[HiPEAC-announce] SCOPES 2008 - Call for Papers

[Heiko Falk]

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                     11th International Workshop on
              Software and Compilers for Embedded Systems

                              SCOPES 2008

                            March 13-14, 2008
                          ICM, Munich, Germany

                      http://www.scopesconf.org

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                                CALL FOR PAPERS

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ABOUT SCOPES 2008

The influence of embedded systems is constantly growing. Increasingly
powerful and versatile devices are developed and put on the market at a
fast pace. The number of features is increasing, and so arre the constraints
on the systems concerning size, performance, energy dissipation and timing
predictability. Since most systems today use a processor to execute an
application program rather than using dedicated hardware, the requirements
can not be fulfilled by hardware architects alone: Hardware and software
have to work together to meet the tight constraints put on modern devices.

One of the key characteristics of embedded software is that it heavily
depends on the underlying hardware. The reason of the dependency is that
embedded software needs to be designed in an application specific way. To
reduce the system design cost, e.g. code size, energy consumption etc.,
embedded software needs to be optimized exploiting the characteristics of
the underlying hardware.

SCOPES focuses on the software generation process for modern embedded
systems. Topics of interest include all aspects of the compilation process,
starting with suitable modeling and specification techniques and programming
languages for embedded systems. The emphasis of the workshop lies on code
generation techniques for embedded processors. The exploitation of
specialized instruction set characteristics is as important as the
development of new optimizations for embedded application domains. Cost
criteria for the entire code generation and optimization process include
runtime, timing predictability, energy dissipation, code size and others.
Since today's embedded devices frequently consist of a multi-processor
system-on-chip, the scope of this workshop is not limited to single-
processor systems but particularly covers compilation techniques for
MPSoC architectures.

In addition, this workshop intends to put a spotlight on the interactions
between compilers and other components in the embedded system design
process. This includes compiler support for e.g. architecture exploration
during HW/SW codesign or interactions between operating systems and
compilation techniques. Finally, techniques for compiler aided profiling,
measurement, debugging and validation of embedded software are also covered
by this workshop, because stability of embedded software is mandatory.

SCOPES 2008 is the 11th workshop in a series of workshops initially called
"International Workshop on Code Generation for Embedded Processors". The
name SCOPES has been used since the 4th workshop. The scope of the workshop
remains software for embedded systems with emphasis on code generation
(compilers) for embedded processors. SCOPES will be held in cooperation with
ACM SIGBED and is sponsored by ARTIST2 and EDAA. SCOPES 2008 is co-located
with the DATE conference.


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IMPORTANT DATES

Full paper submission:              Dec 01, 2007
Notification of acceptance:         Jan 30, 2008
Final paper submission:             Feb 21, 2008


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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Papers should present original research results not published or submitted
for publication in other forums. Papers should not exceed 10 pages (single-
spaced, 2 columns, 10pt font; see the DATE website www.date-conference.com
for detailed guidelines) and must be submitted using the SCOPES paper
submission website. To permit blind review, submissions should not include
the author names. Accepted papers will be published via the ACM digital
library.


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GENERAL CHAIR

Heiko Falk
Computer Science 12
University of Dortmund, DE


PUBLICITY CHAIR

Peter Marwedel
Computer Science 12
University of Dortmund, DE


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FURTHER INFORMATION

Website:	http://www.scopesconf.org
Mailing List:	http://www.scopesconf.org/list


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SPONSORS

SCOPES 2008 is kindly supported and sponsored by the following companies and
institutions:

 + ACM SIGBED
   http://www.acm.org/sigbed

 + Artist2 European NoE
   http://www.artist-embedded.org

 + European Design and Automation Association, EDAA
   http://www.edaa.com


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