CfP - Embedded Systems @ ACM SAC 2010

[Alessio Bechini]

[apologies for cross-postings]

   25th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
   Sierre, Switzerland, March 22-26 2010
   http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2010


    CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE SPECIAL TRACK:

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              EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
   Applications, Solutions, and Techniques

        http://www.ing.unipi.it/sac10
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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.

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             Topics of Interest
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     * Methodologies and tools for design-space exploration
     * Simulation techniques for embedded systems
     * System-level design
     * 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
     * Java embedded computing
     * 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
     * Special-purpose appliances and applications
     * Case studies

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             Important dates
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   * September 8th, 2009: Paper Submission
   * October  19th, 2009: Author Notification
   * November  2nd, 2009: Camera-Ready Copies

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               Submissions
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Only papers based on original, unpublished work and 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 2010 proceedings.

Further details and conditions are available on the online CFP at the 
track home page at http://www.ing.unipi.it/sac10 and at the conference 
home page at http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2010/.
Questions can be directed to the Track Chairs (please check on the track 
home page).

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       Track Chairs & Program Committee
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Chairs:
Alessio Bechini - Univ. of Pisa - Italy
Cosimo Antonio Prete - Univ. of Pisa - Italy


Peter Altenbernd - Fachhochschule Darmstadt - Germany
Sandro Bartolini - University of Siena - Italy
Valerie Bertin - ST Microelectronics - France
João M. P. Cardoso - University of Porto - Portugal
Francisco J. Cazorla - Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Spain
Pai H. Chou - University of California, Irvine - USA
Alexander G. Dean - North Carolina State University - USA
Adam Donlin - Xilinx - USA
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 America - USA
Roberto Giorgi - University of Siena - Italy
David Gregg - Trinity College Dublin - Ireland
Matthias Gries - Intel Labs - Germany
Rajiv Gupta - University of California Riverside - USA
Jörgen Hansson - SEI, Carnegie Mellon University - USA
Kenji Hisazumi - Kyushu University - Japan
Niraj K. Jha - Princeton University - USA
Andreas Krall - TU Wien - Austria
Tei-Wei Kuo - National Taiwan University - Taiwan
Ákos Lédeczi - Vanderbilt University - USA
Shih-Hsi Liu - California State Univ. at Fresno - USA
Arindam Mallik - IMEC - Belgium
Andy D. Pimentel - University of Amsterdam - The Netherlands
Christine Rochange - IRIT - France
Henk Sips - TU Delft - The Netherlands
Jean-Pierre Talpin - INRIA/IRISA - France
Miroslav Velev - Aries Design Automation - USA
Ning Weng - Southern Illinois University Carbondale - USA
Tilman Wolf - University of Massachusetts Amherst - USA
Sami Yehia - Thales - France
I-Ling Yen - University of Texas at Dallas - USA
Xiangrong Zhou - University of Hawaii - USA

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