Explorations in design space: Unconventional electronics design through artificial evolution

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 167-195

  Thompson, Adrian ^a   Layzell, Paul ^a   Zebulum, Ricardo Salem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Design automation; Electronics design; Evolutionary algorithms; Evolutionary theory; Fault tolerance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000905851     PISSN: 1089778X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4235.788489     Document Type: Article

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