Publication result detail

Evolved Computing Devices and the Implementation Problem

SEKANINA, L.

Original Title

Evolved Computing Devices and the Implementation Problem

English Title

Evolved Computing Devices and the Implementation Problem

Type

Peer-reviewed article not indexed in WoS or Scopus

Original Abstract

The evolutionary circuit design is an approach allowing engineers to realize computational devices. The evolved computational devices represent a distinctive class of devices that exhibits a specific combination of properties, not visible and studied in the scope of all computational devices up till now. Devices that belong to this class show the required behavior; however, in general, we do not understand how and why they perform the required computation.
The reason is that the evolution can utilize, in addition to the "understandable composition of elementary components", material-dependent constructions and properties of environment (such as temperature, electromagnetic field etc.) and, furthermore, unknown physical behaviors to establish the required functionality. Therefore, nothing is known about the mapping between an abstract computational model and its physical implementation. The standard notion of computation and implementation developed in computer science as well as in cognitive science has become very problematic with the existence of evolved computational devices. According to the common understanding, the evolved devices cannot be classified as computing mechanisms.

English abstract

The evolutionary circuit design is an approach allowing engineers to realize computational devices. The evolved computational devices represent a distinctive class of devices that exhibits a specific combination of properties, not visible and studied in the scope of all computational devices up till now. Devices that belong to this class show the required behavior; however, in general, we do not understand how and why they perform the required computation.
The reason is that the evolution can utilize, in addition to the "understandable composition of elementary components", material-dependent constructions and properties of environment (such as temperature, electromagnetic field etc.) and, furthermore, unknown physical behaviors to establish the required functionality. Therefore, nothing is known about the mapping between an abstract computational model and its physical implementation. The standard notion of computation and implementation developed in computer science as well as in cognitive science has become very problematic with the existence of evolved computational devices. According to the common understanding, the evolved devices cannot be classified as computing mechanisms.

Keywords

computer science, evolvable hardware, implementation problem, cognitivism, Turing machine

Key words in English

computer science, evolvable hardware, implementation problem, cognitivism, Turing machine

Authors

SEKANINA, L.

Released

29.10.2007

ISBN

0924-6495

Periodical

MINDS AND MACHINES

Volume

17

Number

3

State

Kingdom of the Netherlands

Pages from

311

Pages to

329

Pages count

19

URL

http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~sekanina/publ/minds/impl_problem.pdf

BibTex

@article{BUT45309,
  author="Lukáš {Sekanina}",
  title="Evolved Computing Devices and the Implementation Problem",
  journal="MINDS AND MACHINES",
  year="2007",
  volume="17",
  number="3",
  pages="311--329",
  issn="0924-6495",
  url="http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~sekanina/publ/minds/impl_problem.pdf"
}