[hpc-announce] Call for Papers: SAMOS 2019

[Pimentel, Andy]

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                   CALL FOR PAPERS

 19th International Conference on embedded computer Systems:  
          Architectures, MOdeling and Simulation

                   S A M O S    X I X

            Pythagoreio, Samos Island, Greece

                    July 7 - 11, 2019
		  
                www.samos-conference.com
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SAMOS is a unique conference. It deals with embedded systems 
(sort of) but that is not what makes it different. It brings 
together every year researchers from both academia and 
industry on the quiet and inspiring coast of the Mediterranean 
island of Samos, which in itself is different. 
But more importantly, it really fosters collaboration rather 
than competition. Formal and intensive technical sessions are 
only held in the mornings. A lively panel or distinguished 
keynote speaker ends the formal part of the day, and leads 
nicely into the afternoons and evenings -- reserved for 
informal discussions, good food, and the inviting Aegean Sea. 
The conference papers will be published by Springer's Lecture 
Notes in Computer Science - LNCS (pending)  and will be 
included in the DBLP Database. Authors are invited to submit 
technical papers in accordance to the author's instructions 
describing original work.

IMPORTANT DATES
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- Submission deadline: March 1, 2019
- Notification of acceptance: April 26, 2019
- Camera-ready submission deadline: May 17, 2019


TOPICS OF INTEREST
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The SAMOS conference seeks paper contributions in two main areas:

1) Applications, Systems, Architectures, and Processors:

This topic area focuses on advances in systems efficiency in 
various domains. We seek original contributions describing 
new architectural and micro architectural techniques aiming 
to improve performance (e.g. processing throughput or real-time 
latency), energy and power efficiency, reliability and 
dependability of embedded systems. We solicit novel architectures 
and computing methodologies and solutions for accelerating 
applications in various embedded domains such as next generation 
life sciences and medicine, next generation automotive and avionics, 
next generation (machine) learning systems for surveillance and 
recognition, immersive virtual reality. 

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Novel Architectures for Accelerators in High Performance Embedded 
  Systems;
- Application-specific and Domain-specific Embedded Heterogeneous 
  Multicore Systems;
- Embedded Reconfigurable Processors;
- Software tools, Compilation techniques and optimizations, and 
  Code generation for Reconfigurable Architectures;
- Architecture synthesis from Functional Languages Descriptions;
- Virtualization and Energy-aware Secure, Reliable, and High 
  Availability Multi-core Architectures;
- Embedded Parallel Systems and Multiprocessor Systems-On-Chip;
- Application level Resource Management of Multi-core Architectures;
- Memory Systems and Management for big data;
- In-/near-memory processing;
- Approximate Computing;
- Network-on-Chip, Software Defined Network-on-Chips.

2) Modeling, Design, and Design Space Exploration:

This topic area focuses on all design processes for embedded systems 
ranging from system-level specification, design languages, modeling 
and simulation, performance, power, reliability and thermal estimation 
and analysis, hardware/software and system synthesis, design and design 
space exploration methodologies down to hardware and software synthesis 
and compilation strategies. 

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Hardware/Software and Algorithm/Architecture Co-design;
- Design Space Exploration Strategies, Algorithms and CAD Tools;
- Specification Languages and Models;
- System-Level Design, Simulation, and Verification;
- Hardware, Software and System Synthesis Techniques and CAD Tools;
- MP-SoC and Platform Based Design Methodologies;
- MP-SoC Programming, Compilers, Simulation and Mapping Technologies;
- Profiling, Measurement and Analysis Techniques and CAD Tools;
- (Design for) System Adaptivity;
- Testing and Debugging.


TUTORIALS & SPECIAL SESSIONS 
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SAMOS XIX plans to feature tutorials on Memory Systems and Quantum 
Computing, as well as  various special sessions on, for example, 
machine learning implementations, approximate computing and 
negative results.

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
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Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended 
version of their work to contribute to a special issue of Springer's 
Journal of Signal Processing Systems. 

TRAVEL GRANTS
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The conference will award 10 travel grants to authors and participants, 
who are students from Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Portugal, and Spain and, 
in general, to people without support from their organization.