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[Theocharis Theocharides]

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2nd CALL FOR PAPERS - PAPER SUBMISSION NOW OPEN

1st Workshop on Design for Reliability (DFR'09)

held in conjunction with the 4th International Conference on High
Performance and Embedded Architectures and Compilers (HiPEAC'09)
http://www.hipeac.net/conference/

January 25-28, 2009 Paphos, CYPRUS

Important dates:
Submission Deadline: November 3, 2008
Notification of acceptance: December 8, 2008
Camera-ready submission: December 19, 2008
Workshop Date: Half Day, Sunday, January 25, 2009

Workshop Web site:
http://www.eng.ucy.ac.cy/theocharides/dfr09/index.htm

Paper Submisssion Website:
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/DFR2009/


Motivation:

While technology is scaling well into the nanometer era, design of reliable,
dependable and verifiable systems emerges as one of the most prominent
design challenges.  As device size and power supply voltage shrink, the rate
of intermittent and permanent faults rises significantly due to design
errors, device variability and manufacturing defects, as well as
environmental impact and aging of devices. Increased process variation also
shifts the traditional deterministic design methodology towards a more
stochastic and unorthodox design paradigm. Furthermore, these issues cause
further challenges in completing design verification and manufacturing test;
such effects manifest as inherent unreliability of the components,
redefining the design and test paradigm for next-generation computing
systems. Additionally, energy reduction and performance enhancement
techniques force designs to run near zero margins, and factors which cannot
be controlled such as soft errors, thermal impact and aging, result in an
increased occurrence of transient and hard faults in computing systems.

The goal of DFR'09 is to stimulate interest in an emerging and challenging
issue by bringing together researchers from various areas (design,
verification, test, architecture, fault-tolerance and reliability) to share
ideas and ferment future research in holistic approaches for reliable
next-generation computing systems.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* Dependable systems from unreliable components, lifelong reliability
* Fault-Tolerant micro-architectures and system architectures
* Testing and verification strategies for the future
* On-line (dynamic) testing and verification techniques
* Software-based methodologies for fault tolerance and testing
* System validation mechanisms
* Built-in self diagnosis, self-tuning and recovery schemes
* Self-adaptive systems
* System-level design and integration for reliability, verifiability and
dependability
* Error modelling, detection, correction, and tolerance for transient and
permanent errors
* Reliable on-chip communications
* Energy/reliability/performance tradeoffs
* Aggressive power saving mechanisms
* Compiler/architecture/OS methodologies and strategies for reliability

Submission guidelines:
Authors are invited to submit unpublished mature as well as preliminary /
on-going work. Submitted papers should be in the LNCS format (for manuscript
preparation guidelines visit http://www.springeronline.com/lncs)
and should not exceed 10 pages. Papers must be submitted in the PDF
(preferably) or postscript formats to the DFR'09 submission website, which
can be found at the workshop's website. Paper and electronic proceedings
with all accepted papers will be distributed at the workshop.

Program Committee:

Jacob Abraham, University of Texas at Austin,USA
Todd Austin, University of Michigan. USA
Luca Benini, University of Bologna, ITALY
David Bernstein, IBM, Haifa, ISRAEL
Davide Bertozzi, University of Ferrara, ITALY
Veerle Desmet, Ghent University, BELGIUM
Oguz Ergin, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, TURKEY
Babak Falsafi, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, SWITZERLAND
Said Hamdioui, Delft University of Technology, NETHERLANDS
Paolo Ienne, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, SWITZERLAND
Mary Jane Irwin, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Peter Marwedel, Technische Universität Dortmund, GERMANY
Maria K. Michael, University of Cyprus, CYPRUS
Shubu Mukherjee, Intel Corporation, USA
Alex Orailoglu, University of California, San Diego, USA
Emre Ozer, ARM, UK
Theocharis Theocharides, University of Cyprus, CYPRUS

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Best Regards,

The Workshop Organizers

Alex Orailoglu, University of California, San Diego, USA
alex[at]cs[dot]ucsd[dot]edu 

Theocharis Theocharides, University of Cyprus, CYPRUS
ttheocharides[at]ucy[dot]ac[dot]cy

Maria K. Michael, University of Cyprus, CYPRUS mmichael[at]ucy[dot]ac[dot]cy