Travelling Salesman Problem solved 'in materio' by evolved carbon nanotube device

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@InProceedings{Clegg:2014:PPSN,

• author = "Kester Clegg and Julian Miller and Kieran Massey and Mike Petty",
• title = "Travelling Salesman Problem solved 'in materio' by evolved carbon nanotube device",
• booktitle = "13th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature",
• year = "2014",
• editor = "Thomas Bartz-Beielstein and Juergen Branke and Bogdan Filipic and Jim Smith",
• publisher = "Springer",
• isbn13 = "978-3-319-10761-5",
• pages = "692--701",
• series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
• address = "Ljubljana, Slovenia",
• month = "13-17 " # sep,
• volume = "8672",
• keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, Cartesian genetic programming",
• DOI = "doi:10.1007/978-3-319-10762-2_68",
• abstract = "We report for the first time on finding shortest path solutions for the travelling salesman problem (TSP) using hybrid in materio computation: a technique that uses search algorithms to configure materials for computation. A single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) / polymer composite material deposited on a micro-electrode array is configured using static voltages so that voltage output readings determine the path order in which to visit cities in a TSP. Our initial results suggest that the hybrid computation with the SWCNT material is able to solve small instances of the TSP as efficiently as a comparable evolutionary search algorithm performing the same computation in software. Interestingly the results indicate that the hybrid system's search performance on TSPs scales linearly rather than exponentially on these smaller instances. This exploratory work represents the first step towards building SWCNT-based electrode arrays in parallel so that they can solve much larger problems.",
• notes = "up to 12 cities. 1+4-EA. TSP path approx 20th of an inch. SWCNT-PMMA carbon needles mixed with PMMA in Anisole. Comparison with Cartesian genetic programming. Ten fold improvement in CGP. PPSN-XIII",

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Genetic Programming entries for Kester Clegg Julian F Miller Kieran Massey Mike Petty

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