Publication detail

Sorting Network Development Using Cellular Automata

BIDLO, M. VAŠÍČEK, Z. SLANÝ, K.

Original Title

Sorting Network Development Using Cellular Automata

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

The sorting network design represents a task that has often been considered as a benchmark for various applications of evolutionary design and optimization techniques. Although the specific structure of this class of circuits allows to use a simple encoding in combination with additional mechanisms for optimizing the area- and delay-efficiency of designed sorting networks, the design of large sorting networks represents a difficult task. This paper proposes a novel cellular automaton-based approach for the development of specific instances of sorting networks. In order to explore the area of generative cellular automata applied on this specific circuit structures, two di erent encodings are introduced: (1) an absolute encoding and (2) a relative encoding. The abilities of the both techniques are investigated and a comparative study is provided considering a variety of experimental settings.

Keywords

Evolutionary algorithm, development, cellular automaton, sorting network, generative encoding.

Authors

BIDLO, M.; VAŠÍČEK, Z.; SLANÝ, K.

RIV year

2010

Released

6. 9. 2010

Publisher

Springer London

Location

London

ISBN

978-3-642-15322-8

Book

Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware

Edition

9th International Conference, ICES 2010, York, UK, September 6-8, 2010, Proceedings, LNCS 6274

Pages from

85

Pages to

96

Pages count

12

URL

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-15323-5_8

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT34834,
  author="Michal {Bidlo} and Zdeněk {Vašíček} and Karel {Slaný}",
  title="Sorting Network Development Using Cellular Automata",
  booktitle="Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware",
  year="2010",
  series="9th International Conference, ICES 2010, York, UK, September 6-8, 2010, Proceedings, LNCS 6274",
  pages="85--96",
  publisher="Springer London",
  address="London",
  doi="10.1007/978-3-642-15323-5\{_}8",
  isbn="978-3-642-15322-8",
  url="http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-15323-5_8"
}