Evolvable Hardware Research Group

• Theory, SW/HW implementations and applications of bioinspired computational systems, particularly on the basis of evolutionary computing and cellular automata. 

New: Summary of results.

Awards:

• Silver Medal at Humies 2011 (GECCO, Dublin) for evolutionary design of digital circuits.
• Silver Medal at Humies 2008 (GECCO, Atlanta, USA) for evolutionary design of benchmark circuits.
• Honorable Mention - Humies 2005 (Washington D.C.)
• Merit Award - Humies 2004 IN GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION at 2004 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO, Seattle, USA)
• Best Paper Awards: DDECS 2002, ICES 2003, EvoHOT 2005, MEMICS 2009, Future Computing 2009 
• Best Paper Award Nominations: EuroGP 2008, EvoHOT 2008, ICES 2008 

Books:

• Sekanina, L: Evolvable Components. Natural Computing Series, Springer-Verlag, 2004
• Hornby, G., Sekanina, L., Haddow, P.: Proc. of the 8th Int. Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware. LNCS 5216, Springer, 2008
• Sekanina L., Vašíček Z., Růžička R., Bidlo M., Jaroš J., Švenda P.: Evoluční hardware: Od automatického generování patentovatelných invencí k sebemodifikujícím se strojům. Academia Praha 2009, 328 s. (in Czech)
• Bidlo M.: Evolutionary Design of Generic Structures Using Instruction-Based Development, Brno University of Technology, 2010, p. 124

Research interests

• evolvable hardware in FPGAs
• evolutionary logic synthesis and optimization
• development for evolvable hardware
• polymorphic electronics: REPOMO32 chip, synthesis of polymorphic circuits, applications
• evolutionary design of innovative, testable, and fault-tolerant circuits
• cellular systems - applications in traffic modelling and prediction
• cellular nanocomputers - fault tolerance problems

Cooperation