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Title: | Bidirectional incremental evolution in extrinsic evolvable hardware |
Authors: | Kalganova, T |
Issue Date: | 2000 |
Publisher: | IEEE |
Citation: | The Second NASA/DoD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware 2000, Palo Alto, CA, 2000. pp. 65-74 |
Abstract: | Evolvable Hardware (EHW) has been proposed as a new technique to design complex systems. Often, complex systems turn out to be very difficult to evolve. The problem is that a general strategy is too difficult for the evolution process to discover directly. This paper proposes a new approach that performs incremental evolution in two directions: from complex system to sub-systems and from sub-systems back to complex system. In this approach, incremental evolution gradually decomposes a complex problem into some sub-tasks. In a second step, we gradually make the tasks more challenging and general. Our approach automatically discovers the sub-tasks, their sequence as well as circuit layout dimensions. Our method is tested in a digital circuit domain and compared to direct evolution. We show that our bidirectional incremental approach can handle more complex, harder tasks and evolve them more effectively, then direct evolution. |
URI: | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/2511 |
Appears in Collections: | Electronic and Electrical Engineering Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Research Papers |
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