1. ACM SIGBED has now a new home!

    sigbed.org

    All the new content concerning the activity of the ACM SIGBED special interest group will be disseminated via the new page. This old Blogger page will remain online indefinitely just as a future reference on past content that will not be ported to the new page. 
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  2. CACM Research Highlights Nominations

    The SIGBED Research Highlights Nomination (RHN) sub-committee selects papers for consideration in the Communications of the ACM (CACM) Research Highlights (https://cacm.acm.org).

    The chair or co-chairs of  the SIGBED RHN sub-committee is appointed by the SIGBED Chair for two year term.  Annually, the chair(s) of the RHN committee will appoint other committee members to help with the selection process.

    1. Selection Process

    There are three paths to recommend a paper to the SIGBED RHN sub-committee.

    Method 1. Best paper award winners, best student paper award winners, and the papers nominated for these awards from the past 3 years of SIGBED (co-)sponsored conferences are eligible to be recommended.
    • ESWeek (including EMSOFT, CODES+ISSS, CASES)
    • CPSWeek (including ICCPS, RTAS, IPSN, HSCC, IoTDI)
    • SenSys
    • LCTES

    The recommended papers should be regular technical papers, i.e., not invited papers or short papers. The PC chair(s) of the conference are to recommend the paper(s). Each recommendation should be accompanied by a short nomination letter (1 page) highlighting the technical strengths, novelty, and the impact of the work.

    The conference PC chair(s) can optionally attach the original reviews of the paper to the nomination letter to help the nomination process. In this case, the PC chair(s) should anonymize the reviews and obtain permission from the authors of the recommended paper on sharing review materials with the RHN sub-committee. To facilitate this process, we encourage adding a statement in CFP and TPC invitation letters that accepted papers and reviews may be shared with the SIGBED RHN sub-committee for nominations to CACM Research Highlights.

    Method 2. Accepted papers from top conferences that cover embedded systems but are outside the above list can be recommended directly by PC chairs or SIGBED members/officers in the PC. For example:
    • RTSS
    • TACAS
    • CAV
    The rules for Method 1 also apply in this case.

    Method 3. Recommendations from any SIGBED members
    • SIGBED members can recommend exceptional research papers that are published at venues outside of the above conferences, with a short justification of why the paper should be considered for nomination.
    • Each recommendation should be accompanied by the following:
      • Paper coordinates (title, authors, original publication venue, URL)
      • Contact information (email addresses and institutions) of authors
      • Suggested reviewers and potential Technical Perspective writers
      • Short (1-2 paragraphs) justification that addresses CACM-RH publication criteria

    2. Timeline

    The sub-committee meets to discuss recommended papers and makes a selection twice a year, tentatively in January and July. External expert opinions may be solicited by the sub-committee and this may affect the proposed timeline.

    3. Conflict of Interest

    • Authors are not allowed to nominate their own papers. This rule also applies to SIGBED EC members and PC chairs.
    • The RHN sub-committee members may not participate in the discussion of a paper that has a conflict of interest.
    • The selection procedure will follow the ACM Code of Ethics guidelines: https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics
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  3. CALL FOR PAPERS

    26th Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop
    RAW 2019

    May 20-21, 2019
    Rio De Janiero, Brazil 




    QUICK LINK: Web site: http://raw.necst.it/

    IMPORTANT DATES:
    Submission deadline  February 4, 2019
    Decision notification  March 1, 2019
    Camera-ready papers due  March 12, 2019

    The 26th Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop (RAW 2019) will be held in Rio the Janeiro, Brazil in May 2019. RAW 2019 is associated with the33rd Annual IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IEEE IPDPS 2019) and is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Societyand the Technical Committee on Parallel Processing. The workshop is one of the major meetings for researchers to present ideas, results, and on-going research on both theoretical and practical advances in Reconfigurable Computing.

    A reconfigurable computing environment is characterized by the ability of underlying hardware architectures or devices to rapidly alter (often on the fly) the functionalities of their components and the interconnection between them to suit the problem at hand. The area has a rich theoretical tradition and wide practical applicability. There are several commercially available reconfigurable platforms (FPGAs and coarse-grained devices) and many modern applications (including embedded systems and HPC) use reconfigurable subsystems. An appropriate mix of theoretical foundations and practical considerations, including algorithms architectures, applications, technologies and tools, is essential to fully exploit the possibilities offered by reconfigurable computing. The Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop aims to provide a forum for creative and productive interaction for researchers and practitioners in the area.


    For more information see: http://raw.necst.it/ 
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  4. ACM SIGBED Early Career Award

     Call for Nominations 

     
    ACM SIGBED (http://sigbed.acm.org) has established an Early Career Award that recognizes contributions by junior researchers in the area of embedded, real-time, and cyber-physical systems. We encourage SIGBED community members to nominate candidates for the 2019 award. 
     
    Eligibility: 
     
    The nominee should be a SIGBED member, should have obtained a PhD (or equivalentafter January 1, 2012, and have research focus on topics of relevance to SIGBED. Please visit the SIGBED webpage for a list of SIGBED sponsored conferences to determine relevance, and for instructions regarding how to join SIGBED. 
     
    Nomination Process: 
     
    The nomination consists of a letter from the nominator summarizing the nominee's research contributions and explaining its significance and relevance to SIGBED, and two letters of endorsement. All the material should be sent by email to the chair of the award selection committee.  Please contact the chair with any questions you may have.
     
    Nomination Deadline:    February 08, 2019 
     
    Selection Criteria: 
    The award selection committee will review the nomination package and collectively choose the winner based on the significance of the contributions to the SIGBED community. The committee has the option to decline to make the award. 
     

    Award Details: 
     
    The chosen nominee will be notified by March 10, 2019, and the award will be presented by the ACM SIGBED Chair at either CPSWeek 2019 or ESWeek 2019. The award consists of a plaque engraved with the nominee's name, a $1000 honorarium, and up to $2000 towards support for travel to the event where the award is presented. Funding for the award is provided by ACM SIGBED. 
     
    2019 Award Selection Committee: 
    Sanjoy Baruah, Washington University in Saint Louis (Chair; email: baruah@wustl.edu
    Rolf Ernst, Technical University of Braunschweig 
    Janos Sztipanovits, Vanderbilt University
    Lothar Thiele, ETH Zurich 
    Marilyn Wolf, Georgia Tech

    Conflict of Interest Policy: 

     
    It is possible that members of the selection committee have worked with the nominees and may have a conflict of interest. The nominator should alert the chair about such conflicts. Conflicts of interest shall not automatically prevent a committee member from taking part in the selection process. However, if a member of the committee, or the chair of the committee, feels that the association of a committee member with a nominee would interfere with impartial consideration of the nominees, the member shall be excused from the relevant parts of the discussion. If the same committee member has conflicts with multiple nominees, the Chair of the committee may seek a replacement.
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  5. CALL FOR PAPERS

    26th Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop
    RAW 2019

    May 20-21, 2019
    Rio De Janiero, Brazil 




    QUICK LINK: Web site: http://raw.necst.it/

    IMPORTANT DATES:
    Submission deadline  February 4, 2019
    Decision notification  March 1, 2019
    Camera-ready papers due  March 12, 2019

    The 26th Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop (RAW 2019) will be held in Rio the Janeiro, Brazil in May 2019. RAW 2019 is associated with the33rd Annual IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IEEE IPDPS 2019) and is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Societyand the Technical Committee on Parallel Processing. The workshop is one of the major meetings for researchers to present ideas, results, and on-going research on both theoretical and practical advances in Reconfigurable Computing.

    A reconfigurable computing environment is characterized by the ability of underlying hardware architectures or devices to rapidly alter (often on the fly) the functionalities of their components and the interconnection between them to suit the problem at hand. The area has a rich theoretical tradition and wide practical applicability. There are several commercially available reconfigurable platforms (FPGAs and coarse-grained devices) and many modern applications (including embedded systems and HPC) use reconfigurable subsystems. An appropriate mix of theoretical foundations and practical considerations, including algorithms architectures, applications, technologies and tools, is essential to fully exploit the possibilities offered by reconfigurable computing. The Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop aims to provide a forum for creative and productive interaction for researchers and practitioners in the area.


    For more information see: http://raw.necst.it/ 
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  6. ACM/IEEE ICCPS 2019 CALL FOR PAPERS
    The 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems
    April 16-18, 2019 in Montreal, Canada, part of CPSWeek 2019
     
    Overview: As digital computing and communication become faster, cheaper, and available in packages that are smaller and use less power, these capabilities are increasingly embedded in many objects and structures in the physical environment. Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are physical and engineered systems whose operations are monitored, coordinated, controlled, and integrated by computing and communication. Broad CPS deployment is transforming how we interact with the physical world as profoundly as the world wide web transformed how we interact with one another, and further harnessing their capabilities holds the possibility of enormous societal and economic impact.
     
    ACM/IEEE ICCPS is the premier single-track conference for reporting advances in all CPS aspects, including theory, tools, applications, systems, test-beds and field deployments. The conference focuses on the core science to develop fundamental principles that underpin the integration of cyber and physical elements, as well as on the development of technologies, tools, architectures and infrastructure for building CPS systems, highlighting the design, implementation, and investigation of CPS applications. Application domains include (but are not limited to): transportation, energy, water, agriculture, medical and assistive technology, sensor and social networks, robotics, smart cities, ecology, and supply-chains. Among the relevant research areas are security, control, optimization, machine learning, game theory, mechanism design, mobile and cloud computing, model-based design, verification, data mining / analytics, signal processing, and human-in-the-loop shared or supervisory control. 
     
    All submissions must be in English. Only original papers that are not submitted or published in other conferences or journals will be considered. Manuscripts should have a main body with no more than 10 pages. Up to 2 additional pages of appendices may follow the main body of the paper, within the same submitted .pdf file. The submissions must be in the ACM two-column conference style, US Letter (8.5 inch x 11 inch) paper size, and 10pt text font size.
     
    Important Dates: 
    Full paper submission deadline: October 17, AoE, 2018 (FIRM deadline, see CPSWeek deadline policy),
    Author notification: December 28, 2018,
    Camera-ready paper due: February 15, 2019.
     
    General Co-Chairs: 
    Xue Liu, McGill University, Canada
    Paulo Tabuada, UCLA, USA 
     
    Program Co-Chairs: 
    Linda Bushnell, University of Washington, USA
    Miroslav Pajic, Duke University, USA
     
    Steering Committee: 
    Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania, USA
    Jack Stankovic, University of Virginia, USA
    Eric M. Feron, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
    Karl H. Johansson, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
    Xenofon Koutsoukos, Vanderbilt University, USA
    Raj Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
    Chris Gill (Ex Officio), Washington University in St. Louis, USA
    Bruno Sinopoli (Ex Officio), Carnegie Mellon University, USA
     
     
    
    
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  7. ADVANCES in IoT ARCHITECTURE, SYSTEMS and BEYOND
    (AIoTAS-2018)

     
    [Co-located with the 45th Intl. Symp. on Computer Architecture (ISCA)]
    
    June 3rd 2018
    Los Angeles, USA 
     
     

    ABSTRACT

    
    
    Internet of Things (IoT) is poised for a disruptive growth in the near future
    and is projected as a major economic driver for years to come. Related technologies
    in the fields of Industry 4.0, autonomous systems like Connected Robotics, etc
    can also leverage the advancements made in this ecosystem. However, realization
    of this dream poses multitudes of challenges owing to its size, scalability,
    diversity, openness. The goal of AIoTAS is to provide a platform to host researchers
    and practitioners from both academia and industry, and share their experience and
    solutions to the multitude of issues related to future large scale systems.
    The workshop will help to evolve a consolidated architecture for an IoT system and
    like. The workshop aims to provide authors with useful feedback about their work
    and facilitate networking within the community.
    
    

    SCOPE and TOPICS 

    The workshop aims to highlight the issues related to architecture of large scale
    and complex system like an IoT or Industry 4.0, though not restricted to it.
    We welcome submissions on techniques, experiments, experience reports and tools.
    The broad areas of interest for AIOTAS include, but are not limited to:
    
    * Architectures for Embedded Systems (Sensor-actuator network, IoT, Robotics)
    * Sensor and sensing technologies
    * Actuator and acting technologies
    * Low power and energy harvesting
    * Real-time systems
    * IoT data analytics
    * Cloud-based IoT
    * Embedded software
    * Smart devices
    * Connected Robots
     

    SUBMISSION INFORMATION 

    
    
    Papers should be original work, not published or submitted elsewhere written in English.
    We solicit detailed papers explaining techniques, solutions, tools or experience reports.
    Page limit is at most 8 pages and at least 6 pages, including references and artworks.
    Please prepare for double-blind review.
    
             https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiotas2018 
     
    The accepted papers will be published at ACM SIGBED Review. Please prepare for double-blind review.
    
    Formatting details are available at: 
    
             http://sigbed.seas.upenn.edu/submit.html 
     

    IMPORTANT DATES 

      Paper Submission Deadline:  March 23, 2018
    
      Notification of Acceptance: April 07, 2018
    
      Camera-ready Due:           May 07, 2018
    
      Workshop Day:               June 03, 2018 (Morning Half) 

    ORGANIZATION 

    Organizers:  Ansuman Banerjee, ISI Kolkata
                 Himadri Sekhar Paul, TCS R&I
                 Chayan Sarkar, TCS R&I
    
    
    PC Members:
                 Arijit Mukherjee (TCS Research)
                 Arindam Pal (TCS Research)
                 Bei Yu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
                 Hemangee Kapoor (IIT Guwahati)
                 Kishor Chandra (Delft University of Technology)
                 Kohinoor Basu (Intel Santa Clara)
                 Mingsong Chen (ECNU China)
                 Nilanjan Banerjee (Motif Politik)
                 Ravindra Metta (Tata Research and Development Center)
                 R R Venkatesha Prasad (Delft University of Technology)
                 Sangyoung Park (Technical University of Munich)
                 Smruti R. Sarangi (IIT Delhi)
                 Swaminathan Narayanswami (Technical University of Munich)
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  8. CALL FOR PAPERS

    The 25th Anniversary of the Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop
    RAW 2018

    May 21-22, 2018
    JW Marriot Parq Vancouver
    Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    QUICK LINK: Web site: http://raw.necst.it/

    IMPORTANT DATES:
    Submission deadline February 9, 2018

    Decision notification March 3, 2018

    Conference: May 21-22, 2018

    HOW TO CELEBRATE THE 25th ANNIVERSARY OF RAW

    6 INVITED SPEAKERS
    We will host a series of invited talks describing the history of this
field and future directions for reconfigurable computing, in alphabetical order:

    . Kaveh Aasaraai, Hardware Engineer at Jump Trading LLC

    . Juergen Becker, is professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and head of the ITIV institute

    . Derek Chiou, Principal Hardware Architect at Microsoft and associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin

    . Viktor K. Prasanna, Charles Lee Powell Chair in Engineering and Professor at the University of Southern California

    . Wayne Luk, Full Professor of Computer Engineering at Imperial College London

    . Markus Weimer, Leader of the  lead ML algo development team at Microsoft



    DESIGN CONTEST

    We are also pleased to announce the first edition of the Floorplanning
Design Contest. The registration to the contest is free, teams willing to
participate can simply apply online at: http://raw-floorplanning-contest.necst.it/.
The winning team will be invited to publish either a short or full paper at RAW
about the proposed floorplanning algorithm. The design contest will open on the
1st of February and will close on the 28th of February. At the end of the contest,
the winning team will be announced.



    FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/ReconfigurableArchitecturesWorkshop/
     
    The 25th Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop (RAW 2018) will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia CANADA in May 2018. RAW 2018 is associated with the 32nd Annual IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IEEE IPDPS 2018) and is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and the Technical Committee on Parallel Processing. The workshop is one of the major meetings for researchers to present ideas, results, and on-going research on both theoretical and practical advances in Reconfigurable Computing.

    A reconfigurable computing environment is characterized by the ability of underlying hardware architectures or devices to rapidly alter (often on the fly) the functionalities of their components and the interconnection between them to suit the problem at hand. The area has a rich theoretical tradition and wide practical applicability. There are several commercially available reconfigurable platforms (FPGAs and coarse-grained devices) and many modern applications (including embedded systems and HPC) use reconfigurable subsystems. An appropriate mix of theoretical foundations and practical considerations, including algorithms architectures, applications, technologies and tools, is essential to fully exploit the possibilities offered by reconfigurable computing. The Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop aims to provide a forum for creative and productive interaction for researchers and practitioners in the area.


    Submissions can be made through:
    . the RAW2017 web site: http://raw.necst.it/
    . EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=raw2018
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  9. ACM SIGBED Early Career Researcher Award:

    Call for Nominations


    ACM SIGBED  (http://sigbed.blogspot.fr/p/about.html) recently established Early Career Researcher Award to recognize contributions by junior researchers in the area of embedded, real-time, and cyber-physical systems. We now encourage SIGBED community members to nominate researchers for the inaugural 2018 award.

    Eligibility:

    The nominee should be a SIGBED member, should have obtained a PhD (or equivalent degree) after January 1, 2011, and have research focus on topics of relevance to SIGBED. See SIGBED webpage for SIGBED sponsored conferences to determine relevance and instructions regarding how to join SIGBED.

    Nomination Process:

    The nomination consists of a letter from the nominator summarizing the nominee's research contributions and explaining its significance and relevance to SIGBED, and two letters of endorsement. All the material should be sent by email to the chair of the award selection committee. Contact the chair for any questions.

    Nomination Deadline: January 15, 2018

    Selection Criteria:

    The award selection committee will review the nomination package and collectively choose the winner based on the significance of the contributions to the SIGBED community. The committee has the option to decline to make the award.

    Award Details:

    The chosen nominee will be notified by February 15, 2018, and the award will be presented by ACM SIGBED Chair at 2018 CPSWeek. The award consists of a plaque engraved with the nominee's name, $1000 honorarium, and upto $2000 towards support for travel to CPSWeek. Funding for the award is provided by ACM SIGBED.

    2018 Award Selection Committee:

    Rajeev Alur (Chair, email: alur@cis.upenn.edu),
    Sanjoy Baruah, Janos Sztipanovits, and Marilyn Wolf

    Conflict of Interest Policy:

    It is possible that members of the selection committee have worked with the nominees and may have a conflict of interest. The nominator should alert the chair about such conflicts. Conflicts of interest shall not automatically prevent a committee member from taking part in the selection process. However, if a member of the committee, or the chair of the committee, feels that the association of a committee member with a nominee would interfere with impartial consideration of the nominees, the member shall be excused from the relevant parts of the discussion. If the same committee member has conflicts with multiple nominees, the Chair of the committee may seek a replacement.
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  10. CALL FOR PAPERS 


    Topic D1: System Specification and Modeling 


    at Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE 2018), Dresden, Germany, March 19-23, 2018 https://www.date-conference.com/call-for-papers
     
     
     
    SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017. 

    All papers have to be submitted electronically via the conference web page (see https://www.date-conference.com/submission-instructions). 

    General Information 

     
    DATE 2018, will take place from 19 to 23 March, 2018, at the International Congress Center in Dresden, Germany. The conference addresses all aspects of research into technologies for electronic and embedded systems engineering. The conference has a dedicated track for Design Methods and Tools (Track D). This track addresses design automation, design tools and hardware architectures for electronic and embedded systems. The emphasis is on methods, algorithms, and tools related to the use of computers in designing complete systems. The track’s focus includes significant improvements on existing design methods and tools as well as forward-looking approaches to model and design future system architectures, design flows, and environments. 

    We invite you to submit papers to Topic D1: System Specification and Modeling 
     

    Main topics of interest of Topic D1

    Modeling and specification methodologies for complex HW-SW systems; requirements engineering; multi-domain/multi-criteria specifications; meta-modeling; design and specification languages; application and workload models; models of computation and their (static) analysis; concurrency and communication models; model- and component-based design; refinement and validation flows; modeling and analysis of functional and non-functional system properties; performance modeling; timing analysis; predictive and learning-based models; system-level platform and architecture models and simulation. 
     

    Topic members 

     Ingo Sander, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE, Topic Chair 
     Andreas Gerstlauer, University of Texas at Austin, US, Topic Co-Chair 
     Patricia Balbastre, Universtat Politecnica de Valencia, ES 
     Michael Hübner, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, DE
     Frederic Mallet, Univ. Nice Sophia Antipolis, FR 
     Gianluca Palermo, Politecnico di Milano, IT 
     Laurence Pierre, TIMA Lab., FR 
     Martin Radetzki, University of Stuttgart, DE 
     Sander Stuijk, Eindhoven University of Technology, NL 
     Jürgen Teich, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, DE 
     
     
     Yours sincerely, 

    Ingo Sander and Andreas Gerstlauer 
    DATE Topic D1 Chairs
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