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:

Zebulum; Ricardo Salem, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasedena,
California, USA, ricardo@...

Pacheco; Marco Aurelio C., PUC-Rio University, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil,
marco@...

Vellasco; Marley Maria B. R., PUC-Rio University, Rio de
Janeiro,
Brazil, marley@...


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,

Marley
Marco Aurelio

P.S: The attached document is a flyer in pdf format, which you
can
easily open and
print using Adobe's Acrobat Reader software.

--
======================================================================
Dr. Marley Maria B.R. Vellasco email: marley@...
Professor, ICA Coordinator

ICA: Research Center of Applied Computational Intelligence
Dept. Engenharia Elétrica,
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro - PUC-Rio
R. Marquês S. Vicente 225 - Gávea
CXP 38063 fax: +55 21 3114-1232
CEP 22453-900 - Rio de Janeiro - RJ - Brasil tel: +55 21 3114-1630
http://www.ica.ele.puc-rio.br
======================================================================



[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]