Software Design Of A Digital Filter Using Evolutionary Methods

Evolutionary computation was conceived and articulated in the 1960's as a method of solving otherwise intractable problems. Computer programs based on evolutionary techniques typically consume lots of computer resources and until the 1990's the technique was implemented only by the few who had access to those resources. Over the last ten years, computers have become fast enough and enough memory has become cheaply available that evolutionary computation is now a workable technique for a typical desktop computer running a program for several hours or over a weekend.