Evolvable Components: From Theory to Hardware Implementations

Author:   Lukas Sekanina
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
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9783642621963


Pages:   195
Publication Date:   03 October 2013
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At the beginning of the 1990s research started in how to combine soft comput­ ing with reconfigurable hardware in a quite unique way. One of the methods that was developed has been called evolvable hardware. Thanks to evolution­ ary algorithms researchers have started to evolve electronic circuits routinely. A number of interesting circuits - with features unreachable by means of con­ ventional techniques - have been developed. Evolvable hardware is quite pop­ ular right now; more than fifty research groups are spread out over the world. Evolvable hardware has become a part of the curriculum at some universi­ ties. Evolvable hardware is being commercialized and there are specialized conferences devoted to evolvable hardware. On the other hand, surprisingly, we can feel the lack of a theoretical background and consistent design methodology in the area. Furthermore, it is quite difficult to implement really innovative and practically successful evolvable systems using contemporary digital reconfigurable technology.

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Author:   Lukas Sekanina
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.332kg
ISBN:  

9783642621963


ISBN 10:   3642621961
Pages:   195
Publication Date:   03 October 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1 Introduction.- 1.1 Natural Computing.- 1.2 Bioinspired Hardware.- 1.3 Motivation for Research.- 2 Reconfigurable Hardware.- 2.1 Digital Cicuits.- 2.2 Digital Circuit Design.- 2.3 Field Programmable Gate arrays.- 2.4 Hardware Reused as Software.- 2.5 Reconfigurable Computing.- 2.6 Nanotechnology.- 2.7 Cell Matrix.- 2.8 Summary.- 3 Evolutionary Algorithms.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Variant of Evolutionary Algorithms.- 3.3 Some Other Features of Evolutionary Algorithms.- 3.4 Evolutionary Design and Optimization.- 3.5 The Evolutionary Algorithm Design.- 3.6 Formal Approach.- 3.7 Summary.- 4 Evolvable Hardware.- 4.1 Basic Concept.- 4.2 Cartesian Genetic Programming.- 4.3 Features of Cartesian Genetic Programming.- 4.4 From Chromosome to Fitness Value.- 4.5 Fitness Function.- 4.6 Applications and Degree of Hardware Implementation.- 4.7 Promising Results.- 4.8 Major Current Problems and Potential Solutions.- 4.9 Summary.- 5 Towards Evolvable Components.- 5.1 Component Approach to Problem Solving.- 5.2 Evolvable Components.- 5.3 Hardware Implementation.- 5.4 Extension of Evolvable Components.- 5.5 Summary.- 6 Evolvable Computational Machines.- 6.1 Computational Machines and Evolutionary Design.- 6.2 Cellular Automata.- 6.3 General Evolvable Computational Machine.- 6.4 Dynamic Environment.- 6.5 Evolvable Computational System.- 6.6 Properties of Evolvable Machines.- 6.7 The Computational Power.- 6.8 Summary.- 7 An Evolvable Component for Image Pre-processing.- 7.1 Motivation and Problem Specification.- 7.2 The Image Filter Design.- 7.3 Analysis of Reconfigurability and Size of the Search Space.- 7.4 Evolutionary Design: Experimental Framework.- 7.5 Filters for Smoothing.- 7.6 Other Image Operators.- 7.7 Dynamics Environment.- 7.8 A Note on a Single Filter Design.- 7.9 Summary.- Virtual Reconfigurable Devices.- 8.1 Chip on Top of a Chip.- 8.2 Architecture of Virtual Reconfigurable Circuits.- 8.3 Implementation Costs.- 8.4 Speeding up the Evolutionary Design.- 8.5 Genetic Unit.- 8.6 Physical Realization.- 8.7 Discussion.- 8.8 Summary.- 9 Concluding Statements.- 9.1 The Approach.- 9.2 The Obtained Results.- 9.3 Future Work.- References.

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From the reviews: This monograph gathers in one volume methods for evolvable hardware design with underlying and supporting fields and theories like soft computing, evolutionary biology and generalizations of computational machines. ... The book may serve very well as handbook for courses on evolvable systems. (Antoni Michalski, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1056, 2005)


From the reviews: This monograph gathers in one volume methods for evolvable hardware design with underlying and supporting fields and theories like soft computing, evolutionary biology and generalizations of computational machines. ... The book may serve very well as handbook for courses on evolvable systems. (Antoni Michalski, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1056, 2005)


From the reviews: This monograph gathers in one volume methods for evolvable hardware design with underlying and supporting fields and theories like soft computing, evolutionary biology and generalizations of computational machines. ... The book may serve very well as handbook for courses on evolvable systems. (Antoni Michalski, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1056, 2005)


From the reviews: ""This monograph gathers in one volume methods for evolvable hardware design with underlying and supporting fields and theories like soft computing, evolutionary biology and generalizations of computational machines. … The book may serve very well as handbook for courses on evolvable systems."" (Antoni Michalski, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1056, 2005)


"From the reviews: ""This monograph gathers in one volume methods for evolvable hardware design with underlying and supporting fields and theories like soft computing, evolutionary biology and generalizations of computational machines. … The book may serve very well as handbook for courses on evolvable systems."" (Antoni Michalski, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1056, 2005)"


Author Information

Lukas Sekanina received MSc degree in Computer Science and Engineering and PhD degree in Information Technology from Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic, in 1999 and 2002 , respectively. He was a visiting lecturer with Pennsylvania State University, USA, and a visiting researcher with Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway, in 2001. He is author or co-author of more than 20 refereed conference papers mainly on evolvable hardware and bio-inspired computing. He was awarded Siemens Awards 1999 and 2000 and The best paper award at IEEE Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and System workshop 2002. Currently he is an assistant professor with Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology. His research interests focus on theory, design and implementations of bio-inspired computational systems.

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