The 2005 NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware

June 29 - July 1, 2005
The Westin Grand
Washington DC, USA

SPONSORED BY

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

SUPPORTED BY

• Information Sciences and Technology Directorate, NASA Ames Research
  Center
• Computing, Information and Communications Technology Program, NASA
  Ames Research Center
• Life Detection Science and Technology Program, Jet Propulsion
  Laboratory
• Space Exploration Technology Program, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence, Naval
  Research Laboratory

The 2005 NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware (EH-2005) will be held in Washington DC. The conference builds upon the tradition of the successful six previous meetings: Pasadena (1999), Palo Alto (2000), Long Beach (2001), Alexandria (2002), Chicago (2003), and Seattle (2004).

Evolvable Hardware is an emerging field that applies evolutionary and related algorithms to automate design and adaptation of physical, reconfigurable, and morphable structures such as electronic systems, antennas, MEMS and robots. The purpose of this conference is to bring together leading researchers from the evolvable hardware community, representatives of the automated design and programmable/reconfigurable hardware communities, technology developers and end-users from the aerospace, military and commercial sectors.

Evolvable Hardware techniques enable self-reconfigurability, adaptability and learning by programmable devices and thus have the potential to significantly increase the functionality of deployable hardware systems. Evolvable Hardware is expected to have a major impact on deployable systems for space and defense applications that need to survive and perform at optimal functionality during long duration in unknown, harsh and/or changing environments. It is also expected to greatly enhance the capability of systems that need modification, upgrading or learning without interrupting their operation.

Topics to be covered include, but are not limited to:

• Evolutionary hardware design
• Co-evolution of hybrid systems, such as wetware, chemical, mechanical, and electronic components, etc.
• Evolutionary robotics
• Intrinsic/on-line and extrinsic/off-line evolution
• Hardware/software co-evolution
• Self-repairing, reconfiguring, and fault tolerant hardware
• Embryonic hardware
• Novel devices, testbeds and tools supporting evolvable hardware
• Adaptive computing and adaptive hardware
• Real-world applications of evolvable hardware, such as: security, radiation hardening, MEMS, biometrics, and ultra-safe systems.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Prospective authors will find instructions for electronic submission of papers at Submitting a Paper. In addition to papers, research groups are invited to prepare a poster describing their research. A one-page abstract of the poster should be submitted following the same procedures as the paper. The conference will maintain its single-track format and will include posters sessions and panel discussions.

For further information please contact:

Jason Lohn
EH-2005 Conference Chair
NASA Ames Research Center, MS 269-1
Mountain View, CA 94035, USA
eh2005@email.arc.nasa.gov
Tel: +1 (650) 604-5138
Fax: +1 (650) 604-3594

Diane Gazzano
EH-2005 Conference Coordinator
MS 19-26
NASA Ames Research Center
Mountain View, CA 94035, USA
dgazzano@mail.arc.nasa.gov
Tel: +1 (650) 604-0520
Fax: +1 (650) 604-0500

IMPORTANT DATES

CONFERENCE VENUE

The Westin Grand, 2350 M Street NW, Washington DC 20037, USA

CO-LOCATED EVENT

Those with wider interests in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, please note that GECCO is also located in Washington DC and immediate precedes EH-2005, June 25-29. Please see http://www.isgec.org/gecco-2005/ for more information.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Jason Lohn, NASA Ames Research Center (Chair)
David Gwaltney, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (Co-Chair)
Gregory Hornby, NASA Ames Research Center (Co-Chair)
Ricardo Zebulum, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Program Co-Chair)
Didier Keymeulen, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Program Co-Chair)
Adrian Stoica, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Program Co-Chair)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Tughrul Arslan, University of Edinburgh (UK)
Peter Athanas, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (USA)
Neil Bergmann, Queensland University of Technology (Australia)
Magdalena Bugajska, Naval Research Laboratory (USA)
Silvano P. Colombano, NASA Ames Research Center (USA)
Andre DeHon, California Institute of Technology (USA)
Ronald F. DeMara, University of Central Florida (USA)
Rolf Drechsler, University of Bremen (Germany)
Michael I. Ferguson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (USA)
Stuart J. Flockton, University of London (UK)
Dario Floreano, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland)
John Gallagher, Wright State University (USA)
Manfred Glesner, Darmstadt University of Technology (Germany)
Al Globus, NASA Ames Research Center (USA)
Takashi Gomi, Applied AI Systems Inc. (Canada)
Garrison Greenwood, Portland State University (USA)
Matthew Hancher, NASA Ames Research Center (USA)
Inman Harvey, University of Sussex (UK)
James Hereford, Murray State University (USA)
Arturo Hernandez, Center for Research in Mathematics, (Mexico)
Lorenz Huelsbergen, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies (USA)
John Koza, Stanford University (USA)
Sanjeev Kumar, George Mason University (USA)
Gregory Larchev, NASA Ames Research Center (USA)
Derek Linden, JEM Engineering (USA)
Pierre Marchal, Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA (Switzerland)
Trent McConaghy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
Bob McKay, Australian Defence Force Academy (Australia)
Karlheinz Meier, University of Heidelberg (Germany)
Antonio Mesquita, Federal University of Rio (Brazil)
Julian Miller, University of York (UK)
J. Manuel Moreno, Technical University of Catalunya (Spain)
Masahiro Murakawa, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Japan)
Mircea GH. Negoita, Wellington Institute of Technology (New Zeeland)
Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California (USA)
Justinian Rosca, Siemens Corporate Research (USA)
Eduardo Sanchez, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland)
Hajime Shibata, Analog Devices (Japan)
Matthew Streeter, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
Rich Terrile, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Christof Teuscher, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland)
Jim Torresen, University of Oslo (Norway)
Andy Tyrrell, University of York (UK)
Svetlana Yanushkevich, University of Calgary (Canada)
Xin Yao, The University of Birmingham (UK)
Tina Yu, Chevron Texaco Information Technology Company (USA)

NASA/DoD ADVISORY COMMITTEE

David Alfano, NASA Ames Research Center
Leon Alkalai, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Scott Hubbard, NASA Ames Research Center
Alan Hunsberger, National Security Agency
Jose Munoz, Department of Energy
Alan C. Schultz, Naval Research Laboratory
Anil Thakoor, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Benny Toomarian, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Steven Zornetzer, NASA Ames Research Center