Fault tolerance using dynamic reconfiguration on the POEtic tissue

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 666-684

  Barker, Will ^a   Halliday, David M ^a   Thoma, Yann ^b   Sanchez, Eduardo ^b   Tempesti, Gianluca ^a   Tyrrell, Andy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bio inspired architectures; Computer fault tolerance; Evolutionary computation; Evolvable hardware; Reconfigurable hardware

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; ERROR DETECTION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; ROUTING ALGORITHMS;

DYNAMIC ROUTING; ON-CHIP REPROGRAMMING; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 34948859492     PISSN: 1089778X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEVC.2007.896690     Document Type: Article

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