Towards Evolvable Hardware

The Evolutionary Engineering Approach
1996
ISBN: 978-3-540-61093-9
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Buch, Englisch, Band 1062, 274 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 435 g

Reihe: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tomassini, Marco

Sanchez, Eduardo

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Logik, formale Sprachen, Automaten
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Grafikprogrammierung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Kybernetik, Systemtheorie, Komplexe Systeme
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz Wissensbasierte Systeme, Expertensysteme
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Interdisziplinär Systemtheorie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Hochleistungsrechnen, Supercomputer
• Technische Wissenschaften Elektronik | Nachrichtentechnik Elektronik Robotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.