Evolvable Hardware is an emerging field that applies evolution to automate design and adaptation of physical reconfigurable and morphable structures such as electronic systems, antennas, MEMS androbots. The purpose of this conference is to bring together leading researchers from the evolvable hardware community, representatives of the automated design and programmable/reconfigurable hardware communities, technology developers and end-users from the aerospace, military and commercial sectors. Evolvable hardware techniques enable self-reconfigurability, adaptability and learning by programmable devices and thus have the potential to significantly increase the functionality of deployable hardware systems.

Evolvable Hardware is expected to have major impact on deployable systems for space systems and defense applications that need to survive and perform at optimal functionality during long duration in unknown, harsh and/or changing environments. It is also expected to greatly enhance the capability of systems that need modification, upgrade and learning without interrupting their operation.

This year's Conference will introduce two new features: early submission of abstracts prior to full-paper submission and the organization of Special Sessions.

Please see the conference website for details: http://ehw.jpl.nasa.gov/events/nasaeh04/.