The 2013 NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS
Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy. As in previous editions, AHS-2013
and Systems Society (IEEE-CAS) and in-Cooperation status with ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation
(ACM-SIGDA).
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
NASA/ESA series started with the AHS-2006 conference held in Istanbul, Turkey, and continued annually with AHS
conference held in Edinburgh, UK, AHS-2008 conference held in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, AHS
in San Francisco, USA, AHS-2010 conference held in Anaheim, USA,
AHS-2012 conference held in Erlangen, Germany.
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
but not limited to, tools and algorithms for adaptive system design (e.g. adaptation
adaptive hardware and systems (e.g. intelligent agent machines), and enabling technologies for
instrumentation platforms, reconfigurable and multi-core architectures). We also welcome novel contributions in the areas
of adaptive transmission for telecommunications (e.g. aware of 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.