Circuit Evolution and Visualisation

  • Authors:
  • Peter Thomson

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ICES '00 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

The evolution of digital circuits up to the present time has concentrated from necessity upon small systems consisting of very few individual gates. In this paper, the potential for evolving larger systems more quickly is explored via a method of visualising the sub-components of the final network as and when they appear. It is envisaged that by doing this one will be able to take partially evolved solutions from short runs, then feed these to a further evolution. Therefore, instead of long random evolutionary runs, we end up with an approach consisting of a number of much shorter runs with evolution being assisted by sub-components that have already been identified. It is found that doing this does, indeed, speed the process in both the experiments described herein and in those of a companion paper [11].