Evolvable Hardware From Practice to Application
This book covers the basic theory, practical details and advanced research of the implementation of evolutionary methods on physical substrates. Most of the examples are from electronic engineering applications, including transistor-level design and syste
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Martin A. Trefzer Andy M. Tyrrell
Evolvable Hardware From Practice to Application
Natural Computing Series Series Editors: G. Rozenberg Th. Bäck A.E. Eiben J.N. Kok H.P. Spaink Leiden Center for Natural Computing
Advisory Board: S. Amari G. Brassard K.A. De Jong C.C.A.M. Gielen T. Head L. Kari L. Landweber T. Martinetz Z. Michalewicz M.C. Mozer E. Oja G. P˘aun J. Reif H. Rubin A. Salomaa M. Schoenauer H.-P. Schwefel C. Torras D. Whitley E. Winfree J.M. Zurada
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Martin A. Trefzer • Andy M. Tyrrell
Evolvable Hardware From Practice to Application
Martin A. Trefzer Department of Electronics University of York Heslington, UK
Andy M. Tyrrell Department of Electronics University of York Heslington, UK
Series Editors G. Rozenberg (Managing Editor) Th. Bäck, J.N. Kok, H.P. Spaink Leiden Center for Natural Computing A.E. Eiben VU University Amsterdam The Netherlands
ISSN 1619-7127 Natural Computing Series ISBN 978-3-662-44615-7 ISBN 978-3-662-44616-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-44616-4
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To the two Mrs Tyrrell: Violet (1924-2012) for the good principle of hard work taught over all my life, and Maggie for her love and understanding when times get tough. AMT To my wife Gordana for her love and coping with me through thick and thin, and my son Leo for being a cluster of joy and making me smile even on the worst of days. MAT
Foreword
Wonders in Nature, including our own brains, have fascinated scientists and engineers for decades if not centuries. There has been huge international research interest in studying all kinds of nature-inspired computation and its applications, including evolutionary
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