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LCTES provides a link between the programming languages and embedded
systems engineering communities. Researchers and developers in these
areas are addressing many similar problems, but with different
backgrounds and approaches. LCTES is intended to expose researchers and
developers from either area to relevant work and interesting problems in
the other area and provide a forum where they can interact.</div>
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LCTES 2014 is co-located with PLDI 2014, in<span> </span><b>Edinburgh, UK, June 12 -- 13, 2014</b>. This will be the fifteenth conference in the LCTES series.</div><div style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:start;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">
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<font size="4"><b>Call for Papers</b></font></div><div style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:start;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">
Embedded system design faces many challenges both with respect to
functional requirements and nonfunctional requirements, many of which
are conflicting. They are found in areas such as design and developer
productivity, verification, validation, maintainability, and meeting
performance goals and resource constraints. Novel design-time and
run-time approaches are needed to meet the demand of emerging
applications and to exploit new hardware paradigms, and in particular to
scale up to multicores (including GPUs and FPGAs) and distributed
systems built from multicores.</div>
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LCTES 2014 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.</div>
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Papers are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics in embedded systems:</div><div style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:start;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">
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Programming language challenges, including:</div><div style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:start;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">
<ul><li style="margin-left:15px">Domain-specific languages</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Features to exploit multicore, reconfigurable, and other emerging architectures</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Features for distributed, adaptive, and real-time control embedded systems</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Language capabilities for specification, composition, and construction of embedded systems</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Language features and techniques to enhance reliability, verifiability, and security</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Virtual machines, concurrency, inter-processor synchronization, and memory management</li></ul></div><div style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:start;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">
Compiler challenges, including:</div>
<ul><li style="margin-left:15px">Interaction between embedded architectures, operating systems, and compilers</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Interpreters, binary translation, just-in-time compilation, and split compilation</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Support for enhanced programmer productivity</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Support for enhanced debugging, profiling, and exception/interrupt handling</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Optimization for low power/energy, code and data size, and best-effort and real-time performance</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Parameterized and structural compiler design space exploration and autotuning</li></ul><div>Tools for analysis, specification, design, and implementation, including:</div><div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px">
Hardware, system software, application software, and their interfaces</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Distributed real-time control, media players, and reconfigurable architectures</li><li style="margin-left:15px">System integration and testing</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Performance estimation, monitoring, and tuning</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Run-time system support for embedded systems</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Design space exploration tools</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Support for system security and system-level reliability</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Approaches for cross-layer system optimization</li></ul></div><div>Theory and foundations of embedded systems, including:</div>
<div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px">Predictability of resource behavior: energy, space, time</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Validation and verification, in particular of concurrent and distributed systems</li><li style="margin-left:15px">
Formal foundations of model-based design as basis for code generation, analysis, and verification</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Mathematical foundations for embedded systems</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Models of computations for embedded applications</li>
</ul></div><div><br></div><div>Novel embedded architectures, including:</div><div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px">Design and implementation of novel architectures</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Workload analysis and performance evaluation</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Architecture support for new language features, virtualization, compiler techniques, debugging tools</li></ul></div><div>Important Dates</div><div><br></div><div>- Paper submission: <span> </span><b>Friday, January 31, 2014</b></div>
<div>- Author notification: Friday, March 14, 2014</div><div><br></div><div>Submissions</div><div><br></div><div>Submissions must be in ACM proceedings format, 9-point type, and may not exceed 10 pages (all inclusive). </div>
Word and LaTeX templates for this format are available at<div><a href="http://www.sigplan.org/authorInformation.htm" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.sigplan.org/authorInformation.htm</a></div>
<div>Submissions must be in PDF, printable on US </div><div>Letter and A4 sized paper. To enable double-blind reviewing, submissions must adhere to two rules:</div><div><br></div><div> author names and their affiliations must be omitted; and, <br>
references to related work by the authors should be in the third
person (e.g., not "We build on our previous work ..." but rather "We
build on the work of ...").</div><div><br>
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<div>However, nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that
weakens the submission or makes the job of reviewing the paper more
difficult (e.g., important background references should not be omitted
or anonymized). Papers must describe unpublished work that is not
currently submitted for publication elsewhere as discussed here:</div>
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Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign an ACM copyright release.<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Very Best Regards,<br><br>Lei Jiang<br></div>
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