Digital circuit evolution and fitness landscapes

Proceedings of the 1999 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 1999

Volumn 2, Issue , 1999, Pages 1299-1306

  Vassilev, Vesselin K ^a   Muller, Julian F ^a   Fogarty, Terence C ^a  

^a EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LOGIC DEVICES; OPTIMIZATION;

CORRELATION CHARACTERISTICS; ENGINEERING PROBLEMS; EVOLUTIONARY SEARCH; FITNESS LANDSCAPE; LOGIC CELLS; OPTIMISATION PROBLEMS;

HEALTH;

EID: 84881579477     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.1999.782595     Document Type: Conference Paper

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