The 18th Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop (RAW 2011) will be held in Anchorage, Alaska, USA in May 2011. RAW 2011 is associated with the 25th Annual International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2011) and is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Parallel Processing. The workshop is one of the major meetings for researchers to present ideas, results, and on-going research on both theoretical and practical advances in Reconfigurable Computing.

Run-Time Reconfiguration & Adaptive Computing:
Architectures, Algorithms, Technologies

Run-Time and Dynamic Reconfiguration are characterized by the ability of underlying hardware architectures or devices to rapidly alter (on the fly) the functionalities of its components and the interconnection between them to suit the problem. Key to this ability is reconfiguration handling and speed. Though theoretical models and algorithms for them have established reconfiguration as a very powerful computing paradigm, practical considerations make these models difficult to realize. On the other hand, commercially available devices (such as FPGAs and new coarse-/multi-grain devices) appear to have more room for exploiting run-time reconfiguration (RTR). An appropriate mix of the theoretical foundations of dynamic reconfiguration, and practical considerations, including architectures, technologies and tools supporting RTR is essential to fully reveal and exploit the possibilities created by this powerful computing paradigm. RAW 2011 aims to provide a forum for creative and productive interaction between all these disciplines.

Topics of Interest

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts of original unpublished research in all areas of dynamic and run-time reconfiguration (foundations, algorithms, hardware architectures, devices, systems-on-chip (SoC), technologies, software tools, and applications). The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

 

Models & Architectures

·    Theoretical Interconnect
and Computation Models

·    RTR Models and Systems

·    RTR Hardware Architectures

·    Optical Interconnect Models

·    Simulation and Prototyping

·    Bounds and Complexity Issues

Algorithms & Applications

·    Algorithmic Techniques

·    Mapping Parallel Algorithms

·    Distributed Systems & Networks

·    Fault Tolerance Issues

·    Wireless and Mobile Systems

·    Automotive Applications

·    Infotainment & Multimedia

·    Biology Inspired Applications

Design, Technologies & Tools

·     Configurable Systems-on-Chip

·     Energy Efficiency Issues

·     Devices and Circuits

·     Reconfiguration Techniques

·     High Level Design Methods

·     System Support

·     Adaptive Runtime Systems

·     Organic Computing

Important Dates:

Submission deadline:                       December 24, 2010

Notification of acceptance:               February 7, 2011

Camera-ready papers due:               February 21, 2011

 

 

Submission (Closed):

Authors should submit their paper through the EDAS Conference Management System. You can register for an EDAS Account here.

All manuscripts will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Submissions should be a complete manuscript (not to exceed 8 pages of single spaced text, including figures and tables) or, in special cases, may be a summary of relevant work. Submissions should be in pdf-format (preferred), or alternatively in Postscript (level 2) format. Templates for paper preparation can be found at: http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubservices/confpub/AuthorTools/conferenceTemplates.html

IEEE CS Press will publish the IPDPS symposium and workshop abstracts as a printed volume. The complete symposium and workshop proceedings will also be published by IEEE CS Press as a CD-ROM disk.

Organization:

Workshop Chair:                         Jürgen Becker, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - KIT, Germany

                                                   becker@kit.edu

Program Co Chairs:                    Pascal Benoit, LIRMM, Montpellier, France
pascal.benoit@lirmm.fr

                                                   René Cumplido, INAOE, Puebla, México
rcumplido@inaoep.mx

Steering Chair:                           Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA      prasanna@ganges.usc.edu

Publicity Chair (USA):                 Ramachandran Vaidyanathan, Louisiana State University, USA

                                                   vaidy@ece.lsu.edu

Publicity Chair (Europe, Asia):    Reiner Hartenstein, Kaiserslautern University of Technology, Germany

                                                   reiner@hartenstein.de

Program Committee:

  • Shawki Areibi, University of Guelph
  • Sergio Bampi, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
  • Juergen Becker, University of Karlsruhe
  • Pascal Benoit, LIRMM / University of Montpellier
  • Neil Bergmann, University of Queensland
  • Gordon Brebner, Xilinx, Inc.
  • Thomas Buechner, IBM Germany Research & Development
  • Oswaldo Cadenas, University of Reading
  • Fabio Campi, ST Microelectronics
  • Luigi Carro, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande
  • Ning Chen, PMC-Sierra
  • Peter Y. K. Cheung, Imperial College London
  • Rene Cumplido, INAOE
  • Omkar Dandekar, Intel Corporation
  • Oliver Diessel, University of New South Wales
  • Jean-Philippe, Diguet STICC UBS
  • Pedro Diniz, Insituto Superior Tecnico - UTL / INESC-ID
  • Adam Donlin, Xilinx
  • Hossam Elgindy, University of New South Wales
  • Suhaib Fahmy, Nanyang Technological University
  • Manfred Glesner, TU Darmstadt Germany
  • Guy Gogniat, STICC UBS
  • Yongfeng Gu, The Mathworks
  • Steven Guccione, Cmpware Inc.
  • Masanori Hariyama, Tohoku University
  • Reiner Hartenstein, University of Kaiserslautern
  • Ulrich Heinkel, Chemnitz University of Technology
  • Andreas Herkersdorf, Technische Universitat Muenchen
  • Christian Hochberger, Dresden University of Technology
  • Thomas Hollstein, Darmstadt University of Technology
  • Michael Heubner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  • Alex Jones, University of Pittsburgh
  • Srinivas Katkoori, University of South Florida
  • Andreas Koch, Darmstadt University of Technology
  • Rainer Kress, Infineon Technologies
  • Helena Krupnova, ST Microelectronics
  • Loic Lagadec, University of Brest
  • Rudy Lauwereins, IMEC, Leuven
  • Philip Leong, University of Sydney
  • Patrick Lysaght, Xilinx, USA
  • Liam Marnane, UCC
  • Daniel Mesquita, Universidade Federal de Uberlandia
  • Fernando Moraes, PUCRS
  • Manuel Moreno, UPC
  • Carlos Morra, Siemens
  • Jerry Morris, US Army
  • Amar Mukherjee, University of Central Florida
  • Koji Nakano, Hiroshima University
  • Jose Nunez-Yanez, University of Bristol
  • Berna Ors, Istanbul Technical University
  • Jingzhao Ou, Xilinx
  • Fernando Pardo, University of Valencia
  • Ranjani Parthasarathi, Anna University
  • Cameron Patterson, Virginia Tech
  • Katarina Paulsson, Ericsson
  • Thilo Pionteck, University of Luebeck
  • Marco Platzner, University of Paderborn
  • Bernard Pottier, STICC CNRS
  • Ricardo Reis, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
  • Marco Santambrogio, MIT
  • Ron Sass, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
  • Gilles Sassatelli, CNRS
  • Patrick Schaumont, Virginia Tech
  • Hartmut Schmeck, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  • Sakir Sezer, Queen's University, Belfast
  • Gerard Smit, University of Twente
  • Hayden So, University of Hong Kong
  • Gustavo Sutter, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
  • Camel Tanougast, University Paul Verlaine - Metz
  • Juergen Teich, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
  • Russell Tessier, University of Massachusetts
  • David Thomas, Imperial College
  • Lionel Torres, LIRMM, Montpellier
  • Jerry Trahan, Louisiana State University
  • Jim Torresen, University of Oslo
  • Ramachandran Vaidyanathan, Louisiana State University
  • Carlos Valderrama, University of Mons
  • Wim Vanderbauwhede, University of Glasgow
  • Milan Vasilko, Aeon Experts
  • Brian Veale, IBM
  • Martin Vorbach, PACT XPP Technologies Inc.
  • Klaus Waldschmidt, University of Frankfurt
  • Norbert Wehn, University of Kaiserslautern
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