학술논문

Improving genetic search for one-dimensional cellular automata, using heuristics related to their dynamic behavior forecast
Document Type
Conference
Source
Proceedings of the 2001 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE Cat. No.01TH8546) Evolutionary computation Evolutionary Computation, 2001. Proceedings of the 2001 Congress on. 1:348-355 vol. 1 2001
Subject
Computing and Processing
Aerodynamics
Genetic algorithms
Genetic mutations
Algorithm design and analysis
Automata
Lattices
Language
Abstract
As part of the comprehensive theme of the relationships between dynamic systems and computational theories, a very active area of research has been the relationships between the generic dynamic behavior of Cellular Automata (CA) and their computational abilities. Various investigations have been carried out on the computational power of CA, with concentrated efforts in the study of one-dimensional CA and their computational abilities. One of the approaches is the use of Genetic Algorithms (GA) to look for CA with a predefined computational behavior. A set of parameters which we have previously shown to be effective in helping forecast CA dynamic behavior, are used here as an auxiliary metric to guide the GA search. To this end, we modified selection, mutation and crossover of a GA, so as to incorporate the heuristic, and obtained very effective results in the evolution search for CA that can solve the so-called synchronization task.