Evolvable Hardware 2004: Seattle, WA, USA

• Preface.
  
• Conference Organizers.
  
• Program Committee.
  
• Group Posters.
  

Evolution of Analog Systems

• John R. Koza, Martin A. Keane, Matthew J. Streeter:
  Routine High-Return Human-Competitive Evolvable Hardware. 3-17
  
• Jörg Langeheine, Karlheinz Meier, Johannes Schemmel, Martin Trefzer:
  Intrinsic Evolution of Digital-to-Analog Converters Using a CMOS FPTA Chip. 18-25
  
• Sina Balkir, Günhan Dündar, Guner Alpaydin:
  Evolution Based Synthesis of Analog Integrated Circuits and Systems. 26-29
  
• Claudio Mattiussi, Dario Floreano:
  Evolution of Analog Networks using Local String Alignment on Highly Reorganizable Genomes. 30-37
  
• Pedro F. Vieira, Leonardo Bruno de Sá, João P. B. Botelho, Antonio Carneiro de Mesquita Filho:
  Evolutionary Synthesis of Analog Circuits Using Only MOS Transistors. 38-45
  
• José Franco Machado do Amaral, Jorge Luís Machado do Amaral, Cristina Costa Santini, Ricardo Tanscheit, Marley B. R. Vellasco, Marco Aurélio Cavalcanti Pacheco:
  Towards Evolvable Analog Artificial Neural Networks Controllers. 46-
  

Evolution of Digital Systems

• Yang Zhang, Stephen L. Smith, Andy M. Tyrrell:
  Digital Circuit Design using Intrinsic Evolvable Hardware. 55-62
  
• Lukás Sekanina, Stepan Friedl:
  On Routine Implementation of Virtual Evolvable Devices Using COMBO6. 63-70
  
• Carlos A. Coello Coello, Erika Hernández Luna, Arturo Hernández Aguirre:
  A Comparative Study of Encodings to Design Combinational Logic Circuits Using Particle Swarm Optimization. 71-78
  
• Naofumi Homma, Takafumi Aoki, Tatsuo Higuchi:
  Multiplier Block Synthesis Using Evolutionary Graph Generation. 79-82
  
• Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy, Venu G. Gudise:
  Swarm Intelligence for Digital Circuits Implementation on Field Programmable Gate Arrays Platforms. 83-86
  
• Mihai Oltean, Crina Grosan:
  Evolving Digital Circuits using Multi Expression Programming. 87-90
  
• A. P. Shanthi, P. Muruganandam, Ranjani Parthasarathi:
  Enhancing the Development Based Evolution of Digital Circuits. 91-
  

Real World Applications

• Evangelos F. Stefatos, Tughrul Arslan:
  An Efficient Fault-Tolerant VLSI Architecture Using Parallel Evolvable Hardware Technology. 97-103
  
• Nasri Sulaiman, Tughrul Arslan:
  A Genetic Algorithm for the Optimisation of a Reconfigurable Pipelined FFT Processor. 104-108
  
• Ju Hui Li, Meng-Hiot Lim, Qi Cao:
  An Intrinsic Evolvable and Online Adaptive Evolvable Fuzzy Hardware Scheme for Packet Switching Network. 109-
  

Fault Tolerance and Survivability

• Garrison W. Greenwood, David Hunter, Edward Ramsden:
  Fault Recovery in Linear Systems via Intrinsic Evolution. 115-122
  
• Michael L. Harrison, James A. Foster:
  Improving the Survivability of a Simple Evolved Circuit through Co-evolution. 123-129
  
• Lucian Prodan, Mihai Udrescu, Mircea Vladutiu:
  Self-Repairing Embryonic Memory Arrays. 130-137
  
• Jorge Luís Machado do Amaral, José Franco Machado do Amaral, Ricardo Tanscheit, Marco Aurélio Cavalcanti Pacheco:
  An Immune Inspired Fault Diagnosis System for Analog Circuits using Wavelet Signatures. 138-141
  
• Adrian Stoica, Didier Keymeulen, Tughrul Arslan, Vu Duong, Ricardo Salem Zebulum, Ian Ferguson, Xin Guo:
  Circuit Self-Recovery Experiments in Extreme Environments. 142-145
  
• Alex Nugent, Garrett Kenyon, Reid B. Porter:
  Unsupervised Adaptation to Improve Fault Tolerance of Neural Network Classifiers. 146-
  

From Biology to Robotics and Sensors

• Lars Olsson, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Daniel Polani:
  Sensory Channel Grouping and Structure from Uninterpreted Sensor Data. 153-160
  
• James Hereford, Charles Pruitt:
  Robust Sensor Systems using Evolvable Hardware. 161-168
  
• Josh C. Bongard, Hod Lipson:
  Automated Robot Function Recovery after Unanticipated Failure or Environmental Change using a Minimum of Hardware Trials. 169-176
  
• Alexander S. Klyubin, Daniel Polani, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv:
  Organization of the Information Flow in the Perception-Action Loop of Evolved Agents. 177-
  

Invited Papers: Multi-objective Evolution of Circuits

• Erika Hernández Luna, Carlos A. Coello Coello, Arturo Hernández Aguirre:
  On the Use of a Population-Based Particle Swarm Optimizer to Design Combinational Logic Circuits. 183-190
  
• Giuseppe Ascia, Vincenzo Catania, Maurizio Palesi, Davide Patti:
  Multi-objective Optimization of a Parameterized VLIW Architecture. 191-198
  
• Arturo Hernández Aguirre, Ricardo Salem Zebulum, Carlos A. Coello Coello:
  Evolutionary Multiobjective Design targeting a Field Programmable Transistor Array. 199-
  

Evolvability

• Jim Torresen:
  Exploring Knowledge Schemes for Efficient Evolution of Hardware. 209-216
  
• Martin Trefzer, Jörg Langeheine, Johannes Schemmel, Karlheinz Meier:
  New Genetic Operators to Facilitate Understanding of Evolved Transistor Circuits. 217-224
  
• Gregory R. Kramer, John C. Gallagher, Michael L. Raymer:
  On the Relative Efficacies of *cGA Variants for Intrinsic Evolvable Hardware: Population, Mutation, and Random Immigrants. 225-230
  
• James Hereford, David A. Gwaltney:
  Design Space Issues for Intrinsic Evolvable Hardware. 231-
  

Embryonics and Bio-inspired Architectures

• Juan Manuel Moreno, Yann Thoma, Eduardo Sanchez, Oriol Torres, Gianluca Tempesti:
  Hardware Realization of a Bio-inspired POEtic Tissue. 237-244
  
• Andrew J. Greensted, Andy M. Tyrrell:
  An Endocrinologic-Inspired Hardware Implementation of a Multicellular System. 245-252
  
• Piet van Remortel, Bernard Manderick, Tom Lenaerts:
  Gene Interaction and Modularisation in a Model for Gene-Regulated Development. 253-260
  
• Felix Streichert, Christian Spieth, Holger Ulmer, Andreas Zell:
  How to Evolve the Head-Tail Pattern from Reaction-Diffusion Systems. 261-268
  
• Gianluca Tempesti:
  Processor Architectures for Ontogenesis. 269-
  

Cellular Automata

• David Basanta, Mark A. Miodownik, Peter J. Bentley, Elizabeth A. Holm:
  Evolving and Growing Microstructures of Materials using Biologically Inspired CA. 275-282
  
• André Stauffer, Daniel Mange, Enrico Petraglio, Gianluca Tempesti:
  Self-Replication of 3D Universal Structures. 283-
  

New Avenues for Evolvable Hardware

• Hugo de Garis, Thayne Batty:
  The Evolution of Robust, Reversible, Nano-Scale, Femto-Second-Switching Circuits. 291-297
  
• Simon Harding, Julian Francis Miller:
  Evolution in Materio: Initial Experiments with Liquid Crystal. 298-
  

Invited Papers: Future Technologies for Space

• Yoseph Bar-Cohen:
  Electroactive Polymers (EAP) as Actuators for Potential Future Planetary Mechanisms. 309-317
  
• Anthony Colozza, Mohsen Shahinpoor, Phillip Jenkins, Curtis Smith, Kakkattukuzhy Isaac, Teryn DalBello:
  Solid State Aircraft Concept Overview. 318-324
  
• Marc G. Millis:
  Prospects for Breakthrough Propulsion from Physics. 325-333
  
• William Herbert Sims III, J. Boise Pearson:
  Radio Frequency (RF) Trap for Confinement of Ion Plasmas in Antimatter Propulsion Systems Using Rotating Wall Electric Fields. 334-339
  
• Robert Winglee:
  Advances in Magnetized Plasma Propulsion and Radiation Shielding. 340-