
18
CHAPTER
The Genetic Algorithm as a
Discovery Engine: Strange
Circuits and New Principles
Julian E Miller University of Birmingham
Tatiana Kalganova Brunel University
Dominie Job Napier University
Natalia Lipnitskaya State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
18.1 INTRODUCTION
There is a great contrast between the way in which physical systems have been de-
signed by blind evolution and the methods employed by human designers. In
the former, entire systems are constructed and tested in situ without a conscious
application of principles. In the latter, systems are "evolved" by a process of hu-
man ingenuity, ...