SPECIAL TRACK

Embedded Systems:

Applications, Solutions, and Techniques
CALL FOR PAPERS
Higher and higher computing power is demanded by CPU-enabled devices currently used in everyday life. Embedded systems are nowadays present in an impressive number of different applications, from consumer electronics to biomedical systems, and the success of their employment is often determined by their functionality/cost ratio. Embedded software has recently developed towards new complexity levels, posing new challenging issues: the adoption of further flexible programming paradigms/architectures is becoming almost mandatory, taking also into account the multithreaded structure required to adequately exploit possible multicore CPUs. Nonetheless, 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.
Topics of Interest
Chairs
Alessio Bechini and Cosimo Antonio Prete - University of Pisa, Dept. of Information Engineering - Italy
Program Committee
Peter Altenbernd - Fachhochschule Darmstadt - Germany
Sandro Bartolini - University of Siena - Italy
Valerie Bertin - ST Microelectronics - France
Enrico Bini - Scuola Superiore S.Anna - Italy
João Manuel Paiva Cardoso - IST/INESC-ID - Portugal
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 Edimburgh - UK
Malay Ganai - NEC labs - USA
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
Kenji Hisazumi - Kyushu University - Japan
Shih-Hsi Liu - California State Univ. at Fresno - USA
Gokhan Memik - Northwestern University - USA
Emre Ozer - ARM Ltd. - UK
Christian Poellabauer -  University of Notre Dame - USA
Kai Richter -  Symtavision GmbH - Germany
Richard Schantz - BBN Technologies  - USA
Yuriy Sheynin - AANET - Russia
Henk Sips - TU Delft  - The Netherlands
Jean-Pierre Talpin - INRIA/IRISA - France
Miroslav Velev - Aries Design Automation - USA
Tilman Wolf - University of Massachusetts Amherst - 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 2009 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).

Submissions must follow the template reported here: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009/downloads09.htm

Camera-ready papers can be up to 5 pages long according to the conference template; up to 3 extra pages are allowed, at an additional fee of  80USD per extra page.

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/sac09 and at the conference home page at http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009/.