The 2003 NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware

July 9-11, 2003
The Westin Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois, USA

1-Page Conference Flyer (PDF)

Sponsored by:

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Department of Defense (DoD)

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
Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence, Naval Research Laboratory
Space Exploration Technology Program, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science, NASA Ames Research Center

The 2003 NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware (EH-2003) will be held in Chicago, Illinois. The Conference builds upon the tradition of the successful previous meetings: the first Workshop hosted by JPL in Pasadena, 1999; the second Workshop hosted by NASA Ames in Palo Alto, 2000; the third hosted by JPL in Long Beach in 2001; and the 2002 Conference hosted by NASA Goddard in Washington DC.

Evolvable Hardware is an emerging field that applies evolution 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 major impact on deployable systems for space systems 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, upgrade and learning without interrupting their operation.

The focus of this year's conference will be evolvable hardware for reliability. Reliability issues range from fault-recovery and survivable NASA/DoD systems operating in extreme environments to intelligent adaptive and learning systems for protection of areas and security of communications.

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

• Evolutionary hardware design (including design of mechanical systems, electronic circuits synthesis)
• Co-evolution of hybrid systems, such as wetware, chemical, mechanical, and electronic components, etc.
• Intrinsic/on-line and extrinsic/off-line evolution
  
• Hardware/software co-evolution
• Testbeds and evolutionary design automation tools
  
• Self-repairing hardware
• Self-reconfiguring, self-reconfiguring, and fault-tolerant hardware
  
• Embryonic hardware
  
• Morphogenesis
• Novel devices and hardware platforms suitable for evolution
  
• Adaptive hardware, adaptive computing
• Adaptive flight hardware
  
• Real-world applications of evolvable hardware

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Registration

Program (June 2003)

Co-located Event

Those with wider interests in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, please note that GECCO is also located in Chicago and immediate follows EH-2003, July 12-16. Please see GECCO-2003 for more information.

Important Dates

Conference Venue

The Westin Michigan Avenue, 909 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Chair:
Jason Lohn, NASA Ames Research Center

Co-Chairs:
Ricardo Zebulum, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
James Steincamp, Marshall Space Flight Center

Program Co-Chairs:
Didier Keymeulen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Adrian Stoica, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Local Chair:
Michael I Ferguson Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Chair)