Programme

We have arranged a pre-conference gathering for all delegates (and those travelling with them). For details please see the Social Events page.

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Time Monday 6th September Tuesday 7th September Wednesday 8th September
8:30 - Registration
8:50 - 9:00 Conference Opening
9:00 - 10:00

Keynote: Biologically-Inspired Massively-Parallel Architectures - computing beyond a million processors

Steve Furber

Keynote: Analysis by Synthesis

Hod Lipson

Keynote: Using DNA to construct molecular systems

Andrew Turberfield

10:00 - 10:20 Tea/Coffee Break

Session 1: Evolving Digital Circuits

Chair: Andy M. Tyrrell

Session 4: Implementation and Application of Neural Networks

Chair: Steve Smith

Session 7: Reconfigurable Hardware Platforms

Chair: Gianluca Tempesti

10:20 - 10:45

Measuring the Performance and Intrinsic Variability of Evolved Circuits

James Alfred Walker, James A. Hilder, Andy M. Tyrrell

An Efficient, High-Throughput Adaptive NoC Router for Large Scale Spiking Neural Network Hardware Implementations

Snaider Carrillo, Jim Harkin, Liam McDaid, Sandeep Pande, Fearghal Morgan

A Self-Reconfigurable FPGA-based Platform for Prototyping Future Pervasive Systems

Jean-Marc Philippe, Benoît Tain, Christian Gamrat

10:45 - 11:10

An Efficient Selection Strategy for Digital Circuit Evolution

Zbysek Gajda, Lukas Sekanina

Performance Evaluation and Scaling of a Multiprocessor Architecture Emulating Complex SNN Algorithms

Giovanny Sanchez, Jordi Madrenas, J. Manuel Moreno

The X2 Modular Evolutionary Robotics Platform

Kyrre Glette, Mats Hovin

11:10 - 11:35

Introducing flexibility in digital circuit evolution: exploiting undefined values in binary truth tables

Ricky D. Ledwith, Julian F. Miller

Evolution of analog circuit models of ion channels

Theodore W. Cornforth, Kyung-Joong Kim, Hod Lipson

Ubichip, Ubidule, and MarXbot: a hardware platform for the simulation of complex systems

Andres Upegui, Yann Thoma, Hector Satizabal, Francesco Mondada, Philippe Retornaz, Yoan Graf, Andres Perez-Uribe, Eduardo Sanchez

11:35 - 12:00

Evolving Digital Circuits Using Complex Building Blocks

Paul Bremner, Mohammad Samie, Gabriel Dragffy, Anthony Pipe, James A. Walker, Andy M. Tyrrell

HyperNEAT for Locomotion Control in Modular Robots

Evert Haasdijk, Andrei A. Rusu, A.E. Eiben

Implementation of a Power-Aware Dynamic Fault Tolerant Mechanism on the Ubichip Platform

Kotaro Kobayashi, Juan Manuel Moreno, Jordi Madrenas

12:00 - 13:20 Lunch

Session 2: Artificial Development

Chair: Pauline Haddow

Session 5: Test, Repair and Reconfiguration using Evolutionary Algorithms

Chair: James Walker

Session 8: Application of Evolution to Technology

Chair: Lukáš Sekanina

13:20 - 13:45

Fault Tolerance of Embryonic Algorithms in Mobile Networks

David Lowe, Amir Mujkanovic, Daniele Miorandi, Lidia Yamamoto

The Use of Genetic Algorithm to Reduce Power Consumption during Test Application

Jaroslav Skarvada, Zdenek Kotasek, Josef Strnadel

Automatic Synthesis of Lossless Matching Networks

Leonardo Sa, Pedro Vieira, Antonio Mesquita

13:45 - 14:10

Evolution and Analysis of a Robot Controller Based on a Gene Regulatory Network

Martin A. Trefzer, Tuze Kuyucu, Julian F. Miller, Andy M. Tyrrell

Designing Combinational Circuits with an Evolutionary Algorithm Based on the Repair Technique

Houjun Liang, Wenjian Luo, Zhifang Li, Xufa Wang

A Novel Approach to Multi-Level Evolutionary Design Optimization of a MEMS Device

Michael Farnsworth, Elhadj Benkhelifa, Ashutos Tiwari, Meiling Zhu

14:10 - 14:35

A New Method to Find Developmental Descriptions for Digital Circuits

Mohammad Ebne-Alian, Nawwaf Kharma

Bio-Inspired Self-Testing Configurable Circuits

André Stauffer, Joël Rossier

From Binary to Continuous Gates - and Back Again

Matthias Bechmann, Angelika Sebald, Susan Stepney

14:35 - 15:00

Sorting Network Development Using Cellular Automata

Michal Bidlo, Zdenek Vasicek, Karel Slany

Evolutionary Design of Reconfiguration Strategies to Reduce the Test Application Time

Jiri Simacek, Lukas Sekanina, Lukas Starecek

Adaptive vs. Self-Adaptive Parameters for Evolving Quantum Circuits

Cristian Ruican, Mihai Udrescu, Lucian Prodan, Mircea Vladutiu

15:00 - 15:30 Tea/Coffee Break

Session 3: GPU Platforms for Bio-inspired Algorithms

Chair: André Stauffer

Session 6: Application of Evolutionary Algorithms in Hardware

Chair: Martin Trefzer

Session 9: Novel Methods in Evolutionary Design

Chair: Julian F. Miller

15:30 - 15:55

Markerless Articulated Human Body Tracking from Multi-View Video with GPU-PSO

Luca Mussi, Spela Ivekovic, Stefano Cagnoni

Extrinsic evolution of fuzzy systems applied to disease diagnosis

Joël Rossier, Carlos Pena

Imitation Programming

Larry Bull

15:55 - 16:20

Evolving Object Detectors with a GPU Accelerated Vision System

Marc Ebner

Automatic Code Generation on a MOVE Processor using Cartesian Genetic Programming

James Alfred Walker, Yang Liu, Gianluca Tempesti, Andy M. Tyrrell

EvoFab: A Fully Embodied Evolutionary Fabricator

John Rieffel, David Sayles

16:20 - 16:45

Systemic Computation using Graphics Processors

Marjan Rouhipour, Peter J. Bentley, Hooman Shayani

Coping with Resource Fluctuations: The Run-time Reconfigurable Functional Unit Row Classifier Architecture

Tobias Knieper, Paul Kaufmann, Kyrre Glette, Marco Platzner, Jim Torresen

Evolving Physical Self-assembling Systems in Two-dimensions

Navneet Bhalla, Peter Bentley, Christian Jacob

16:45 - Close of Conference
18:00 - York Brewery Tour
18:30 - Conference Dinner, York Castle Museum