CALL FOR
PAPERS
and
CALL FOR WORKSHOPS/SESSIONS
Paper Submission Deadline: March
18, 2013
ESA'13
The 2013 International
Conference on
Embedded Systems and
Applications
July 22-25, 2013, Las Vegas,
USA
You are invited
to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted papers will be published
in printed conference books/proceedings (ISBN) and will also be made available
online. The proceedings will be indexed in science citation databases that
track citation frequency/data for each paper. In addition, like prior years,
extended versions of selected papers (about 35%) will appear in journals and
edited research books (publishers include: Springer, Elsevier, BMC, and
others). ESA'13 is composed of a number of tracks, including: tutorials,
sessions, workshops, posters, and panel discussions. The conference will be
held July 22-25, 2013, Las Vegas, USA.
SCOPE: Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
O Embedded system architecture:
Multiprocessors, reconfigurable platforms,
memory management support,
communication, protocols, network-on-chip,
real-time systems,
embedded microcontrollers, ...
O Embedded hardware support:
System-on-a-chip, DSPs, FPGAs, hardware
specification, synthesis,
modeling, simulation and analysis,
power-aware systems, testable,
reliable, verifiable systems, performance
modeling, safety critical
systems, VLIW architectures, System on Chip design,
...
O Real-time systems:
Software, distributed real-time systems,
real-time kernels,
real-time OS, task scheduling, multitasking
design, ...
O Embedded software:
Compilers, assemblers and cross assemblers,
programming, memory
management, object-oriented aspects, virtual
machines, scheduling,
concurrent software for SoCs,
distributed/resource aware OS,
middleware support, and software utilities,
...
O Hardware/software co-design:
Methodologies, test and debug strategies,
specification and
modeling, design representation, synthesis,
partitioning,
estimation, design space exploration beyond
traditional hardware/
software boundary, and algorithms, ...
O Testing techniques:
Design-for-test, test synthesis, built-in
self-test, embedded test,
for embedded and system-on-a-chip systems.
O Application-specific processors and devices:
Network processors, real-time processors,
media and signal
processors, application specific hardware
accelerators,
reconfigurable processors, low power
embedded processors,
bio/fluidic processors, hand-held devices,
flash memory chips, ...
O Industrial practices and benchmark suites:
System design, processor design, software,
tools, case studies,
trends, emerging technologies, benchmark
suites, representation,
interchange format, tools, copyrights,
maintenance, metrics, ...
O Embedded computing education:
Curriculum issues, teaching tools and
methods.
O Emerging new topics:
New challenges for next generation embedded
computing systems,
arising from new technologies (e.g.,
nanotechnology), new
applications (e.g., pervasive or ubiquitous
computing, embedded
internet tools, embedded Engineering), ...
IMPORTANT DATES:
January 31,
2013: Workshop / Session Proposals
March 18,
2013: Submission of full papers (about
7 pages)
April 18,
2013: Notification of acceptance (+/-
two days)
May 5,
2013: Final papers + Copyright +
Registration
July 22-25,
2013: The 2013 International Conference
on Embedded Systems
and Applications (ESA'13)
CO-SPONSORS:
Currently being
prepared - The Academic Sponsors of the last offering of ESA (2012) included
research labs and centers affiliated with:
Minnesota
Supercomputing Institute, USA; Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA;
George Mason University, Virginia, USA; Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, USA; Center for Cyber Defense, NCAT, North Carolina, USA; Center
for Advanced Studies in Identity Sciences (CASIS:
NC A&T,
Carnegie Mellon, Clemson, UNC Wilmington), USA; Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; Texas A&M University, USA;
UMIT, Institute of Bioinformatics and Translational Research, Austria;
University of Iowa, USA; Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; NDSU-CIIT
Green Computing and Communications Laboratory, USA; Medical Image HPC and
Informatics Lab, Iowa, USA; and others.
Sponsors
At-Large included (corporate, associations, organizations):
Intel
Corporation; Super Micro Computer, Inc., California, USA; Altera Corporation;
The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics; International
Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine; US Chapter of World Academy of
Science; High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology; Luna Innovations; World
Academy of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies; Manx Telecom; Computer Science
Research, Education, and Applications Press; HoIP Telecom; Hodges Health;
Leading Knowledge; OMG; Science Publications and others.
SUBMISSION OF
REGULAR PAPERS:
Prospective
authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them to the evaluation
web site at: http://world-comp.org .
Submissions must
be uploaded by March 18, 2013 and must be in either MS doc or pdf formats
(about 7 pages including all figures, tables, and references - single space,
font size of 10 to 12). All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable
(later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular
typesetting format to prepare their final papers for publication.) Papers must
not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication
elsewhere.
The first page
of the paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal
address, and email address for each author. The first page should also identify
the name of the Contact Author and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would
best represent the content of the paper. The name of the conference (ie, ESA)
must also be stated on the first page of the paper as well as a 100 to 150-word
abstract. The length of the final/Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be
limited to 7 (two-column IEEE style) pages.
Each paper will
be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for originality, significance,
clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of contradictory recommendations, a
member of the conference program committee would be charged to make the final
decision (accept/reject); often, this would involve seeking help from
additional referees.
Papers whose authors
include a member of the conference program committee will be evaluated using
the double-blinded review process.
(Essay/philosophical
papers will not be refereed but may be considered for discussion/panels).
The proceedings
will be published in printed conference books (ISBN) and will also be made
available online. The proceedings will be indexed in science citation databases
that track citation frequency/data for each published paper. Science citation
databases include: Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering &
Technology; The French National Center for Scientific Research, CNRS, INIST
databases, PASCAL (accessable from INIST, Datastar, Dialog, EBSCO, OVID,
Questel.Orbit, Qwam, and STN International); and others. Though, there is no
guarantee that the proceedings will also be included in SCI EI
Compendex/Elsevier indexings; in the past, the proceedings were included in
these databases. Therefore, we will also be sending the proceedings for
indexing procedures to SCI EI Compendex/Elsevier. The printed proceedings/books
will be available for distribution on site at the conference.
SUBMISSION OF
POSTER PAPERS:
Poster papers
can be 2 pages long. Authors are to follow the same instructions that appear
above (see, SUBMISSION OF REGULAR PAPERS) except for the submission is limited
to 2 pages. On the first page, the author should state that "This paper is
being submitted as a poster". Poster papers (if accepted) will be
published if and only the author of the accepted paper wishes to do so.
PROPOSAL FOR
ORGANIZING WORKSHOPS/SESSIONS:
Each conference
is composed of a number of tracks. A track can be a session, a workshop, or a
symposium. A session will have at least 6 papers; a workshop at least 12
papers; and a symposium at least 18 papers. Track chairs will be responsible
for all aspects of their tracks, including:
soliciting
papers, reviewing, selecting, ... The names of track chairs will appear as
Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and on the cover of the printed
books (and indexed in science databases as such).
Proposals to
organize tracks (sessions, workshops, or symposiums) should include the
following information: name and address (+ email) of proposer, his/her
biography, title of track, a 100-word description of the topic of the track,
the name of the conference the track is submitted for consideration (ie, ESA),
and a short description on how the track will be advertised (in most cases,
track proposers solicit papers from colleagues and researchers whose work is
known to the track proposer).
E-mail your
track proposal to editor@world-comp.org . We would like to receive the track
proposals as soon as possible but by no later than January 31, 2013.
MEMBERS OF
PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:
Currently being
finalized. The members of the Steering Committee of The
2012 Congress
that ESA was (and will be) part of included: Dr. Selim Aissi, (formerly: Chief
Strategist - Security, Intel Corporation, USA) Senior Business Leader &
Chief Architect, Visa Corporation, USA; Prof.
Babak Akhgar,
PhD, FBCS, CITP, Professor of Informatics, Sheffield Hallam University,
Sheffield, UK; Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia, Professor of Computer Science, Elected
Fellow of ISIBM, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Supercomputing (Springer),
University of Georgia, USA; Prof. Kevin Daimi, Professor of Computer Science,
Director of Computer Science and Software Engineering Programs, Department of
Mathematics, Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Detroit
Mercy, Detroit, Michigan, USA; Prof. Gerry Vernon Dozier, Professor of Computer
Science, Chair of Department of Computer Science and Director of Center for
Advanced Studies in Identity Sciences, Center for Cyber Defense, North Carolina
A&T State University, North Carolina, USA; Dr. Michael R.
Grimaila,
Associate Professor, Air Force Institute of Technology, Systems Engineering,
Fellow of ISSA, CISM, CISSP, IAM/IEM, Editorial Board of ISSA Journal, Air
Force Center of Cyberspace Research, Advisor to the Prince of Wales Fellows
& Prince Edward Fellows at MIT and Harvard Universities and PC member of
NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCD COE); Prof. Kun Chang
Lee, Professor of MIS and WCU Professor of Creativity Science, Business School
and Department of Interaction Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South
Korea; Prof., Dr., Dr.h. Victor Malyshkin, Head of Supercomputer Software
Department (SSD), Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical
Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; Prof. George Markowsky,
Professor and Chair of Computer Science, Associate Director of School of
Computing and Information Science, Chair of International Advisory Board of
IEEE IDAACS and Director 2013 Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition,
Chair Bangor Foreign Policy Forum, Cooperating Professor of Mathematics &
Statistics Department UMaine, Cooperating Professor of School of Policy &
International Affairs UMaine, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA; Prof.
Andy Marsh, Director of HoIP, Director of HoIP Telecom, UK, Secretary-General
of WABT, Vice- president of ICET, Visiting Professor, University of
Westminster, UK; Prof. James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park, Professor of Computer Science
and Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology
(SeoulTech), Korea, President of KITCS, Presidentof FTRA, Editor-in-Chiefs of
HCIS, JoC and IJITCC Journals; Ashu M. G. Solo (Publicity Chair), Fellow of
British Computer Society, Principal/Interdisciplinary R&D Engineer and
Mathematician, Maverick Technologies America; Prof. Sang C. Suh, Head and
Professor of Computer Science, Vice President, of Society for Design and
Process Science (SDPS), Director of Intelligent Cyberspace Engineering Lab
(ICEL), Texas A&M University, Com., Texas, USA; Prof. Layne T. Watson, IEEE
Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow, Fellow of The National Institute of
Aerospace, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Virginia, USA
The 2013 Program
Committee for ESA conference is currently being compiled. Many who have already
joined the committees are renowned leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists
and practitioners of the highest ranks; many are directors of research labs.,
fellows of various societies, heads/chairs of departments, program directors of
research funding agencies, as well as deans and provosts.
Program
Committee members are expected to have established a strong and documented
research track record. Those interested in joining the Program Committee should
email editor@world-comp.org the following information for
consideration/evaluation: Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing
address, email address, a one-page biography that includes research expertise
and the name of the conference (ie, ESA) offering to help with.
GENERAL
INFORMATION:
ESA is an
international conference that serves researchers, scholars, professionals,
students, and academicians who are looking to both foster working relationships
and gain access to the latest research results.
It is being held
jointly (same location and dates) with a number of other research conferences;
namely, The 2013 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and
Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP). The Congress is the largest annual gathering of
researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. We
anticipate to have 2,100 or more attendees from over 85 countries.
The 2013
Congress will be composed of research presentations, keynote lectures, invited
presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and poster presentations. In
recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel speakers have included: Prof. David A.
Patterson (pioneer, architecture, U. of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric
Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as
Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as
Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy
(pioneer, VR, U.
of California,
Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim
Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John
Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D.
Athey (NIH Program Director, U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna
(pioneer, U. of Southern California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director
and Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard
U.), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi (Head,
NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director, Project
Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA; Director, NASA's
JPL Solar System Exploration), Prof. David Lorge Parnas (Fellow of IEEE, ACM,
RSC, CAE, GI; Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof. Emeritus, McMaster U. and U. of
Limerick), Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor,
Purdue University), Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief
Technology Officer, SourceTrace Systems, Inc.), Prof. Haym Hirsh (Rutgers
University, New Jersey, USA and former director of Division of Information and
Intelligent Systems, National Science Foundation, USA), Dr. Flavio Villanustre
(Vice- President, HPCC Systems), and many other distinguished speakers. To get
a feeling about the Congress's atmosphere, see the 2012 delegates photos
available at: http://infinitydempsey.smugmug.com/WorldComp
An important
mission of the Congress is "Providing a unique platform for a diverse
community of constituents composed of scholars, researchers, developers,
educators, and practitioners. The Congress makes concerted effort to reach out
to participants affiliated with diverse entities (such as: universities,
institutions, corporations, government agencies, and research centers/labs)
from all over the world. The Congress also attempts to connect participants
from institutions that have teaching as their main mission with those who are
affiliated with institutions that have research as their main mission. The
Congress uses a quota system to achieve its institution and geography diversity
objectives."
One main goal of
the Congress is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research conferences,
workshops, and symposiums into a coordinated research meeting held in a common
place at a common time. This model facilitates communication among researchers
in different fields of computer science, computer engineering, and applied
computing. The Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary and
inter-disciplinary research initiatives; ie, facilitating increased
opportunities for cross-fertilization across sub-disciplines.
MEASURABLE
SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:
As of December
2012, papers published in the Congress proceedings have received over 27,000
citations (includes about 2,000 self-citations).
Citation data
obtained from http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ .
CONTACT:
Inquiries should
be sent to: sc@world-comp.org
