SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
Third International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware
April 17-19, 2000
Edinburgh, Scotland (UK)
The Third International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to
Hardware (ICES2000) will be held at Edinburgh, the capital city of
Scotland with the support of The Evolutionary Computation Research Group:
Napier University, COGS: University of Sussex, EEBIC, School of Computer
Science, University of Birmingham, EvoNet: The Network of Excellence in
Evolutionary Computation, EvoElec: The EvoNet Working Group in
Evolutionary Electronics. The conference will take a place in cooperation
with Edinburgh Science Festival, EuroGP2000: The Third European Conference
on Genetic Programming, and EvoWorkshops2000: The EvoNet Workshops on
Evolutionary Computing.
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.
The ICES2000 aims to bring together the growing E-HARD community,
presenting the latest developments in the field of Evolvable Systems or
why not the "Killer application" pursuited on the previous evolvable
hardware events, 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 Bio-robotics
o Applications of nanotechnology
o Biological- and chemical-based systems
o DNA computing
o Evolving controllers
o Real-world applications of evolvable hardware
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, University of Birmingham(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, University of Birmingham(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 17-18, 2000: Conference dates
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Papers should not be longer than 10 pages (including figures and
bibliography) in the Springer-Verlag llncs style. Authors can submit
electronically zipped postscript via ftp to ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk (logging on
as anonymous) in the directory /pub/ices2000/incoming. Authors may also
submit six (6) complete copies of their paper to the address below. The
papers must be received by November 15, 1999, and hardcopy sent to
Julian Miller,
ICES2000 Program Co-chair,
School of Computer Science,
University of Birmingham,
Birmingham, B15 2TT,
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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