Evolvable Components

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVI

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2. Introduction

   • Lukáš Sekanina

   Pages 1-8

3. Reconfigurable Hardware

   • Lukáš Sekanina

   Pages 9-23

4. Evolutionary Algorithms

   • Lukáš Sekanina

   Pages 25-39

5. Evolvable Hardware

   • Lukáš Sekanina

   Pages 42-66

6. Towards Evolvable Components

   • Lukáš Sekanina

   Pages 67-78

7. Evolvable Computational Machines

   • Lukáš Sekanina

   Pages 79-103

8. An Evolvable Component for Image Pre-processing

   • Lukáš Sekanina

   Pages 105-151

9. Virtual Reconfigurable Devices

   • Lukáš Sekanina

   Pages 153-168

10. Concluding Statements

    • Lukáš Sekanina

    Pages 169-173

11. Back Matter

    Pages 175-195

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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.

• Computational Intelligence
• Evolvable Hardware
• Evolvable Machine
• Hardware Design
• algorithm
• algorithms
• architecture
• automata
• configuration
• evolutionary algorithm
• genetic programming
• optimization
• programming

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)

• Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic

  Lukáš Sekanina

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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