Call for Papers

First International Forum on Next-Generation
Multicore/Manycore Technologies
IFMT’08
Nov 24-25, 2008, Cairo, Egypt

With the tremendous advances in process technology and the non-scalability of complex monolithic designs, multicore architecture is becoming the design of choice for high-end machines to embedded devices. The number of cores per chip is expected to grow, even to double, every two years. Although these advances are providing us with a lot of opportunities, they are also giving us a lot of design challenges, such as bandwidth requirement, power (both static and dynamic), memory wall, parallelization, etc…
This forum aims to provide an avenue to foster communication among academia and industry in all aspects of next-generation multicore technologies, such as the Cell BE processor. Authors are invited to submit high quality papers representing their original work in (but not limited to) the following topics targeting multicore/manycore processors:
* Parallel Programming Models
* Specific applications
* Performance modeling and analysis
* Memory management and models (including software caching and prefetching)
* Thread management and Thread-level speculation (including scheduling and
load-balancing)
* Cache hierarchy design
* Interconnection and network on chip
* Power-aware design
* Simulation tools
* Compilation techniques
* Homogeneous and heterogeneous architectures
* Security issues

Paper Submission instruction
Papers should be 12 pages or less in length, using the ACM Word or Latex style template. Papers should describe original work not published elsewhere. Proceedings will be published in ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (AICPS), and will be on the ACM Digital Library. Papers have to be sent by email to both the forum TPC Co-Chairs: Ahmed El-Mahdy (elmahdy@alex.edu.eg), and Hossam Aly Fahmy (hfahmy@arithmetic.stanford.edu). Please indicate in your e-mail whether the first author is a full-time student or not.

Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: 30 June, 2008
NEW FIRM EXTENSION July 31
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: September 30, 2008
Camera-ready copy due: October 25, 2008

Contact US
For any further information or queries, please contact the conference secretary: Shaimaa Yehia (shyehia@eg.ibm.com)
Conference URL: www.ifmt.org/
Local Organizers:
IBM Center for Advanced
Studies in Cairo

General Co-Chairs
Ian Watson, Manchester University, UK
Hisham El-Shishiny, IBM Center for Advanced Studies, Egypt

Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs
Ahmed El-Mahdy, Alexandria University, Egypt
Hossam Aly Fahmy, Cairo University, Egypt

Technical Program Committee:
Michael Perrone, IBM Watson Research Center, USA
Dimitris Nikolopoulos, Virginia Tech, USA
Pedro Medeiros, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Fadi Sibai, UAE University, UAE
Mazen Saghir, AUB, Lebanon
Leila Ismail, UAE University, UAE
Hironori Kasahara,Waseda University, Japan
Seinosuke Narita, Waseda University, Japan
Ian Rogers, Manchester University, UK
David Albonesi, Cornell University, USA
Jayaprakash Pisharath, Intel Corporation, USA
Sandhya Dwarkadas, University of Rochester, USA
Michael Huang, University of Rochester, USA
Salwa Nassar, Electronics Research Institute, Egypt
Alaa Alameldeen, Intel Corporation, USA
Mohamed Zahran, City University of NY, USA
Sami Yehia, Thales Research and Technology, France
Michael J. Flynn, Stanford University, USA
Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Bill Scherer III, Rice University, USA Khaled Nabil Salama, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Elmootazbellah Elnozahy, IBM Austin Research Center, USA
Pradip Bose, IBM Watson Research Center, USA
Peter Hofstee, IBM system and Technology Group, USA
Tarek El-Ghazawi, The George Washington University, USA
Reda Ammar, University of Connecticut, USA
Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, University of Connecticut, USA
Chuck Moore, AMD, USA
David A. Bader, Georgia Tech, USA
Ali El-Moursy, IBM Center for Advanced Studies, Egypt

Finance and Registration Chair:
Salwa Nassar, Electronics Research Institute, Egypt

Local Committee Chair:
Mohamed Saad El Sherif, Electronics Research Institute, Egypt

Publication and Web Chair:
Ian Rogers, Manchester University, UK

Publicity Chair:
Michael Perrone, IBM Watson Research Center, USA

Conference Secretary:
Shaimaa Yehia, IBM, Egypt

Local Organizers:IBM Center for Advanced Studies in Cairo
IEEE GOLD EGYPTElectronics Research Institute, Egypt

ACM SAC 2009
24th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Honolulu, Hawaii, March 8-12 2009

www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009

SPECIAL TRACK:

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EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
Applications, Solutions, and Techniques
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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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.

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
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Program Committee
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Peter Altenbernd – Fachhochschule Darmstadt – Germany
Sandro Bartolini – University of Siena – Italy
Valerie Bertin – ST Microelectronics – France
Enrico Bini – Scuola Superiore Sant\’Anna – Italy
Jo=E3o 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 Bj=F6rn Franke – University of Edimburgh – UK Malay Ganai – NEC labs – USA
Roberto Giorgi – University of Siena – Italy
J=F6rgen 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

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Submissions
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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.

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Important dates
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* 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 www.ing.unipi.it/sac09 and at the conference home page at www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009/.

ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (ACM TECS)

Special issue on Model-driven Embedded System Design

Call for papers

Embedded systems are omnipresent in modern society, and society crucially depends on their proper functioning. The complexity of embedded system design however is increasing rapidly, through the use of multiprocessor cores, through the integration of embedded systems in ubiquitous networks, and through the increasing interaction between embedded systems and their users and environments. To obtain a reliable operation of embedded systems while maintaining resource efficiency, the embedded system design process needs to be based on a solid basis of computational models.

Prospective authors are invited to submit novel and unpublished work on model-driven embedded system design. The special issue focuses on the following question in particular:
How can computational models be used to drive embedded system design such that performance, quality and resource constraints are met?
Contributions may cover the whole range of computational models (including dataflow models, statebased models, discrete-event models, process algebras, stochastic and probabilistic models), all modern embedded platforms (including multiprocessor systems-on-chip, distributed and networked systems, sensor networks), and all application domains (including multimedia and gaming, automotive, high-tech industrial systems, telecommunication, care and assisted living).

Topics of interest include:
- QoS, resource, and power management
- Operating systems, middleware, distributed control, network management – Synthesis, analysis and verification (especially focusing on non-functional properties) – Software synthesis and model-driven software engineering
- Real-time computing, scheduling, execution time analysis
- Fault tolerance, dependability, security

This special issue is planned as a follow up of the Artist Models of Computation and Communication (MoCC) 2008 workshop to be held in Eindhoven, 3-4 July 2008. Submission to the special issue is open for everyone. Participants of the MoCC workshop are especially invited to submit. Submissions will undergo the usual ACM TECS review process and should be submitted to mc.manuscriptcentral.com/acm/tecs . Authors should clearly indicate on the first page of their submission below the title in bold letters \’Submitted to the Special issue on Model-driven Embedded System Design\’.

Guest editors:

Twan Basten, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands,
a.a.basten@tue.nl
Rolf Ernst, Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany,
ernst@ida.ing.tu-bs.de

Important dates:

15 September 2008: submission deadline
15 December 2008: notification
15 February 2009: final version due
Summer 2009: tentative publication