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Evolving Spike-Train Processors

Juan Liu and Andrzej Buller

ATR Human Information Science Laboratories, 2-2-2 Hikaridai, Keihanna Science City, Kyoto 619-0288 Japan
juanliu@atr.jp
buller@atr.jp

Abstract. The research described in this paper was motivated by the idea to process purposefully given spike-trains using a cellular automaton (CA). CAs have three attractive features, namely massive parallelism, locality of cellular interactions, and simplicity of basic components (cells). However, the difficulty of designing a CA for a specific behavior causes limited interest in this computational paradigm. Automating the design process would substantially enhance the viability of CAs. Evolving CAs for purposeful computation is a scientific challenge undertaken to date by, among others, Mitchell et al. [1], Sipper et al. [2] and de Garis et al. [3].

LNCS 3103, p. 408 f.

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