Towards development in evolvable hardware

Proceedings - NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware, EH

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 241-250

  Gordon, T G W ^a   Bentley, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biological system modeling; Biology; Circuits; Computer science; Educational institutions; Evolution (biology); Evolutionary computation; Hardware; Scalability; System testing

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SCIENCE; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; HARDWARE; MAPPING; NASA; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); SCALABILITY;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEM MODELING; COMPLEX PROBLEMS; DEVELOPMENTAL SYSTEMS; EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS; EVOLUTION BIOLOGY; EVOLVABLE HARDWARE; GENERATIVE PROCESS; SYSTEM TESTING;

COMPUTER HARDWARE;

EID: 84949212367     PISSN: 15506029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EH.2002.1029890     Document Type: Conference Paper

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