Selected Publications of Jason Lohn

  • G.S. Hornby, D.S. Linden, J.D. Lohn, "Evolved Antennas for NASA's Space Technology 5 Mission," (accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation).
  • J.D. Lohn, D.S. Linden, G. Hornby, "Automated Antenna Design and Optimization," (accepted for publication in AIAA Journal for Aerospace Computing, Information, and Communications).
  • J.D. Lohn, G.S. Hornby, D.S. Linden, "Evolved Antennas Deployed on NASA's Space Technology 5 Mission," (accepted for publication in Journal of Computer Aided Design).
  • G. Hornby, A. Globus, D. Linden, J. Lohn, "Automated Antenna Design with Evolutionary Algorithms," Proc. 2006 AIAA Space Conference, September 2006.
    [paper (Acrobat PDF, 697K)]

  • A. Globus, D. Linden, J. Lohn, "Evolutionary Design of a Phased Array Antenna Element," Proc. 2006 IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society International Symposium and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, June 2006.
    [paper (Acrobat PDF, 1M)]

  • J.D. Lohn, G. Larchev, "Evolutionary Based Techniques for Fault Tolerant Field Programmable Gate Arrays," Proc. 2006 Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology, June 2006.
  • J.D. Lohn, "Evolvable hardware: using evolutionary computation to design and optimize hardware systems," IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, vol 1, no 1, Feb 2006.
    [paper (Acrobat PDF, 2.6M)]

  • J.D. Lohn, D.S. Linden, G.S. Hornby, A. Rodriguez-Arroyo, S.E. Seufert, B. Blevins, T. Greenling, "Evolutionary Design of a Single-Wire Circularly-Polarized X-Band Antenna," Proc. 2005 IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society International Symposium and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, July 2005.
    [paper (Acrobat PDF, 3.6M)]

  • J.D. Lohn, G. S. Hornby, D. S. Linden, "Rapid Re-evolution of an X-Band Antenna for NASA's Space Technology 5 Mission," Genetic Programming Theory Practice 2005 Workshop (GPTP-2005), May 2005.
    [paper (Acrobat PDF, 216K)]

  • J. D. Lohn, D. S. Linden, G. D. Hornby, W. F. Kraus, A. Rodriguez, S. Seufert, "Evolutionary Design of an X-Band Antenna for NASA's Space Technology 5 Mission," Proc. 2004 IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society International Symposium and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Vol. 3, pp. 2313-2316, 2004.
    [paper (Acrobat PDF, 96K)]

  • J. D. Lohn, G. S. Hornby, D. S. Linden, "An Evolved Antenna for Deployment on NASA's Space Technology 5 Mission," Genetic Programming Theory Practice 2004 Workshop (GPTP-2004), May 2004.
    [paper (Acrobat PDF, 234K)]

  • A. Globus, J. Crawford, J. Lohn, A. Pryor, "A Comparison of Techniques for Scheduling Earth Observing Satellites," Proc. Sixteenth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAI-04), San Jose, July, 2004.
    [paper (Acrobat PDF, 183K)]

  • G.V. Larchev, J. D. Lohn, "Hardware-in-the-Loop Evolution of a 3-bit Multiplier," Proc. 12th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM-2004), pp. 277-278, April, 2004.
    [paper (Acrobat PDF, 86K)]

  • J. Lohn, "Design by Darwin," Wired Magazine, Issue 12.02, February, 2004, pp. 114.
    [article]

  • J. Lohn, J. Crawford, A. Globus, G. Hornby, W. Kraus, G. Larchev, A. Pryor, and D. Sriviastava. Evolvable Systems for Space Applications, International Conference on Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology (SMC-IT), 2003.
    [paper (Acrobat PDF, 290K)]

  • A. Globus, J. Crawford, J. Lohn, and A. Pryor. Scheduling Earth Observing Satellites with Evolutionary Algorithms, International Conference on Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology (SMC-IT), 2003.
    [paper (Acrobat PDF, 114K)]

  • J. Lohn, G. Larchev and R. DeMara. Evolutionary Fault Recovery in a Virtex FPGA Using a Representation That Incorporates Routing, 10th Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop (RAW 2003), April 2003.
    [paper (Acrobat PDF, 162K)]

  • J. Lohn, G. Larchev and R. DeMara. A Genetic Representation for Evolutionary Fault Recovery in Virtex FPGAs, The 5th International Conference on Evolvable Systems (ICES 2003), Trondheim, Norway, March 2003.
    [paper (Acrobat PDF, 161K)]

  • A. Globus, J. Crawford, J. Lohn, and R. Morris. Scheduling Earth Observing Fleets Using Evolutionary Algorithms: Problem Description and Approach, Proc. of the Third International NASA Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space, Houston, Texas, 27-29 Oct, 2002.
    [paper (Acrobat PDF, 67K)]

  • J.D. Lohn, W.F. Kraus, D.S. Linden, ``Evolutionary Optimization of a Quadrifilar Helical Antenna,'' Proc. of the IEEE AP-S International Symposium and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting , vol 3, June, 2002, pp. 814-817.
    [paper (Acrobat PDF, 289K)]

  • J.D. Lohn, W.F. Kraus, G.L. Haith, ``Comparing a Coevolutionary Genetic Algorithm for Multiobjective Optimization,'' Proc. of the 2002 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, May, 2002, pp. 1157-1162.
    [paper (Acrobat PDF, 229K)]

  • J.D. Lohn, W.F. Kraus, S.P. Colombano, ``Evolutionary Optimization of Yagi-Uda Antennas,'' Proc. of the Fourth International Conference on Evolvable Systems, Tokyo, October 3-5, 2001, pp. 236-243.
    [paper (Acrobat PDF, 362K)]

  • J.D. Lohn, G.L. Haith, S.P. Colombano, D. Stassinopoulos, ``Towards Evolving Electronic Circuits for Autonomous Space Applications,'' Proc. of the 2000 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, March 18-25, 2000.
    [paper (Acrobat PDF, 358K)]

  • J.D. Lohn, S.P. Colombano, G.L. Haith, D. Stassinopoulos, ``A Parallel Genetic Algorithm for Automated Electronic Circuit Design,'' Proc. of the Computational Aerosciences Workshop, NASA Ames Research Center, February, 2000.
    [paper (Acrobat PDF, 120K)]

  • J.D. Lohn, ``GA Synthesis of Circuits Using a Linear Representation,'' NASA Tech Briefs, Vol 24, No. 12, December 2000, pg. 40.
    [paper (Acrobat PDF, 158K)]

  • J.D. Lohn, J.A. Reggia, "Exploring the Design Space of Artificial Self-Replicating Structures," Evolution of Engineering and Information Systems and Their Applications, L.C. Jain (Ed), CRC Press, 2000, pp. 67-103.
    [paper (Acrobat PDF, 199K)]

  • J.D. Lohn, G.L. Haith, S.P. Colombano, D. Stassinopoulos, ``A Comparison of Dynamic Fitness Schedules for Evolutionary Design of Amplifiers,'' Proc. of the First NASA/DoD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware, Pasadena, CA, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1999, pp. 87-92.
    [abstract] [paper (Acrobat PDF, 281K)]

  • G.L. Haith, S.P. Colombano, J.D. Lohn, D. Stassinopoulos, ``Coevolution for Problem Simplification,'' Proc. of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1999, pp. 244-251.
    [abstract] [paper (Acrobat PDF, 184K)]

  • J.D. Lohn, S.P. Colombano, ``A Circuit Representation Technique for Automated Circuit Design,'' IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, vol. 3, no. 3, 1999, pp. 205-219.
    [abstract] [paper (Acrobat PDF, 366K)]

  • J.D. Lohn, "Experiments on Evolving Software Models of Analog Circuits," Communications of the ACM, Special issue on evolvable hardware, April 1999, pp. 67-69.
    [paper (Acrobat PDF, 158K)]

  • J.D. Lohn, G.L. Haith, S.P. Colombano, ``Two Electromechanical Models of Self-Assembly,'' Proc. of the Sixth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology, 1998.
    [abstract] [paper (Acrobat PDF, 397K)]

  • D. Stassinopoulos, S.P. Colombano, J.D. Lohn, G.L. Haith, J. Scargle, and S. Liang "Spatial Autocatalytic Dynamics: An Approach to Modelling Prebiotic Evolution," Proc. of the 1998 International Conference of Complex Systems, Nashua, NH.
    [abstract] [paper (Acrobat PDF, 1642K)]

  • J.D. Lohn, S.P. Colombano, ``Automated Analog Circuit Synthesis using a Linear Representation,'' Proc. of the Second Int'l Conf on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1998, pp. 125-133.
    [abstract] [paper (Acrobat PDF, 101K)]

  • J.A. Reggia, J.D. Lohn, H.H. Chou, ``Self-replicating Structures: Evolution, Emergence, and Computation,'' Artificial Life, vol. 4, no.3, 1998, pp. 283-302.
    [paper (Acrobat PDF, 208K)]

  • J.D. Lohn, S.P. Colombano, J. Scargle, D. Stassinopoulos, G. L. Haith, ``Evolution of Catalytic Reaction Sets using Genetic Algorithms,'' IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation, 1998, pp. 487-492.
    [abstract] [paper (Acrobat PDF, 183K)]

  • J.D. Lohn, J.A. Reggia, ``Automatic Discovery of Self-Replicating Structures in Cellular Automata,'' IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, vol. 1, no. 3, 1997, pp. 165-178.
    [abstract] [paper (Acrobat PDF, 208K)]

  • J.D. Lohn, ``Cellular Space Models of Self-Replicating Structures,'' in Mathematical and Computational Biology: Computational Morphogenesis, Hierarchical Complexity, and Digital Evolution, C. L. Nehaniv, ed., Lectures on Mathematics in the Life Sciences, American Mathematical Society, Providence, Rhode Island, 1999, pp. 11-30.
    [abstract] [paper (Acrobat PDF, 187K)]

  • J.A. Reggia, H.-H. Chou, and J.D. Lohn. ``Cellular Automata Models of Self-replicating Systems,'' in Advances in Computers, M. Zelkowitz (ed), vol. 47, Academic Press, New York, 1998, pp.141-183.
    [abstract] [paper (Acrobat PDF, 289K)]

  • R.W. Newcomb, J.D. Lohn, ``Analog VLSI for Neural Networks,'' in Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, M. Arbib Ed., Bradford Books, MIT Press, 1995.
    [paper (Acrobat PDF, 135K)]

  • J.R. Koza, F.H. Bennett, J.D. Lohn, F. Dunlap, M.A. Keane, D. Andre, ``Use of Architecture-Altering Operations to Dynamically Adapt a Three-Way Analog Source Identification Circuit to Accommodate a New Source,'' in Genetic Programming 1997 Conference, J.R. Koza, K.Deb, M.Dorigo, D.B. Fogel, M. Garzon, H. Iba, and R.L. Riolo, (eds), Morgan Kaufmann, 1997, pp. 213--221.
    [abstract] [paper (Acrobat PDF, 259K)]

  • J.R. Koza, F.H. Bennett, J.D. Lohn, F. Dunlap, D. Andre, M.A. Keane, ``Automated Synthesis of Computational Circuits using Genetic Programming,'' 1997 IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, 1997, pp. 447--452.
    [abstract] [paper (Acrobat PDF, 77K)]

  • J.R. Koza, F.H. Bennett, J.D. Lohn, F. Dunlap, D. Andre, M.A. Keane, ``Evolution of a Tri-state Frequency Discriminator for the Source Identification Problem using Genetic Programming.'' In Wang, Paul P. (editor). Proceedings of Joint Conference of Information Sciences, Volume I, 1997, pp. 95--99.
    [abstract] [paper (Acrobat PDF, 87K)]

  • J.D. Lohn, ``Automated Discovery of Self-Replicating Structures in Cellular Space Automata Models.'' Dept. of Computer Science Tech. Report CS-TR-3677, Univ. of Maryland at College Park, August 1996.
    [paper (Acrobat PDF, 784K)]

  • J.D. Lohn, J.A. Reggia, ``Discovery of Self-Replicating Structures using a Genetic Algorithm,'' 1995 IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Perth, 1995, pp. 678--683.
    [abstract] [paper (Acrobat PDF, 101K)]

  • J. Hilke, R. Navarro, J.A. Reggia, J.D. Lohn, ``A Modified Cellular Automata Model of Nucleotide Interactions and Non-Enzymatic Transcription of DNA,'' Proceedings of the IEEE Intelligence in Neural and Biological Systems Conference, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1995.

Selected Talks and Writings
  • "Novel Approaches in Automated Design: Evolution of Circuit and Molecular Designs," Invited talk given at the 1999 SRC/NASA Self-Assembly for Nanoelectronics Workshop, NASA Ames Research Center, November, 1999.

  • "Artificial Evolution of Analog Circuits," Invited talk given as part of the Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence Spring 1999 Seminar Series, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, April 1999.
    [slides (Acrobat PDF, 319K)]

  • Book Review: "Evolutionary Algorithms for VLSI CAD," IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, vol. 3, no. 3, 1999.

  • "Automated Analog Circuit Synthesis using a Linear Representation," Talk given at: Second Int'l Conf on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 1998.
    [slides (Acrobat PDF, 190K)]

  • "Evolution of Catalytic Reaction Sets using Genetic Algorithms," Talk given at: 1998 IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Anchorage, Alaska, May 1998.
    [slides (Acrobat PDF, 363K)]

  • "The Evolution of Simplicity: Self-Replicating Systems in Artificial Life," Invited talk at: International Workshop on Mathematical & Computational Biology: Computational Morphogenesis, Hierarchical Complexity & Digital Evolution, Aizu, Japan, October 1997.
    [slides (Acrobat PDF, 558K)]

Selected Media Articles
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