Evolvable Hardware
Evolvable hardware (EHW) refers to hardware whose architecture/structure and functions change dynamically and autonomously in order to improve its performance in carrying out tasks. The emergence of this field has been profoundly influenced by the progres
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Evolvable Hardware
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Series Series Editors David E. Goldberg Consulting Editor IlliGAL, Dept. of General Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UrbanaJL 61801 USA Email: [email protected] John R. Koza Consulting Editor Medical Informatics Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-5479 USA Email: [email protected]
Selected titles from this series: David E. Goldberg The Design of Innovation: Lessons from and for Competent Genetic Algorithms, 2002 ISBN 1-4020-7098-5 John R. Koza, Martin A. Keane, Matthew J. Streeter, William Mydlowec, Jessen Yu, Guido Lanza Genetic Programming IV: Routine Human-Computer Machine Intelligence ISBN: 1-4020-7446-8 (hardcover), 2003; ISBN: 0-387-25067-0 (softcover), 2005 Carlos A. Coello Coello, David A. Van Veldhuizen, Gary B. Lament Evolutionary Algorithms for Solving Multi-Objective Problems, 2002 ISBN: 0-306-46762-3 Lee Spector Automatic Quantum Computer Programming: A Genetic Programming Approach, 2004 ISBN: 1-4020-7894-3 William B. Langdon Genetic Programming and Data Structures: Genetic Programming + Data Structures = Automatic Programming! 1998 ISBN: 0-7923-8135-1 For a complete listing of books in this series, go to http://www.springer.com
Tetsuya Higuchi Yong Liu Xin Yao (Eds.)
Evolvable Hardware
Springer
Tetsuya Higuchi National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Yong Liu The University of Aizu, Japan Xin Yao The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Library of Congress Control Number: 2006920799 ISBN-10: 0-387-24386-0 ISBN-13: 978-0387-24386-3
e-ISBN-10: 0-387-31238-2 e-ISBN-13: 978-0387-31238-5
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PREFACE
Evolvable hardware refers to hardware that can learn and adapt autonomously in a dynamic environment. It is often an integration of evolutionary computation and programmable hardware devices. The objective of evolvable hardware is the autonomous reconfiguration of hardware structure in order to improve performance over time. The capacity for autonomous reconfiguration with evolvable hardware makes it fimdamentally different from conventional hardware, where it is almost impossible to change the hardware's fimction and architecture once it is manufactured. While prog
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