Ring around the PIG: A parallel GA with only local interactions coupled with a self-reconfigurable hardware platform to implement an O(1) evolutionary cycle for evolvable hardware

Proceedings of the 1999 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 1999

Volumn 2, Issue , 1999, Pages 1067-1075

  Macias, N J ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MAMMALS;

EVOLUTIONARY CYCLES; EVOLVABLE HARDWARE; HARDWARE PLATFORM; LOCAL INTERACTIONS; PARALLEL GA; RECONFIGURABLE PLAT-FORMS; SELF-RECONFIGURABLE; TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES;

HARDWARE;

EID: 84901423770     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.1999.782541     Document Type: Conference Paper

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