Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. Evolutionary Design of Electronic Circuits

   1. Two-Step Incremental Evolution of a Prosthetic Hand Controller Based on Digital Logic Gates

      • Jim Torresen

      Pages 1-13

   2. Untidy Evolution: Evolving Messy Gates for Fault Tolerance

      • Julian F. Miller, Morten Hartmann

      Pages 14-25

   3. Evolutionary Design Calibration

      • Thorsten Schnier, Xin Yao

      Pages 26-37

   4. Implementation of a Gate-Level Evolvable Hardware Chip

      • Masaya Iwata, Isamu Kajitani, Yong Liu, Nobuki Kajihara, Tetsuya Higuchi

      Pages 38-49

   5. A VLSI Implementation of an Analog Neural Network Suited for Genetic Algorithms

      • Johannes Schemmel, Karlheinz Meier, Felix Schürmann

      Pages 50-61

   6. Initial Studies of a New VLSI Field Programmable Transistor Array

      • Jörg Langeheine, Joachim Becker, Simon Fölling, Karlheinz Meier, Johannes Schemmel

      Pages 62-73

3. Embryonic Electronics

   1. An Embryonics Implementation of a Self-Replicating Universal Turing Machine

      • Hector Fabio Restrepo, Daniel Mange

      Pages 74-87

   2. Asynchronous Embryonics with Reconfiguration

      • Alexander H. Jackson, Andrew M. Tyrrell

      Pages 88-99

   3. Embryonics: Artificial Cells Driven by Artificial DNA

      • Lucian Prodan, Gianluca Tempesti, Daniel Mange, André Stauffer

      Pages 100-111

4. Biological-Based Systems

   1. A Self-Repairing and Self-Healing Electronic Watch: The BioWatch

      • André Stauffer, Daniel Mange, Gianluca Tempesti, Christof Teuscher

      Pages 112-127

   2. Shrinking the Genotype: L-systems for EHW?

      • Pauline C. Haddow, Gunnar Tufte, Piet van Remortel

      Pages 128-139

   3. Multi-layered Defence Mechanisms: Architecture, Implementation and Demonstration of a Hardware Immune System

      • D. W. Bradley, A. M. Tyrrell

      Pages 140-150

   4. Ant Circuit World: An Ant Algorithm MATLAB™ Toolbox for the Design, Visualisation and Analysis of Analogue Circuits

      • Morgan R. Tamplin, Alister Hamilton

      Pages 151-158

5. Evolutionary Robotics

   1. Human-Like Dynamic Walking for a Biped Robot Using Genetic Algorithm

      • Jin G. Kim, Kyung-gon Noh, Kiheon Park

      Pages 159-170

   2. Effect of Fitness for the Evolution of Autonomous Robots in an Open-Environment

      • Md. Monirul Islam, S. Terao, K. Murase

      Pages 171-181

   3. Incremental Evolution of Autonomous Robots for a Complex Task

      • Md. Monirul Islam, S. Terao, K. Murase

      Pages 182-191

   4. Multi-agent Robot Learning by Means of Genetic Programming: Solving an Escape Problem

      • Kohsuke Yanai, Hitoshi Iba

      Pages 192-203

6. Evolutionary Optimization

   1. Placing and Routing Circuits on FPGAs by Means of Parallel and Distributed Genetic Programming

      • F. Fernández, J. M. Sánchez, M. Tomassini

      Pages 204-215

   2. A Massively Parallel Architecture for Linear Machine Code Genetic Programming

      • Sven E. Eklund

      Pages 216-224

On behalf of the ICES 2001 Conference Committee, it is our pleasure to present to you the proceedings of the fourth International Conference on Evolvable S- tems: From Biology to Hardware, ICES 2001, held in Tokyo, Japan, on 3-5 - tober 2001, addressing the latest developments and discussing challenges facing the ?eld of evolvable systems. The idea of evolving machines, whose origins can be traced back to the - bernetics movement of the 1940s and the 1950s, has recently re-emerged in the form of the nascent ?eld of bio-inspired systems and evolvable hardware. Foll- ing the workshop, Towards Evolvable Hardware, which took place in Lausanne, Switzerland, in October 1995, the First International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware (ICES96), was held at the Electrotech- cal Laboratory (MITI), Tsukuba, Japan, in October 1996. The second and the third International Conferences on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Ha- ware (ICES98 and ICES 2000) were respectively held in Lausanne in September 1998, and in Edinburgh in April 2000. Following the success of these past events, ICES 2001 was dedicated to the promotion and advancement of all aspects of evolvable systems, including ha- ware, software, algorithms, and applications. By bringing together researchers who use biologically inspired concepts to implement real systems in arti?cial - telligence, arti?cial life, robotics, VLSI design, and related domains, ICES 2001 reunited this burgeoning community.

• Algorithmic Learning
• Bio-Inspired Computing
• Embryonics
• Evolutionary Computing
• Evolvable Systems
• Field-Programmable Logics
• Genetic Programming
• Immune Systems
• Self-Repair
• biology
• evolution
• learning
• optimization
• robot
• robotics

• University of Aizu, Tsuruga, Ikki-machi, Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Fukushima, Japan

  Yong Liu

• Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University, Nagano, Japan

  Kiyoshi Tanaka

• Nat. Inst. of Adv. Ind. Science and Technology, Adv. Semiconductor Research Center, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

  Masaya Iwata, Tetsuya Higuchi

• University of Tsukuba, Institute of Information Sciences and Electronics, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

  Moritoshi Yasunaga

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