ISBN: 3-540-67338-5
TITLE: Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware
AUTHOR: Miller, Julian; Thompson, Adrian; Thomson, Peter; Fogarty, Terence C. (Eds.)
TOC:

Automatic Synthesis, Placement, and Routing of an Amplifier Circuit by Means of Genetic Programming 1
F. H. Bennett III, J. R. Koza, J. Yu and W. Mydlowec
Immunotronics: Hardware Fault Tolerance Inspired by the Immune System 11
D. W. Bradley and A. M. Tyrell
Ant Colony System for the Design of Combinational Logic Circuits 21
C. A. C. Coello, R. L. Zavala, B. M. Garca and A. Hernndez Aguirre Evolving Cellular Automata for Self-Testing Hardware 31
F. Corno, M. Sonza Reorda and G. Squillero
Dynamic Optimisation of Non-linear Feed Forward Circuits 41
E. Damiani, V. Liberali and A. G. B. Tettamanzi
From the Sea to the Sidewalk: The Evolution of Hexapod Walking Gaits by a Genetic Algorithm 51
E. J. P. Earon, T. D. Barfoot and G. M. T. D'Eleuterio
Experiments in Evolvable Filter Design Using Pulse Based Programmable Analogue VLSI Models 61
A. Hamilton, P. Thomson and M. Tamplin
The Intrinsic Evolution of Virtex Devices Through Internet Reconfigurable Logic 72
G. Hollingworth, S. Smith and A. Tyrell
Evolution of Controllers from a High-Level Simulator to a High DOF Robot 80
G. S. Hornby, S. Takamura, O. Hanagata, M. Fujita and J. Pollack
The Evolution of 3-d C.A. to Perform a Collective Behaviour Task 90
F. Jimnez-Morales
Initial Evaluation of an Evolvable Microwave Circuit 103
Y. Kasai, H. Sakanashi, M. Murakawa, S. Kiryu, N. Marston and T. Higuchi
Towards an Artificial Pinna for a Narrow-Band Biomimetic Sonarhead 113
D. Kim, J. M. Carmena and J. C. T. Hallam
Towards a Silicon Primordial Soup: A Fast Approach to Hardware Evolution with a VLSI Transistor Array 123
J. Langeheine, S. Flling, K. Meier and J. Schemmel
Understanding Inherent Qualities of Evolved Circuits: Evolutionary History as a Predictor of Fault Tolerance 133
P. Layzell and A. Thompson
Comparison between Three Heuristic Algorithms to Repair a Large-Scale MIMD Computer 145
P. Millet and J.-C. Heudin
A Hardware Implementation of an Embryonic Architecture Using Virtex FPGAs 155
C. Ortega and A. Tyrell
Everything on the Chip: A Hardware-Based Self-Contained Spatially-Structured Genetic Algorithm for Signal Processing 165
S. Perkins, R. Porter and N. Harvey
Evolutionary Techniques in Physical Robotics 175
J. B. Pollack, H. Lipson, S. Ficci, P. Funes, G. Hornby and R. A. Watson
Biology Meets Electronics: The Path to a Bio-inspired FPGA 187
L. Prodan, G. Tempesti, D. Mange and A. Stauffer
The Design and Implementation of Custom Architectures for Evolvable Hardware Using Off-the-Shelf Programmable Devices 197
C. Slorach and K. Sharman
Mixtrinsic Evolution 208
A. Stoica, R. Zebulum and D. Keymeulen
Evolution of Robustness in an Electronics Design 218
A. Thompson and P. Layzell
Circuit Evolution and Visualisation 229
P. Thomson
Evolutionary Robots with Fast Adaptive Behaviour in New Environments 241
J. Urzelai and D. Floreano
The Advantages of Landscape Neutrality in Digital Circuit Evolution 252
V. K. Vassilev and J. F. Miller
Genetic Algorithm-Based Methodology for Pattern Recognition Hardware 264
M. Yasunaga, T. Nakamura, I. Yoshihara and J. H. Kim
A Flexible Model of a CMOS Field Programmable Transistor Array Targeted for Hardware Evolution 274
R. S. Zebulum, A. Stoica and D. Keymeulen
Author Index 285
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