Dear Colleague:

We would like to invite you to submit a paper to EvoHOT 2009, the 5th
European Workshop on Hardware Optimization Techniques.

EvoHOT focuses on innovative heuristics, game theory and bio-inspired
techniques (eg. EA, SA, AIS, NN, ants) applied to the Electronic
Design Automation.

The workshop goal is to show the latest developments; industrial
experiences; successful attempts to /evolve/ rather than /design/ new
solutions; hybridizations of traditional methodologies.

EvoHOT topics include, but are not limited to:
  * Analog circuit design
  * Automatic test pattern generation
  * Built-in self test
  * Evolutionary design of electronic circuits
  * Evolutionary hardware design methodologies
  * Evolutionary robotics
  * Evolvable hardware
  * Floorplanning
  * Hardware/Software co-design
  * Hybrid evolutionary/exact approach
  * Hardware accelerated methodologies
  * Logic synthesis
  * Routing
  * Test program generation

Submissions should be formatted according to the LNCS guidelines and
must not be longer than 10 pages. 

EvoHOT is part of EvoStar (Evo*), Europe premier event in the field of
evolutionary computing. EvoStar incorporates 3 conferences and 12
workshops; its proceedings are published by Springer in the LNCS
series. The 2009 event will take place in Tubingen (Germany) on April
15-17 2009.

Important dates common to all events:
* Submission deadline: 5 November 2008
* Notification to authors: 9 January 2009
* Camera-ready deadline: 21 January 2009

The website http://evostar.na.icar.cnr.it/index.html offers updated
information about EvoHOT and all other EvoStar events, including call for
papers, organising committees and detailed submission requirements.

Thanks for your patience and interest
Rolf Drechsler & Giovanni Squillero (EvoHOT chairs)