AHS-2006 Web-site

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1st NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS-2006)

June 16- 18, 2006
Hilton Istanbul, Turkey

2nd Call For Papers

http://ehw.jpl.nasa.gov/events/ahs2006
http://ehw.jpl.nasa.gov/events/ahs2006


Organized by:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (http://www.nasa.gov/NASA)
European Space Agency (http://www.esa.int/ESA)
Technical Research Council of Turkey (http://www.tubitak.gov.tr/TÜBITAK)
Bahçeehir University, Turkey

Technical Co-Sponsor:
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society ( http://www.ieee-cas.org/IEEE CAS)

Supported by:
Bio-Inspired Technologies and Systems (
http://ehw.jpl.nasa.gov/BITS), Jet Propulsion
Laboratory
University of Edinburgh, UK
Institute for System Level Integration, (ISLI), UK
European Centre for Secure Information and Systems (CESIS)
Spiral Gateway Ltd., UK

Hosted by:
Bahçeehir University, Turkey TÜBITAK-BILTEN, Turkey

CONFERENCE VENUE
AHS-2006 will be held at the
http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/hotels/index.jhtml?ctyhocn=ISTHITW
Hilton Istanbul , Cumhuriyet Caddesi, Harbiye,
Istanbul, Turkey

SCOPE
The First NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive
Hardware and Systems (AHS-2006) will be held
June 16-18, 2006, in Istanbul, Turkey,
immediately following and co-located with the
http://www.icc2006.org/index.htmlIEEE
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
http://ehw.jpl.nasa.gov/EHConference.htmNASA/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

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Prospective authors are invited to submit the
electronic version of their full paper (ie PS,
PDF, MSWord) using the link to the conference
submission web site. Papers are limited to 8
pages and should be submitted in single-spaced,
10 point type on a 8.5" X 11" or equivalent
paper with 1" margins on all sides. Each
submission should contain the following items:
(1) title of paper, (2) author name(s), (3)
first author physical address, (4) first author
e-mail address, (5) first author phone number,
(6) a maximum 200 words abstract (7) the text of
the paper, and (8) references. Accepted papers
will be published in the conference proceedings
published by IEEE. For your convenience,
template files for paper preparation are on the
web site.
Questions regarding papers should be addressed
to: Didier Keymeulen

Tel: +1 818 354-4280,
Fax : +1 818 393 4272

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline (UPDATED): MARCH 7, 2006
Author notification : March 26, 2006
Camera ready manuscript deadline: April, 9, 2006
Early registration at Discounted Rate April 9, 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, Bahçe ehir 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, Bahçe ehir 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
John Choma, University of Southern California, USA
Carlos A. Coello Coello, Laboratorio National de Informatica Avanzada, Mexico
Sorin Cristoloveanu, ENSERG, France
Hugo de Garis, Utah State University, USA
Antonio Di Nola, University of Salerno, Italy
Rolf Drechsler, University of Bremen, Germany
Wai-Chi Fang, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
F. Joel Ferguson University of California, Santa Cruz,USA
Dario Floreano, EPFL, Switzerland
Rajesh Galivanche, Intel, USA
Manfred Glesner, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
Maya Gokhale, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Pauline C. Haddow, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Ilker Hamzaoglu, Sabanci University, Turkey
Paul Hasler, Georgia Tech, USA Tetsuya Higuchi,
National Institute of Advanced Industrial
Science and Technology, Japan
Daniel Howard, Qinetiq , U.K.
Lishan Kang, China University of Geosciences, China
Haluk Konuk, Broadcom Corporation, USA
John Koza, Stanford University, USA
Kalmanje S. Krishnakumar, NASA Ames, USA
Yong Liu, University of Aizu, Japan
Jason Lohn, NASA Ames, USA
Bernard Manderick, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Trent McConaghy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Bob McKay, Seoul National University, South Korea
Brian Meadows, SPAWAR, USA
Karlheinz Meier, University of Heidelberg, Germany
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
Eduardo Sanchez, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
Radu Secareanu, Freescale Semiconductor, USA
Sakir Sezer, Queen's University Belfast, N. Ireland, UK
Hajime Shibata, Analog Devices, Japan
Horia-Nicolai Teodorescu, Technical University of Iasi, Romania
Jim Torresen, University of Oslo, 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, University of Surrey, UK
Svetlana Yanushkevich, University of Calgary, Canada
Xin Yao, University of Birmingham, UK
Nükhet Yetis, TUBITAK, Turkey
Sanyou Zeng, China University of Geosciences, China

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

General/Technical:
Adrian Stoica, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
@j pl.nasa.gov
Tel: +1 818 354-2190, Fax: +1 818 393-4272

Organizational/Logistics
Tughrul Arslan, University of Edinburgh, UK

Tel: +44 131 650 5592, Fax: +44 131 650 6554

Nizamettin Aydin, Bahçe ehir University, Turkey
@bahceseh ir.edu.tr
Tel: +90 212 669 6523 Ext:1233, Fax: +90 212 669 4398

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