The idea of evolving machines, whose origins can be traced to the cybernetics movementofthe1940sand1950s,hasrecentlyresurgedintheformofthenascent ?eld of bio-inspired systems and evolvable hardware. The inaugural workshop, Towards Evolvable Hardware, took place in Lausanne in October 1995, followed by the First International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware (ICES), held in Tsukuba, Japan in October 1996. The second ICES conference was held in Lausanne in September 1998, with the third and fourth being held in Edinburgh, April 2000 and Tokyo, October 2001 respectively. This has become the leading conference in the ?eld of evolvable systems and the 2003 conference promised to be at least as good as, if not better than, the four that preceeded it. The ?fth international conference was built on the success of its predec- sors, aiming at presenting the latest developments in the ?eld. In addition, it brought together researchers who use biologically inspired concepts to imp- ment real systems in arti?cial intelligence, arti?cial life, robotics, VLSI design and related domains. We would say that this ?fth conference followed on from the previous four in that it consisted of a number of high-quality interesting thought-provoking papers.
Author(s): Christof Teuscher, Mathieu S. Capcarrere (auth.), AAndy M. Tyrrell, Pauline C. Haddow, Jim Torresen (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2606
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 468
Tags: Computation by Abstract Devices; Logic Design; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Simulation and Modeling; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design; Bioinformatics
On Fireflies, Cellular Systems, and Evolware....Pages 1-12
A Comparison of Different Circuit Representations for Evolutionary Analog Circuit Design....Pages 13-23
Fault Tolerance via Endocrinologic Based Communication for Multiprocessor Systems....Pages 24-34
Using Negative Correlation to Evolve Fault-Tolerant Circuits....Pages 35-46
A Genetic Representation for Evolutionary Fault Recovery in Virtex FPGAs....Pages 47-56
Biologically Inspired Evolutionary Development....Pages 57-68
Building Knowledge into Developmental Rules for Circuit Design....Pages 69-80
Evolving Fractal Proteins....Pages 81-92
A Developmental Method for Growing Graphs and Circuits....Pages 93-104
Developmental Models for Emergent Computation....Pages 105-116
Developmental Effects on Tuneable Fitness Landscapes....Pages 117-128
POEtic Tissue: An Integrated Architecture for Bio-inspired Hardware....Pages 129-140
Ontogenetic Development and Fault Tolerance in the POEtic Tissue....Pages 141-152
A Morphogenetic Evolutionary System: Phylogenesis of the POEtic Circuit....Pages 153-164
Spiking Neural Networks for Reconfigurable POEtic Tissue....Pages 165-173
A Learning, Multi-layered, Hardware Artificial Immune System Implemented upon an Embryonic Array....Pages 174-185
Virtual Reconfigurable Circuits for Real-World Applications of Evolvable Hardware....Pages 186-197
Gene Finding Using Evolvable Reasoning Hardware....Pages 198-207
Evolvable Fuzzy System for ATM Cell Scheduling....Pages 208-217
Synthesis of Boolean Functions Using Information Theory....Pages 218-227
Evolving Multiplier Circuits by Training Set and Training Vector Partitioning....Pages 228-237
Evolution of Self-diagnosing Hardware....Pages 238-248
Routing of Embryonic Arrays Using Genetic Algorithms....Pages 249-261
Exploiting Auto-adaptive μGP for Highly Effective Test Programs Generation....Pages 262-273
Speeding up Hardware Evolution: A Coprocessor for Evolutionary Algorithms....Pages 274-285
Automatic Evolution of Signal Separators Using Reconfigurable Hardware....Pages 286-295
Distributed Control in Self-reconfigurable Robots....Pages 296-307
Co-evolving Complex Robot Behavior....Pages 308-319
Evolving Reinforcement Learning-Like Abilities for Robots....Pages 320-331
Evolving Image Processing Operations for an Evolvable Hardware Environment....Pages 332-343
Hardware Implementation of a Genetic Controller and Effects of Training on Evolution....Pages 344-354
Real World Hardware Evolution: A Mobile Platform for Sensor Evolution....Pages 355-364
Real-Time Reconfigurable Linear Threshold Elements and Some Applications to Neural Hardware....Pages 365-376
Simulation of a Neural Node Using SET Technology....Pages 377-386
General Purpose Processor Architecture for Modeling Stochastic Biological Neuronal Assemblies....Pages 387-397
Use of Particle Swarm Optimization to Design Combinational Logic Circuits....Pages 398-409
A Note on Designing Logical Circuits Using SAT....Pages 410-421
Using Genetic Programming to Generate Protocol Adaptors for Interprocess Communication....Pages 422-433
Using Genetic Programming and High Level Synthesis to Design Optimized Datapath....Pages 434-445
The Effect of the Bulge Loop upon the Hybridization Process in DNA Computing....Pages 446-456
Quantum versus Evolutionary Systems. Total versus Sampled Search....Pages 457-465
