Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware

Third International Conference, ICES 2000, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, April 17-19, 2000 Proceedings
2000
ISBN: 978-3-540-67338-5
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Buch, Englisch, Band 1801, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 458 g

Reihe: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware, ICES 2000, held in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, in April 2000.
The 27 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the proceedings. Among the topics covered are evaluation of digital systems, evolution of analog systems, embryonic electronics, bio-inspired systems, artificial neural networks, adaptive robotics, adaptive hardware platforms, molecular computing, reconfigurable systems, immune systems, and self-repair.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miller, Julian F.

Fogarty, Terence C.

Thompson, Adrian

Thomson, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Hardware: Grundlagen und Allgemeines
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Mathematik & Informatik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz Wissensbasierte Systeme, Expertensysteme
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Logik, formale Sprachen, Automaten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Automatic Synthesis, Placement, and Routing of an Amplifier Circuit by Means of Genetic Programming.- Immunotronics: Hardware Fault Tolerance Inspired by the Immune System.- Ant Colony System for the Design of Combinational Logic Circuits.- Evolving Cellular Automata for Self-Testing Hardware.- Dynamic Optimisation of Non-linear Feed-Forward Circuits.- From the Sea to the Sidewalk: The Evolution of Hexapod Walking Gaits by a Genetic Algorithm.- Experiments in Evolvable Filter Design using Pulse Based Programmable Analogue VLSI Models.- The Intrinsic Evolution of Virtex Devices Through Internet Reconfigurable Logic.- Evolution of Controllers from a High-Level Simulator to a High DOF Robot.- The Evolution of 3-d C.A. to Perform a Collective Behavior Task.- Initial Evaluation of an Evolvable Microwave Circuit.- Towards an Artificial Pinna for a Narrow-Band Biomimetic Sonarhead.- Towards a Silicon Primordial Soup: A Fast Approach to Hardware Evolution with a VLSI Transistor Array.- Understanding Inherent Qualities of Evolved Circuits: Evolutionary History as a Predictor of Fault Tolerance.- Comparison between Three Heuristic Algorithms to Repair a Large-Scale MIMD Computer.- A Hardware Implementation of an Embryonic Architecture Using Virtex® FPGAs.- Everything on the Chip: A Hardware-Based Self-Contained Spatially-Structured Genetic Algorithm for Signal Processing.- Evolutionary Techniques in Physical Robotics.- Biology Meets Electronics: the Path to a Bio-Inspired FPGA.- The Design and Implementation of Custom Architectures for Evolvable Hardware Using Off-the-Shelf Programmable Devices.- Mixtrinsic Evolution.- Evolution of Robustness in an Electronics Design.- Circuit Evolution and Visualisation.- Evolutionary Robots with Fast Adaptive Behavior in New Environments.-The Advantages of Landscape Neutrality in Digital Circuit Evolution.- Genetic Algorithm-Based Design Methodology for Pattern Recognition Hardware.- A Flexible Model of a CMOS Field Programmable Transistor Array Targeted for Hardware Evolution.