EMBEDDED SYSTEMS: Applications, Solutions, and Techniques
CALL FOR PAPERS
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EMBEDDED SYSTEMS:
Applications, Solutions, and Techniques
Special Track in SAC 2006
21st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2006
sponsored by ACM SIGAPP
Dijon, France, April 23-27 2006
track website:
http://www.ing.unipi.it/sac06
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IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: September 3rd, 2005
Notification of Acceptance: October 15th, 2005
Camera-Ready Due: November 5th, 2005
Conference: March 13-17, 2005
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Embedded systems can be regarded today as some of the most lively research and industrial targets. In this field, the ever-increasing demand for computing power and any sort of system resources continuously challenges state-of-the-art design methodologies and development techniques. Most of the complexity of these tasks comes from the need to satisfy tight constrains on performance, memory size, code size, power consumption, appliance weight and dimension, possible real-time behaviors, maintainability, scalability, security, time-to-market and, last but not indubitably least, cost. In this scenario, solutions can be proposed at different levels of abstraction, making use of an assortment of tools and methodologies: both the hardware and software components must be taken into account. Moreover, the networked nature of many embedded systems raises new issues about their proper development. Tackling new problems emerging in this complex scenario, calls for a joint effort by academia and industry.
The focus of this track, which is at its fourth edition this year, is on the application of both novel and well-known techniques to the embedded systems design and development. Particular attention is paid to solutions that require expertise on different topics (e. g. computer architecture, OS and RTOS, compilers, software engineering, simulation). In this setting, researchers and practitioners from academia and industry will get a chance to compare experimentations, propose new ideas, and discuss future directions in fields related to the development of embedded systems.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
- Methodologies and tools for design-space exploration
- System-level design
- Simulation techniques for embedded systems
- Benchmarking for embedded systems
- Power-saving design techniques
- Threads and parallelization over SoC and platform-based systems
- Embedded systems within Information Systems and distributed systems
- Employment of DSPs in embedded systems
- Software architectures of embedded systems
- Multimedia support and data streaming in embedded systems
- Issues in networked embedded systems
- Management of networked sensor devices
- OS & RTOS for embedded systems
- Hardware/software support for real-time applications
- WCET analysis in real-time systems development
- Compilation strategies for performance enhancement vs. footprint control
- Code transformation and parallelization for embedded systems
- Testing, debugging, profiling and performance analysis of embedded systems
- Security-related dedicated systems
- Java-based dedicated systems
- Special-purpose appliances and applications
- Case studies
CHAIRS
Alessio Bechini - Univ. of Pisa, Dept. of Information Engineering - Italy
Francois Bodin - IRISA Rennes - France
Cosimo Antonio Prete - Univ. of Pisa - Dept. of Information Engineering - Italy
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Sandro Bartolini - University of Siena - Italy
Valérie Bertin - ST Microelectronics - France
Giorgio Buttazzo - University of Pavia - Italy
João Manuel Paiva Cardoso - University of Algarve - Portugal
Thao Dang - VERIMAG - France
Marc Engels - FMTC, Leuven - Belgium
Pierfrancesco Foglia - University of Pisa - Italy
Roberto Giorgi - University of Siena - Italy
Jörgen Hansson - Linköping University - Sweden
Niraj K. Jha - Princeton University - USA
Peter Knijnenburg - Leiden Univ. - The Netherlands
Andreas Krall - TU Wien - Austria
Tei-Wei Kuo - National Taiwan Univ. - Taiwan
�kos Lédeczi - Vanderbilt University - USA
Gokhan Memik - Northwestern University - USA
Michael O'Boyle - University of Edimburgh - UK
Richard Schantz - BBN Technologies - USA
Henk Sips - TU Delft - The Netherlands
Jean-Pierre Talpin - INRIA/IRISA - France
Stamatis Vassiliadis - TU Delft - The Netherlands
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 2006 proceedings.
Details about paper submission will be available on the track website at http://www.ing.unipi.it/sac06/
Questions can be directed to the Track Chairs. Additional details will be available at the track home page at http://www.ing.unipi.it/sac06 and at the conference home page at http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2006/ .