Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIV

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2. Evolution

   1. On Fireflies, Cellular Systems, and Evolware

      • Christof Teuscher, Mathieu S. Capcarrere

      Pages 1-12

   2. A Comparison of Different Circuit Representations for Evolutionary Analog Circuit Design

      • Lyudmilla Zinchenko, Heinz Mühlenbein, Victor Kureichik, Thilo Mahnig

      Pages 13-23

3. Fault Tolerance and Fault Recovery

   1. Fault Tolerance via Endocrinologic Based Communication for Multiprocessor Systems

      • Andrew J. Greensted, Andy M. Tyrrell

      Pages 24-34

   2. Using Negative Correlation to Evolve Fault-Tolerant Circuits

      • Thorsten Schnier, Xin Yao

      Pages 35-46

   3. A Genetic Representation for Evolutionary Fault Recovery in Virtex FPGAs

      • Jason Lohn, Greg Larchev, Ronald DeMara

      Pages 47-56

4. Development

   1. Biologically Inspired Evolutionary Development

      • Sanjeev Kumar, Peter J. Bentley

      Pages 57-68

   2. Building Knowledge into Developmental Rules for Circuit Design

      • Gunnar Tufte, Pauline C. Haddow

      Pages 69-80

   3. Evolving Fractal Proteins

      • Peter J. Bentley

      Pages 81-92

   4. A Developmental Method for Growing Graphs and Circuits

      • Julian F. Miller, Peter Thomson

      Pages 93-104

   5. Developmental Models for Emergent Computation

      • Keith L. Downing

      Pages 105-116

   6. Developmental Effects on Tuneable Fitness Landscapes

      • Piet van Remortel, Johan Ceuppens, Anne Defaweux, Tom Lenaerts, Bernard Manderick

      Pages 117-128

5. POEtic

   1. POEtic Tissue: An Integrated Architecture for Bio-inspired Hardware

      • Andy M. Tyrrell, Eduardo Sanchez, Dario Floreano, Gianluca Tempesti, Daniel Mange, Juan-Manuel Moreno et al.

      Pages 129-140

   2. Ontogenetic Development and Fault Tolerance in the POEtic Tissue

      • Gianluca Tempesti, Daniel Roggen, Eduardo Sanchez, Yann Thoma, Richard Canham, Andy M. Tyrrell

      Pages 141-152

   3. A Morphogenetic Evolutionary System: Phylogenesis of the POEtic Circuit

      • Daniel Roggen, Dario Floreano, Claudio Mattiussi

      Pages 153-164

   4. Spiking Neural Networks for Reconfigurable POEtic Tissue

      • Jan Eriksson, Oriol Torres, Andrew Mitchell, Gayle Tucker, Ken Lindsay, David Halliday et al.

      Pages 165-173

   5. A Learning, Multi-layered, Hardware Artificial Immune System Implemented upon an Embryonic Array

      • Richard Canham, Andy M. Tyrrell

      Pages 174-185

6. Applications 1

   1. Virtual Reconfigurable Circuits for Real-World Applications of Evolvable Hardware

      • Lukáš Sekanina

      Pages 186-197

   2. Gene Finding Using Evolvable Reasoning Hardware

      • Moritoshi Yasunaga, Ikuo Yoshihara, Jung H. Kim

      Pages 198-207

   3. Evolvable Fuzzy System for ATM Cell Scheduling

      • J. H. Li, M. H. Lim

      Pages 208-217

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.

• Boolean function
• DNA computing
• Hardware
• algorithms
• bio-inspired computing
• evolutionary computing
• evolutionary strategies
• evolvable systems
• field-programmable gate arrays
• fuzzy system
• image processing
• logic
• nanotechnology
• optimization
• self-repairing hardware

• The Department of Electronics, The University of York, Heslington, United Kingdom

  AAndy M. Tyrrell

• Department of Computer and Information Science, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

  Pauline C. Haddow

• Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Blindern, Norway

  Jim Torresen

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