ICES 2016 - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Evolvable Systems (ICES) From Biology to Hardware (and Back!)

The IEEE International Conference on Evolvable Systems (IEEE ICES) has been held, uninterrupted, since 1995 and in 2013 evolved from ICES to IEEE ICES. Following on from the success in 2014 & 2015, ICES will continue to be part of the successful IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, providing the possibility for increased interaction between ICES and the other symposiums and workshops.
Evolvable systems encompass understanding, modelling and applying biologically inspired mechanisms to physical systems. Application areas for bio-inspired algorithms include the creation of novel physical devices/systems, novel or optimised designs for physical systems and for the achievement of adaptive physical systems. Having showcased examples from analogue and digital electronics, antennas, MEMS chips, optical systems as well as quantum circuits in the past, the IEEE ICES has become the leading conference for showcasing techniques and applications of evolvable systems.
Topics
Evolvable Systems Techniques:
Intrinsic/Extrinsic/Mixtrinsic Evolution
On-chip Bio-inspired Approaches
Autonomous Systems
Self-reconfigurable and Adaptive Systems
Novel Evolvable Hardware Architectures (e.g. FPGAs, FPAAs)
Self-repairing, Fault-tolerant Systems
Self-monitoring and Self-testing
Electronic Circuit Synthesis and Optimization
Artificial Immune Systems
Artificial Generative Development
Formal Hardware Models
Bio-inspired Modeling
Evolvable Systems Applications:
Intrinsic Fault-tolerance
Sensor Design
Antenna Design
Hardware System Optimization
Analogue & Digital Electronic Design Optimization (Topology &Parameters)
Evolutionary Robotics
Autonomic and organic computing
DNA Computing
MEMS and nanotechnology
Quantum computing
Machine Vision
Medical Diagnosis
Mechanical Design Optimization (Bridges, Buildings, Spacecraft, Machines, Lenses, Solar Cells)
Special Sessions
Evolutionary Systems for Semiconductor Design, Simulation and Fabrication (contact: amt-AT-ohm.york.ac.uk )
Evolutionary Robotics (contact: jimtoer-AT-ifi.uio.no)
Bio-Inspired Computation for the Engineering of Materials and Physical Devices (contact: julian.miller-AT-york.ac.uk or pauline-AT-idi.ntnu.no )
Programme Committee
Andrew Adamatzky, University of the West of England, UK
Simon Bale, University of York, UK
Peter Bentley, University College London, UK
Michal Bidlo, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Kester Clegg, University of York, UK
Ronald DeMara, University of Central Florida, USA
Rolf Drechsler, University of Bremen, Germany
Stuart J. Flockton, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
John Gallagher, Wright State University, USA
Kyrre Glette, University of Oslo, Norway
Garrison Greenwood, Portland State University, USA
Pauline C Haddow, NTNU, Norway
David M. Halliday, University of York, UK
James Hereford, Murray State University, USA
Paul Kaufmann, University of Paderborn, Germany
Jason Lohn, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Michale Lones, Heriot Watt University, UK
Wenjian Luo, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Julian Miller, University of York, UK
J Manuel Moreno Arostegui, Technical University of Catalunya, Spain
Jean-Marc Philippe, CEA LIST, France
Lucian Prodan, Universitatea Politehnica din Timisoara, Romania
Lukas Sekanina, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Stephen Smith, University of York, UK
Uwe Tangen, BioMIP, Germany
Gianluca Tempesti, University of York, UK
Jon Timmis, University of York, UK
Jim Torresen, University of Oslo, Norway
Martin Trefzer, University of York, UK
Andy M. Tyrrell, University of York, UK
Zdenek Vasicek, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
James Walker, University of York, UK
Alan Winfield, University of the West of England, UK
Moritoshi Yasunaga, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Organisers
Andy M Tyrell
University of York, UK.
Email:amt-AT-ohm.york.ac.uk
Martin Trefzer
University of York, UK. Email:martin.trefzer-AT-york.ac.uk