Evolutionary Electronics-New Book Announcement

["Marco Aurelio C. Pacheco" <marco@ele.puc-rio.br>]

We are pleased to announce the publication of the following book by CRC
Press.

Evolutionary Electronics: Automatic Design of Electronic Circuits and
Systems by Genetic Algorithms
ISBN: 0849308658
The price list is $89,95.

A full description may be found at the CRC Press web site:
http://www.crcpress.com/us/product.asp?sku=0865&dept%5Fid=1

Authors:

 Ricardo Salem Zebulum
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasedena, California,  USA,
ricardo@brain.jpl.nasa.gov

 Marco Aurelio C. Pacheco
PUC-Rio University, ICA: Applied Computational Intelligence Laboratory,
Department of Electrical Engineering, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
marco@ele.puc-rio.br

 Marley Maria B. R. Vellasco
PUC-Rio University, ICA: Applied Computational Intelligence Laboratory,
Department of Electrical Engineering, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
marley@ele.puc-rio.br


 Description

 From the explosion of interest, research, and applications of
evolutionary computation  a new field emerges-evolutionary electronics.
Focused on applying evolutionary  computation concepts and techniques to

the domain of electronics, many researchers  now see it as holding the
greatest potential for overcoming the drawbacks of  conventional design
techniques.

 Evolutionary Electronics: Automatic Design of Electronic Circuits and
Systems by  Genetic Algorithms formally introduces and defines this area

of
research, presents its  main challenges in electronic design, and
explores emerging technologies. It  describes the evolutionary
computation paradigm and its primary algorithms, and  explores topics of

current interest, such as multi-objective optimization. The authors
examine numerous evolutionary electronics applications, draw conclusions

about  those applications, and sketch the future of evolutionary
computation and its  applications in electronics.

 In coming years, the appearance of more and more advanced technologies
will  increase the complexity of optimization and synthesis problems,
and
evolutionary  electronics will almost certainly become a key to solving
those
problems. Evolutionary  Electronics is your key to discovering and
unlocking the potential of this promising  new field.

 Features

  Introduces, defines, and explores the new and promising field of
evolutionary  electronics.  Examines applications ranging from the
optimization of BiCMOS
operational  amplifiers to the synthesis of digital filters  Compiles
all the major scientific projects and practical applications reported
and  includes the authors' most recent contributions to the field
Offers new methods applicable not only to the electronics world, but to
synthesis  and system design in other engineering fields.

 Contents

 INTRODUCTION TO EVOLUTIONARY ELECTRONICS
 Evolutionary Design of Electronic Circuits: A Prospect of the area
 Electronic Circuit Design: A Search Task
 A Brief Survey of Evolutionary Electronics
 INTRODUCTION TO EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION
 Basic Concepts of Natural Evolution
 Putting these Ideas to Work: Evolutionary Computation
 The Main Evolutionary Algorithms

 ADVANCED TOPICS IN EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION
 Variable Length Representation Systems
 Multiple-Objective Optimization
 Speciation in Evolutionary Algorithms
 Deception in Evolutionary Algorithms
 EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION: A TOOL FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
 OPTIMIZATION
 Analog Chips Optimization
 VLSI Digital Chips Optimization
 EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION: A TOOL FOR ANALOG CIRCUIT SYNTHESIS
 Analog Circuits Evolution
 Discussion: Incorporating Sensitivity Analysis and Fault Tolerance into

the Design  Process
 EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION: A TOOL FOR DIGITAL CIRCUIT SYNTHESIS
 Representation
 Evaluation
 Circuits Synthesis
 EVOLUTION OF CIRCUITS ON RECONFIGURABLE CHIPS
 Field Programmable Gate Arrays
 Field Programmable Analog Arrays
 Evolvable Hardware: Evolving Circuits on Reconfigurable Chips
 Discussion: Virtual Computing

 FINAL REMARKS
 Conclusions
 Where are we going to?


Best regards,

Marco Aurelio Pacheco


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