SPECIAL TRACK

Embedded Systems:

Across Hardware and Software

Tribute to Referees
The success of this edition of the EMBS track at ACM SAC 2012 mainly stems from the collaboration of several knowledgeable people, who served as referees. The reviewing process has taken advantage of their expertise in a wide variety of fields.
Thus, the chairmen would like to express their personal acknoledgments to the following people (in alphabetical order):

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
Sebastian Biallas, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Srinivas Boppu, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Marc Boyer, ONERA, France
Joăo M.P. Cardoso, University of Porto, Portugal
Li-Pin Chang, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan
Mingsong Chen, East China Normal University, China
Pai H. Chou, University of California, Irvine, USA
Mario C.A. Cimino, University of Pisa, Italy
Sylvain Collange, University of Siena, Italy
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, Belgium
Hua-Wei Fang,
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Pierfrancesco Foglia, University of Pisa, Italy
Björn Franke, University of Edinburgh, UK
Malay Ganai, NEC Labs, USA
Ping Gao, ARIES Design Automation, USA
Roberto Giorgi, University of Siena, Italy
Matthias Gries, Intel Labs, Germany
Zonghua Gu, Zhejiang University, China
Rajiv Gupta, University of California Riverside, USA
Frank Hannig, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Po-Chun Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Niraj Jha, Princeton University, USA
Jens Knoop, TU Wien, Austria
Andreas Krall, TU Wien, Austria
Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Ákos Lédeczi, Vanderbilt University, USA
Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, Italy

Arindam Mallik, IMEC, Belgium
Eric Noulard, ONERA, France
Claire Pagetti, ONERA, France
Andy D. Pimentel, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Antonio Portero, University of Siena, Italy
Christine Rochange, IRIT, France
János Sallai, Vanderbilt University, USA
Martin Sch
öberl, DTU, Denmark
Bastian Schlich, ABB Corporate Research, Germany
Wei She,
University of Texas Dallas, USA
Alberto Scionti, University of Siena, Italy
Henk J. Sips, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Pei-Lun Suei,
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Jean-Pierre Talpin, INRIA/IRISA, France
Hiroyuki Tomiyama, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Miroslav Velev, Aries Design Automation, USA
Ning Weng, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA
Matthias Woehrle, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Tilman Wolf, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Longsheng Xia, University of Texas Dallas, USA
Ming-Chang Yang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
I-Ling Yen, University of Texas Dallas, USA
Zhibin Yu, University of Siena, Italy
Xiangrong Zhou, University of Hawaii, USA
Wei Zhu, University of Texas Dallas, USA