SPECIAL TRACK

Embedded Systems:

Applications, Solutions, and Techniques

CALL FOR PAPERS

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. 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, nowadays embedded systems development must rely on a tight coupling of hardware and software components.

In this scenario, efficient 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
Chairs
Alessio Bechini and Cosimo Antonio Prete - Univ. of Pisa, Dept. of Information Engineering - Italy
Program Committee
Peter Altenbernd - Fachhochschule Darmstadt - Germany
Sandro Bartolini - University of Siena - Italy
Giorgio Buttazzo - Scuola Superiore S.Anna - Italy
João Manuel Paiva Cardoso - IST/INESC-ID - Portugal
Alex Dean - NC State University - USA
Marc Engels - Flanders' Mechatronics Technology Centre, Leuven - Belgium
Pierfrancesco Foglia - University of Pisa - Italy
Björn Franke - University of Edimburgh - UK
Roberto Giorgi - University of Siena - Italy
Jörgen Hansson - SEI, Carnegie Mellon University - USA
Niraj K. Jha - Princeton University - USA
Andreas Krall - TU Wien - Austria
Tei-Wei Kuo - National Taiwan University - Taiwan
Ákos Lédeczi - Vanderbilt University - USA
Gokhan Memik - Northwestern University - USA
Yuriy Sheynin - AANET - Russia
Jérôme Siméon - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center - USA
Henk Sips - TU Delft  - The Netherlands
Jean-Pierre Talpin - INRIA/IRISA - France
Stavros Tripakis - Cadence Research Labs - USA
Miroslav Velev - consultant - USA
I-Ling Yen - University of Texas at Dallas - USA
Submissions

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 2008 proceedings.

Submissions are accepted only in electronic form, through the SAC web submission system (accessible via the link on the menu bar on the left).

The total number of pages per paper in the camera-ready format is five (5). A maximum of three (3) additional pages may be included for additional fee.

Camera-ready papers must be formatted according the official templates: Word, PDF, and LaTex

Important dates

Questions can be directed to the Track Chairs. Additional details are available at the track home page at http://www.ing.unipi.it/sac08 and at the conference home page at http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2008/.