ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (ACM TECS)
Call For Papers
Special Issue on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded
Systems
As the complexity of the application domains for the embedded systems
increases, new research challenges are encountered for achieving desired level
of performance goals (which could be diverse such as speed, real time
constraints, code size, power, reliability, and scalability). Due to limited resources
locally available, embedded systems are increasingly used in a networked (wired,
wireless, as well as mobile) environment. In addition, advances in hardware
reflect into solving issues using a combination of hardware and software
techniques. The aim of this special issue is to provide present recent advances
and the state-of-the-art in languages, compilers, and tools for embedded
systems. Submissions are being solicited by the guest editors (see below) in
areas relevant to this theme.
Examples of areas/topics of interest include
- Programming languages for embedded systems
- Operating system kernels for embedded systems
- Analysis, specification and design of embedded systems
- Validation and verification techniques for embedded systems
- Profiling and debugging of embedded systems
- Embedded system integration and testing
- Embedded computer architecture
- Development environments and tools for embedded systems
- Standardization for embedded systems
- Reliability and security for embedded systems
- Compilers for reconfigurable architectures, and for hardware/software
co-design
- Optimizations for low power, for low energy, for reliability, for code and data size
reduction
- Optimizations for (real-time) performance
- Exploitation of memory hierarchies, memory management/garbage collection
for embedded systems
- Timing analysis, timing predictability, and real-time scheduling analysis
- Exception and interrupt handling for real-time systems
- Real-time and embedded Java, real-time UML
A selected number of top papers from
LCTES'06 are invited by the guest editors.
Authors of these papers are asked to extend their work for a TECS journal
publication, which is then subjected to a second, rigorous review process.
Notified authors of the top LCTES should submit their journal version at Manuscript Central adhering to the
formatting instructions
on the TECS Web page and indicate that you
are submitting to the Special Issue on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for
Embedded Systems.
Important Dates
Submission Deadline: October 1, 2006
Acceptance
Notice: January 15, 2007
Guest Editors
Koen
De Bosschere
Ghent University, Belgium
Electronics Department
kdb@elis.ugent.be
Mary Jane Irwin
Pennsylvania State University, USA
Dept of CSE
mji@cse.psu.edu