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Record Nr.

UNISA996465585603316

Titolo

Towards Evolvable Hardware [[electronic resource] ] : The Evolutionary Engineering Approach / / edited by Eduardo Sanchez, Marco Tomassini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1996

ISBN

3-540-49947-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 1996.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 274 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 0302-9743 ; ; 1062

Disciplina

004.2/2

Soggetti

Computers

Computer hardware

Logic design

Microprocessors

Computer simulation

Artificial intelligence

Theory of Computation

Computer Hardware

Logic Design

Register-Transfer-Level Implementation

Simulation and Modeling

Artificial Intelligence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Field programmable gate array (FPGA) circuits -- Evolutionary algorithms -- Artificial cellular development in optimization and compilation -- CAM-Brain the evolutionary engineering of a billion neuron artificial brain by 2001 which grows/evolves at electronic speeds inside a cellular automata machine (CAM) -- Morphogenesis for evolvable systems -- Evolvable Hardware and its application to pattern recognition and fault-tolerant systems -- Unconstrained evolution and hard consequences -- Embryonics: The birth of synthetic life -- Embryonics: A new family of coarse-grained field-programmable gate array with self-repair and self-reproducing properties -- Evolution and



mobile autonomous robotics -- Development and evolution of hardware behaviors.

Sommario/riassunto

Evolutionary computing, inspired by the biological world, is one of the emergent technologies of our time. Being essentially a software activity, it has been successfully applied, e.g. for optimization and machine learning in various areas. The tremendous increase in computational power and, more recently, the appearance of a new generation of programmable logic devices allow for a new approach to designing computing machines inspired by biological models: it is now possible to make the hardware itself evolve. This book is based on a workshop on evolvable hardware, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, in October 1995. It reports the state of the art of research in this field and presents two introductory chapters, written with the novice reader in mind.