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, etc. Adaptation at hardware levels increases the system capabilities beyond what is possible with software-only solutions, and a large number of adaptation features employing both analog and digital adjustments are becoming increasingly present in the most elementary system components. The purpose of this conference is to bring together leading researchers from the adaptive hardware and systems community to exchange experiences and share new ideas in the field. It expands the topics addressed by the precursor series of NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware, the NASA/ESA series held between 1999 and 2005.
Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/ahs2007/AHS.htm