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Evolutionary Design Space Exploration for Median Circuits

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Applications of Evolutionary Computing (EvoWorkshops 2004)

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This paper shows that it is possible to (1) discover novel implementations of median circuits using evolutionary techniques and (2) find out suitable median circuits in case that only limited resources are available for their implementation. These problems are approached using Cartesian genetic programming and an ordinary compare–swap encoding. Combining the proposed approaches a method is demonstrated for effective exploration of the design space of median circuits under various constraints.

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  1. Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology, Božetěchova 2, 612 66, Brno, Czech Republic

    Lukáš Sekanina

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  1. Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms, Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstraße 9–11/1861, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Günther R. Raidl

  2. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Parma,  

    Stefano Cagnoni

  3. Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Jürgen Branke

  4. School of Mathematical and Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, EH14 8AS, Edinburgh, UK

    David Wolfe Corne

  5. Institute of Computer Science, University of Bremen, 28359, Bremen, Germany

    Rolf Drechsler

  6. Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH, Offenbach/Main, Germany

    Yaochu Jin

  7. Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

    Colin G. Johnson

  8. CISUC, Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra, Polo II of the University of Coimbra, 3030, Coimbra, Portugal

    Penousal Machado

  9. ICIS, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Elena Marchiori

  10. Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

    Franz Rothlauf

  11. School of Computing Sciences, UEA Norwich, University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ, Norwich, UK

    George D. Smith

  12. Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

    Giovanni Squillero

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Sekanina, L. (2004). Evolutionary Design Space Exploration for Median Circuits. In: Raidl, G.R., et al. Applications of Evolutionary Computing. EvoWorkshops 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3005. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24653-4_25

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