GENERATING PARALLEL RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS BY CELLULAR PROGRAMMING

Random numbers are needed in a variety of applications, yet finding go od random number generators is a difficult task. In this paper non-uni form cellular automata (CA) are studied, presenting the cellular progr amming algorithm for co-evolving such CAs to perform computations. The algorithm is applied to the evolution of random number generators; ou r results suggest that evolved generators are at least as good as prev iously described CAs, with notable advantages arising from the existen ce of a ''tunable'' algorithm for obtaining random number generators.