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Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware

Third International Conference, ICES 2000, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, April 17-19, 2000 Proceedings

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  • © 2000

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Editors:
  1. Julian Miller

    1. School of Computer Science Edgbaston, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

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  2. Adrian Thompson

    1. COGS, Sussex University, Brighton, UK

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  3. Peter Thomson

    1. School of Computing, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK

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  4. Terence C. Fogarty

    1. School of Computing Information Systems and Mathematics, South Bank University, London, UK

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 1801)

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Table of contents (27 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  2. Automatic Synthesis, Placement, and Routing of an Amplifier Circuit by Means of Genetic Programming

    • Forrest H Bennett III, John R. Koza, Jessen Yu, William Mydlowec
    Pages 1-10

  3. Immunotronics : Hardware Fault Tolerance Inspired by the Immune System

    • D. W. Bradley, A. M. Tyrrell
    Pages 11-20

  4. Ant Colony System for the Design of Combinational Logic Circuits

    • Carlos A. Coello Coello, Rosa Laura G. Zavala, Benito Mendoza García, Arturo Hernández Aguirre
    Pages 21-30

  5. Evolving Cellular Automata for Self-Testing Hardware

    • Fulvio Corno, Matteo Sonza Reorda, Giovanni Squillero
    Pages 31-40

  6. Dynamic Optimisation of Non-linear Feed-Forward Circuits

    • Ernesto Damiani, Valentino Liberali, Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi
    Pages 41-50

  7. From the Sea to the Sidewalk: The Evolution of Hexapod Walking Gaits by a Genetic Algorithm

    • Ernest J P Earon, Tim D Barfoot, Gabriele M T D’Eleuterio
    Pages 51-60

  8. Experiments in Evolvable Filter Design using Pulse Based Programmable Analogue VLSI Models

    • Alister Hamilton, Peter Thomson, Morgan Tamplin
    Pages 61-71

  9. The Intrinsic Evolution of Virtex Devices Through Internet Reconfigurable Logic

    • Gordon Hollingworth, Steve Smith, Andy Tyrrell
    Pages 72-79

  10. Evolution of Controllers from a High-Level Simulator to a High DOF Robot

    • G. S. Hornby, S. Takamura, O. Hanagata, M. Fujita, J. Pollack
    Pages 80-89

  11. The Evolution of 3-d C.A. to Perform a Collective Behavior Task

    • Francisco Jiménez-Morales
    Pages 90-102

  12. Initial Evaluation of an Evolvable Microwave Circuit

    • Yuji Kasai, Hidenori Sakanashi, Masahiro Murakawa, Shogo Kiryu, Neil Marston, Tetsuya Higuchi
    Pages 103-112

  13. Towards an Artificial Pinna for a Narrow-Band Biomimetic Sonarhead

    • DaeEun Kim, Jose M. Carmena, John C. T. Hallam
    Pages 113-122

  14. Towards a Silicon Primordial Soup: A Fast Approach to Hardware Evolution with a VLSI Transistor Array

    • Jörg Langeheine, Simon Fölling, Karlheinz Meier, Johannes Schemmel
    Pages 123-132

  15. Understanding Inherent Qualities of Evolved Circuits: Evolutionary History as a Predictor of Fault Tolerance

    • Paul Layzell, Adrian Thompson
    Pages 133-144

  16. Comparison between Three Heuristic Algorithms to Repair a Large-Scale MIMD Computer

    • Philippe Millet, Jean-Claude Heudin
    Pages 145-154

  17. A Hardware Implementation of an Embryonic Architecture Using Virtex® FPGAs

    • Cesar Ortega, Andy Tyrrell
    Pages 155-164

  18. Everything on the Chip: A Hardware-Based Self-Contained Spatially-Structured Genetic Algorithm for Signal Processing

    • Simon Perkins, Reid Porter, Neal Harvey
    Pages 165-174

  19. Evolutionary Techniques in Physical Robotics

    • Jordan B. Pollack, Hod Lipson, Sevan Ficici, Pablo Funes, Greg Hornby, Richard A. Watson
    Pages 175-186

  20. Biology Meets Electronics: the Path to a Bio-Inspired FPGA

    • Lucian Prodan, Gianluca Tempesti, Daniel Mange, André Stauffer
    Pages 187-196
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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware, ICES 2000, held in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, in April 2000.
The 27 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the proceedings. Among the topics covered are evaluation of digital systems, evolution of analog systems, embryonic electronics, bio-inspired systems, artificial neural networks, adaptive robotics, adaptive hardware platforms, molecular computing, reconfigurable systems, immune systems, and self-repair.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Computer Science Edgbaston, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

    Julian Miller

  • COGS, Sussex University, Brighton, UK

    Adrian Thompson

  • School of Computing, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK

    Peter Thomson

  • School of Computing Information Systems and Mathematics, South Bank University, London, UK

    Terence C. Fogarty

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