SPECIAL
TRACK
Embedded Systems:
Applications, Solutions,
and Techniques
|
CALL FOR PAPERS
High performance embedded
computing has recently become more and more present in devices used in
everyday life. A wide variety of applications, from consumer
electronics to biomedical systems, require building up powerful yet
cheap embedded devices. In this context, embedded software has turned
out to be more and more complex, posing new challenging issues: the
adoption of further flexible programming paradigms/architectures is
becoming almost mandatory. Nonetheless, even nowadays the development
of embedded systems must rely on a tight coupling of hardware and
software components. Moreover, the market pressure calls for the
employment of new methodologies for shortening the development time and
for driving the evolution of existing products. New efficient solutions
to problems emerging in this setting can be put into action by means of
a joint effort of academia and industry.
Design of embedded
systems must take into account a wide variety of constraints:
performance, code size, power consumption, presence of real-time tasks,
maintainability, security and possibly scalability: the more convenient
trade-off has to be found, often operating on a large number of
different parameters. In this scenario, solutions can be proposed at
different levels of abstraction, making use of an assortment of tools
and methodologies: researchers and practitioners have a chance to
propose new ideas and to compare experimentations.
The focus
of this conference track is on the application of both novel and
well-known techniques to the embedded systems development. Particular
attention is paid to solutions that require expertise in different
fields (e.g. computer architecture, OS, compilers, security, software
engineering, simulation). The track will benefit also from direct
experiences in the employment of embedded devices in “unconventional”
application areas, so to show up new challenges in the system
design/development process. 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
- Methodologies and tools for design-space exploration
- Simulation techniques for embedded systems
- System-level design
- Power-aware design techniques and computing
- Testing, debugging, profiling and performance analysis of
embedded systems
- Networked sensor devices and systems
- SoC-based embedded systems and applications
- Middleware solutions for embedded systems
- Multithreading in embedded systems design and development
- Java embedded computing
- Software architectures and SOA for embedded systems
- Embedded systems exploitation within Information Systems
- Multimedia management in embedded systems
- Security and dependability support within embedded systems
- Embedded systems contribution in meeting security goals
- OS & RTOS for embedded systems
- Safety critical embedded systems
- Hardware/Software support for real-time applications
- Compilation strategies for performance enhancement vs.
footprint control
- Code transformation and program parallelization for
embedded systems
- Special-purpose appliances and applications
- Case studies
Chairs
Alessio Bechini
and Cosimo Antonio Prete
- University of Pisa, Dept. of Information Engineering - Italy
Li-Pin Chang - National Chiao-Tung University - Taiwan
Program Committee
Peter Altenbernd -
University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt - Germany
Erik Altman -
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center - USA
Sandro Bartolini -
University of Siena - Italy
Valerie Bertin - ST
Microelectronics - France
Joăo M. P. Cardoso -
University of Porto - Portugal
Mingsong Chen -
East China Normal University - China
Pai H. Chou -
University of California, Irvine - USA
Alexander G. Dean -
North Carolina State University - USA
Adam Donlin -
Xilinx - USA
Lavinia Egidi -
University of Northeastern Piedmont - Italy
Marc Engels -
Flanders' Mechatronics Technology Centre, Leuven - Belgium
Pierfrancesco Foglia -
University of Pisa - Italy
Björn Franke -
University of Edinburgh - UK
Malay Ganai - NEC labs
America - USA
Roberto Giorgi -
University of Siena - Italy
Matthias Gries - Intel
Labs - Germany
Rajiv Gupta -
University of California Riverside - USA
Niraj K. Jha -
Princeton University - USA
Andreas Krall - TU
Wien - Austria
Tei-Wei Kuo - National
Taiwan University - Taiwan
Ákos Lédeczi -
Vanderbilt University - USA
Qun Li -
The College of William and Mary - USA
Shih-Hsi Liu -
California State Univ. at Fresno - USA
Jan Madsen -
Technical University of Denmark - Denmark
Arindam Mallik -
IMEC - Belgium
Claire Pagetti -
ONERA - France
Andy D. Pimentel -
University of Amsterdam - The Netherlands
Christine Rochange -
IRIT - France
Bastian Schlich -
ABB Corporate Research - Germany
Henk Sips - TU Delft -
The Netherlands
Jean-Pierre Talpin -
INRIA/IRISA - France
Hiroyuki Tomiyama -
Ritsumeikan University - Japan
Miroslav Velev -
Aries Design Automation - USA
Ning Weng -
Southern Illinois University Carbondale - USA
Tilman Wolf -
University of Massachusetts Amherst - USA
Sami Yehia -
Thales - France
I-Ling Yen -
University of Texas at Dallas - USA
Xiangrong Zhou -
University of Hawaii - USA
Submissions
Only papers based on original, unpublished work and addressing
the listed topics of
interest will be considered.
Each
submitted paper will be fully
refereed and undergo a blind review process. In order to facilitate
blind review, 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. Only the
title should be shown at the first
page without the author's information.
Please note that
submission of the same paper to multiple tracks is not allowed.
The accepted papers will be published in the
ACM SAC 2011 proceedings.
Submissions are accepted only in electronic form, through the SAC
web
submission system (accessible via the link on the menu bar on
the left).
Submissions must follow the template reported here: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2011/downloads11.htm
Camera-ready papers can be up to 6 pages long according to the
conference template; up to 2 extra pages are allowed, at an
additional fee (it is expected to be around 80USD per extra page).
Important dates
- August 24th,
2010: Paper Submission (extended to August 29th,
2010)
- October 12th, 2010: Author
Notification
- November 2nd, 2010: Camera-Ready
Copies
Questions can be directed to the Track Chairs. Additional
details are available at the track home page at
http://www.ing.unipi.it/sac11 and at the conference home page
at
http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2011/.