ACM SAC - Track on Embedded Systems
ACM SAC 2009
24th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Honolulu, Hawaii, March 8-12 2009
http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009
SPECIAL TRACK:
EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
Applications, Solutions, and Techniques
CALL FOR PAPERS
Higher and higher computing power is demanded by CPU-enabled devices currently used in everyday life. Embedded systems are nowadays present in an impressive number of different applications, from consumer electronics to biomedical systems, and the success of their employment is often determined by their functionality/cost ratio. Embedded software has recently developed towards new complexity levels, posing new challenging issues: the adoption of further flexible programming paradigms/architectures is becoming almost mandatory, taking also into account the multithreaded structure required to adequately exploit possible multicore CPUs. Nonetheless, 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
- System-level design
- Architectural improvements for embedded systems
- 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
- 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 - University of Pisa, Dept. of Information Engineering - Italy
Program Committee
Peter Altenbernd - Fachhochschule Darmstadt - Germany
Sandro Bartolini - University of Siena - Italy
Valerie Bertin - ST Microelectronics - France
Enrico Bini - Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna - Italy
João Manuel Paiva Cardoso - IST/INESC-ID - Portugal
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 Edimburgh - UK
Malay Ganai - NEC labs - USA
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
Kenji Hisazumi - Kyushu University - Japan
Shih-Hsi Liu - California State Univ. at Fresno - USA
Gokhan Memik - Northwestern University - USA
Emre Ozer - ARM Ltd. - UK
Christian Poellabauer - University of Notre Dame - USA
Richard Schantz - BBN Technologies - USA
Yuriy Sheynin - AANET - Russia
Henk Sips - TU Delft - The Netherlands
Jean-Pierre Talpin - INRIA/IRISA - France
Miroslav Velev - consultant - USA
Tilman Wolf - University of Massachusetts Amherst - 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. Please note that submission of the same paper to multiple tracks is not allowed.
The accepted papers will be published in the ACM SAC 2009 proceedings.
Submissions instructions can be found directly on the track web site.
Important dates
- August 16th, 2008: Paper Submission
- October 11th, 2008: Author Notification
- October 25th, 2008: Camera-Ready Copy
Questions can be directed to the Track Chairs. Additional details are available at the track home page at http://www.ing.unipi.it/sac09 and at the conference home page at http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009/.