33rd ACM/SIGAPP SAC Symposium on Applied Computing
April 9-13, 2018. Pau, France.
T r a c k EMBS
EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
New Perspectives
for Hardware, System Software, and Applications
http://retis.sssup.it/sac2018
Submission page:
https://www.softconf.com/h/sac2018
Conference (main) page
http://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2018/
IMPORTANT DATES
Full paper submission: September 15, 2017
Author notification: November 20, 2017.
Camera ready paper: November 25, 2017.
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 15, 2017
Author notification: November 20, 2017.
Camera ready paper: November 25, 2017.
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/sac2018/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
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