Phylogeny, ontogeny, and epigenesis: Three sources of biological inspiration for softening hardware

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1259, Issue , 1997, Pages 33-54

  Sanchez, Eduardo ^a   Mange, Daniel ^a   Sipper, Moshe ^a   Tomassini, Marco ^a   Perez Uribe, Andres ^a   Stauffer, André ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARDWARE; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE;

BIOINSPIRED SYSTEMS; GENETIC PROGRAMS; LEARNING PROCESS; MULTICELLULAR ORGANISMS; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; THREE AXES; TRADITIONAL ENGINEERINGS;

BIOLOGY;

EID: 84958612647     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-63173-9_37     Document Type: Conference Paper

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