(sigemb-info 614) [Fwd: [Call for Competition] Android Platform Competition in Embedded Systems Week 2011 in Taiwan]

["Shinpei KATO" <shinpei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

組込み研究会の皆様、

10月に台湾で開催されますEmbedded Systems Week (ESWeek 2011)でのイベントに関する告知です（再送）。
同イベントではAndroidプラットフォームを利用したシステム開発を競い合って、優勝チームには賞とACMトランザクションへの論文招待の特典がついてきます。
どうぞ奮ってご応募ください。

加藤真平


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Subject: [Call for Competition] Android Platform Competition in Embedded Systems Week 2011 in Taiwan
From:    "Jian-Jia Chen" <j.chen@xxxxxxx>
Date:    Tue, July 12, 2011 8:58 am
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         "Li-Pin Chang" <lpchang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
         "Chia-Lin Yang" <yangc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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         "Chi-Sheng Shih" <cshih@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
         "Jenq-Kuen Lee" <jklee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
         "Chung-Ta King" <king@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Dear colleagues,
   Please help advertise this mail to your colleagues and students.

   Best Regards,

   Jian-Jia
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Dear colleagues,

Embedded Systems Week 2011 (http://www.esweek.org/) features a 
competition based on Android platforms, in
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       Oct. 10-12, 2011.
       Taipei, Taiwan,
http://estimedia.itec.uka.de/Contest.html
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The topics of the competition will be related to the following levels in 
Android:

    * Libraries,
    * Application framework, and
    * Android runtime.

Please note that Android applications without any modification or 
development in Android platform will not be considered and will not be 
selected to participate in the final round competition. The competition 
will consist of two phases. In the first phase, each team is requested 
to submit a proposal (up to 6 pages) to describe the basic ideas, system 
design, system architecture, and project management. Based on the 
proposal, (8 or more) teams will be selected to participate in the final 
competition in Taipei on Oct. 12, along with ESWEEK. Each team in the 
final round has to give a 25-minute presentation (including Q&A) in the 
morning and provide demonstration in public to ESWEEK attendees in an 
afternoon session. Selected teams will be awarded with prizes and be 
invited to submit the contribution to a special issue of ESTIMedia'11 in 
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS).

*Eligibility and Restrictions*

    * The competition is open only to universities and research
      institutes in any country.
    * The platform must be based on Android 2.2 (or higher) and be in
      English.
    * The work must be original. The participants are the sole and
      exclusive owner and rights holder of the work and all included
      content, that no third parties will make any challenges or claims
      as to ownership or fraud, and that they have the right to submit
      the work and grant all required licenses.
    * Each team can have at most 6 students (including Ph.D. students
      and postdocs) and at most 2 professors.
    * A professor can supervise at most 2 teams.
    * Please list the occupations of each member.

*Schedule*

    * July 15th, 2011: Deadline of proposal in English (up to 6 pages)
    * August 5th, 2011: Notification (Selected teams will be notified
      for participating in the final round)
    * October 10th, 2011: Demonstration and preparation session with the
      reception of ESWEEK in the evening.
    * October 12nd, 2011: Competition in Taipei along with ESWEEK. The
      result will be announced on the same day.

*Scoring*

    * Novelty: 30%
    * Completeness: 20%
    * Applicability: 20%
    * Presentation and Demonstration: 30%

*Award*

    * 1st Place: 50,000 NTD
    * 2nd Place: 30,000 NTD
    * 3rd Place: 15,000 NTD

     Traveling support to Taipei for selected teams will be possible, 
and details will be available through the author notifications.
*
Sponsors*

    * Google
    * Others to be confirmed

*Referees *

    * Bor-Sung Liang, MediaTek, Taiwan
    * Charlie Hong-Men Su, Andes Technology, Taiwan
    * Tianzhou Chen, Zhejiang University, China
    * Sung-Soo Lim, Kookmin University, Korea
    * Others to be confirmed


*Organizers*

    * Jian-Jia Chen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
    * Jenq-Kuen Lee (National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan)
    * Gabriela Nicolescu (Polytechnique Montreal, Canada)
    * Naehyuck Chang (Seoul National University, Korea)
    * Joerg Henkel (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)