FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
ICES2000
April 17-19, 2000
Napier University
Edinburgh, Scotland (UK)
The Third International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to
Hardware will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland.
ICES2000 gratefully acknowledges the support of:
o Xilinx Inc (USA)
o Cyberlife(UK)
o The Evolutionary Computation Research Group: Napier University
o School of Cognitive Sciences: University of Sussex
o EvoNet: The Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computation
o EvoElec: The EvoNet Working Group in Evolutionary Electronics
The conference will take a place in cooperation with:
o Edinburgh Science Festival
o EvoRobot: The EvoNet Working Group in Evolutionary Robotics
o EvoIASP: The EvoNet Working Group on Image Analysis and Signal
Processing
The idea of evolving machines, first broached by the inventors of the
computer and the founders of the cybernetics movement and made possible
by the development of evolutionary computing and reconfigurable
hardware, has now blossomed in the field of bio-inspired systems and
evolvable hardware.
ICES2000 aims to bring together the growing E-HARD community, presenting
the latest developments in the field of Evolvable Systems, bringing
together researchers who use biologically inspired concepts to implement
real systems in artificial intelligence, artificial life, robotics, VLSI
design, and related domains.
TOPICS (to be covered include, but not be limited to)
o Evolving hardware systems
o Evolutionary hardware design methodologies
o Evolutionary design of electronic circuits
o Co-evolution of hybrid systems
o Hardware/software co-evolution
o Intrinsic and on-line evolution
o Evolutionary Algorithm implementation in hardware
o Reconfigurable hardware
o Self-replicating hardware
o Self-repairing hardware
o Neural hardware
o Adaptive hardware platforms
o Autonomous robots
o Evolutionary robotics
o Bio-robotics
o Applications of nanotechnology
o Biological- and chemical-based systems
o DNA computing
o Evolutionary image and signal processing
o Evolving controllers
o Real-world applications of evolvable hardware
o Quantum computation and circuits
o Cellular computation
STEERING COMMITTEE
o Terence C. Fogarty, Napier University (UK)
o Tetsuya Higuchi, Electrotechnical Laboratory (Japan)
o Hiroaki Kitano, Sony Computer Science Laboratory (Japan)
o Julian Miller, Napier University (UK)
o Adrian Thompson, University of Sussex (UK)
o Moshe Sipper, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland)
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
o General Chair: Terence C. Fogarty, Napier University (UK)
o Program Co-chair: Julian Miller, Napier University (UK)
o Program Co-chair: Adrian Thompson, University of Sussex (UK)
o Local Chair: Peter Thomson, Napier University (UK)
IMPORTANT DATES
o November 15, 1999: Submission deadline
o January 15, 2000: Notification of acceptance
o January 31, 2000: Camera-ready due
o April 17-19, 2000: Conference dates
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Papers should not be longer than 10 pages (including figures and
bibliography) in the Springer-Verlag LNCS style available at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
Authors must submit six (6) complete copies of their paper either in
hardcopy or electronically (in zipped postscript format). The electronic
versions should be submitted by ftp (details to follow at the second
call for papers). The papers must be received by November 15, 1999, and
sent to
Julian Miller
ICES2000 Program Co-chair
School of Computing
Napier University
219 Colinton Road
Edinburgh, EH14 1DJ
Scotland, UK
Questions, concerns, and inquiries can be sent to the conference email
at [log in to unmask] For additional information and future
conference updates, please visit the conference web site
http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/evol/ices2000.htm.
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