Thursday, June 24, 2004
8:00 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:15 Ricardo S. Zebulum, JPL, USA
David Gwaltney,
NASA MSFC, USA
Gregory Hornby,
NASA AMES, USA
Welcome and Organizationals Remarks
9:15 - 10:15 Neville Marzwell, JPL, USA
Human and Robotic Technologies in NASA vision for Space  Exploration 
10:15-10:25 Break
10:25-11:10 Tetsuya Higuchi, AIST, Japan
Evolvable Hardware for Industrial Applications
  Session 1: Evolution of Analog Systems Part 1  
11:10-11:35 Joerg Langeheine, Karlheinz Meier, Johannes Schemmel, and Martin Trefzer,
University of Heidelberg, Germany
Intrinsic Evolution of Digital-to-Analog Converters Using a CMOS FPTA Chip
11:35-12:00 Sina Balkir, Gunhan Dündar, and Guner Alpaydin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Evolution Based Synthesis of Analog Integrated Circuits and Systems
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
  Session 2: Evolution of Digital Systems Part 1  
1:00-1:25 Lukas Sekanina and Štepan Friedl, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
On Routine Implementation of Virtual Evolvable Devices Using COMBO6
1:25-1:50 Carlos A. Coello, Erika Luna, and Arturo Aguirre, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico
A Comparative Study of Encodings to Design Combinational Logic Circuits
1:50-2:00 Break
  Session 3: Special Session on Revolutionary Technologies for Space Part 1
2:00-2:25 Yoseph Bar-Cohen, JPL/Caltech, USA
Electroactive Polymers (EAP) as Actuators for Potential Future Planetary Mechanisms
2:25-2:50 Anthony Colozza, C. Smith, M. Shahinpoor, K. Isaac, P. Jenkins, and T. DalBello,
OAI/Northland Scientific, Inc., USA
Solid State Aircraft Concept Overview
2:50-3:15 Marc G. Mills, NASA Glenn Research Center, USA
Prospects for Breakthrough Propulsion from Physics
3:15 - 3:30 Break
  Session 4:  Fault Tolerance and Survivability 
3:30-3:55 Evangelos F. Stefatos and Tughrul Arslan, The University of Edinburgh, UK
An Efficient Fault-Tolerant, VLSI Architecture Using Parallel Evolvable Hardware Technology
3:55-4:20 Garrison W. Greenwood, David Hunter, and Ed Ramsden Portland State University, USA
Fault Recovery in Linear Systems via Intrinsic Evolution
4:20-4:45 Michael Harrison and James Foster, University of Idaho, USA
Improving the Survivability of a Simple Evolved Circuit through Co-evolution
4:45-5:10 Lucian Prodan, Mihai Udrescu, and Mircea Vladutiu, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
Self-Repairing Embryonic Memory Arrays
5:10-5:20 Break
5:20 - 8:30 Reception Cocktail and Poster Session
Location Princessa I