Evolutionary Computing and Evolvable Hardware

Erdal Kayacan, Okyay Kaynak, Rahib Abiyev, Jim Torresen, Mats Hovin and Kyrre Glette. Design of an Adaptive Interval Type2 Fuzzy Logic Controller for the Position Control of a Servo System with an Intelligent Sensor. Proceeding of 2010 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ).

M. Furuholmen, K. Glette, M. Hovin and J. Torresen. A Coevolutionary, Hyper Heuristic, “Approach to the Optimization of Three-dimensional Process Plant Layouts - a Comparative Study”. In proc. of IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2010 (CEC), pp. 1-8, Barcelona, Spain, 18-23 July, 2010.

M. Furuholmen, K. Glette, M. Hovin and J. Torresen. Evolutionary Approaches to the Three-dimensional Multi-pipe Routing Problem: A Comparative Study using Direct Encodings. In 10th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization (EvoCOP), Springer LNCS Volume 6022, Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, Pages 71-82, Istanbul, Turkey, 7-9 April 2010.

M. Furuholmen, K. Glette, M. Hovin and J. Torresen. An Indirect Approach to the Threedimensional Multi-pipe Routing Problem. In 13th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP). Springer LNCS Volume 6021, Genetic Programming, Pages 86-97, Istanbul, Turkey, 7-9 April 2010.

Kazi Shah Nawaz Ripon, Kyrre Harald Glette, Omid Mirmotahari, Mats Erling Høvin and Jim Torresen. Pareto Optimal Based Evolutionary Approach for Solving Multi-Objective Facility Layout Problem. In proceeding of 16th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2009, Springer 2009, ISBN 978-3-642-10682-8. pp. 159-168

Jim Torresen, Kyrre Harald Glette, Alexander Refsum Jensenius and Marcus Furuholmen, Robotics and Intelligent Systems at University of Oslo. In Proceedings of the first Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Symposium (NAIS 2009). Tapir Akademisk Forlag, Anders Kofod-Petersen and Helge Langseth and Odd Erik Gundersen (redaktører), pp. 1-4, ISBN 978-82-519-2519-8, Trondheim.

Zdenek Vasicek, Michal Bidlo, Lukas Sekanina, Jim Torresen, Kyrre Harald Glette, Marcus Furuholmen, Evolution of Impulse Bursts Noise Filters. In: 2009 NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems. IEEE Computer Society 2009 ISBN 978-0-7695-3714-6. pp. 27-34.

Kyrre Harald Glette, Jim Torresen, Moritoshi Yasunaga.Online Evolvable Pattern Recognition Hardware. In: Evolutionary Image Analysis and Signal Processing. Cagnoni, Stefano (Ed.) Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 213, Springer 2009 ISBN 978-3-642-01635-6. pp. 41-54

Kyrre Harald Glette, Jim Torresen and Mats Erling Høvin. Intermediate Level FPGA Reconfiguration for an Online EHW Pattern Recognition System. In proceedings of 2009 NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems. IEEE Computer Society, 2009, ISBN 978-0-7695-3714-6. pp. 19-26

Marcus Furuholmen, Kyrre Harald Glette, Mats Erling Høvin, Jim Torresen: Scalability, generalization and coevolution - experimental comparisons applied to automated facility layout planning. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2009, ACM, pages 691-698.

Marcus Furuholmen, Kyrre Harald Glette, Mats Erling Høvin, Jim Torresen. Coevolving Heuristics for The Distributor's Pallet Packing Problem. I: Proceedings of the Eleventh conference on Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'09). IEEE conference proceedings 2009 ISBN 978-1-4244-2959-2. pp. 2810-2817.

Jim Torresen, Image and Signal Classification in Evolving Digital Hardware. Invited chapter in “Genetic and Evolutionary Image Processing and Analysis“ in the EURASIP Book Series. Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 1st edition (February 3, 2008), ISBN-10: 9774540018, ISBN-13: 978-9774540011.

Jim Torresen: Incremental evolution of a signal classification hardware architecture for prosthetic hand control. paper.pdf KES Journal 12(3): 187-199 (2008)

H. Kawai, Y. Yamaguchi, M. Yasunaga, K. Glette, and J. Torresen. An Adaptive Pattern Recognition hardware with On-chip Dynamic and Partial Reconfiguration. Technical report of IEICE, the institute of electronics, information and communication engineers, RECONF, Kyushu, Japan. 2008.11.18.

H. Kawai, Y. Yamaguchi, M. Yasunaga, K. Glette, and J. Torresen. A Self-Adaptive Pattern Recognition Hardware with On-chip Partial Reconfiguration. International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (ICFPT), IEEE 2008.

J. Torresen, G. A. Senland, K. Glette. Partial Reconfiguration Applied in an On-line Evolvable Pattern Recognition System. 26th Norchip Conference, pages 61-64, IEEE 2008.

Marcus Furuholmen, Kyrre Glette, Jim Torresen, Mats Høvin: Indirect Online Evolution - A Conceptual Framework for Adaptation in Industrial Robotic Systems. International Conference on Evolvable Systems, ICES 2008, Springer LNCS 5216, pages 165-176.

Kyrre Glette, Jim Torresen, Paul Kaufmann, Marco Platzner: A Comparison of Evolvable Hardware Architectures for Classification Tasks. International Conference on Evolvable Systems, ICES 2008, Springer LNCS 5216, pages 22-33.

M. Furuholmen, M. Hovin, J. Torresen, and K. Glette. Continuous Adaptation in Robotic Systems by Indirect Online Evolution. ECSIS Symposium on Learning and Adaptive Behavior in Robotic Systems (LAB-RS), IEEE 2008.

K. Glette, J. Torresen, Thiemo Gruber, Bernhard Sick, Paul Kaufmann, and Marco Platzner. Comparing Evolvable Hardware to Conventional Classifiers for Electromyographic Prosthetic Hand Control. In Proceedings of the 2008 NASA /ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS-2008), Noordwijk, The Netherlands, IEEE Computer Society, 2008.

Jim Torresen and Kyrre Glette. Improving Flexibility in On-line Evolvable Systems by Reconfigurable Computing. In proc. of 7th International Conference on Evolvable Systems (ICES07), Springer LNCS 4684, pp. 391 - 402, Wuhan, China, ISSN 0302-9743, Wuhan, China.

Kyrre Glette, Jim Torresen, Moritoshi Yasunaga. An Online EHW Pattern Recognition System Applied to Sonar Spectrum Classification. In proc. of 7th International Conference on Evolvable Systems (ICES07), Springer LNCS 4684, pp. 1 – 12, ISSN 0302-9743, Wuhan, China.

Jim Torresen, Kyrre Glette. Making Hardware Soft in Intelligent Systems. In 2007 ECSIS Symposium on Bio-inspired, Learning, and Intelligent Systems for Security (BLISS 2007), pages 87-90, IEEE Computer Society, 2007.

Aleksander Paus, Jim Torresen, Mats Høvin: Adaptive Facial Behaviour using Selected Machine Learning Methods. NASA /ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS-2007), pages 225-232, IEEE Computer Society, 2007.

K. Glette, J. Torresen, and M. Yasunaga. Online Evolution for a High-Speed Image Recognition System Implemented On a Virtex-II Pro FPGA. In Proceedings of the NASA /ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS-2007), Edinburgh - UK, pages 463-470, IEEE Computer Society, 2007.

K. Glette, J. Torresen, and M. Yasunaga. An Online EHW Pattern Recognition System Applied to Face Image Recognition. In Applications of Evolutionary Computing, EvoWorkshops2007: EvoCOMNET, EvoFIN, EvoIASP, EvoInteraction, EvoMUSART, EvoSTOC, Evo-TransLog, volume 4448 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 271–280. Springer-Verlag, 2007.

Kyrre Glette, Jim Torresen, Moritoshi Yasunaga and Yoshiki Yamaguchi. On-Chip Evolution Using a Soft Processor Core Applied to Image Recognition. paper.pdf. In proc. of 1st NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS'2006). IEEE Computer Society. ISBN 0-7695-2614-4, pp. 373 - 380. June 2006, Istanbul, Turkey.

Kyrre Glette and Jim Torresen. A Flexible On-Chip Evolution System Implemented on a Xilinx Virtex-II Pro Device paper.pdf. In proc. of Sixth International Conference on Evolvable Hardware (ICES05) , Springer LNCS 3637, pp. 66-75, September 2005, Sitges, Spain.

Jim Torresen, Jorgen W. Bakke and Lukas Sekanina. Recognizing Speed Limit Sign Numbers by Evolvable Hardware. paper.pdf. In proc. of 8th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN VIII) , September 2004, Birmingham, UK.

Jim Torresen, An Evolvable Hardware Tutorial. paper.pdf. In proc. of 14th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL'2004), August 2004, Antwerp - Belgium.

Jim Torresen. Open-Ended Evolution With or Without A Priori Knowledge Included? . In proc. of GECCO Workshop on Modularity, Regularity, and Hierarchy in Evolutionary Computation, June, 2004, Seattle, USA.

Jim Torresen. Exploring Knowledge Schemes for Efficient Evolution of Hardware. paper.pdf. In proc. of 2004 NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware (EH-2004), June, 2004, Seattle, USA.

Jim Torresen. A Signal Processing Architecture based on Evolving Digital Logic Gates file.pdf. In proc. of 21st Norchip Conference , pp. 287-290, November 2003, Riga, Latvia.

Knut Arne Vinger and Jim Torresen. Implementing Evolution of FIR-Filters Efficiently in an FPGA. paper.pdf. In proc. of 2003 NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware (EH-2003), July, 2003, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Andy M. Tyrrell, Pauline C. Haddow, Jim Torresen (Eds.), Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware, 5th International Conference,ICES 2003, Trondheim, Norway, March 17-20, 2003, Springer Proceedings Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2606, ISBN: 3-540-00730-X

Jim Torresen. Evolving Multiplier Circuits by Training Set and Training Vector Partitioning file.pdf. In proc. of Fifth International Conference on Evolvable Hardware (ICES03) , Springer LNCS 2606, pp. 228-237, March 2003, Trondheim, Norway.

Jim Torresen, A Scalable Approach to Evolvable Hardware. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, pp. 259-282, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2002.

Jim Torresen, Evolving Both Hardware Subsystems and the Selection of Varian ts of Such Into An Assembled System. paper.pdf. In proc. of 16th European Simulation Multiconference (ESM-2002), pp. 451-457, June 2002, Darmstadt, Germany.

Jim Torresen. A Dynamic Fitness Function Applied to Improve the Generalisation when Evolving a Signal Processing Hardware Architecture. file.ps or file.pdf . In proc. of Fourth European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis and Signal Processing (EvoIASP2002), Springer LNCS 2279, pp. 267-279, April 2002, Kinsale, Ireland.

Jim Torresen. Evolvable Hardware as a New Computer Architecture. file.ps or file.pdf. International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic Business, Education, Science, and Medicine on the Internet (SSGRR 2002W), January 2002, L`Aquila, Italy.

Jim Torresen. Two-Step Incremental Evolution of a Prosthetic Hand Controller Based on Digital Logic Gates. file.ps or file.pdf . 4th International Conference on Evolvable Hardware (ICES2001), October 2001, Tokyo, Japan.

Jim Torresen. Possibilities and Limitations of Applying Evolvable Hardware to Real-World Application. file.ps or file.pdf . 10th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL-2000), August 2000, Villach, Austria.

Jim Torresen. Scalable Evolvable Hardware Applied to Road Image Recognition. file.ps or file.pdf . The 2nd NASA/DoD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware, July 2000, Silicon Valley, USA.

Jim Torresen. Increased complexity evolution applied to evolvable hardware. file.ps or file.pdf. ANNIE'99, November 1999, St. Louis, USA.

Jim Torresen. Evolvable Hardware - The Coming Hardware Design Method? file.ps or file.pdf . In the book: "Neuro-fuzzy techniques for Intelligent Information Systems", page 435 -- 449, published by N. Kasabov and R. Kozma (editors), Physica-Verlag (Springer-Verlag), 1999.

Jim Torresen. A Divide-and-Conquer Approach to Evolvable Hardware. file.ps or file.pdf . Second International Conference on Evolvable Hardware (ICES98), September 1998, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Jim Torresen. Evolvable Hardware - A Short Introduction file.ps or file.pdf . International Conference On Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'97), November 1997, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Reconfigurable Computing/Hardware

Dirk Koch, Christian Beckhoff and Jim Torresen, Obstacle-free Two-dimensional Online-Routing for Run-time Reconfigurable FPGA-based Systems. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (ICFPT'10), December 8-10, 2010. IEEE, Beijing, China.

Dirk Koch and Jim Torresen, Routing Optimizations for Component-based System Design and Partial Run-time Reconfiguration on FPGAs. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (ICFPT'10), December 8-10, 2010, IEEE, Beijing, China.

Dirk Koch, Christian Beckhoff and Jim Torresen, Demo Paper: Advanced Partial Run-time Reconfiguration on Spartan-6 FPGAs, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (ICFPT'10), December 8-10, 2010, IEEE, Beijing, China.

Dirk Koch, Christian Beckhoff and Jim Torresen, Zero Logic Overhead Integration of Partially Reconfigurable Modules. In 23rd Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems Design (SBCCI), Sept 6-9, 2010. ACM, Kenneth L. Pocek og Duncan Buell (ed.), pp. 103—108, ISBN:978-1-4503-0152-7, Sao Paulo, Brasil. Best paper award.

Christian Beckhoff, Dirk Koch and Jim Torresen, Short-Circuits on FPGAs caused by Partial Runtime Reconfiguration, In Proceedings of International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL'10), Aug 31 – Sept 2, 2010, IEEE, ISBN 978-0-7695-4179-2, pp. 596-601, Milan, Italy.

Jim Tørresen and Dirk Koch, A New Project to Address Run-Time Recofigurable Hardware Systems. Proceedings of Dagstuhl Seminar 10281: Dynamically Reconfigurable Architectures. ISSN 1862-4405, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik, Germany.

Dirk Koch, Christian Beckhoff and Jim Torresen, Fine-grained Partial Runtime Reconfiguration on Virtex-5 FPGAs. In 18th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), May 2-4, 2010, IEEE, ISBN: 978-0-7695-4056-6, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.

Jim Torresen, Thor Arne Lovland: Parts Obsolescence Challenges for the Electronics Industry. IEEE Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems, DDECS 2007, pages: 131-134.

Jim Torresen, Jorgen Norendal, Kyrre Glette: Establishing a New Course in Reconfigurable Logic System Design. IEEE Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems, DDECS 2007, pages 227-230.

Jim Torresen and Jonas Jakobsen. An FPGA Implemented Processor Architecture with Adaptive Resolution. paper.pdf. In proc. of 1st NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS'2006). IEEE Computer Society. ISBN 0-7695-2614-4, pp. 386 - 389. June 2006, Istanbul, Turkey.

Jim Torresen, Jorgen W. Bakke and Lukas Sekanina. Efficient Image Filtering and Information Reduction in Reconfigurable Logic paper.pdf. In proc. of 22nd Norchip Conference, November 2004, Oslo, Norway.

Shaomeng Li, Jim Torresen and Oddvar Soraasen. Improving a Network Security System by Reconfigurable Hardware paper.pdf. In proc. of 22nd Norchip Conference, November 2004, Oslo, Norway.

Geir Nilsen, Jim Torresen, Oddvar Soraasen. A Variable Word-Width Content Addressable Memory for Fast String Matching paper.pdf. In proc. of 22nd Norchip Conference, November 2004, Oslo, Norway.

Shaomeng Li, Jim Torresen and Oddvar Soraasen, Exploiting Stateful Inspection of Network Security in Reconfigurable Hardware. paper.pdf. In proc. of 13th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL'2003), September 2003, Lisbon - Portugal.

Shaomeng Li, Jim Torresen and Oddvar Soraasen, Exploiting Reconfigurable Hardware for Network Security. paper.pdf. In proc. of 11th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM'03), April 2003, California, USA.

Jim Torresen and Knut Arne Vinger, High Performance Computing by Context Switching Reconfigurable Logic. paper.pdf. In proc. of 16th European Simulation Multiconference (ESM-2002), pp. 207--210, June 2002, Darmstadt, Germany.

Jim Torresen and Vidar Engh Skaugen, A Signal Processing Architecture Based On RAM Technology. paper.pdf. In proc. of 16th European Simulation Multiconference (ESM-2002), pp. 317-319, June 2002, Darmstadt, Germany.

Jim Torresen. Reconfigurable Logic Applied for Designing Adaptive Hardware Systems. file.ps or file.pdf. International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic Business, Education, Science, and Medicine on the Internet (SSGRR 2002W), January 2002, L`Aquila, Italy.

fourMs (Music, Mind, Motion, Machines)

Torresen, Jim; Renton, Eirik; Jensenius, Alexander Refsum, Wireless Sensor Data Collection based on ZigBee Communication. In NIME 2010 proceedings: New Interfaces for Musical Expression++, 15-18th June 2010, University of Technology Sydney. Sydney, Australia: University of Technology Sydney 2010 ISBN 978-0-646-53482-4. pp. 368-371.

Nymoen, Kristian; Jensenius, Alexander Refsum; Torresen, Jim; Glette, Kyrre Harald; Skogstad, Ståle Andreas van Dorp. Searching for Cross-Individual Relationships between Sound and Movement Features using an SVM Classi?er. In NIME 2010 proceedings: New Interfaces for Musical Expression++, 15-18th June 2010, University of Technology Sydney. Sydney, Australia: University of Technology Sydney 2010 ISBN 978-0-646-53482-4. pp. 259-262

Alexander Refsum Jensenius, Kyrre Harald Glette, Rolf Inge Godøy, Mats Erling Høvin, Kristian Nymoen, Ståle Andreas van Dorp Skogstad, Jim Torresen. fourMs, University of Oslo – Lab Report. In proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, June 1-5 2010, New York. International Computer Music Association 2010 ISBN 0-9713192-8-6. pp. 290-293.

Intelligent Transportation Systems (Image Processing)

Jim Torresen, Jorgen W. Bakke and Yizhuang Yang. A Camera Based Speed Limit Sign Recognition System.13th ITS World Congress and Exhibition. London, October 2006.

Jim Torresen, Jorgen W. Bakke and Yizhuang Yang. A Camera Based Speed Limit Sign Recognition System. paper.pdf. In proc. of 13th ITS World Congress and Exhibition, October 2006, London, U.K..

Jim Torresen, Jorgen W. Bakke and Lukas Sekanina. Efficient Recognition of Speed Limit Signs. paper.pdf. In proc. of IEEE's 7th Annual IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2004) , October 2004, Washington D.C., USA.

Lukas Sekanina and Jim Torresen, Detection of Norwegian Speed Limit Signs. paper.pdf. In proc. of 16th European Simulation Multiconference (ESM-2002), pp. 337-340, June 2002, Darmstadt, Germany.

Parallel implementations of neural network (1998 and earlier)

Jim Torresen and Shinji Tomita. A Review of Parallel Implementations of Backpropagation Neural Networks. Chapter 2 in the book by N. Sundararajan and P. Saratchandran (editors): Parallel Architectures for Artificial Neural Networks, IEEE CS Press, 1998. ISBN 0-8186-8399-6.

Jim Torresen and Shinji Tomita. Implementation of Backpropagation Training of Neural Networks On Large Parallel Computers. Chapter 7 in the book by N. Sundararajan and P. Saratchandran (editors): Parallel Architectures for Artificial Neural Networks, IEEE CS Press, 1998. ISBN 0-8186-8399-6.

Jim Torresen The Convergence of Backpropagation Trained Neural Networks for Various Weight Update Frequencies. In "International Journal of Neural Systems", Vol. 8, No. 3, June 1997.

Jim Torresen, Hiroshi Nakashima, Shinji Tomita and Olav Landsverk Exploiting parallel computers to reduce neural network training time of real applications. International Symposium on High Performance Computing 1997, Fukuoka, Japan.

Jim Tørresen. Parallelization of Backpropagation Training for Feed-Forward Neural Networks. Ph.D. thesis, 1996.

Jim Tørresen and Jon Gunnar Solheim. Implementing Backpropagation Training on a Reconfigurable Computer Using Pipelining of the Training Patterns. International Conference On Neural Network Processing 96 (ICONIP'96), Hong Kong.

Jim Tørresen, Shin-ichiro Mori, Hiroshi Nakashima, Shinji Tomita, Olav Landsverk. General Mapping of Feed-Forward Neural Networks onto an MIMD Computer. IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks 1995 (ICNN'95), Western Australia.

Jim Tørresen, Shinji Tomita and Olav Landsverk. The relation of Weight Update Frequency to Convergence of BP. World Congress on Neural Networks 1995 (WCNN'95), Washington D.C., USA.

Jim Tørresen, Shin-ichiro Mori, Hiroshi Nakashima, Shinji Tomita, Olav Landsverk. Exploiting multiple degrees of BP parallelism on the highly parallel computer AP1000. Fourth International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks 1995 (ANN'95). Cambridge, U.K.

Jim Tørresen, Shin-ichiro Mori, Hiroshi Nakashima, Shinji Tomita, Olav Landsverk. The AP1000 computer running back propagation. Norwegian Neural Network Symposium 1994 (NNNS'94). Oslo.

Jim Tørresen, Shin-ichiro Mori, Hiroshi Nakashima, Shinji Tomita, Olav Landsverk. Parallel back propagation training algorithm for MIMD computer with 2D-torus network. The third Parallel Computing Workshop 1994 (PCW'94), Kawasaki, Japan.

Jim Tørresen, Shin-ichiro Mori, Hiroshi Nakashima, Shinji Tomita, Olav Landsverk. Parallel back propagation training algorithm for MIMD computer with 2D-torus network. International Conference On Neural Network Processing 1994 (ICONIP'94), Seoul, Korea.

Jim Tørresen, Shin-ichiro Mori, Hiroshi Nakashima, Shinji Tomita, Olav Landsverk. Parallel back propagation training algorithm for MIMD computer with 2D-torus network. Summer Workshop On Parallel and distributed Processing 1994 (SWOP'94), Okinawa, Japan.