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RationaleThe field of embedded system is getting more and more
challenging, and issues in development of embedded software are becoming very
attracting to a wide number of researchers both in industry and academia.
Requirements for embedded systems are very stringent and sometimes conflicting. The prime is the system cost. For obtaining a low-cost device, only the indispensable resources are employed, and they must be exploited as much as possible to improve the user-perceived quality of the final system. Moreover, some applications (especially on hand-held devices) require low power consumption. Up to few years ago, embedded systems have not provided the proper platform for computing-intensive programs. The use of sophisticated, colorful graphical interfaces, the integration of communication devices of any kind, the access to simple databases is becoming common also for this kind of products. Thus, the capabilities of embedded systems have been improved, in order to make them suitable to host this kind of applications. At present, the employment of SoC (System on Chip) multiprocessors for dedicated applications is no more considered futuristic. Software development in the field of embedded systems is becoming more and more difficult. In fact, often both performance and power consumption issues must be taken into account, and thus the delivery of high-quality products under time-to-market constraints pushes the introduction of innovative supporting methodologies and tools. Nowadays, the use of COTS in this field solves a number of problems, but imposes a new way to look at embedded software development, making the designer operate mostly at the architectural level and tackling performance problems following new approaches. The purpose of this track is to address both practical and theoretical issues in the development of embedded systems, especially operating on software (i.e. both at OS and application level). In this setting, papers are solicited to deal with problems, state-of-the-art solutions, open issues and future directions in the field of development of dedicated applications for embedded systems. Major topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: Topics of Interest
Track Chairs
Guidelines for Submission Original papers from the above-mentioned or other related areas
will be considered. The accepted papers in all categories will be published in
the ACM SAC 2003 proceedings. Submission guidelines must be strictly followed:
Important dates
Enquiries and questions may be directed to the Track Chairs. Additional details are available at the track home page at http://www.ing.unipi.it/sac03 and at the conference home page at http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2003/ . |