ICES 2013

2013 IEEE International Conference on Evolvable Systems – From Biology to Hardware

In the mid 1990's, researchers began applying Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) on a kind of computer chip that could dynamically alter the functionality and physical connections of its circuits.  This combination of EAs with programmable electronics (Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) & Field Programmable Analogue Arrays (FPAAs) to give two examples) spawned a new field of Evolutionary Computation (EC) called Evolvable Hardware (EH).  

Since that time the EH field has expanded beyond the use of EAs on simple electronic devices to encompass many different combinations of EAs and biologically inspired algorithms (BIAs) with various physical devices (or simulations of physical devices).  Present research in the field of EH can be split into the two related areas of Evolvable Hardware Design (EHD) and Adaptive Hardware (AH).  

Evolvable Hardware Design (EHD) is the use of EAs and BIAs for creating physical devices and designs, examples of where EHD has had some success include analogue and digital electronics, antennas, MEMS chips, optical systems as well as quantum circuits.  

Adaptive Hardware as the name suggests uses EAs and BIAs to endow physical systems with some adaptive characteristics. These adaptive characteristics are required to construct more robust components and systems to allow them to continue to operate successfully in a changing environment. For example, a circuit on an FPGA that "evolved" to heal from radiation damage or an FPAA that can change its function as operational requirements change.

Held without interruption since 1995, ICES has become the leading conference in the field of evolvable hardware and systems. In a new and exciting move, ICES has joined the successful IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, providing the possibility for increased interaction between ICES and the other symposiums and workshops.

Topics

The topics to be covered include (but are not limited to):

•     Evolutionary hardware design

•     Co-evolution of hybrid systems

•     Intrinsic and extrinsic evolution

•     Hardware/software co-evolution

•     On-line hardware evolution

•     Evolutionary robotics

•     Autonomic and organic computing

•     Evolutionary circuit diagnostics and testing

•     Self-repairing and fault tolerant systems

•     Self-reconfigurable and adaptive hardware

•     Generative and developmental approaches

•     Real-world applications of evolvable hardware

•     MEMS and nanotechnology in evolvable hardware

•     Formal models for bio-inspired hardware systems

•   Novel devices/testbeds/tools for evolvable hardware

Keynote, Tutorial and Panel Sessions

Please forward your proposals with detailed abstract and bio-sketches of the speakers to Conference Co-Chairs and SSCI Keynote-Tutorial Chair, Dr S Das.

Special Sessions

Please forward your special session proposals to Conference Co-Chairs.

Conference Co-Chairs

Andy M Tyrrell, University of York, UK

Pauline C Haddow, NTNU, Norway

Program Committee (Provisional)

Andrew Adamatzky                         Burcin Aktan

Tughrul Arslan                                  Peter Bentley

Michal Bidlo                                    Stefano Cagnoni

Carlos A. Coello                              Ronald F. DeMara

Rolf Drechsler                                  Marc Ebner

R. Tim Edwards                               Stuart J. Flockton

John Gallagher                                 Garrison Greenwood

Pauline C Haddow                           David M. Halliday

Alister Hamilton                               Inman Harvey

James Hereford                               Arturo Hernandez-Aguirre

Jean-Claude Heudin                        Masaya Iwata

Tatiana Kalganova                           Paul Kaufmann

Krzysztof Kepa                               Didier Keymeulen

Gregory Larchev                             Per Kristian Lehre

Wenjian Luo                                    Jordi Madrenas    

Trent McConaghy                            Bob McKay

Julian Miller                                      J Manuel Moreno Arostegui

Masahiro Murakawa                        Nadia Nedjah

Andres Perez-Uribe                         Jean-Marc Philippe

Tony Pipe                                        Lucian Prodan

Eduardo Sanchez                             Cristina Santini

Gilles Sassatelli                                 Thorsten Schnier

Lukas Sekanina                                 Stephen Smith

Giovanni Squillero                             Uwe Tangen

Gianluca Tempesti                             Christof Teuscher

Jon Timmis                                        Yann Thoma

Jim Torresen                                       Martin Trefzer

Gunnar Tufte                                       Andy M. Tyrrell

Andres Upegui                                    Fabien Vannel

James Walker                                     Moritoshi Yasunaga

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