19th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD 2016): First Call for Papers

*** First Call for Papers ***

19th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD 2016)

Aug. 31st - Sept. 2nd, 2016, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus

http://dsd2016.cs.ucy.ac.cy

Collocated with the 42nd Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering
and Advanced Applications (SEAA 2016)


SCOPE

The Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD) addresses all
aspects of (embedded, pervasive and high-performance) digital and mixed
HW/SW system engineering, covering the whole design trajectory from
specification down to micro-architectures, digital circuits and VLSI
implementations. It is a forum for researchers and engineers from academia
and industry working on advanced investigations, developments and
applications.

It focuses on today's and future challenges of advanced system architectures
for embedded and high-performance HW/SW systems, application analysis
and parallelization, design automation for all design levels, as well as, on
modern implementation technologies from full custom in nanometer
technology nodes, through FPGAs, to multi-core infrastructures. It covers a
multitude of highly relevant design aspects from system, hardware and 
embedded-software specification, modeling, analysis, synthesis and
validation, through system adaptability, security, dependability and fault 
tolerance, to system energy consumption minimization and multi-objective
optimization.

Authors are kindly invited to submit their work according (but not limited) 
to the seven main topics of the conference main track. In addition, eight
Special Sessions (with their own coordinators and subprogram committees) 
do also welcome contributions in specific themes of particular interest. 
All papers are reviewed following guidelines, quality requirements and
thresholds that are common to all committees.

MAIN TOPICS

T1: Advanced applications of embedded and cyber-physical systems

Challenging and highly-demanding modern applications in (wireless)
communication and networking; networked electronic media, multimedia
and ambient intelligence; image and video processing; mobile systems;
ubiquitous, wearable and implanted systems; military, space, avionics,
measurement, control and automotive applications; wireless sensor network
applications; surveillance and security; environmental, agriculture, urban,
building, transportation, traffic, energy, hazard and disaster monitoring
and control.

T2: Application analysis and parallelization for embedded and high-
performance hardware and software design

Application profiling, characterization and bottleneck detection; application
restructuring for parallelism; application parallelization, information-flow
analysis, scheduling and mapping for application-specific processor; MPSoC
memory and communication architecture synthesis; HW/SW co-design and
algorithm/architecture matching; combined hardware/software design space
exploration and HW/SW system multi-objective optimization; parallelization,
scheduling and mapping of applications for (heterogeneous) processor and
MPSoC architectures; re-targetable (application-specific) compilation;
architectural support for compilers/programming models; performance, 
energy consumption and other parametric analysis for HW/SW systems;
analytical modeling and simulation tools; benchmark applications, workload
and benchmarking for heterogeneous HW/SW systems; virtual and
FPGA-based system prototyping.

T3: Specification, modeling, analysis, verification and test for systems,
hardware and embedded software 

Modeling, simulation, design and verification languages; functional, structural
and parametric specification and modeling; model-based design and
verification; system, hardware, and embedded software analysis, simulation,
emulation, prototyping, formal verification, design-for-test and testing at all
design levels; dependability, safety, security and fault-tolerance issues. 

T4: Design and synthesis of systems, hardware and embedded software 

Quality-driven design; model-, platform- and template-based design;
design-space exploration; multi-objective optimization; system, processor,
memory and communication architecture design; application scheduling and
mapping to platforms; (Heterogeneous) multiprocessor systems on-a-chip
(MPSoC), hardware multiprocessors and complex accelerators; generic system
platforms and platform-based design; processor, memory and
communication architectures; 3D MPSoCs and 3D NoCs; ASIP- and
GPU-based platforms; software design and programming models for
multicore platforms; IP design, standardization and reuse; parallelism
exploitation and scalability techniques; virtual components; system of
systems; compiler assisted MPSoCs; hardware support for embedded kernels;
embedded software features; static, run-time and dynamic optimizations of
embedded MPSoCs; benchmarks and benchmarking for MPSoCs; NoC
architecture and quality of service; power dissipation and energy issues in
SoCs and NoCs.

T6: Programmable/reconfigurable/adaptable architectures

Design methodologies and tools for reconfigurable computing; run-time, 
partial and dynamic reconfiguration; fine-grained, mixed-grained and
coarse-grained reconfigurable architectures; reconfigurable interconnections
and NoCs; FPGAs; systems on reconfigurable chip; system FPGAs, structured
ASICs; co-processors; processing arrays; programmable fabrics; adaptive
computing devices, systems and software; adaptable ASIPs and ASIP-based
MPSoCs; hardware accelerators; optimization of FPGA-based cores; shared
resource management; novel models, design algorithms and tools for FPGAs
and FPGA-based systems; rapid prototyping systems and platforms;
adaptable wireless and mobile systems.

T7: New issues introduced by emerging technologies

Important issues for system, circuit and embedded software design
introduced by e.g. the nanometer CMOS and beyond CMOS technologies, 3D
integration, optical and other new memory and communication technologies;
new human-machine interfaces; neural- and bio-computation; (bio) sensor
and sensor network technologies; pervasive and ubiquitous computing
(Internet of Things); related design methods and EDA tools; Flexible Digital
Radio-digital architecture design and methodologies concepts for
multi-standard, multi-mode flexible radios.

SPECIAL SESSIONS/ORGANIZERS

DTFT: Dependability, Testing and Fault Tolerance in Digital Systems
H. Kubatova (CTU Prague, CZ), Z. Kotasek (TU Brno, CZ)

MCSDIA: Mixed Criticality System Design, Implementation and Analysis
K. Gruttner (OFFIS, DE), E. Villar (TEISA U Cantabria, ES)

AHSA: Architectures and Hardware for Security Applications
Paris Kitsos (TEI of Western Greece, GR)

DCPS: Design of Heterogeneous Cyber-Physical Systems
M. Geilen, (TUE, NL), D. Quaglia (U Verona, IT)

ASHWPA: Advanced Systems in Healthcare, Wellness and Personal Assistance
F. Leporati (U Pavia, IT)

ASAIT: Architectures and Systems for Automotive and Intelligent
Transportation
S. Niar (U Valenciennes, FR)

SDSG: System Design for the Smart Grid
R. Jacobsen (Aarhus U, DK), E. Ebeid (Aarhus U, DK)

EPDSD: European Projects in Digital System Design
F. Leporati (U Pavia, IT), L. Jozwiak (TUE, NL)

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Authors are encouraged to submit their manuscripts to
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dsd2016. 
Should an unexpected web access problem be encountered, please contact
the Program Chair by email (dsd2016@easychair.org).

Each manuscript should include the complete paper text, all illustrations,
and references. The manuscript should conform to the IEEE format:
single-spaced, double column, US letter page size, 10-point size Times
Roman font, up to 8 pages. In order to conduct a blind review, no indication
of the authors' names should appear in the manuscript, references included.

CPS, Conference Publishing Services, publishes the (ISI indexed) DSD
Proceedings, available worldwide through the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
Extended versions of selected best papers will be published in a special
issue of the ISI indexed "Microprocessors and Microsystems: Embedded
Hardware Design" Elsevier journal
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/microprocessors-and-microsystems/

IMPORTANT DATES

· Submission of papers: April 8, 2016
· Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 30, 2016
· Camera-Ready submission: June 27, 2016

DSD STEERING COMMITTEE

· Lech Jozwiak (TU Eindhoven, NL) - Chairman
· Krzysztof Kuchcinski (U Lund, SE)
· Antonio Nunez (IUMA/ULPGC, ES)
· Francesco Leporati (U Pavia, IT)
· Eugenio Villar (TEISA U Cantabria, ES)
· Jose Silva Matos (U Porto, PT)

PROGRAM CHAIRS 

· Paris Kitsos (TEI West. Greece, GR) - Chair
· Odysseas Koufopavlou (U Patras, GR) - Honorary Chair

GENERAL CHAIR

· George A. Papadopoulos (U Cyptus, CY)