| 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 |
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| 9:15 - 10:15 | Neville
Marzwell, JPL, USA Human and Robotic Technologies in NASA vision for Space Exploration |
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| 10:15-10:25 | Break | ||||||||||||
| 10:25-11:10 | Tetsuya Higuchi, AIST, Japan Evolvable Hardware for Industrial Applications |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch | ||||||||||||
| Session 2: Evolution of Digital Systems Part 1 | |||||||||||||
| 1:00-1:25 | Lukas Sekanina
and tepan Friedl, Brno University of Technology, Czech
Republic On Routine Implementation of Virtual Evolvable Devices Using COMBO6 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 2:50-3:15 | Marc G. Mills, NASA Glenn Research Center, USA Prospects for Breakthrough Propulsion from Physics |
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| 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 |
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| 3:55-4:20 | Garrison W. Greenwood, David
Hunter, and Ed Ramsden Portland State University, USA Fault Recovery in Linear Systems via Intrinsic Evolution |
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| 4:20-4:45 | Michael Harrison
and James Foster, University of Idaho, USA Improving the Survivability of a Simple Evolved Circuit through Co-evolution |
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| 4:45-5:10 | Lucian Prodan,
Mihai Udrescu, and Mircea Vladutiu, Politehnica University
of Timisoara, Romania Self-Repairing Embryonic Memory Arrays |
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| 5:10-5:20 | Break | ||||||||||||
| 5:20 - 8:30 | Reception
Cocktail and Poster Session Location Princessa I |
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