SPECIFIC COMPUTERS


In recent years, the advent of programmable logic devices has made easier to build specific computers for metaheuristics such as simulated annealing and genetic algorithms.

    A brief bibliography:
Abramson D.A. A very High Speed Architecture to Support Simulated Annealing. IEEE Computer, pages 27-34, 1992
Salami M. Genetic Algorithm processor on reprogrammable architectures. Proceedings of the Fifht Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming, pp 355-361, 1996