Evolutionary design of arbitrarily large sorting networks using development

Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 319-347

  Sekanina, Lukáš ^a   Bidlo, Michal ^a  

^a BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Development; Evolutionary algorithm; Scalability; Sorting network

Indexed keywords

COSTS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SORTING;

DEVELOPMENT; IMPLEMENTATION COSTS; SCALABILITY; SORTING NETWORK;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 27944501115     PISSN: 13892576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10710-005-2987-8     Document Type: Article

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