Abstract :
The development of the evolutionary computer is based on three sources: the concept of adaptive identification in the specified class of structured models, algorithmic facilities and software of data processing developed for the purpose of classification, recognition, prediction, reconstruction, and design; and a component base developed for realizing the hardware support of evolutionary algorithms by modern facilities of opto- and microelectronics. The basic concepts pertaining to an evolutionary computer are formulated. It is pointed out that the evolutionary processing of information is, as a whole, a process of adaptive structured identification of the decision rule, which incorporates the evolutionary synthesis of the decision rule and the formation of the actual decision. A special-purpose processor realization of evolutionary processing is discussed
