On Fireflies, Cellular Systems, and Evolware

Teuscher, Christof and Capcarrere, Mathieu S. (2003) On Fireflies, Cellular Systems, and Evolware. In: Tyrrell, Andy M. and Haddow, Pauline C. and Torresen, Jim, eds. Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware 5th International Conference. Lecture Notes in Computer Science . Springer, Berlin, Germany, pp. 1-12. ISBN 978-3-540-00730-2. E-ISBN 978-3-540-36553-2. (doi:10.1007/3-540-36553-2_1) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:14022)

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36553-2_1
Additional URLs: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2003/1667

Abstract

Many observers have marveled at the beauty of the synchronous flashing of fireflies that has an almost hypnotic effect. In this paper we consider the issue of evolving two-dimensional cellular automata as well as random boolean networks to solve the firefly synchronization task. The task was successfully solved by means of cellular programming based co-evolution performing computations in a completely local manner, each cell having access only to its immediate neighbor's states. An FPGA-based Evolware implementation on the BioWall's cellular tissue and different other simulations show that the approach is very efficient and easily implementable in hardware.

Item Type:	Book section
DOI/Identification number:	10.1007/3-540-36553-2_1
Uncontrolled keywords:	Cellular Automaton, Linear Feedback Shift Register, Global Synchronization, Global Clock, Incoming Link
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming,
Institutional Unit:	Schools > School of Computing
Former Institutional Unit:	Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing
Depositing User:	Mark Wheadon
Date Deposited:	24 Nov 2008 18:01 UTC
Last Modified:	20 May 2025 10:04 UTC
Resource URI:	https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/14022 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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