26th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
  TaiChung, Taiwan, March 21-25 2011
  http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2011


   CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE SPECIAL TRACK:

             EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
  Applications, Solutions, and Techniques

       http://www.ing.unipi.it/sac11


High performance embedded computing has recently become more and more
present in devices used in everyday life. A wide variety of
applications, from consumer electronics to biomedical systems, require
building up powerful yet cheap embedded devices. In this context,
embedded software has turned out to be more and more complex, posing new
challenging issues: the adoption of further flexible programming
paradigms/architectures is becoming almost mandatory. Nonetheless, even
nowadays the development of embedded systems must rely on a tight
coupling of hardware and software components. Moreover, 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
    * Safety critical 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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  * August 24th, 2010: Paper Submission
  * October 12th, 2010: Author Notification
  * November 2nd, 2010: 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 2011 proceedings.

Further details and conditions are available on the online CFP at the
track home page at http://www.ing.unipi.it/sac11 and at the conference
home page at http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2011/.
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
Li-Pin Chang - National Chiao-Tung Univ. - Taiwan


Peter Altenbernd - Univ. of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt - Germany
Erik Altman - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center - USA
Sandro Bartolini - University of Siena - Italy
Valerie Bertin - ST Microelectronics - France
João M. P. Cardoso - University of Porto - Portugal
Mingsong Chen - East China Normal University - China
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 Edinburgh - UK
Malay Ganai - NEC labs America - USA
Roberto Giorgi - University of Siena - Italy
Matthias Gries - Intel Labs - Germany
Rajiv Gupta - University of California Riverside - USA
Niraj K. Jha - Princeton University - USA
Andreas Krall - TU Wien - Austria
Tei-Wei Kuo - National Taiwan University - Taiwan
Ákos Lédeczi - Vanderbilt University - USA
Qun Li - The College of William and Mary - USA
Shih-Hsi Liu - California State Univ. at Fresno - USA
Jan Madsen - Technical University of Denmark - Denmark
Arindam Mallik - IMEC - Belgium
Claire Pagetti - ONERA - France
Andy D. Pimentel - University of Amsterdam - The Netherlands
Christine Rochange - IRIT - France
Bastian Schlich - ABB Corporate Research - Germany
Henk Sips - TU Delft - The Netherlands
Jean-Pierre Talpin - INRIA/IRISA - France
Hiroyuki Tomiyama - Ritsumeikan University - Japan
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