ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (ACM TECS)

Call For Papers

Special Issue on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems

As the complexity of the application domains for the embedded systems increases, new research challenges are encountered for achieving desired level of performance goals (which could be diverse such as speed, real time constraints, code size, power, and scalability). Due to limited resources locally available, embedded systems are increasingly used in a networked (wired, wireless, as well as mobile) environment. In addition, advances in hardware reflect into solving issues using a combination of hardware and software techniques. The aim of this special issue is to provide present recent advances and the state-of-the-art in languages, compilers, and tools for embedded systems. Submissions are being solicited by the guest editors (see below) in areas relevant to this theme.

Areas

Examples of areas/topics of interest include

Program optimization for real-time performance and DSPs
Compilation for hardware/software co-design
Compilers for reconfigurable architectures
Optimization for low-power architectures
Exploitation of memory hierarchies
Memory management/garbage collection for embedded systems
Programming languages for embedded applications
Real-time and embedded Java, real-time UML
Object-oriented modeling and design
Design, specification, analysis of embedded systems
Software Synthesis
Validation and verification techniques for embedded software
Embedded system integration and testing
Standardization for embedded systems
Real-time operating systems: environment and tools
Real-time scheduling analysis
Exception and interrupt handling for real-time
Software design for multiprocessor embedded systems
Concurrent+distributed embedded environments/runtime systems
Timing analysis: static and dynamic approaches
Timing predictability of modern architectures
Support for partitioning, mapping, and compression
Profiling, measurement, debugging of embedded applications
Experiences from experimental systems and case studies

A selected number of top papers from LCTES'05 are invited by the guest editors. Authors of these papers are asked to extend their work for a TECS journal publication, which is then subjected to a second, rigorous review process. Notified authors of the top LCTES should submit their journal version at Manuscript Central adhering to the formatting instructions on the TECS Web page and indicate that you are submitting to the Special Issue on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: October 1, 2005
Acceptance Notice: January 15, 2006

Guest Editors

Rajiv Gupta
University of Arizona
Department of Computer Science
Tucson, AZ 85721 (USA)
phone: + 1 (520) 575-1843, fax: (520) 621-4246
gupta@cs.arizona.edu

Yunheung Paek
Seoul National University
School of EE and CS
Kwanak-gu, Seoul 131-744 (Korea)
phone: +82-2-880-1748, fax: +82-2-880-1742
ypaek@ee.snu.ac.kr