Embedded Systems at ACM SAC 2004: Call for Papers
28 May 2003, submitted by Alessio Bechini (alessio.bechini at ing.unipi.it)
[Apologies for cross-postings]
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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EMBEDDED SYSTEMS:
Applications, Solutions, and Techniques
Special Track in SAC 2004
19th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
sponsored by SIGAPP, the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing
March 14-17, 2004, Nicosia, Cyprus
http://www.ing.unipi.it/sac04
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IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: September 6th, 2003
Notification of Acceptance: October 18th, 2003
Camera-Ready Due: November 8th, 2003
Conference: March 14-17, 2004
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RATIONALE
In the last few years a large number of products embedding small-sized
computer systems has gained a wide variety of market niches. Moreover,
current issues in development of embedded software are becoming very
attracting to a larger and larger number of researchers both from
industry and from academia.
Requirements for embedded systems are very stringent and sometimes
conflicting. The prime is the system cost. For obtaining a low-cost
device, only the indispensable resources are employed, and they must be
exploited as much as possible to improve the user-perceived quality of
the final system. Moreover, some applications (especially on hand-held
devices) require low power consumption.
Up to few years ago, embedded systems have not provided the proper
platform for computing-intensive programs. The use of sophisticated,
colorful graphical interfaces, the integration of communication devices
of any kind, the access to simple databases is becoming common also for
this kind of products. Thus, the capabilities of embedded systems have
been improved, in order to make them suitable to host this kind of
applications.
Software development in the field of embedded systems, taking into
account performance issues, is becoming more and more difficult and
considerable investigation is required on supporting methodologies and
tools. Moreover, nowadays the use of COTS contracts time-to-market, but
it also contributes to make the designer operate mostly at the
architectural level, tackling performance problems following new approaches.
The focus of this conference track is on the application of both novel
and well-known techniques to the development of state-of-the-art
embedded systems. Particular attention is devoted to all those solutions
that require operating upon the borderline between hardware and software
(i.e. both at OS and application level). In this setting, researchers
and practitioners from academia and industry will get a chance to keep
in touch with problems, open issues and future directions in the field
of development of dedicated applications for embedded systems.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
* Tools for supporting design-space exploration of embedded systems
* Techniques for optimal use of SoC platforms
* Application development for platform-based systems
* Support for heterogeneous parallel embedded systems
* OS & RTOS for embedded systems
* Use of COTS in dedicated applications development
* Programming models tailored to embedded applications
* Software architectures of embedded systems
* I/O management techniques in embedded systems
* Management of complex/distributed sensor devices
* Techniques for support and analysis of real-time applications
* Development of software for wireless devices
* Hardware/software power-aware design techniques
* Techniques and solutions for improving performance
and/or power consumption
* Code manipulation techniques for embedded applications
* Testing, debugging, profiling and performance analysis
of embedded systems
* Automotive applications
* Special-purpose devices and applications
* Case studies
SESSION CHAIRS
Alessio Bechini (a.bechini@ing.unipi.it)
and Cosimo Antonio Prete (prete@iet.unipi.it)
University of Pisa
Dept. of Information Engineering
via Diotisalvi, 2
56100 Pisa (Italy)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Sandro Bartolini (Univ. of Siena, Italy)
João Manuel Paiva Cardoso (Univ. of Algarve, Portugal)
Marc Engels (IMEC, Belgium)
Pierfrancesco Foglia (Univ. of Pisa, Italy)
Akira Fukuda (Kyushu Univ., Japan)
Roberto Giorgi (Univ. of Siena, Italy)
Antonio González (U. Pol. de Catalunya, Spain)
Jörn W. Janneck (U. of CA at Berkeley, USA)
Niraj K. Jha (Princeton Univ., USA)
Andreas Krall (TU Wien, Austria)
Jie Liu (Palo Alto Res. Centre, USA)
Chenyang Lu (Washington U. St Louis, USA)
Gokhan Memik (Northwestern Univ., USA)
Tsuneo Nakanishi (Kyushu Univ., Japan)
Richard Schantz (BBN Technologies, USA)
Henk J. Sips (TU Delft, The Netherlands)
Lothar Thiele (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
I-Ling Yen (U. of Texas at Dallas, USA)
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Original papers from the above-mentioned or other related areas
will be considered.
This track includes three categories of submissions:
1) original and unpublished research;
2) reports of innovative computing applications in the arts, sciences,
engineering, business, government, education and industry; and
3) reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains.
A poster session might be possibly scheduled.
Submission guidelines must be strictly followed:
Submit your paper electronically in either PDF or postscript format,
with subject "SA04", to Alessio Bechini (a.bechini@ing.unipi.it),
contact chairman for the Special Track on Embedded Systems.
Please note: neither hardcopy nor fax submissions will be accepted.
Submissions should be printable on a standard printer on common
paper formats like letter and DIN A4. Please use a Postscript previewer
such as Ghostview to check the portability of Postscript documents.
The acceptable compression format is Zip.
The author(s) name(s) and address(es) MUST NOT APPEAR IN THE BODY
OF THE PAPER, and self-reference should be in the third person.
This is to facilitate blind review.
The body of the paper should not exceed 5,000 words (approximately
15 pages, double-spaced).
A separate cover sheet (this should be sent separately from the main
paper) should show the title of the paper, the author(s) name(s)
and affiliation(s), and the address (including e-mail, telephone,
and fax) to which correspondence should be sent.
All submissions must be received by September 6th , 2003.
PUBLICATION
Each submitted paper will be fully refereed and undergo a blind
review process by at least three referees.
The accepted papers in all categories will be published
in the ACM SAC 2004 proceedings.
Selected papers from the track will be considered for journal publication.
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