LCTES 2016

Submitted by Che-Wei Chang
http://www.lctes.org/

ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED Conference on Languages, Compilers,
Tools and Theory for Embedded Systems (LCTES 2016)
Santa Barbara, California, USA
June 13-14, 2016
IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission deadline: Feb. 1
Author notification: Mar. 16
Camera-ready deadline: Mar. 25
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.

LCTES 2016 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 are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics in embedded
systems:

Programming language challenges, including:
– Domain-specific languages
– Features to exploit multicore, reconfigurable, and other emerging
architectures
– Features for distributed, adaptive, and real-time control embedded systems
– Language features and techniques to enhance reliability, verifiability,
and security
– Virtual machines, concurrency, inter-processor synchronization, and
memory management

Compiler challenges, including:
– 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 and data size, and best-effort
and real-time performance

Tools for analysis, specification, design, and implementation, including:
– 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, including:
– Predictability of resource behavior: energy, space, time
– Validation and verification, in particular of concurrent and
distributed systems
– Models of computations for embedded applications

Novel embedded architectures, including:
– Design and implementation of novel architectures
– Workload analysis and performance evaluation
– Architecture support for new language features, virtualization, and
debugging tools
– Achitectural features to improve power, code and data size, and
predictability

ORGANIZERS:
General Chair: Tei-Wei Kuo, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Program Chair: David Whalley, Florida State University, USA