ehw@fit monographs
book Lukas Sekanina
Evolvable Components: From Theory to Hardware Implementations
Natural Computing Series, Springer-Verlag, 2004
ISBN 3-540-40377-9
194 pp, hardcover

Abstract: This book deals with adaptive evolvable systems operating in a changing environment. The proposed component approach for the design of evolvable systems, the mathematical theory of evolvable machines, and the idea of virtual reconfigurable circuits have opened a way towards a better understanding of evolvable systems and to the design of more adaptive, competitive and innovative engineering products. In particular, topics such as the computational power of evolvable systems, the design of complex human-competitive digital circuits and the implementation of a one-clock partial reconfiguration in a common field-programmable gate array are introduced, investigated and implemented. The application domain is the adaptive image preprocessing.

Sample chapters

Ordering information:
Springer-Verlag (Germany)
Amazon.com

Cited in:

Arslan, T.: Book Review: Evolvable Components - From Theory to Hardware Implementations. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines Vol. 6, 2005
Harding, S., Miller, J.: Evolution of Robot Controller Using Cartesian Genetic Programming. In Proc. of the 8th European Conference on Genetic Programming, Lausanne, LNCS 3447, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2005, p. 62-73
Computing Reviews, December 2004, p. 758-759 (Dan He)
Langdon, W. B., Gustafson, S.: Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines: Five Years of Reviews, Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, Vol. 6, No. 2, p. 221-228, 2005
Tim Gordon's lecture on Hardware Evolution at University College London
Torresen, J.: An Evolvable Hardware Tutorial. In Proc. of the 14th Field Programmable Logic and Applications FPL 2004 conference. Antwerp, Belgium, LNCS 3203, Springer Verlag, Berlin 2004, p. 821-830
Cell Matrix
Andrew Cortese
Adrian Stoica's tutorial at CEC'03 (pdf, 6.3 MB)
Adrian Stoica's tutorial at CEC'04 (pdf, 5.5 MB)

Presentations

Sekanina, L.: Evolvable Components - A Monograph
Oct 27, 2003 at FIT
This talk given within the scope of the Seminar on Information Systems. Listen to mp3 (in Czech, 1 hour - 8 minutes, 16.5 MB)

Awards

Siemens Award for Outstanding Research Publication, 2005 (press info)

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2000-5 (C) Lukáš Sekanina
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