Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware

1. Front Matter

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2. Fault Tolerance and Recovery

   1. An Adaptive Self-tolerant Algorithm for Hardware Immune System

      • Wenjian Luo, Xin Wang, Ying Tan, Yiguo Zhang, Xufa Wang

      Pages 1-11

   2. Consensus-Based Evaluation for Fault Isolation and On-line Evolutionary Regeneration

      • Kening Zhang, Ronald F. DeMara, Carthik A. Sharma

      Pages 12-24

   3. Hardware Fault-Tolerance Within the POEtic System

      • Will Barker, Andy M Tyrrell

      Pages 25-36

   4. Evolvable Hardware System at Extreme Low Temperatures

      • Ricardo S. Zebulum, Adrian Stoica, Didier Keymeulen, Lukas Sekanina, Rajeshuni Ramesham, Xin Guo

      Pages 37-45

3. Platforms for Evolving Digital Systems

   1. Intrinsic Evolution of Sorting Networks: A Novel Complete Hardware Implementation for FPGAs

      • Jan Kořenek, Lukáš Sekanina

      Pages 46-55

   2. Evolving Hardware by Dynamically Reconfiguring Xilinx FPGAs

      • Andres Upegui, Eduardo Sanchez

      Pages 56-65

   3. A Flexible On-Chip Evolution System Implemented on a Xilinx Virtex-II Pro Device

      • Kyrre Glette, Jim Torresen

      Pages 66-75

   4. An Evolvable Image Filter: Experimental Evaluation of a Complete Hardware Implementation in FPGA

      • Tomáš Martínek, Lukáš Sekanina

      Pages 76-85

4. Evolution of Analog Circuits

   1. Operational Amplifiers: An Example for Multi-objective Optimization on an Analog Evolvable Hardware Platform

      • Martin Trefzer, Jörg Langeheine, Karlheinz Meier, Johannes Schemmel

      Pages 86-97

   2. Intrinsic Evolution of Controllable Oscillators in FPTA-2

      • Lukáš Sekanina, Ricardo S. Zebulum

      Pages 98-107

5. Evolutionary Robotics

   1. The Role of Non-linearity for Evolved Multifunctional Robot Behavior

      • Martin Hülse, Steffen Wischmann, Frank Pasemann

      Pages 108-118

   2. An On-the-fly Evolutionary Algorithm for Robot Motion Planning

      • Teddy Alfaro, María-Cristina Riff

      Pages 119-130

6. Evolutionary Hardware Design Methodologies

   1. Improving the Evolvability of Digital Multipliers Using Embedded Cartesian Genetic Programming and Product Reduction

      • James Alfred Walker, Julian Francis Miller

      Pages 131-142

   2. Benefits of Employing an Implicit Context Representation on Hardware Geometry of CGP

      • Xinye Cai, Stephen L. Smith, Andy M. Tyrrell

      Pages 143-154

   3. Evolution In Materio: Investigating the Stability of Robot Controllers Evolved in Liquid Crystal

      • Simon Harding, Julian F. Miller

      Pages 155-164

7. Bio-inspired Architectures

   1. Hardware Implementation of 3D Self-replication

      • André Stauffer, Daniel Mange, Fabien Vannel

      Pages 165-176

   2. POEtic: A Prototyping Platform for Bio-inspired Hardware

      • J. Manuel Moreno, Yann Thoma, Eduardo Sanchez

      Pages 177-187

   3. Implementation of Biologically Plausible Spiking Neural Networks Models on the POEtic Tissue

      • J. Manuel Moreno, Jan Eriksson, Javier Iglesias, Alessandro E. P. Villa

      Pages 188-197

8. Applications

   1. Adaptive Waveform Control in a Data Transceiver for Multi-speed IEEE1394 and USB Communication

      • Yuji Kasai, Eiichi Takahashi, Masaya Iwata, Yosuke Iijima, Hidenori Sakanashi, Masahiro Murakawa et al.

      Pages 198-204

The flying machines proposed by Leonardo da Vinci in the fifteenth century, the se- reproducing automata theory proposed by John von Neumann in the middle of the twentieth century and the current possibility of designing electronic and mechanical systems using evolutionary principles are all examples of the efforts made by humans to explore the mechanisms present in biological systems that permit them to tackle complex tasks. These initiatives have recently given rise to the emergent field of b- inspired systems and evolvable hardware. The inaugural workshop, Towards Evolvable Hardware, took place in Lausanne in October 1995, followed by the successive events of the International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware, held in Tsukuba (Japan) in October 1996, in Lausanne (Switzerland) in September 1998, in Edinburgh (UK) in April 2000, in Tokyo (Japan) in October 2001, and in Trondheim (Norway) in March 2003. Following the success of these past events the sixth international conference was aimed at presenting the latest developments in the field, bringing together researchers who use biologically inspired concepts to implement real systems in artificial intelligence, artificial life, robotics, VLSI design, and related domains. The sixth conference consolidated this biennial event as a reference meeting for the community involved in bio-inspired systems research. All the papers received were reviewed by at least three independent reviewers, thus guaranteeing a high-quality bundle for ICES 2005.

• ant colony systems
• architecture
• bio-inspired computing
• bioinformatics
• embryonic hardware
• evolution
• evolutionary computing
• evolvable systems
• field-programmable gate arrays
• hardware/software co-evolution
• immune systems
• nanotechnology
• reconfigurable sys
• robot
• robotics

• Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Technical University of Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

  J. Manuel Moreno

• Department of Electronic Engineering, Technical University of Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

  Jordi Madrenas, Jordi Cosp

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