<div dir="ltr"><div>The deadline for paper submission has been extended to 12 May, 2014.</div><div><br></div><div>Distinguished papers, after further extension, will be invited for possible publication in the following special issues of prestigious international journals:</div>
<div><br></div><div>1. IEEE Systems Journal, Special Issue on "Green Pervasive and Ubiquitous Systems"</div><div><br></div><div>2. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Special Issue on "Big Data Analytics and Management in Internet of Things"</div>
<div><br></div><div>3. ACM/Springer's Mobile Networks and Applications, Special Issue on "Recent Advances on Next Generation Mobile Networks and Services"</div><div><br></div><div>4. Wiley's International Journal of Communication Systems, Special Issue on "Key Technologies for 5G, the Next Generation of Mobile Networks and Services" </div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>===============================================================</div><div> CALL FOR PAPERS</div><div> ICESS 2014</div><div> The 11th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems</div>
<div> August 20-22, 2014 in Paris, France</div><div> <a href="http://www.computational-science.org/ICESS2014/">http://www.computational-science.org/ICESS2014/</a></div><div>===============================================================</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>*IMPORTANT DATES*</div><div><br></div><div>Paper submission:<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>12 May, 2014 (new deadline)</div><div>Notification of acceptance:<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>23 June, 2014</div>
<div>Camera-Ready due:<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>15 July, 2014</div><div><br></div><div>*SCOPE*</div><div><br></div><div>Embedded software and systems are closely related to our daily life, which reside from smart appliances to unmanned trains. As the fastest growing industry, embedded systems will have great societal and environmental impacts. Therefore, the design and implementation of safe and efficient embedded software and systems have utmost importance. IEEE ICESS is an international forum for presenting and discussing emerging ideas and trends in embedded software and systems from both the research community as well as the industry.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</div><div> </div><div> 1. Systems, Models and Algorithms</div><div> <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Embedded Real-Time Systems</div><div>
<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Embedded Hardware and Architectures</div><div> <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Embedded Software/Agent</div><div> <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Power Aware Computing </div>
<div> <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Distributed Embedded Computing</div><div> <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing</div><div> <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Fault Tolerant & Trusted Embedded Systems</div>
<div> <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>System on Chip (SoC) and Multicore Systems</div><div> <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Embedded Real-Time Operating Systems</div><div> <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Mobile Computing</div>
<div> <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Reconfigurable Computing</div><div> <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Cyber-Physical Systems</div><div><br></div><div> 2. Design Methodology and Tools</div>
<div> <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Hardware/Software Co-Design</div><div> <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Formal Methods for Embedded Systems</div><div> <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Embedded Component Technology</div>
<div> <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Middleware for Embedded Systems</div><div> <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Hardware/Software Co-Verification</div><div> <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Compilation and Debug Techniques</div>
<div> <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>IDE and Software Tools</div><div> <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Performance Evaluation Techniques/Tools</div><div> </div><div> 3. Embedded Applications and Interdisciplinary Topics</div>
<div><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Intelligent Embedded Systems</div><div><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Image and Graph Processing</div><div><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Network Protocol and Security</div>
<div><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Emergency and Disaster Management</div><div><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Wireless Sensor Networks</div><div><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Robotics and Control Systems</div>
<div><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>QoS Support for Embedded Systems</div><div><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Embedded Database & Multimedia Systems</div><div><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Consumer Electronics</div>
<div><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Automotive, Medical and Avionics Systems </div><div> </div><div><br></div><div>*PAST HISTORY*</div><div><br></div><div>The ICESS-2014 conference is the next event in a series of highly successful international conferences on embedded software and systems (ESS), held as ICESS 2013 (Sydney, Australia, December 2013), ICESS 2012 (Liverpool, England, UK, June 2012), ICESS 2011 (Changsha, China, November 2011), ICESS 2010 (Bradford, UK, July 2010), ICESS 2009 (Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, May 2009), etc.</div>
<div><br></div><div>*SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS*</div><div><br></div><div>Submitted manuscripts should be written in English conforming to the IEEE conference proceedings format (8.5" x 11", Two-Column, template available at <a href="http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting">http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting</a>). Manuscripts should not exceed 8 pages for full papers and 4 pages for short papers, including tables and figures. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format through EasyChair:</div>
<div><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icess2014">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icess2014</a> </div><div><br></div><div>*PUBLICATIONS*</div><div><br></div><div>The accepted papers from this conference will be published by IEEE Computer Society in IEEE proceedings (indexed by EI Compendex). Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for possible publication in several SCI & EI indexed special issues of prestigious international journals. By submitting a paper to the conference, authors assure that if the paper is accepted, at least one author will attend the conference and present the paper. </div>
<div><br></div><div>*CONFERENCE COMMITTEES*</div><div><br></div><div>General Chairs</div><div> Julien Bourgeois, UFC/FEMTO-ST Institute, France</div><div> Frédéric Magoulès, Ecole Centrale Paris, France</div><div> </div>
<div>Program Chair</div><div> Haibo Zhang, University of Otago, New Zealand</div><div><br></div><div>Track Chairs</div><div><br></div><div> (1) Systems, Models and Algorithms (SMA)</div><div> Shangping Ren, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA</div>
<div> Albert M. K. Cheng, University of Houston, USA</div><div><br></div><div> (2) Design Methodology and Tools (DMT)</div><div> Rajiv Gupta, Univeristy of California Riverside, USA</div><div><br></div><div> (3) Embedded Applications and Interdisciplinary (EAI)</div>
<div> Meikang Qiu, San Jose State University, USA</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div>Steering Co-Chairs</div><div> Zhaohui Wu, Zhejiang University, China</div><div> Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada</div>
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