AHS 2011 - 2011 NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS)

The purpose of the conference is to bring together leading researchers from the adaptive hardware and systems community to exchange experiences and share new ideas in the field. The conference expands the topics addressed by the precursor series of NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware, held between 1999 and 2005. With a broader scope including a variety of hardware and system adaptation methods and targeting more industry participation, the NASA/ESA series started with the AHS 2006 conference held in Istanbul, Turkey, and continued annually with AHS 2007 conference held in Edinburgh, UK, AHS 2008 conference held in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, and AHS 2009 conference held in San Francisco, USA.

Adaptation reflects the capability of a system to maintain or improve its performance in the context of internal or external changes, such as uncertainties and variations during fabrication, faults and degradations, modifications in the operational environment, incidental or intentional interference, different users and preferences, modifications of standards and requirements, trade-offs between performance and resources.

We welcome original contributions in the areas of hardware and software adaptation at different system levels, including novel tools and algorithms for adaptive system design (e.g. adaptation-aware compilers), novel applications of adaptive hardware and systems (e.g. intelligent agent machines), and novel enabling hardware technologies for such systems (e.g. instrumentation platforms, novel reconfigurable and multi-core architectures). We particularly welcome novel contributions in the areas of adaptive data transmission for telecommunications (e.g. adapting to power limitations, changing environment, and interferences), novel data compression techniques (e.g. new image compression techniques for space applications), and novel software/hardware architectures for unmanned autonomous vehicles (e.g. adapting to extreme environments and mission unknowns).

Topics

In view of the above, the topics to be covered in this conference include, but are not limited to:

Built-in tuneable structures and automated tuning
Automatic/self-calibration
Built-in self-test and self-repair
Design and test of integrated system in nano scale
On-chip learning and adaptation
Adaptive circuits and configurable IP cores
Reconfigurable and morphable hardware
Reconfigurable hardware for space applications
Embryonic hardware, morphogenesis
Evolvable hardware
Design for adaptive systems
Adaptive embedded system
Adaptive control circuits and adaptive flight hardware
Search and optimization algorithms for adaptive hardware
Hardware implementations of optimization engines
Learning and evolutionary algorithms for adaptive hardware
Algorithms for exploring design space of adaptive hardware
Adaptive computing and run-time reconfiguration
Adaptation with hardware in the loop
Adaptive optics
Adaptive antennas
Adaptive sensing
Adaptive MEM/NEMS devices
Adaptive interfaces
Hardware for adaptive signal processing
Adaptive medical and prosthetic devices
Adaptive wired and wireless networks
Adaptive hardware/software for autonomous systems
Adaptive flight hardware
Space applications
Communications applications
MEMS/NEMS energy scavenging devices
Emerging technologies-Nanoelectronics
Reconfigurable computing incl. multi core architectures
Adaptive wireless for space
Secure data and information systems
Adaptive image and data compression
Instrumentation platforms
Instructions to Authors

Prospective authors are invited to submit the electronic version of their full paper (i.e. PS, PDF, MSWord) on the conference web site. Papers are limited to 8 pages and should be submitted in single-spaced, double column, 10 point type on a 8.5" X 11" or equivalent paper with 1" margins on all sides. Each submission should contain the following items: (1) title of paper, (2) author name(s), (3) first author physical address, (4) first author e-mail address, (5) first author phone number, (6) a maximum 200 words abstract (7) the text of the paper, and (8) references. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and made available through the IEEE Xplore.