CfP: Embedded Systems track at SAC 2017

CALL FOR PAPERS

32nd ACM/SIGAPP SAC Symposium on Applied Computing

April 3-7, 2017. Marrakech, Morocco. http://retis.sssup.it/sac2017

T r a c k EMBS
EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
New Perspectives for Hardware, System Software, and Applications

Submission page:

https://www.softconf.com/h/sac2017

Conference (main) page

http://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2017/

IMPORTANT DATES

• Full paper submission: September 29, 2016 (extended).
• Author notification: November 24, 2016.
• Camera ready paper: December 9, 2016.

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. In this context,
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, even
nowadays the development of embedded systems must rely on a tight
coupling of hardware and software components. Moreover, 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, robustness, 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

• * Methodologies and tools for design-space exploration
• * System-level design and simulation techniques for Embedded Systems
• * OS & Real-Time support for Embedded Systems
• * Verification, validation, testing, debugging, and performance analysis of Embedded Systems
• * Cyber physical systems and networked sensor devices
• * Multicore, SoC-based, and heterogeneous Embedded Systems and applications
• * Time-predictable computer architecture
• * GPU computing in Embedded Systems applications
• * Memory/storage management for Embedded Systems
• * Power-aware design and computing
• * Runtime adaptability in Embedded Systems
• * Middleware and virtual machines in Embedded Systems
• * Multithreading in Embedded Systems design and development
• * Compilation strategies, code transformation and parallelization for Embedded Systems
• * Java embedded computing
• * Software architectures and SOA for Embedded Systems
• * Data management in Embedded Systems
• * Embedded Systems as components in Information Systems
• * Multimedia in Embedded Systems
• * Reliability in Embedded Computing and Systems
• * Security within Embedded Systems and Embedded Systems for security
• * Safety-critical Embedded Systems
• * Special-purpose appliances and applications
• * Case studies

Important dates (PAPERS & SRC ABSTRACTS)

• Full paper submission: September 29, 2016 (extended).
• Author notification: November 24, 2016.
• Camera ready paper: December 9, 2016.

Paper Submissions

Only papers based on original, unpublished work and addressing the
listed topics of interest will be considered.

Each submitted paper will be fully refereed and undergo a blind review
process. In order to facilitate blind review, the author(s) name(s) and
address(es) must NOT appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference
should be in the third person. Only the title should be shown at the
first page without the author's information.
Please note that submission of the same paper to multiple tracks is not
allowed.

Upon acceptance, paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion
of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy
attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the
paper/poster to be included in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of
scheduled papers and posters will result in excluding them from the
ACM/IEEE digital library.

Submissions are accepted only in electronic form, through the SAC web
submission system.
Submissions must follow the template on the SAC 2017 main web site.
Camera-ready papers can be up to 6 pages long according to the
conference template; up to 2 extra pages are allowed, at an additional
fee of 80 USD per extra page (this last figure will be confirmed later).

SAC also hosts a poster session; authors of relevant papers that are
positively evaluated, but cannot be included in the conference because
of space limits, can be invited to provide their contribution in the
form of a poster. A poster contribution is given a two-page space in the
official SAC proceedings, and possibly an extra page is allowed (with
the same rules used for regular papers).

Student Research Competition at ACM SAC

Graduate students seeking feedback from the scientific community on
their research ideas are invited to submit abstracts of their original
unpublished and in-progress research work in areas of experimental
computing and application development related to SAC 2016 Tracks. The
Student Research Competition (SRC) program is designed to provide
graduate students the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with
researcher and practitioners in their areas of interest.

All research abstract submissions will be reviewed by researchers and
practitioners with expertise in the track focus area to which they are
submitted. Authors of selected abstracts will have the opportunity to
give poster presentations of their work and compete for three top
winning places. The SRC committee will evaluate and select First,
Second, and Third place winners. The winners will receive cash awards
and SIGAPP recognition certificates during the conference banquet
dinner. Authors of selected abstracts are eligible to apply to the
SIGAPP Student Travel Award program for support.

Submission - Graduate students are invited to submit abstracts (minimum
of two pages; maximum of four pages) of their original unpublished and
in-progress research work following the instructions published at SAC
2016 web-site. The submissions must address research work related to a
SAC track, with emphasis on the innovation behind the research idea,
including the problem being investigated, the proposed approach and
research methodology, and sample preliminary results of the work. In
addition, the abstract should reflect on the originality of the work,
innovation of the approach, and applicability of anticipated results to
real-world problems. All abstracts must be submitted thought the START
Submission system, at

http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2017/SRC-SubmissionUploadPage.htm

Please note SRCs and regular papers must be submitted at different pages
of the START web system.
Submitting the same abstract to multiple tracks is not allowed.

Track Chairs & Program Committee

Chairs:

• Marco Di Natale - Scuola Superiore S. Anna - Italy Li-Pin Chang -
• National Chiao-Tung University - Taiwan