[hpc-announce] ASAP 2014: First Call for Papers

[Haohuan Fu]

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                 Call for Papers: ASAP 2014
            25th IEEE International Conference on
   Application-specific Systems,  Architectures and Processors
       18-20 June 2014, IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland
               http://www.asap-conference.org

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Important Dates

 - Abstract Due: 7 February 2014
 - Paper Submission: 14 February 2014
 - Notification of Acceptance: 1 April 2014
 - Conference: 18-20 June 2014

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Quick Links

 - Conference        http://www.asap-conference.org
 - Call for Papers   http://www.zurich.ibm.com/asap2014/asap2014-cfp.pdf
 - Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=asap2014

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The ASAP 2014 conference will be organized by IBM Research - Zurich
and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH).
The conference will cover the theory and practice of application-specific
systems, architectures and processors. The 2014 conference will build
upon traditional strengths in areas such as computer arithmetic,
cryptography, compression, signal and image processing, network processing,
reconfigurable computing, and all types of hardware accelerators.
We especially encourage submissions in the following areas:

  - Big data analytics: extracting and correlating information from large-scale
    semi-structured and unstructured data using application-specific systems.

  - Scientific computing: architectures and algorithms that address scientific
    applications requiring significant computing power and design customization
        (bioinformatics, climate modeling, astrophysics, seismology, etc.).

  - Industrial computing: systems and architectures for providing high-
    throughput or low latency in various industrial computing applications.

  - System security: cryptographic hardware architectures, security processors,
    countermeasures against side-channel attacks, and secure cloud computing.

  - Heterogeneous systems: applications and platforms that exploit heterogeneous
    computing resources, including FPGAs, GPUs, or CGRAs.

  - Design space exploration: methods for customizing and tuning application-
    specific architectures to improve efficiency and productivity.

  - Platform-specific architectures: novel architectures for exploiting specific
    compute domains such as smartphones, tablets, and data centers, particularly
    in the context of energy efficiency.

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Submissions

ASAP 2014 will accept 8-page (US letter-size pages, double column) full papers
for oral presentations, 4-page short papers for short oral or poster
presentations, with a single-blind review process. Full papers may have a
maximum of two extra pages at a fee of USD 100 per page.

Submissions to ASAP 2014 must use the double-column IEEE conference
proceedings format. The only accepted file format is PDF. An online submission
page is available on the ASAP 2014 website and includes detailed guidelines and
links to formatting templates. Selected papers from ASAP 2014 will be
invited for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Signal Processing
Systems.

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Conference Venue

The conference is hosted at

    IBM Research – Zurich
    Säumerstrasse 4
    CH-8803 Rüschlikon (Switzerland)

http://www.zurich.ibm.com/asap2014/venue.html

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Conference Organization

General Chair:
Kubilay Atasu, IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland

General Co-Chair:
Melissa Smith, Clemson University, USA

Program Co-Chairs:
Haohuan Fu, Tsinghua University, China
David Thomas, Imperial College London, UK

Industrial chair:
Christoph Hagleitner, IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland

Finance chair:
Andreas Doering, IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland

Publication chair:
Esam El-Araby, Catholic University of America, USA

Publicity co-chairs:
Jason Bakos, University of South Carolina, USA
Dirk Koch, University of Manchester, UK
Kentaro Sano, Tohoku University, Japan

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Please direct questions about the program and the submission process to
Haohuan Fu (haohuan at tsinghua.edu.cn) and David Thomas (dt10 at imperial.ac.uk).