CALL FOR PAPERS

ICPP Workshop on

PERFORMANCE AND PARALLELISM IN EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

(Held in conjunction with ICPP 2000, August 21-24)
The Westin Harbor Castle
Toronto, Canada

SCOPE

Embedded systems are among the important manifestations of ubiquitous computing which leads to their use in a wide variety of applications. The real-time response characteristic is one of the important performance demands on these systems. Achieving the same through judicious use of parallelism is one of the solutions. This workshop provides a forum to discuss what are the new issues in exploiting parallelism on these systems. In particular, the field of parallel computing is quite mature and we invite position papers which contrast new problems encountered in this field that may not be directly addressed in existing parallel computing literature. We also welcome position papers which point to incrementing existing techniques in parallel computing towards these systems.

Papers focused on all levels of parallelism from specification, higher level program transformations to lower level code generation/run time techniques are welcome. Topics of interest include (but not limited to):

• Program analysis techniques
• Higher level transformations
• Data locality issues
• Instruction Level Parallelism
• Micro-architectural issues and coupling with compiler techniques
• Tradeoffs involving parallelism and code size, power consumption etc.

The workshop will also include invited talks and a panel on the above general theme. The exact topics will be announced later.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Please submit copies of extended abstracts (not exceeding 10 pages, single-spaced excluding references) either hardcopy or via e-mail to one of the following organizers:

     Santosh Pande                          J. Ramanujam
     Dept. Electrical & Computer Engr.      Dept. of Electrical and 
        and Computer Science                    Computer Engineering
     P.O. Box 210030                        102 Elec. Engineering Bldg
     University of Cincinnati               Louisiana State University
     Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA              Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA

     +1 (513) 556-4785                      +1 (225) 388-5628
     santosh.pande@uc.edu                   jxr@ee.lsu.edu
     Pande's homepage                       Ramanujam's homepage

Each paper will be reviewed by the members of the program committee. Authors of accepted papers will be required to submit a camera-ready manuscript that will appear in the workshop proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES

     Paper Submissions Due:            March 31, 2000
     Paper Notification:                  May 8, 2000
     Final Manuscript due:               June 1, 2000