The 2012 NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS-2012) will be held June 25 - 28, 2012, Nuremberg, Germany.

The purpose of the 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 NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware, held between 1999 and 2005, with a broader scope. This includes a variety of hardware and system adaptation methods and targeting more industry participation. The NASA/ESA series started with the AHS-2006 conference held in Istanbul, Turkey, and continued annually with AHS-2007 conference held in Edinburgh, UK, AHS-2008 conference held in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, AHS-2009 conference held in San Francisco, USA, AHS-2010 conference held in Anaheim, USA, and AHS-2011 conference held in San Diego, USA.

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.

We welcome original contributions in the areas of hardware and software adaptation at different system levels, including, but not limited to, tools and algorithms for adaptive system design (e.g. adaptation-aware compilers), novel applications of adaptive hardware and systems (e.g. intelligent agent machines), and enabling technologies for such systems (e.g. instrumentation platforms, reconfigurable and multi-core architectures). We also welcome novel contributions in the areas of adaptive data transmission for telecommunications (e.g. adapting to power limitations, changing environment, and interferences), data compression techniques (e.g. new image compression techniques for space applications), software/hardware architectures for unmanned autonomous vehicles (e.g. adapting to extreme environments and mission unknowns), etc.

While the focus of this conference is on communications and space applications, we welcome original contributions in other application areas such as consumer, medical, defence and security, as the techniques employed can be disseminated across the board. We also welcome papers describing significant applications of adaptive hardware and systems to industrial case studies and demonstrating their capabilities and effectiveness.


Topics

In view of the above, the topics to be covered in this conference include, but are not limited to:

Built-in tuneable structures and automated tuning
Automatic/self-calibration
Built-in self-test and self-repair
Design and test of integrated system in nano scale
On-chip learning and adaptation
Adaptive circuits and configurable IP cores
Reconfigurable and morphable hardware
Reconfigurable hardware for space applications
Embryonic hardware, morphogenesis
Evolvable hardware
Design for adaptive systems
Adaptive embedded system
Adaptive control circuits and adaptive flight hardware
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 MEM/NEMS devices
Adaptive interfaces
Hardware for adaptive signal processing
Adaptive medical and prosthetic devices
Adaptive wired and wireless networks
Adaptive hardware/software for autonomous systems
Adaptive flight hardware
Space applications
Communications applications
MEMS/NEMS energy scavenging devices
Emerging technologies-Nanoelectronics
Reconfigurable computing incl. multi core architectures
Adaptive wireless for space
Secure data and information systems
Adaptive image and data compression
Instrumentation platforms