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Insufficiency Of Piecewise Evolution, Sanza Kazadi, Yan Qi, Isaac Park, Nancy Huang, Paul Hwu, Brian Kwan, Wayne Lue, Hubert Li
Insufficiency Of Piecewise Evolution, Sanza Kazadi, Yan Qi, Isaac Park, Nancy Huang, Paul Hwu, Brian Kwan, Wayne Lue, Hubert Li
Sanza Kazadi
We describe an evolutionary design paradigm called piecewise evolution.
This evolutionary design paradigm allows the gradual evolution of a
piece of hardware using discrete functional stages. The paradigm
removes designs from a population of designs which effectively lose
functionality already discovered. Significant improvement s in the
evolution time of simple one-bit adders are reported. However,
evolution of more complex devices does not seem to share the
improvements in evolutionary speed of simple devices. These results are
discussed in the context of epistasis and deceptiveness.