SAMOS XII Conference
Call for Papers - SAMOS XII: Int'l Conf. on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation
http://samos.et.tudelft.nl/
*** NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 24, 2012 ***
SAMOS is a premier and well-established conference on embedded systems
organized annually since 2001. The conference brings together
researchers from academia and industry on the quiet and inspiring
northern mountainside of the Mediterranean island of Samos. It provides
an environment where collaboration rather than competition is fostered.
The conference considers new state-of-the-art mature research papers on
all aspects of embedded processor hardware/software design and
integration. SAMOS XII has IEEE technical co-sponsorship by the IEEE CAS
Society (pending) and the IEEE SSCS Germany Chapter and the conference
proceedings will be published in the IEEE Xplore (pending). Authors are
invited to submit technical papers in accordance to the author's
instructions describing original work in one of the following tracks:
** The Applications, Systems, Architectures, and Processors Track **
This track focuses on advances in the efficient execution of code across
many platform domains. New microarchitectural techniques to improve the
performance of vector, reconfigurable, multimedia, graphics, real-time,
embedded, multithreading, SDR and low power processor architectures by
exploiting novel parallel execution, memory hierarchies and cache
architectures are welcomed. Moreover this track presents advances in
efficient application execution and system implementation technologies
exploiting novel architectural and microarchitectural techniques. Topics
of interest include (but are not limited to):
* Novel Architectures and Micro-architectures for Embedded Systems
* Application-specific and Domain-specific Embedded Systems
* Embedded Reconfigurable Processors
* Multimedia and Graphics Architectures and Processors
* Energy-Aware and Low-Power Processors
* Embedded Parallel Systems and Multiprocessor Systems-On-Chip
* Memory Management and Smart Caches
* Network-on-Chip Interconnects
* Digital Signal Processors / Software Defined Radios
** The Modeling, Design, and Design Space Exploration Track **
This track focuses on design processes for embedded systems:
specification and modeling languages and simulation, hardware/software
and system synthesis and compilation strategies; performance and power
estimation and analysis; design and design space exploration
methodologies. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* Hardware/Software and Algorithm/Architecture Co-design
* Design Space Exploration Strategies, Algorithms and CAD Tools
* Specification Languages and Models
* System-Level Design, Simulation, and Verification
* Hardware, Software and System Synthesis Techniques and CAD Tools
* MP-SoC and Platform Based Design Methodologies
* MP-SoC Programming, Compilers, Simulation and Mapping Technologies
* Profiling, Measurement and Analysis Techniques and CAD Tools
* (Design for) System Adaptivity
* Testing and Debugging
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version
of their work to contribute to a special issue of the International
Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP). This issue will accept papers
from all the topics of the SAMOS conference, ranging from the
Applications, Systems, Architectures, and Processors Track to the
Modeling, Design, and Design Space Exploration track.
** Samos Special session on Programming Paradigms for Reconfigurable
Multi-Core Embedded Systems **
Session Chairs: Dr. Diana Göhringer, Dr. Pedro Diniz
Heterogeneous and (dynamically) reconfigurable architectures targeting
offer a wide variety of resources and expose distinct execution models
(e.g., threading and streaming) as well as a wide range of hardware
resources (e.g., internal memories, custom configurable caches or
dedicated functional units) for design of application-specific computing
architectures. This diversity has exacerbated the already complex
application development process; the lack of powerful abstractions
forces a plethora of tools to coexist leaving the programmer to bridge
the gap between them at huge development costs. Developers cannot easily
express high-level applications requirements in the de facto standard
programming languages (such as data rates or throughput requirements) or
cannot rely on flexible resource management layers with
application-specific resources management policies to best leverage the
available resources. As a result applications typically do not exploit
the true potential of the target architectures. This session addresses
programming paradigms for these multi-core heterogeneous and
reconfigurable architectures. The issues addressed include programming
abstractions offered to the application developers along with run-time
and dynamic reconfigurable mechanisms that can support and enhance the
potential of these architectures.
** Samos Special session on FPGA-based Emulation of Hardware
Architectures **
Session Chair: Prof. Holger Blume
The steady increase of the performance capabilities of FPGA-based
emulation systems as well as the enhancement in the SW tools for the
design flow around FPGA-based emulators has led to an enormous
popularity of these systems. It is the goal of this special session:
* to provide an overview of the capabilities of state-of-the-art
FPGA-based emulators;
* to demonstrate the inclusion of FPGA-based emulators into mixed-level,
mixed-mode simulations and emulations through application of specific
design tools;
* to discuss challenging design stories out of different application
fields where FPGA-based emulation has been successfully applied.
** Samos Special session on Aspects of Cyber-Physical Systems **
Session Chair: Prof. Ed Deprettere
Physical systems that rely on feedback stabilizing control have been
known long before Norbert Wiener published his "Cybernetics" book 'The
Study of Control in The Animal and The Machine'. They are seldom stable
(enough), and can be stabilized by sensing certain system output signals
of interest, performing some computations on discrete-time versions of
these signals and desired or reference signals, injecting resulting
control signals back to the system's actuator inputs. In many current
physical systems, the feedback control part is typically an aggregation
of sensors, actuators, and networked embedded computational platforms.
The combination of the physical system and the control aggregation
system is called 'The Cyber Physical System'. Cyber Physical Systems are
more complicated than traditional Embedded Systems because requirements
such as functional 'and' temporal repeatability or even predictability
are hard to deal with, given the fact that classic time and state
notions are inadequate when dealing with components that are
communicating over unreliable interconnects, and that off-the-shelf
computational devices are neither repeatable nor predictable. This
special session is addressing solutions to partial problems of cyber
physical systems, be it with respect to the architecture, programming,
modeling, or simulation.
** Samos Panel **
The conference panel will be coordinated by Yale Patt, University of
Texas at Austin, and Trevor Mudge, University of Michigan. The panel
will focus on identifying the critical problems and opportunities
provided by the emerging multi-core era of the microprocessor.
SAMOS XII Organization:
* General Chair
S. Bhattacharyya, University of Maryland, US
* Program Chair
J. McAllister, The Queen's University of Belfast, UK
* Track Chairs
Applications, Systems, Architectures, and Processors:
D. Guevorkian, Tampere University of Technology, FI
M. Sima, University of Victoria, CAN
Modeling, Design, and Design Space Exploration:
H. Jeschke, Leibniz Universität Hannover, DE
S. Saha, MCT/NASA Ames Research Center, USA
* SAMOS Steering Committee
S. Bhattacharyya, University of Maryland, US
H. Blume, University of Hannover, DE
E. Deprettere, Leiden University, NL
N. Dimopoulos, University of Victoria, CA
G.N. Gaydadjiev, Chalmers University of Technology, SE
J. Glossner, Optimum Semiconductor Technologies, US
W. Najjar, University of California - Riverside, US
A.D. Pimentel, University of Amsterdam, NL
O. Silven, University of Oulu, FI
J. Takala, Tampere University of Technology, FI
S. Wong, TU Delft, NL
* Panel Sessions Chairs
T. Mudge, University of Michigan, US
Y. Patt, University of Texas - Austin, US
* Past Chair
L. Carro, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, BR
* Program Committee: See http://samos.et.tudelft.nl/
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Important Dates:
February 24, 2012 -- Paper Submission Deadline (EXTENDED)
April 14, 2012 -- Notification of Acceptance
May 11, 2012 -- Camera Ready Submission Deadline
July 16 - 19, 2012 -- SAMOS XII, Greece
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