LCTES 2012 - Languages, Compilers, Tools & Theory for Embedded Systems

Beijing, China
12-13 June, 2012

http://lctes12.cs.purdue.edu/

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Embedded system design faces many challenges both with respect to functional 
requirements and nonfunctional requirements, many of which are conflicting. 
They are found in areas such as design and developer productivity, 
verification, validation, maintainability, and meeting performance goals and 
resource constraints. Novel design-time and run-time approaches are needed to 
meet the demand of emerging applications and to exploit new hardware 
paradigms, and in particular to scale up to multicores and distributed 
systems built from multicores. LCTES 2012 solicits papers presenting original 
work on programming languages, compilers, tools, theory, and architectures 
that help in overcoming these challenges. Research papers on innovative 
techniques are welcome, as well as experience papers on insights obtained by 
experimenting with real-world systems and applications.

Papers are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics in embedded 
systems:
Programming language challenges, including:

    * Domain-specific languages
    * Features to exploit multicore, reconfigurable, and other emerging
      architectures
    * Features for distributed, adaptive, and real-time control embedded
      systems
    * Language capabilities for specification, composition, and construction
      of embedded systems
    * Language features and techniques to enhance reliability, verifiability,
      and security
    * Virtual machines, concurrency, inter-processor synchronization, and
      memory management

Compiler challenges, including:

    * Interaction between embedded architectures, operating systems, and
      compilers
    * Interpreters, binary translation, just-in-time compilation, and split
      compilation
    * Support for enhanced programmer productivity
    * Support for enhanced debugging, profiling, and exception/interrupt
      handling
    * Optimization for low power/energy, code and data size, and best-effort
      and real-time performance
    * Parameterized and structural compiler design space exploration and
      autotuning

Tools for analysis, specification, design, and implementation, including:

    * Hardware, system software, application software, and their interfaces
    * Distributed real-time control, media players, and reconfigurable
      architectures
    * System integration and testing
    * Performance estimation, monitoring, and tuning
    * Run-time system support for embedded systems
    * Design space exploration tools
    * Support for system security and system-level reliability
    * Approaches for cross-layer system optimization

Theory and foundations of embedded systems, including:

    * Predictability of resource behavior: energy, space, time
    * Validation and verification, in particular of concurrent and distributed
      systems
    * Formal foundations of model-based design as basis for code generation,
      analysis, and verification
    * Mathematical foundations for embedded systems
    * Models of computations for embedded applications

Novel embedded architectures, including:

    * Design and implementation of novel architectures
    * Workload analysis and performance evaluation
    * Architecture support for new language features, virtualization, compiler
      techniques, debugging tools

Important Dates

   1. Submission deadline: Friday, February 10, 2012.
   2. Author notification: Friday, April 20, 2012.
   3. Camera-ready papers: Tuesday, May 1, 2012.

Submissions

Submissions must be in ACM proceedings format, 9-point type, and may not 
exceed 10 pages (all inclusive). Word and LaTeX templates for this format are 
available via the LCTES website. Submissions must be in PDF, printable on US 
Letter and A4 sized paper. To enable double-blind reviewing, submissions must 
adhere to two rules:

   1. author names and their affiliations must be omitted; and,
   2. references to related work by the authors should be in the third person
      (e.g., not "We build on our previous work ..." but rather "We build on
      the work of ...").

However, nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the 
submission or makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult (e.g., 
important background references should not be omitted or anonymized). Papers 
must describe unpublished work that is not currently submitted for 
publication elsewhere as discussed here. Authors of accepted papers will be 
required to sign an ACM copyright release.

Accepted regular papers will be included in the conference proceedings and 
will be published by ACM. There will also be poster and work-in-progress 
presentations. The authors of the best papers of the conference will be 
invited to submit an extended version to a special issue on LCTES of ACM 
Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems. The best paper and the best 
presentation will receive an award.

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General Chair: 		
	Reinhard Wilhelm 	Saarland University Saarbrücken, Germany

Program Chairs: 		
	Heiko Falk 		TU Dortmund, Germany
	Wang Yi 		Uppsala University, Sweden