Topics to be covered include, but are not limited to:

  • Adaptive computing
  • Co-evolution of hybrid systems
  • Embryonic hardware
  • Evolutionary hardware design
  • Evolutionary circuit diagnostics and testing
  • Evolutionary robotics
  • Formal models for bio-inspired hardware systems
  • Generative and developmental approaches
  • Hardware/software co-evolution
  • Intrinsic and extrinsic evolution
  • MEMS and nanotechnology in evolvable hardware
  • Novel devices, testbeds and tools supporting evolvable hardware
  • On-line hardware evolution
  • Real-world applications of evolvable hardware
  • Self-reconfiguring, self-repairing and fault-tolerant systems