CALL FOR PAPERS
&
CALL FOR WORKSHOPS/SESSIONS
Paper
Submission Deadline: March 15, 2014
ESA'14
The
2014 International Conference on Embedded
Systems and Applications
July
21-24, 2014, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, USA
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You are invited to submit a 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). See the following
links for a small
subset of the publications based on the accepted papers
of the federated
congress that ESA is part of: (some of these books and
journal special
issues have already received the top 25% downloads in
their respective
fields - we also have a number of Elsevier and Springer
books in the
pipeline based on the last offerings of the congress):
ESA'14 is composed of a number of tracks, including:
tutorials,
sessions, workshops, posters, and panel discussions. The
conference will
be held July 21-24, 2014, 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:
ASAP:
Workshop / Session Proposals (As Soon As Possible)
March 15, 2014:
Submission of full papers (about 7 pages)
April 15, 2014:
Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
May 3, 2014:
Final papers + Copyright + Registration
July 21-24, 2014:
The 2014 International Conference on Embedded Systems
and Applications (ESA'14)
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 15, 2014 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 that the
paper is being submitted for consideration (i.e., 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 ESA'14 proceedings will be published in printed
conference books
(ISBN) and will also be made available online. The
printed proceedings/
books will be available for distribution on site at the
conference. 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, & 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, many of
the proceedings
of the federated congress that ESA is part of were
included in these
databases. Therefore, we will also be sending the
proceedings for
indexing procedures to SCI EI Compendex/Elsevier.
In addition to the above, we have arranged two new book
series (multiple
books in each series); one with Elsevier publishers
(Emerging Trends in
Computer Science and Applied Computing) and another with
Springer publishers
(Transactions of Computational Science and Computational
Intelligence).
After the conference (the whole process takes 12 months),
a significant
number of authors of accepted papers of ESA, will be
given the
opportunity to submit the extended version of their
papers for publication
consideration in these books. We anticipate having
between 10 to 20 books
a year in each of these book series projects. Each book
in each series
will be subject to Elsevier and Springer science indexing
products (which
includes: Scopus, www.info.scopus.com;
SCI Compendex, Engineering Village,
examples of books/journals based on extended versions of
accepted papers
of the federated congress that ESA is part of:
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:
ESA 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
(i.e., 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 February 25, 2014.
CO-SPONSORS:
Currently being prepared - The Academic Sponsors of the
last offerings of
the congress that ESA was held jointly with, included
research labs
and centers affiliated with (each sponsored all or at
least one track of
the congress): Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA; George Mason
University, Virginia, USA; Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 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; and many others.
University, Virginia, USA; Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 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; and many 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; Aldebaran
Robotics Inc., USA; Impulse Accelerated Technologies,
Inc., USA; NVIDIA
Corporation, USA; Pico Computing, Inc., USA; Solarflare
Communications,
Inc., USA; Science Publications and many others.
MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:
Currently being finalized. The members of the Steering
Committee of the last
offerings of the congress that ESA was held jointly with,
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, Co-Director
of CENTRIC (Centre of Excellence in Terrorism,
Resilience, Intelligence &
organised Crime research), Sheffield Hallam University,
Sheffield, UK;
Prof. Nizar Al-Holou, Professor and Chair, Vice Chair,
IEEE/SEM-Computer
Chapter; University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan,
USA; 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,
University of Detroit
Mercy, Detroit, Michigan, USA; Prof. George Jandieri,
Georgian Technical
University, Tbilisi, Georgia and Chief Scientist at The
Institute of
Cybernetics, Georgian Academy of Science, Georgia; Prof.
D. V. Kodavade, Head
of Computer Science and Engineering, DKTE Institute,
India; Prof. Kun Chang
Lee, Professor of MIS and WCU Professor of Creativity
Science, Sungkyunkwan
University, Korea; Prof. George Markowsky, Professor and
Associate Director,
School of Computing and Information Science, Chair Int'l
Advisory Board of
IEEE IDAACS, Director 2013 Northeast Collegiate Cyber
Defense Competition,
University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA; Prof. G.N.
Pandey, Vice-Chancellor,
Arunachal University of Studies, India; Prof. James J. (Jong
Hyuk) Park,
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul,
Korea and President of
KITCS, President of FTRA, Editor-in-Chiefs: HCIS, JoC and
IJITCC Journals;
Prof. Fernando G. Tinetti, Universidad Nacional de La
Plata, Argentina,
Co-editor, Journal of CS and Technology (JCS&T); Dr.
Predrag Tosic, Microsoft,
Washington, USA; Prof. Vladimir Volkov, The
Bonch-Bruevich State University of
Telecommunications, Saint-Petersburg, Russia; Dr. Michael
R. Grimaila, Air
Force Institute of Technology, Fellow of ISSA, CISM,
CISSP, IAM/IEM, 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. Victor
Malyshkin, Head of Supercomputer Software Department,
Russian Academy of
Sciences, Russia; 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; 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 (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; and others.
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 (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; and others.
The 2014 Program Committee for ESA is currently being
compiled. Many who
have already joined the committee are renowned leaders,
scholars, researchers,
scientists and practitioners of the highest ranks.
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: Name, affiliation and position,
complete mailing address,
email address, a one-page biography that includes
research expertise & the
name of the conference (i.e., ESA).
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 2014 World Congress in Computer
Science, Computer
Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'14). The
Congress is among the
top five largest annual gathering of researchers in
computer science, computer
engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have
attendees from about
85 countries/territories.
The 2014 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
(Dean, Cornell
University - formerly at 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), Prof. Victor Raskin (Distinguished Professor,
Purdue University,
USA); Prof. Alfred Inselberg (School of Mathematical Sciences,
Tel Aviv
University, Israel; Senior Fellow, San Diego
Supercomputing Center;
Inventor of the multidimensional system of Parallel
Coordinates and
author of textbook); Prof. H. J. Siegel (Abell Endowed
Chair Distinguished
Professor of ECE and Professor of CS; Director, CSU
Information Science
and Technology Center (ISTeC), Colorado State University,
Colorado, USA);
and many other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling
about the
conferences' atmosphere, see some delegates photos
available at:
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 14, 2013, papers published in the
conference proceedings
that have been held as part of the joint Congress, have
received over
27,500 citations (includes about 3,300 self-citations).
Citation data
obtained from http://academic.research.microsoft.com/
. The citation data
does not even include more than 15,000 other citations to
papers in tracks
whose first offerings were initiated by this joint
congress.
MISCELLANEOUS:
The information that appears in this announcement is
correct as of
January 29, 2014
CONTACT:
Inquiries should be sent to: sc@world-comp.org