SPECIAL TRACK

Embedded Systems:

Applications, Solutions, and Techniques

Tribute to Referees
The success of this edition of the EMBS track at ACM SAC 2009 mainly stems from the collaboration of several knowledgeable people, who served as referees. The reviewing process has taken advantage of their expertise in a wide variety of fields.
Thus, the chairmen would like to express their personal acknoledgments to the following people (in alphabetical order):

Peter Altenbernd, Fachhochschule Darmstadt Germany
Sundar Balasubramaniam, BITS Pilani, India
Alessandro Bardine, University of Pisa, Italy
Sandro Bartolini, University of Siena, Italy
Valerie Bertin, ST Microelectronics, France
Enrico Bini, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Maria Claudia Buzzi, IIT, National Research Council, Italy
João M.P. Cardoso, INESC-ID/IST/UTL, Portugal
Manuel Comparetti, University of Pisa, Italy
Lavinia Egidi,
University of Northeastern Piedmont, Italy
Marc Engels, Flanders' Mechatronics Technology Centre, Belgium
Björn Franke, University of Edimburgh, UK
Malay Ganai, NEC Labs, USA
Michael Geiger, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA
Roberto Giorgi, University of Siena, Italy
Jörgen Hansson, SEI, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Kenji Hisazumi, Kyushu University, Japan
Niraj Jha, Princeton University, USA
Shinia Kajiyama, Central Research Lab, Hitachi, Japan
Taeho Kgil, Intel, USA
Andreas Krall, TU Wien, Austria
Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Shih-Hsi
Liu, California State University Fresno, USA
Michael Marty, Google, USA
Gokhan Memik, Northwestern University, USA
Emre Ozer, ARM Ltd., UK
Francesco Panicucci, University of Pisa, Italy
Christian Poellabauer, University of Notre Dame, USA
Kai Richter, Symtavision Gbmh, Germany
Vipin Sachdeva, IBM FTSDC Indianapolis, USA
Yuriy Sheynin, St.Petersburg University of Aerospace Instr., Russia
Henk J. Sips, Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands
Marco Solinas, University of Pisa, Italy
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 Dallas, USA