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The Advantages of Landscape Neutrality in Digital Circuit Evolution

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Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware (ICES 2000)

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The paper studies the role of neutrality in the fitness landscapes associated with the evolutionary design of digital circuits and particularly the three-bit binary multiplier. For the purpose of the study, digital circuits are evolved extrinsically on an array of logic cells. To evolve on an array of cells, a genotype-phenotype mapping has been devised by which neutrality can be embedded in the resulting fitness landscape. It is argued that landscape neutrality is beneficial for digital circuit evolution.

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  1. School of Computing, Napier University, Edinburgh, EH14 1DJ, UK

    Vesselin K. Vassilev

  2. School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK

    Julian F. Miller

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  1. School of Computer Science Edgbaston, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK

    Julian Miller

  2. COGS, Sussex University, Brighton, BN1 9RH, UK

    Adrian Thompson

  3. School of Computing, Napier University, Edinburgh, EH14 1DJ, UK

    Peter Thomson

  4. School of Computing Information Systems and Mathematics, South Bank University, London, SE1 0AA, UK

    Terence C. Fogarty

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Vassilev, V.K., Miller, J.F. (2000). The Advantages of Landscape Neutrality in Digital Circuit Evolution. In: Miller, J., Thompson, A., Thomson, P., Fogarty, T.C. (eds) Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware. ICES 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1801. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46406-9_25

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