Title :
The firefly machine: online evolware
Author :
Sipper, Moshe ; Goeke, Maxime ; Mange, Daniel ; Stauffer, Andre ; Sanchez, Eduardo ; Tomassini, Marco
Author_Institution :
Logic Syst. Lab., Swiss Federal Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland
Abstract :
We present the firefly machine, an evolving hardware system, demonstrating that “evolving ware” (or “evolware”) can be attained. The system is based on the cellular programming approach, in which parallel cellular machines evolve to solve computational tasks. The firefly system operates with no reference to an external device, such as a computer that carries out genetic operators, thereby exhibiting online autonomous evolution
Keywords :
cellular automata; genetic algorithms; online operation; parallel machines; parallel programming; systolic arrays; cellular programming; computational tasks; evolving hardware system; evolving ware; evolware; firefly machine; online autonomous evolution; parallel cellular machines; Circuit synthesis; Concurrent computing; Cybernetics; Electronic circuits; Evolutionary computation; Genetics; Hardware; Laboratories; Logic; Read only memory;
Conference_Titel :
Evolutionary Computation, 1997., IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Indianapolis, IN
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3949-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICEC.1997.592292
