(sigemb-info 196) CfP - Track on EMBEDDED SYSTEMS at ACM SAC 2008

[Hiroyuki Tomiyama <hiroyuki@xxxxxxx>]

                SAC 2008
  23rd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Fortaleza, Ceara', Brazil, March 16-20 2008

http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2008

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|             SPECIAL TRACK               |
|           Embedded Systems:             |
| Applications, Solutions, and Techniques |
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|     http://www2.ing.unipi.it/sac08      |
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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. 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, nowadays embedded systems
development must rely on a tight coupling of hardware and software
components. In this scenario, efficient 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
·	Data exchange among embedded systems
·	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
·	Hardware/software support for real-time applications
·	Compilation strategies for performance enhancement vs. footprint control
·	Code transformation and program parallelization for embedded systems
·	Java embedded computing
·	Special-purpose appliances and applications
·	Case studies

* Chairs*

Alessio Bechini and Cosimo Antonio Prete - Univ. of Pisa, Dept. of
Information Engineering - Italy


* Program Committee *

Peter Altenbernd - Fachhochschule Darmstadt - Germany
Sandro Bartolini - University of Siena - Italy
Giorgio Buttazzo - Scuola Superiore S.Anna - Italy
João Manuel Paiva Cardoso - IST/INESC-ID - Portugal
Alex Dean - NC State University -USA
Marc Engels - Flanders' Mechatronics Technology Centre, Leuven - Belgium
Pierfrancesco Foglia - University of Pisa - Italy
Björn Franke - University of Edimburgh - UK
Roberto Giorgi - University of Siena - Italy
Jörgen Hansson - SEI, Carnegie Mellon University - USA
Niraj K. Jha - Princeton University - USA
Andreas Krall - TU Wien - Austria
Tei-Wei Kuo - National Taiwan University - Taiwan
Ákos Lédeczi - Vanderbilt University - USA
Gokhan Memik - Northwestern University - USA
Yuriy Sheynin - AANET - Russia
Jérôme Siméon - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center - USA
Henk Sips - TU Delft  - The Netherlands
Jean-Pierre Talpin - INRIA/IRISA - France
Stavros Tripakis - Cadence Research Labs - USA
Miroslav Velev - consultant - USA
I-Ling Yen - University of Texas at Dallas - USA

* Submissions *

Original papers addressing the listed topics of interest will be
considered. Each submitted paper will be fully refereed and undergo a
blind review process.

The accepted papers will be published in the ACM SAC 2008 proceedings.

Details about paper submission will be available on both the conference
and the track websites.

* Important dates *

    * September 8th, 2007: Paper Submission
    * October 16th, 2007: Author Notification
    * October 30th, 2007: Camera-Ready Copy


Questions can be directed to the Track Chairs. Additional details are
available at the track home page at http://www2.ing.unipi.it/sac08 and
at the conference home page at http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2008/ .