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Gate-level synthesis of Boolean functions using information theory concepts


Abstract:

In this paper we apply information theory concepts to evolutionary Boolean circuit synthesis. We discuss the schema destruction problem when simple conditional entropy is...Show More

Abstract:

In this paper we apply information theory concepts to evolutionary Boolean circuit synthesis. We discuss the schema destruction problem when simple conditional entropy is used as fitness function. The design problem is the synthesis of Boolean functions by using the minimum number of binary multiplexers. We show that the fitness landscape of normalized mutual information exhibits better characteristics for evolutionary search than the landscape of simple mutual information. A comparison of minimum evolved circuits shows the potential of information theory concepts.
Date of Conference: 12-12 September 2003
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 23 September 2003
Print ISBN:0-7695-1915-6
Conference Location: Tlaxcala, Mexico

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