Call for Submissions - HSCC 2015
18th International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC 2015)
April 14-16, 2015, Seattle, Washington, USA
Welcome to the home page of the 18th International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC 2015). HSCC 2015 will be held as part of the eighth Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) Week, alongside the International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS), the International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), the Conference on High Confidence Networked Systems (HiCoNS), and the Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS).
Conference Scope
Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC) has long been a leading, single-track conference on foundations, techniques, and tools for analysis, control, synthesis, implementation, and applications of dynamical systems that exhibit continuous and discrete (hybrid) dynamics. Applications include cyber-physical systems (CPS), mixed signal circuits, robotics, large-scale infrastructure networks, as well as natural systems such as biochemical and physiological models. In particular, we solicit theoretical as well as applied research papers that present original work combining ideas from computer science and control systems.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Design, synthesis and control
- Analysis and verification
- Computability and complexity
- Programming languages, specification formalisms
- Software tool engineering and experimentation
- Real-time and resource-aware control for embedded systems
- Network science and control over networks
- Applications in automotive, avionics, energy, mobile robotics, medical devices, manufacturing, systems biology, transportation, and other areas
Call for Submissions
Papers, Tool Papers, Case Studies, Workshops, Tutorials, Demos and Posters
Submission Guidelines
Submitted papers should present original research that is unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. Authors of accepted papers with a computational component will be invited to submit their code and data to an optional repeatability evaluation in February 2015.
Special issue: Authors of distinguished papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work for possible publication in a special issue of the journal Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems.
Best Student Paper Award: As established in the previous years, a best student paper award will be given to a contribution which has been primarily authored by a student. Each paper nominated for this award should be co-authored primarily by a student (as certified by the student's faculty advisor).
Repeatability Evaluation: HSCC has a history of publishing strong papers emphasizing computational contributions; however, recreating these computational elements is hard, because details of the implementation are unavoidably absent in the paper. Following a successful inaugural run in 2014, authors of papers accepted to HSCC (in any track) that contain a computational component will be invited to participate in an optional repeatability evaluation process after final submission of the paper in February. Papers which pass will be highlighted at the conference, and all submissions will receive confidential feedback from independent reviewers on challenges faced in recreating the computational results.
Regular Papers
10 pages max; 10pt, two-column ACM format
Submission deadline: October 13 2014 (Abstract), October 20 2014 (Paper).
Regular papers should present original research or industrial applications of techniques for design and/or analysis of hybrid systems, or their integration into industrial design flows.
Submit regular papers through EasyChair.
Tool Papers and Case Studies
6 pages max; 10pt, two-column ACM format
Submission deadline: October 13 2014 (Abstract), October 20 2014 (Paper).
Tool Papers should describe an implemented tool and its novel features. Case studies should present hybrid systems tools or techniques.
Submit tool papers and case studies through EasyChair.
Workshops and Tutorials
CPS Workshop and Tutorial Day: April 13, 2015 and/or April 17, 2015
Submission deadline: September 29, 2014.
Workshops should provide an arena for presentations and discussion about a special topic of relevance to CPS Week and HSCC. Tutorials should present in-depth content in a mini-course format aimed primarily at students, researchers and industry members.
Submit workshop and tutorials through CPS Week.
Demos
Approx. 2 pages; Title should begin with "Demo:"
Submission deadline: January 10, 2015.
Demo sessions provide a forum for researchers to showcase ongoing work and obtain feedback from the HSCC community as a part of CPS Week's joint poster/demo session. Demo proposals should clearly describe what will be demonstrated and how the contributions will be illustrated interactively. A table and power will be provided for each demo. If a demonstration requires special arrangements in addition to the above, please describe them clearly in your submission. Demo abstracts serve the sole purpose of selecting contributions for the demo session and will not be published in the conference proceedings.
Submit demo abstracts by email to hscc2015@easychair.org with "HSCC demo submission" in the subject line. Questions should be directed to the same address.
Posters
Approx. 2 pages; Title should begin with "Poster:"
Submission deadline: January 10, 2015.
Poster sessions provide a forum for researchers to showcase ongoing work and obtain feedback from the HSCC. Accepted posters will be shown and presented as part of a joint CPS Week poster session. Poster abstracts serve the sole purpose of selecting contributions for the poster session and will not be published in the conference proceedings.
Submit poster abstracts by email to hscc2015@easychair.org with "HSCC poster submission" in the subject line. Questions should be directed to the same address.
Important Dates
- Workshop & Tutorial Submission Deadline September 29, 2014.
- Abstract Submission Deadline October 13, 2014.
- Paper Submission Deadline October 20, 2014. (no extensions possible).
- Rebuttal Phase December 4 to December 7, 2014.
- Author Notification December 17, 2014.
- Poster and Demo Submission Deadline January 10, 2015.
- Camera-ready Submission February 3, 2015.
- Conference Dates April 14-16, 2015.