The 21^st Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop (RAW 2014) will be held in Phoenix, USA in May 2014. RAW 2014 is associated with the 28th Annual International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2014) and is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society 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.

A reconfigurable computing environment is characterized by the ability of underlying hardware architectures or devices to rapidly alter (often on the fly) the functionalities of their components and the interconnection between them to suit the problem at hand. The area has a rich theoretical tradition and wide practical applicability. There are several commercially available reconfigurable platforms (FPGAs and coarse-grained devices) and many modern applications (including embedded systems and HPC) use reconfigurable subsystems. An appropriate mix of theoretical foundations and practical considerations, including algorithms architectures, applications, technologies and tools, is essential to fully exploit the possibilities offered by reconfigurable computing. The Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop aims to provide a forum for creative and productive interaction for researchers and practitioners in the area.

Topics of Interest

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts of original unpublished research in all areas of reconfigurable systems, including architectures, algorithms, applications, software and cross-cutting areas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Architectures & Algorithms · Theoretical Interconnect and Computation Models · Algorithmic Techniques and Mapping · Run-Time Reconfiguration Models and Architectures · Emerging Technologies (optical models, 3D Interconnects, devices) · Bounds and Complexity Issues · Analog Arrays

Reconfigurable Systems & Applications · Reconfigurable accelerators (HPC, Bioinformatics, Multicore environments) · Embedded systems and Domain-Specific solutions (Digital Media, Gaming, Automotive applications) · Distributed Systems & Networks · Wireless and Mobile Systems · Emerging applications (Organic Computing, Biology-Inspired Solutions) · Critical issues (Security, Energy efficiency, Fault-Tolerance)

Software & Tools · High-Level Design Methods (Hardware/Software co-design, Compilers) · System Support (Soft processor programming) · Runtime Support · Reconfiguration Techniques (reusable artifacts) · Simulations and Prototyping (performance analysis, verification tools)

Submission Guidelines:
All manuscripts will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Submissions should be a complete manuscript or, in special cases, may be a summary of relevant work. The manuscript should be not exceed 8 single-spaced, double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5X11 inch pages (IEEE conference style) including references, figures and tables. Papers are to be submitted through EasyChair. Submitted papers should not have appeared in or be under consideration for a different workshop, conference or journal. It is also expected that all accepted papers (regular or poster) will be presented at the workshop by one of the authors.

Publication: 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 and be available in the IEEE Digital Library. Authors of selected "best papers" of RAW 2014 will be invited to submit extended versions of their work to the ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS).

Important Dates:

Submission deadline	January 20, 2014
Decision notification	February 18, 2014
Camera-Ready papers due	March 14, 2014

Organization:

Workshop Chairs:		Jürgen Becker, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany	becker@kit.edu
		Ramachandran Vaidyanathan, Louisiana State University, USA	vaidy@lsu.edu
Program Chair:		Marco Santambrogio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy	marco.santambrogio@polimi.it
Program Vice-Chairs:
	Architectures & Algorithms: Jim Tørresen, University of Oslo, Norway		jimtoer@ifi.uio.no
	Reconfigurable Systems & Applications: Ron Sass, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, USA		rsass@uncc.edu
	Software & Tools: Philip Leong, University of Sydney, Australia		philip.leong@sydney.edu.au
Poster Chair:		Seda Ogrenci Memik, Northwestern University, USA	seda@eecs.northwestern.edu
Steering Chair:		Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA	prasanna@usc.edu
Steering Committee:		Jürgen Becker, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
		Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA
		Ramachandran Vaidyanathan, Louisiana State University, USA
Publicity Chairs:
	Lesley Shannon, Simon Fraser University, Canada		lshannon@ensc.sfu.ca
	Ray Cheung, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong		cccheung@ieee.org
	Weirong Jiang, Xilinx, USA		weirongj@acm.org
	Fernanda Kastensmidt, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Su, Brazil		fglima@inf.ufrgs.br

Program Committee:

• Hideharu Amano, Keo University, Japan
• Jason Anderson, University of Toronto, Canada
• Armando Astarloa, University of the Basque Country, Spain
• Peter Athanas, Virginia Tech., USA
• Zachary Baker, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
• Jason Bakos, University of South Carolina, USA
• Pascal Benoit, University of Montpellier, France
• Neil Bergmann, University of Queensland, Australia

• Christophe Bobda, University of Arkansas, USA

• Joao M. P. Cardoso , University of Porto, Portugal

• Ray Cheung, City University of Hong Kong

• René Cumplido, INAOE, México
• Eduardo de La Torre, University of Madrid, Spain
• Oliver Diessel, University of Newcastle, Australia
• Pedro Diniz, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA
• Carl Ebeling, Altera, USA
• Hatem El-Boghdadi, Cairo University, Egypt
• Diana Goehringer, Fraunhofer IOSB, Germany

• Guy Gogniat, Bretagne-Sud University, France

• Yajun Ha, National University of Singapore, Singapore

• Pao-Ann Hsiung, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
• Michael Heubner, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany
• Weirong Jiang, Xilinx, USA
• Krzysztof Kepa, Virginia Tech, USA
• Andreas Koch, TU Darmstadt, Germany
• Dirk Koch, University of Oslo, Norway
• Herman Lam, University of Florida, USA
• Yuchun Ma, Tsinghua University, China
• Liam Marnane, University College Cork, Irelend
• Nele Mentens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, ESAT/SCD-COSIC and Katholieke Hogeschool Limburg, ACRO-ES&S
• Seda Ogrenci Memik, Northwestern University, USA
• Christian Pilato, Columbia University, USA
• Marco Platzner, University of Paderborn, Germany
• Christian Plessl, University of Paderborn, Germany
• Dionisios Pnevmatikatos, FORTH-ICS & Technical University of Crete
• Mario Porrmann, University of Paderborn, Germany
• Vincenzo Rana, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Oliver Sander, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
• Gerard Smit, University of Twente, The Netherlands
• Melissa Smith, Clemson University, USA
• Hayden K.-H. So, University of Hong Kong, China
• Neil Steiner, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA
• Dirk Stroobandt, Ghent University, Belgium
• Christof Teuscher, Portland State University, USA
• Jerry Trahan, Louisiana State University, USA
• Ranga Vemuri, University of Cincinnati, USA
• Vivek Venugopal, United Technologies, USA
• Steve Wilton, University of British Columbia, Canada