Evolutionary strategies and intrinsic fault tolerance

Proceedings - NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware, EH

Volumn 2001-January, Issue , 2001, Pages 98-106

  Tyrrell, A M ^a   Hollingworth, G ^a   Smith, S L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; HARDWARE; NASA; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE; REDUNDANCY;

CRITICAL COMPONENT; EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS; EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGIES; EVOLUTIONARY TECHNIQUES; FAULT TOLERANT SYSTEMS; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; INTRINSIC EVOLUTION; PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

FAULT TOLERANCE;

EID: 84952937707     PISSN: 15506029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EH.2001.937951     Document Type: Conference Paper

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