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                           LCTES 2011

             ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED Conference on
                Languages, Compilers, Tools,
              and Theory for Embedded Systems

            (In conjunction with CPS Week 2011)
          Chicago, Illinois, USA, April 12-14 2011

            http://lctes2011.elis.ugent.be

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Deadline: 8 October 2010.

Embedded system design faces many challenges both with respect to functional
requirements and non-functional 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 2011 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
and cyber-physical 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/cyber-physical 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
    Parametrized and structural compiler design space exploration and autotuning
* Tools for analysis, specification, design, and implementation, including:
    Hardware, system software, and 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 and cyber-physical systems
    Design space exploration tools
    Support for system security and system-level reliability
    Approaches for cross-layer system optimization
* Theory and foundations of embedded and cyber-physical 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 and cyber-physical architectures, including:
    Design and implementation of novel architectures
    Workload analysis and performance evaluation
    Architecture support for new language features, virtualization, compiler techniques, and debugging tools

Submission deadline: 8 October 2010.  Page limit, format, blind review and other
Submission guidelines: see http://lctes2011.elis.ugent.be. There will also be
a call for posters and work-in-progress presentations.

The conference proceedings will be published by the ACM. 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 in Embedded Computing Systems. The
best paper and the best presentation will receive an award.

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Abdoulaye Gamatié (CNRS, France)
Alastair Reid (ARM Ltd, United Kingdom)
Albert Cohen (INRIA, France)
Ann Gordon-Ross (University of Florida, USA)
Annie Liu (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA)
Antony Hosking (Purdue University, USA)
Aviral Shrivastava (Arizona State University, USA)
Daniel Kästner (Absint, Germany)
David F. Bacon (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Florence Maraninchi (VERIMAG, France)
Frank Mueller (North Carolina State University, USA)
Jack Davidson (University of Virginia, USA)
Jaejin Lee (Seoul National University, Korea)
Jan Reineke (UC Berkeley, USA)
John Regher (University of Utah, USA)
Laura Pozzi (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
Peter Marwedel (Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany)
Philip Koopman (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Praveen Raghavan (IMEC, Belgium)
Rajeev Barua (University of Maryland, USA)
Rodric Rabbah (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Shangping Ren (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
Stephen A. Edwards (Columbia University, USA)
Tulika Mitra (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Zili Shao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)

STEERING COMMITTEE

Bruce Childers (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Christoph Kirsch (Salzburg University, Austria)
Jaejin Lee (Seoul National University, Korea)
John Regehr (University of Utah, USA)
Koen De Bosschere (Ghent University, Belgium)
Kristian Flautner (ARM Ltd., United Kingdom)
Mahmut Kandemir (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Mary Jane Irwin (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Santosh Pande (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Zhiyuan Li (chair, Purdue University, USA)

AT-LARGE MEMBERS

David Whalley (University of Florida, USA)
Annie Liu (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA)
Frank Mueller (North Carolina State University, USA)
Peter Marwedel (Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany)
Reinhard Wilhelm (Saarland University, Germany)

GENERAL CHAIR
Jan Vitek (Purdue University, USA)

PROGRAM CHAIR
Bjorn De Sutter (Ghent University, Belgium)

PUBLICITY CHAIR
Tomas Kalibera (Charles University, Czech Republic)

WORK-IN-PROGRESS/POSTER CHAIR
Jan Reineke (UC Berkeley, USA)

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Bjorn De Sutter
Computer Systems Lab
Ghent University