Friday, June 16, 2006

8:00 - 9:00

Registration

9:00 - 9:30

Adrian Stoica, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA and Tughrul Arslan, Edinburgh University, UK Welcome and Organizationals Remarks

9:30 - 10:15

Martin Suess, European Space Agency, Netherlands Technologies for Adaptive Systems for Space  (Invited keynote address)

10:15 - 11:00

Pekka Karp, Future and Emerging Technologies, European Commission, Belgium Foundational ICT research in the new European Framework Programme  (Invited keynote address)

11:00 - 11:10

Break

11:10 - 11:55

Tetsuya Higuchi, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Evolvable Hardware for Industrial Applications  (Invited keynote address)

11:55 - 1:00

Lunch

Session 10: ESPACENET (Invited Papers) Chair: Adrian Stoica, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA

1:00 - 1:25

T. Arslan, N. Haridas, E. Yang, A. T. Erdogan, N. Barton, A. J. Walton, J. S. Thompson, University of Edinburgh, UK, A. Stoica, JPL, USA, T. Vladimirova, University of Surrey, UK, K. D. McDonald-Maier, University of Essex, UK and W. G. J. Howells, University of Kent, UK ESPACENET: A Framework of Evolvable and Reconfigurable Sensor Networks for Aerospace-Based Monitoring and Diagnostics

1:25 - 1:50

Tanya Vladimirova, Xiaofeng Wu, Kawsu Sidibeh, David Barnhart, and Abdul-Halim Jallad, University of Surrey, UK Enabling Technologies for Distributed Picosatellite Missions in LEO

1:50 - 2:15

Andrew B. T. Hopkins and Klaus D. McDonald-Maier, University of Essex, UK A Generic On-Chip Debugger for Wireless Sensor Networks

2:15 - 2:40

Gareth Howells, Evangelos Papoutsis, University of Kent, UK, and Klaus McDonald-Maier, University of Essex, UK Novel Techniques for Ensuring Secure Communications for Distributed Low Power Devices

2:40 - 2:50

Break

Session 4:  Adaptive Signal Processing Chair: TBD

2:50 - 3:15

Joseph Kolibal, University of Southern Mississippi, USA and Daniel Howard, University of Limerick, Ireland The Novel Stochastic Bernstein Method of Functional Approximation

3:15 - 3:40

Horia-Nicolai Teodorescu, Technical University of Iasi, Romania An Adaptive Heuristic Filter for Acceleration Measurements in Planetary Atmospheres

3:40 - 4:05

Gorn Tepvorachai and Chris Papachristou, Case Western Reserve University, USA Self-Configurable Neural Network Processor for FIR Filter Applications

Session 2: Adaptive Antennas Chair: TBD

4:05 - 4:30

Nakul Haridas, Ahmet T. Erdogan, Tughrul Arslan, and Mark Begbie, University of Edinburgh, UK Adaptive Micro-antenna on Silicon Substrate

4:30 - 4:55

Gabriella Kókai, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, Tonia Christ, and Hans Holm Frhauf, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Germany Using Hardware-Based Particle Swarm Method for Dynamic Optimization of Adaptive Array Antennas

4:55 - 5:20

Ozgur Tamer and Ahmet Ozkurt, Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey Systolic Array Based Adaptive Beamformer Modelling in SystemC Environment

5:20 - 5:30

Break

Session 1: Adaptive Analog Circuits  Chair: Didier Keymeulen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA

5:30 - 5:55

Varun Aggarwal, Meng Mao, and Una-May O’Reilly, MIT, USA A Self-Tuning Analog Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) Controller

5:55 - 6:20

Mustafa Keskin, Qualcomm Inc., USA A Background Mismatch Calibration for Capacitive Digital-to-Analog Converters

6:20 - 6:45

Martin Trefzer, Jörg Langeheine, Karlheinz Meier, and Johannes Schemmel, Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg, Germany A Modular Framework for the Evolution of Circuits on Configurable Transistor Array Architectures

6:45 - 7:10

Aleksandar Tasić, University of Heidelberg, Germany Adaptive Multifunctional Circuits and Systems for Future Generations of Wireless Communications

7:10 - 7:30

Break

7:30 - 9:30

Short Papers/Posters and Reception Cocktail Chair: Nizamettin Aydin, Bahçeşehir University, Turkey Location: Bosphore Terrasse on the roof of the conference venue Each author will give a 5 minutes overview of his poster.