Publications

Selected Papers
Selected Talks and Writings
Selected Media Articles


Selected Papers


2004


A. Globus, G. Hornby, G. Larchev, M. Hancher, H. Cannon, J. Lohn, Teleoperated Modular Robots for Lunar Operations, Proc. AIAA 1st Intelligent Systems Technical Conference, September, 2004.
13,704K


J. D. Lohn, D. S. Linden, G. S. 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.
102K


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.
183K


G. S. Hornby. Functional Scalability through Generative Representations: the Evolution of Table Designs, Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 31:4, pages 569-587, July 2004.
1.6M, PS.gz 2.6M, PS 8.5M.


G. S. Hornby. Shortcomings with Tree-structured Edge Encodings for Neural Networks, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, pages 495-506, Seattle, WA, June 26-30, 2004. Nominated for: Best Paper, GP Track.
283K, PS.gz 1.1M, PS 4.8M.


M. French, P. Graham, M. Wirthlin, G. Larchev, P. Bellows, and Brian Schott, Design Tools for Reconfigurable Hardware in Orbit, Fourth Annual Earth Science Technology Conference (ESTC-2004), June 22-24, Palo Alto, CA, 2004.
353K


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.
234K


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.
86K



2003


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.
114K


A. Globus, E. Ricks, M. Menon and D. Srivastava. Evolving Molecular Force Field Parameters for Si and Ge, Proc. of the 2003 Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show, Feb. 23-27, San Francisco, CA. 2003.
97K


G. S. Hornby. Generative Representations for Evolving Families of Designs, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, pages 1678-1689, Chicago, IL, July, 2003. Nominated for: Best Paper, GP Track.
248K, PS.gz 184K, PS 942K.


G. S. Hornby, H. Lipson and J. B. Pollack. Generative Representations for the Automated Design of Modular Physical Robots, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, volume 19, number 4, pages 703-719, 2003.
Available from IEEE Xplore.


G. S. Hornby. Creating Complex Building Blocks through Generative Representations, AAAI Spring Symposium: Computational Synthesis: From Basic Building Blocks to High Level Functionality; TR SS-03-02, pages 98-105, AAAI Press, 2003.


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.
290K


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, Nice France, April 2003.
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.
161K


2002


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.
67K


A. Globus, M. Menon and D. Srivastava. JavaGenes: Evolving Molecular Force Field Parameters with Genetic Algorithm, Computer Modeling in Engineering and Science, volume 3, number 5, pages 557-574, 2002.


A. Globus, M. Menon and D. Srivastava. Enabling Computational Nanotechnology through JaveGenes in a Cycle Scavenging Environment, July 2002.
Note the PDF and HTML versions have bugs caused by the MS conversion software.
403K, MS Word 155K, HTML.


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.
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.
229K


2001


A. Globus. Towards 100,000 CPU Cycle-Scavenging by Genetic Algorithms, NAS technical report NAS-0-011, October, 2001.


A. Globus, C. Bauschlicher, S. Johan and D. Srivastava. JavaGenes: Evolving Molecular Force Field Parameters, oral presentation at the Ninth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology, Santa Clara, CA, 9-11 November 2001.
HTML.


A. Globus, J. Lawton, and T. Wipke. Graph Crossover, Proc. of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, eds L. Spector et al., San Francisco, CA, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, page 761, 2001.

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.
362K


2000


A. Globus, S. Atsatt, J. Lawton, and T. Wipke. JavaGenes: Evolving Graphs with Crossover, 2000.
HTML.


A. Globus, E. Langhirt, M. Livny, R. Ramamurthy, M. Solomon and S. Traugott. JavaGenes and Condor: Cycle-Scavenging Genetic Algorithms, Java Grande 2000, sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN, San Francisco, CA, 3-4 June, 2000.
HTML.

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.
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.
120K

J.D. Lohn. GA Synthesis of Circuits Using a Linear Representation, NASA Tech Briefs, Vol 24, No. 12, December 2000, pg. 40.
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.
199K


1999


A. Globus, J. Lawton, and T. Wipke. Automatic Molecular Design Using Evolutionary Techniques, Sixth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology, Sunnyvale, CA, November, 1998 and Nanotechnology, Volume 10, Number 3, pp. 290-299, September 1999.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
158K


1998

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
183K

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.
289K


1997

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.
208K

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.
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.
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.
87K


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 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 190K

Evolution of Catalytic Reaction Sets using Genetic Algorithms, Talk given at: 1998 IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Anchorage, Alaska, May 1998.
slides 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 558K


Selected Media Articles

Wired Magazine, Design by Darwin, February, 2004.

Frankfurt General Newspaper, Computers That Design Themselves, February 23, 2002.

Science News, Invention by Evolution, September 4, 1999.