SAMOS XVII

Date: Jul 16, 2017 11:00 pm – Jul 20, 2017 10:00 am
Location: Samos, Greece

International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: 
Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation (SAMOS XVII)

SAMOS is a unique conference. It deals with embedded systems (sort of) but that is not what makes it different. It brings together every year researchers from both academia and industry on the quiet and inspiring northern mountainside of  the Mediterranean island of Samos,  which in itself  is  different.   But   more  importantly,  it  really  fosters collaboration rather than competition. Formal and intensive  technical sessions are only held in the mornings. A lively panel ends the formal part of the day, and leads nicely into the afternoons and evenings -- reserved for informal discussions, good food, and the inviting  Aegean Sea. SAMOS has IEEE technical co-sponsorship by  the  IEEE CAS Society and the  IEEE  SSCS  Germany Chapter. 

STAMATIS VASSILIADIS SYMPOSIUM (July 19, 2017)

On July 19, 2017,  the  SAMOS conference welcomes participants to celebrate the life of  STAMATIS VASSILIADIS,  the founding father of the  SAMOS conference.  Highlight  of the  half-day  symposium will be technical visionary talks  by  recognized experts  in the field of embedded computer systems and architecture.  A  list  of the speakers includes, among others:

  • NIKITAS DIMOPOULOS, Univ. of Victoria (CA)
  • MANOLIS KATEVENIS, FORTH-ICS and Univ. of Crete (GR)
  • WAYNE LUK, Imperial College London (UK)
  • WALID NAJJAR, Univ. of California - Riverside (US)
  • JALE PATT, Univ. of Texas at Austin (US)
  • JAMES E. SMITH, Univ. of Wisconsin Madison (US)
  • PER STENSTRÖM, Chalmers Univ. of Technology (SE)
  • URI WEISER, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (IL)
  • MATEO VALERO, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (ES)

TRACKS

The Applications, Systems, Architectures, and Processors Track

This track focuses on  advances in systems efficiency in various domains.
We seek original  contributions describing new architectural  and  micro architectural techniques  aiming to improve performance (e.g. processing throughput  or  real-time    latency),   energy  and  power  efficiency, reliability and dependability of  embedded systems.   We  solicit  novel architectures and computing methodologies and solutions for accelerating applications in various embedded domains  such as next  generation  life sciences and  medicine,  next generation  automotive and  avionics, next generation learning systems for surveillance and  recognition, immersive virtual reality.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

  • Novel Architectures for Accelerators in High Performance Embedded Systems;
  • Application-specific   and  Domain-specific   Embedded   Heterogeneous Multicore Systems;
  • Embedded Reconfigurable Processors;
  • Software tools, Compilation techniques  and  optimizations,  and  Code generation for Reconfigurable Architectures;
  • Architecture synthesis from Functional Languages Descriptions;
  • Virtualization and Energy-aware Secure, Reliable, and High Availability Multi-core Architectures;
  • Embedded Parallel Systems and Multiprocessor Systems-On-Chip;
  • Application level Resource Management of Multi-core Architectures;
  • Memory Management and Smart Caches for big data;
  • Network-on-Chip, Software Defined Network-on-Chips.

The Modeling, Design, and Design Space Exploration Track

This track focuses on all design processes for embedded systems ranging from   system-level   specification,  design  languages,  modeling  and simulation, performance, power, reliability and thermal estimation  and analysis, hardware/software  and  system synthesis,  design and  design space exploration methodologies down to hardware and software synthesis and compilation  strategies. 

Topics  of  interest include (but are not limited to):

  • Hardware/Software and Algorithm/Architecture Co-design;
  • Design Space Exploration Strategies, Algorithms and CAD Tools;
  • Specification Languages and Models;
  • System-Level Design, Simulation, and Verification;
  • Hardware, Software and System Synthesis Techniques and CAD Tools;
  • MP-SoC and Platform Based Design Methodologies;
  • MP-SoC Programming, Compilers, Simulation and Mapping Technologies;
  • Profiling, Measurement and Analysis Techniques and CAD Tools;
  • (Design for) System Adaptivity;
  • Testing and Debugging.

TRAVEL GRANTS

SAMOS will provide 10 travel grants to authors and participants, who are students from Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Portugal, and Spain and, in general, to people with limited support from their organizations.

SAMOS XVII Organization

General Chair

  • Yale Patt, The University of Texas at Austin (US)

Program Chair

  • S. K. Nandy, Indian Institute of Science, India (IN)

Track Chairs

  • Pekka Jaaskelainen, Tampere University of technology (FI)
  • Diana Goehringer, Ruhr-University Bochum (DE)

SAMOS Steering Committee
S. Bhattacharyya, University of Maryland – College Park (US) H. Blume, Leibniz University Hannover (DE) E. Deprettere, Leiden University (NL) N. Dimopoulos, University of Victoria (CA) C. Galuzzi, Maastricht University (NL) G. N. Gaydadjiev, Maxeler Technologies (UK) J. Glossner, Optimum Semiconductor Technologies (US) W. Najjar, University of California - Riverside (US) A. D. Pimentel, University of Amsterdam (NL) O. Silvén, University of Oulu (FI) J. Takala, Tampere University of Technology (FI) S. Wong, Delft University of Technology (NL)

Program Committee: See http://www.samos-conference.com

  • Architectures
  • Embedded Software
  • Systems Engineering
  • Foundations
  • Architectures
  • Modeling
  • Simulation
  • Validation and Verification
  • Testing
  • Conference
  • 2017
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