An Evolutionary View on Reversible Shift-Invariant Transformations
Luca Mariot (TU Delft - Cyber Security)
Stjepan Picek (TU Delft - Cyber Security)
Domagoj Jakobovic (University of Zagreb)
Alberto Leporati (Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca)
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Abstract
We consider the problem of evolving a particular kind of shift-invariant transformation – namely, Reversible Cellular Automata (RCA) defined by conserved landscape rules – using GA and GP. To this end, we employ three different optimization strategies: a single-objective approach carried out with GA and GP where only the reversibility constraint of marker CA is considered, a multi-objective approach based on GP where both reversibility and the Hamming weight are taken into account, and a lexicographic approach where GP first optimizes only the reversibility property until a conserved landscape rule is obtained, and then maximizes the Hamming weight while retaining reversibility. The results are discussed in the context of three different research questions stemming from exhaustive search experiments on conserved landscape CA, which concern (1) the difficulty of the associated optimization problem for GA and GP, (2) the utility of conserved landscape CA in the domain of cryptography and reversible computing, and (3) the relationship between the reversibility property and the Hamming weight.