Program

ICES conference program

Each talk except invited ones is 25 minutes including Q/A. (invited talk is 30 minutes including Q/A.)
Overhead projector is available. Slide projector is also prepared.
Video tape demo is OK, but limited to NTSC format. But overhead projector and video projector don't work in parallel because we have only one screen.
Plenary sessions are held in the room A. Parallel sessions are held in room A and room B. The room A is 2F and the room B is 1F (notice, in Japan the ground level is called 1F).

First day : October 7th (Mo)

8:30-9:00 :

registration

9:00-9:20 :

greeting by Kouichirou Tamura(ETL, Director genereal)

greeting from NEDO

general announcement

9:20-9:50 :

Evolvable Systems Overview (1) By Daniel Mange

" Phylogency, Ontogency, and Epigenesis: Three Sources

of Biological Inspiration for Softenin Hardware "

Eduardo Sanchez, Daniel mange, Moshe Sipper, Marco Tomassini and A. Perez-Uribe

9:50-10:20 :

Evolvable Systems Overview (2) by Xin Yao

" Promises and Challenges of Evolvable Hardware "

Xin Yao and Tetsuya Higuchi

10:20-10:40 : coffee

10:40-11:10 :

invitedtalk by Igor Aleksander

" Iconic Learning In Networks of Logical Neurons "

11:10-11:40 :

invited talk by Shankar Krishnamoorthy (Synopsis)

" Logic Synthesis "

11:40-1:00 : lunch

1:00-2:40
Session 1: Evolware
Chair : Xin Yao

" Designing Evolware by Cellular Programming "

Moshe Sipper

" Online Autonomous Evolware "

Maxime Goeke, Moshe Sipper, Daniel Mange, Andre Stauffer,

Eduardo Sanchez, and Marco Tomassini

" Speeding-up Digital Ecology Evolution using a Hardware Emulator

-some early results- "

Pierre Marchal

" Challenges of Evolvable Sysyems: Analysis and Future directions "

Hiroaki Kitano

2:40-3:00 : coffee

3:00-3:50 : Parallel sessions:
Session 2: Cellular Systems - ROOM A (2F) -
Chair : Hugo de Garis

" Functional Organisms Growing on Silicon "

Pascal Nussbaum, Pierre Marchal, and Christian Piguet

" Logical universality and self-reproduction in reversible

cellular automata "

Kenichi Morita and Katsunobu Imai

Session 3: Engineering applications of EHW - ROOM B (1F) -
Chair : H.Kitano

" Data Compression based on Evolvable Hardware "

Mehrdad Salami, Masahiro Murakawa, and Tetsuya Higuchi

" ATM Cell Scheduling by Function Level Evolvable Hardware "

Weixin Liu, Masahiro Murakawa, and Tetsuya

3:50 - 4:00 : break

4:00 - 5:40 : parallel sessions:
Session 4: Evolutionary Robotics - ROOM A (2F) -
Chair : I.Harvey

" An Evolutionary Robot Navigation System using a Gate-Level

Evolvable Hardware "

Didier Keymulen, Marc Durantez, Tsutomu Hoshino,

Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Tetsuya Higuchi

" Genetic evolution of a logic circuit which controls an autonomous

mobile robot"

Taku Naito, Ryoichi Odagiri, Yutaka Matsunaga,

Manabu Tanifuji and Kazuyuki Murase

" Autonomous Robot with Evolving Algorithm Based on Biological Systems"

Jun Yamamoto and Yuichiro Anza

" Memory-Based Implementation of Neural Networks and Its Application

to Adaptive Mobile Robot"

Hidetaka Ito and Tatsumi Furuya

Session 5: Innovative Architectures - ROOM B (1F) -
Chair : P.Marchal

" Multiple Genetic Algorithm Processor for Hardware Optimization"

Mehrdad Salami

" NGEN A Massively Parallel Reconfigurable Computer for Molecular

Evolution: towards a Self-organizing Computer"

John S. McCaskill, Thomas Maeke, Udo Gemm, Ludger Schulte,

and Uwe Tangen

" Architecture of Cell Array Neuro-Processor"

Takayuki Morishita and Iwao Teramoto

" Special-Purpose Brainware Architecture for Data Processing"

Tadashi Ae, Hikaru Fukumoto, Saku Hiwatashi

6:30 - 8:30 : banquet dinner

Second day : October 8th (Tu)

9:00 - 9:30:

invited talk by William Armstrong

" Hardware Requirement for Fast Evaluation of Functions

Learned by Adaptive Logic Networks"

9:30 - 10:00:

invited talk by Shinichi Shiratsuchi (Xilinx)

" FPGA as a key component for reconfigurable system"

10:00 - 10:20 : coffee

10:20 - 11:35
Session 6: Evolvable Systems (1)
Chair : D.Mange

" Evolvable Hardware: an Outlook"

Bernard Manderick and Tetsuya Higuchi

" Reuse, Parameterized Reuse, and Hierarchical Reuse of Substructures

in Evolving Electrical Circuits Using Genetic Programming"

John R. Koza, Forrest H Bennett III, David Andre

and Martin A. Keane

" Machine Learning Approach to Gate-Level Evolvable Hardware"

Hitoshi Iba and Masaya Iwata

11:35 - 1:00 : Lunch

1:00 - 3:05
Session 7: Evolvable Hardware
Chair : E.Sanchez

" Adaptive Equalization of Digital Communication Channels Using

Evolvable Hardware"

Masahiro Murakawa, Shuji Yoshizawa and Tetsuya Higuchi

" An evolved circuit, intrinsic in silicon, entwined with physics"

Adrian Thompson

" Through the Labyrinth Evolution Finds a Way : A Silicon Ridge"

Inman Harvey and Adrian Thompson

" Hardware Evolution System Introducing Dominant and Recessive Heredity"

Tomofumi Hikage, Hitoshi Hemmi, and Katsunori Shimohara

" CAM-Brain : A New Model for ATR's Cellular Automata based Artificial

Brain Project"

Felix Gers and Hugo de Garis

3:05 - 3:25 : coffee

3:25 - 4:15 : parallel sessions:
Session 8: Genetic Programming - ROOM A (2F) -
Chair : H.Iba

" Evolution of a 60 Decibel Op Amp Using Genetic Programming"

Forrest H Bennett III, John R. Koza, David Andre,

and Martin A. Keane

" Evolution of Binary Decision Diagrams for Digital Circuit Design

using Genetic Programming"

Hidenori Sakanashi, Hitoshi Iba and Yukinori Kakazu

Session 9: Evolvable Systems (2) - ROOM B (1F) -
Chair : A.Thompson

" Evolvable Systems in Hardware Design : Taxonomy, Survey

and Applications"

Ricardo S. Zebulum, Marco Aurelio Pacheco, and Marley Vellasco

" From some Tasks to Biology and then to Hardware"

Jan Kazumierczak

4:15 - 4:25 : break

4:25 - 5:35 : panel and general discussion

" Future Prospects of Evolvable Systems"

Chaired by Bernard Manderick

Panelists: Daniel Mange, Adrian Thompson, Hugo de Garis,

Tetsuya Higuchi and Shankar Krishnamoorthy

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