Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware

Session 1: Evolving Digital Circuits.- Measuring the Performance and Intrinsic Variability of Evolved Circuits.- An Efficient Selection Strategy for Digital Circuit Evolution.- Introducing Flexibility in Digital Circuit Evolution: Exploiting Undefined Values in Binary Truth Tables.- Evolving Digital Circuits Using Complex Building Blocks.- Session 2: Artificial Development.- Fault Tolerance of Embryonic Algorithms in Mobile Networks.- Evolution and Analysis of a Robot Controller Based on a Gene Regulatory Network.- A New Method to Find Developmental Descriptions for Digital Circuits.- Sorting Network Development Using Cellular Automata.- Session 3: GPU Platforms for Bio-inspired Algorithms.- Markerless Articulated Human Body Tracking from Multi-view Video with GPU-PSO.- Evolving Object Detectors with a GPU Accelerated Vision System.- Systemic Computation Using Graphics Processors.- Session 4: Implementations and Applications of Neural Networks.- An Efficient, High-Throughput Adaptive NoC Router for Large Scale Spiking Neural Network Hardware Implementations.- Performance Evaluation and Scaling of a Multiprocessor Architecture Emulating Complex SNN Algorithms.- Evolution of Analog Circuit Models of Ion Channels.- HyperNEAT for Locomotion Control in Modular Robots.- Session 5: Test, Repair and Reconfiguration Using Evolutionary Algorithms.- The Use of Genetic Algorithm to Reduce Power Consumption during Test Application.- Designing Combinational Circuits with an Evolutionary Algorithm Based on the Repair Technique.- Bio-inspired Self-testing Configurable Circuits.- Evolutionary Design of Reconfiguration Strategies to Reduce the Test Application Time.- Session 6: Applications of Evolutionary Algorithms in Hardware.- Extrinsic Evolution of Fuzzy Systems Applied to Disease Diagnosis.- Automatic Code Generation on a MOVE Processor Using Cartesian Genetic Programming.- Coping with Resource Fluctuations: The Run-time Reconfigurable Functional Unit Row Classifier Architecture.- Session 7: Reconfigurable Hardware Platforms.- A Self-reconfigurable FPGA-Based Platform for Prototyping Future Pervasive Systems.- The X2 Modular Evolutionary Robotics Platform.- Ubichip, Ubidule, and MarXbot: A Hardware Platform for the Simulation of Complex Systems.- Implementation of a Power-Aware Dynamic Fault Tolerant Mechanism on the Ubichip Platform.- Session 8: Applications of Evolution to Technology.- Automatic Synthesis of Lossless Matching Networks.- A Novel Approach to Multi-level Evolutionary Design Optimization of a MEMS Device.- From Binary to Continuous Gates – and Back Again.- Adaptive vs. Self-adaptive Parameters for Evolving Quantum Circuits.- Session 9: Novel Methods in Evolutionary Design.- Imitation Programming.- EvoFab: A Fully Embodied Evolutionary Fabricator.- Evolving Physical Self-assembling Systems in Two-Dimensions.