[hpc-announce] CALL FOR PAPERS: ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED International Conference on Languages, Compilers, Tools and Theory of Embedded Systems (LCTES 2023)

[Younghyun Cho]

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*ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED International Conference on Languages, Compilers, 
Tools and Theory of Embedded Systems (LCTES 2023)*

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                           Call for Papers



Co-located with PLDI and FCRC 2023

Orlando, Florida

June 18, 2023

https://pldi23.sigplan.org/home/LCTES-2023 
<https://pldi23.sigplan.org/home/LCTES-2023>



Programming languages, compilers, and tools are important interfaces 
between embedded systems and emerging applications in the real world. 
Embedded systems are aggressively adapted for deep neural network 
applications, autonomous vehicles, robots, healthcare applications, etc. 
However, these emerging applications impose challenges that conflict 
with conventional design requirements and increase the complexity of 
embedded system designs. Furthermore, they exploit new hardware 
paradigms to scale up multicores (including GPUs and FPGAs) and 
distributed systems built from many cores. Therefore, programming 
languages, compilers, and tools are becoming more important to address 
these issues, such as productivity, validation, verification, 
maintainability, safety, and reliability for meeting both performance 
goals and resource constraints.


The 24th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED International Conference on Languages, 
Compilers, Tools and Theory of Embedded Systems (LCTES 2023) solicits 
papers presenting original work on programming languages, compilers, 
tools, theory, and architectures that help in overcoming these 
challenges. Research papers on innovative techniques are welcome, as 
well as experience papers on insights obtained by experimenting with 
real-world systems and applications. Papers can be submitted to 
https://lctes23.hotcrp.com/ <https://lctes23.hotcrp.com/>.



Important Dates


* Paper submission deadline: March 16, 2023 (firm deadline)

* Paper notification: April 21, 2023

* Artifact submission deadline: May 1, 2023

* Artifact decision: May 12, 2023

* Camera-ready deadline: May 15, 2023

* Conference: June 18, 2023



Paper Categories


* Full paper: 10 pages presenting original work.

* Work-in-progress paper: 4 pages papers presenting original ideas that 
are likely to trigger interesting discussions.


Accepted papers in both categories will appear in the proceedings 
published by ACM. In addition, this year’s LCTES introduces two journal 
modes.


* All accepted full papers will be invited to be published in a special 
issue of the ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS). A 
TECS publication will require substantial additional material over the 
conference publication and will undergo a separate review process.

* Rejected full papers may have the option to submit their work to the 
IEEE Embedded Systems Letters (ESL; 4 pages). IEEE ESL submissions will 
undergo a separate review process.



Original contributions are solicited on the topics of interest 
including, but not limited to:


Programming language challenges

* Domain-specific languages

* Features to exploit multicore, reconfigurable, and other emerging

   architectures

* Features for distributed, adaptive, and real-time control embedded systems

* Capabilities for specification, composition, and construction of 
embedded systems

* Language features and techniques to enhance reliability, 
verifiability, and security

* Virtual machines, concurrency, inter-processor synchronization, and 
memory management


Compiler challenges

* Interaction between embedded architectures, operating systems, and 
compilers

* Interpreters, binary translation, just-in-time compilation, and split 
compilation

* Support for enhanced programmer productivity

* Support for enhanced debugging, profiling, and exception/interrupt 
handling

* Optimization for low power/energy, code/data size, and real-time 
performance

* Parameterized and structural compiler design space exploration and 
auto-tuning


Tools for analysis, specification, design, and implementation

* Hardware, system software, application software, and their interfaces

* Distributed real-time control, media players, and reconfigurable 
architectures

* System integration and testing

* Performance estimation, monitoring, and tuning

* Run-time system support for embedded systems

* Design space exploration tools

* Support for system security and system-level reliability

* Approaches for cross-layer system optimization


Theory and foundations of embedded systems

* Predictability of resource behavior: energy, space, time

* Validation and verification, in particular of concurrent and 
distributed systems

* Formal foundations of model-based design as the basis for code 
generation, analysis, and verification

* Mathematical foundations for embedded systems

* Models of computations for embedded applications


Novel embedded architectures

* Design and implementation of novel architectures

* Workload analysis and performance evaluation

* Architecture support for new language features, virtualization, 
compiler techniques, debugging tools

* Architectural features to improve power/energy, code/data size, and 
predictability


Mobile systems and IoT

* Operating systems for mobile and IoT devices

* Compiler and software tools for mobile and IoT systems

* Energy management for mobile and IoT devices

* Memory and IO techniques for mobile and IoT devices



For additional information and the ACM Publications Policies refer to 
the LCTES’23 website at https://pldi23.sigplan.org/home/LCTES-2023 
<https://pldi23.sigplan.org/home/LCTES-2023>.

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