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The First NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS-2006) will be held June 15-18, 2006, in Istanbul, Turkey, immediately following and co-located with the IEEE Conference on Communications (June 11-15). The purpose of AHS-2006 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.

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, etc.

Adaptation at hardware levels increases the system capabilities beyond what is possible with software-only solutions, and a large number of adaptation features employing both analog and digital adjustments are becoming increasingly present in the most elementary system components. Algorithms, techniques, and their implementation in hardware are developed over a diverse variety of applications, such as adaptive communications (adapting to changing environment and interferences), reconfigurable systems on a chip and portable wireless devices (adapting to power limitations) or survivable spacecraft (adapting to extreme environments and mission unknowns).

This meeting will provide a forum for discussion on the generic techniques of adaptive hardware and systems, with a focus on communications and space applications, with view to its expansion and exploitation in other applications such as consumer, medical, defense and security, etc. Topics to be covered include, but are not limited to: 

Built-in tunable structures and automated tuning
Automatic/self-calibration
Built-in self-test and self-repair
On-chip learning and adaptation
Adaptive circuits and configurable IP cores
Reconfigurable and morphable hardware
Embryonic hardware, morphogenesis
Evolvable hardware

Design for adaptive systems
Adaptive control circuits
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 Interfaces
Hardware for adaptive signal processing
Adaptive medical and prosthetic devices
Adaptive wired and wireless networks
Adaptive hardware for autonomous systems
Adaptive flight hardware
Space applications
Communications applications

The meeting will begin at 9:00 A.M. on Thursday, June 15, at the Besiktas Campus of the Bahcesehir University, Istanbul (Osmanpasa Mektebi Sokak, No:4-6 Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey) in the Fazil Say Conference Room, located on the first floor of the Besiktas Campus main building. The conference location is on the seaside at 2km from the Hilton Istanbul, 500m from Ciragan Palace hotel, 500m from Conrad Istanbul and 1km from Swissotel The Bosphorus, Istanbul ( AHS-2006 google map with legend, interactive google map and road maps).

On Thursday June 15, the meeting will start with a series of five tutorials presented by experts in the domain of adaptive hardware and systems. The meeting will continue on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday with the presentations of papers and posters. The tutorials are free for the attendees of AHS-2006 and the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2006), but registration on the conference registration web site is required for tutorials as well as for the conference. On-site check-in will begin on Thursday, June 15 from 8:00 A.M. to 12:00 A.M., and Friday, June 16 at 8:00 A.M. at the meeting site. At this time, you will be given your meeting badge and receipt for the registration fee, plus a packet of meeting materials.

All participants are expected to pay the conference registration fee of EURO 450 before May 26 (EURO 550 after May 26) which covers the cost of the conference and break service.. The student registration fee is EURO 200. Please go on our registration web site and follow the instructions. Note that no purchase orders, foreign checks or foreign currency can be accepted. Credit Cards (VISA, MASTER and AMERICAN EXPRESS) and US dollar traveler's checks are accepted. For our planning purposes, pre-registration with payment of fees is appreciated.

You can book your hotel on the conference registration web site through Dekon Congress & Tourism organisation. The hotels listed on our registration web site are conveniently located near the conference venue. Also a limited block of rooms has been set aside at the Bahcesehir University Guest House at a rate of EURO 45 for single room and EURO 35 for double occupancy plus tax. The number of rooms at the Guest House are limited and we encourage you to book your room as soon as possible using the conference registration web site

Click here to register for AHS-2006

Questions regarding registration and accommodation should be addressed to:

Nizamettin Aydin; n.aydin@bahcesehir.edu.tr
Tel: +90 212 6696523 Ext:1233, Fax: +90 212 6694398

PROGRAM (Last updated, 13 June 2006)

The on-line program is here: AHS-2006 Program (Call for Participations flyer in pdf Format). The Proceedings is available on-line at IEEE Computer Society web site AHS-2006 Proceedings IEEE Computer Society and at IEEE Xplore web site AHS-2006 Proceedings IEEE Xplore Tutorials are free to AHS attendees and IEEE Conference on Communications registered attendees, but registration, through our conference registration web site, is required due to limited seating.

Author Information for Short Papers/Posters Presentation: Each author will give a 5 minutes orverview of his/her poster. The poster size is 70 cm width and 100 cm long (portrait).

The Besiktas Campus of the Bahcesehir University area is served by two major airports: Istanbul Ataturk International Airport (30 kms from the Besiktas campus on the Europian side of the city - 45 minutes drive, however, based on the time of the day, it may take slightly longer or shorter - Taxi approximately 20 EURO or 40 YTL), and Sabiha Gökçen International Airport (30 kms from the Besiktas campus on the Anatolian side of the city. - 45 minutes drive, however, based on the time of the day, it may take slightly longer or shorter - Taxi approximately 20 EURO or 40 YTL).

AHS-2006 Organization Committee has arranged transportation from the airport to the hotels. However, some hotels provide courtesy transportation from airport to the hotel. Please check if this is the case with your hotel and use it. If not, there will be somebody with a banner of AHS-2006 waiting for you at the airport. Either you will be provided a transportation or will be guided to an alternative transportation (in case special transportation cannot be provided). In order to provide such a service, we need to contact Nizamettin Aydin (n.aydin@bahcesehir.edu.tr) and send him the following information as soon as possible: flight date, flight number, arrival time, and the hotel.

There is also a bus operated by HAVAS to Taksim area where the Hilton Istanbul is located ( HAVAS). The cost is around 8 EURO or 15 YTL. You can exchange your money at the airport. From Istanbul Ataturk International Airport, the Swissotel and Sozbir Royal Residence Hotel have a fee on-call shuttle service which provides door-to-door from 7 a.m. until 10 p.m. Please contact the hotel for further information. Taxis and rental cars are readily available at the airports.

Regarding the transportation from hotels to the conference venue, transportation to the conference will be provided by the conference organizer every morning and evening starting Thursday June 15. If you chose to travel on your own, taxi is the easiest way to arrive to the conference. Taxi costs around 5 YTL (2.5 EURO) from Taksim area (where the Hilton Istanbul is located) to the campus. There are also special public transportation called DOLMUS (pronounced as dolmush) from Taksim area to Besiktas area (where the conference venue is). It costs less than a Dollar. Please use the map with the address of the campus attached to the Call for Participation (can be shown to the driver).

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Questions regarding transportation should be addressed to:

Dekon Congres & Tourism; dekon@dekon.com.tr
Tel: +90 212 347 6300, Fax: +90 212 347 6363

Few social events are being planned as part of the conference. On Thursday, June 15, there will be a free visit to Dolmbahce Palace and a Welcome Diner in an authentic Turkish venue. On Friday, June 16, there will be a short papers/posters presentation with a Reception Cocktail. There will be a group dinner on Saturday June 17. On Thursday afternoon, June 15, DEKON Tourism and Congress is also organizing few trips in the Bosphore area. It is hoped your schedule will allow for your participation in both of these opportunities for continued discussion following each day's presentations.

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IMPORTANT DATES

Proposals for Tutorials, Panels  and Workshops: Submission deadline :	January 20, 2006 March 7, 2006
Author notification :	April 6, 2006
Camera ready manuscript deadline:	April 9, 2006
Early registration at Discounted Rate	until May 26, 2006

CHAIRS

General Chair:	Adrian Stoica, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Vice General Chair:	Martin Suess, European Space Agency, NL Tughrul Arslan, University of Edinburgh, UK Senay Yalçin, Bahçeşehir University, Turkey
Technical Program Co-Chairs	Didier Keymeulen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Tetsuya Higuchi, AIST, Japan
Tutorials  and Workshops Chair:	Ricardo Zebulum, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Local Organizing Chair:	Nizamettin Aydin, Bahçeşehir University , Turkey

 

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Bülent Bilir, Bahçesehir University, Turkey
F. Tunç Bozbura, Bahçesehir University, Turkey
Yalçin Çekiç, Bahçesehir University, Turkey
Ahmet T. Erdogan, University of Edinburgh , UK
Levent Eren, Bahçesehir University, Turkey
Sefer Kurnaz, Aeronautics and Space Technologies Institute, Turkey
Ugur Murat Leloglu, TÜBITAK-BILTEN, Turkey
H. Fatih Ugurdag, Bahçesehir University, Turkey

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Emin Anarim, Bogaziçi University, Turkey
Murat Askar, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Peter Athanas, Virginia Tech, USA
Juergen Becker, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Neil W. Bergmann, University of Queensland, Australia
Carlos A. Coello Coello, Laboratorio National de Informatica Avanzada, Mexico
Sorin Cristoloveanu, ENSERG, France
Antonio Di Nola, University of Salerno, Italy
Erik Dirkx, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Ahmet T. Erdogan, University of Edinburgh, UK
Wai-Chi Fang, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Dario Floreano, EPFL, Switzerland
Nobuo Fujii, University of Tokyo, Japan
Manfred Glesner, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
Maya Gokhale, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Sharon Graves, NASA, USA
David Gwaltney, NASA, USA
Pauline C. Haddow, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Alister Hamilton, University of Edinburgh, UK
Ilker Hamzaoglu, Sabanci University, Turkey
Tetsuya Higuchi, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Daniel Howard, Qinetiq , U.K.
Alan Hunsberger, National Security Agency, USA
Lishan Kang, China University of Geosciences, China
Srinivas Katkoori, University of South Florida, USA
Semion Kizhner, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Haluk Konuk, Broadcom Corporation, USA
John Koza, Stanford University, USA
Kalmanje S. Krishnakumar, NASA Ames, USA
Gregory Larchev, NASA, USA
Derek Linden, Linden Innovation Technology, USA
Jason Lohn, NASA Ames, USA
Bernard Manderick, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Trent McConaghy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Klaus McDonald-Maier, University of Essex, UK
Bob McKay, Seoul National University, South Korea
Brian Meadows, SPAWAR, USA
Karlheinz Meier, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Julian Miller, University of Birmingham, UK
Mohammad Mojarradi, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
J. Manuel Moreno, Technical University of Catalunya, Spain
Masahiro Murakawa, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Alex Orailoglu, University of California, San Diego, USA
Christos Papachristou, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Marek A. Perkowski, Portland State University, USA
Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA
Justinian Rosca, Siemens Corporate Research, USA
Lukas Sekanina, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Hajime Shibata, Analog Devices, Japan
Raphael Some, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Gianluca Tempesti, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Horia-Nicolai Teodorescu, Technical University of Iasi, Romania
Anil Thakoor, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Jim Torresen, University of Oslo, Norway
Gunnar Tufte, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Andrew M. Tyrrell, University of York, UK
O. Nuri Uçan, Istanbul University, Turkey
Sezer G. Ugurdag, Bahçesehir University, Turkey
Ranga Vemuri, University of Cincinnati , USA
Tanya Vladimirova, Surrey Space Center, UK
Svetlana Yanushkevich, University of Calgary, Canada
Nükhet Yetis, TUBITAK, Turkey
Tina Yu, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Sanyou Zeng, China University of Geosciences, China

CONTACT INFORMATION

 For further information please check the conference web site http://ehw.jpl.nasa.gov/events/ahs2006, or contact:

General/Technical:	Adrian Stoica, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA adrian.stoica@jpl.nasa.gov, Tel: +1 818 354-2190, Fax: +1 818 393-4272
Organizational/Logistics	Tughrul Arslan, University of Edinburgh, UK T.Arslan@ed.ac.uk , Tel: +44 131 650 5592, Fax: +44 131 650 6554 Nizamettin Aydin, Bahçeşehir University, Turkey n.aydin@bahcesehir.edu.tr , Tel: +90 212 669 6523 Ext:1233, Fax: +90 212 669 4398