks to find high quality solutions. We
analyze the algorithm in terms of the number of rounds necessary to
find admissible solutions both in the worst case (theoretical
analysis) and in the average case (experimental Analysis). We show
that our heuristic is better than the greedy one at 1% significance
level.