We are pleased to announce 2014 TRON Symposium, the 30th TRON Project Symposium to be held on 10th - 11th of December 2014, in Tokyo, Japan. The Symposium, with technical co-sponsorship of IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, will feature presentation sessions of papers, poster sessions, panel discussions, tutorial sessions and an accompanying exhibition, TRONSHOW (10th-12th December.) Exhibition runs a day longer

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Topics of the papers:
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Broadly speaking, there are two categories. One is embedded systems and the other is the IoT (or Ubiquitous Computing) application and services. The boundary of these categories have become blurred thanks to the real-world services applications of the IoT that use RFID tags, small sensor nodes to build Ubiquitous Sensor Network, and the like.
The full list of topics is found in later section and the full version of this CfP available at the conference website.

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Important Dates:
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July 21, 2014: Panel Discussion Proposal deadline
July 21: Abstract deadline
August 22: Full paper submission deadline
August 22: Poster session proposal deadline
October 1: Notification of Acceptance
October 31: Final version deadline (for accepted papers)
December 10-11: Presentation


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Submission of Papers
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Accepted and presented full papers will be submitted to IEEE for inclusion in IEEE XploreⓇ online publication database. Prospective authors in the embedded systems industry and the emerging field of the IoT are encouraged to submit full papers or extended abstract for presentation. Only original papers that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere will be considered. Papers presented at the Symposium should be full papers or extended abstract, in English of maximum 9 pages including figures and pictures, using the supplied template. The minimum length is 2 pages for an extended abstract from busy practitioners. See “Topics of Interest” at the end of this call for relevant topics that are of interest to the Symposium per se, and the visitors to the accompanying exhibition.

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Abstract:
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Those wishing to submit papers or extended abstract should first send an abstract (up to approximately 300 words) that explains the content of the final submission to the Technical Program Committee. Send abstract by 21st July along with the title (provisional), authors' full names, affiliations, contact addresses (postal and e-mail),
and telephone numbers.

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Full Paper / Extended Abstract
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The authors then should submit the full paper by 22nd August to the program committee in Portable Document Format (PDF). Notice of acceptance for presentation will be sent by 1st October. For papers that are accepted for presentation, the final version is to be submitted by 31st October. (See the author’s guideline posted at the Symposium website). An author must be at the symposium for the presentation of the paper during 2014 TRON Symposium (TRONSHOW).

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(Detailed) Topics of Interest
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Topics of the symposium include the following, but not limited to:

Embedded Systems:
Home electronic appliances
Intelligent Houses, Intelligent Buildings, and Intelligent Cities
Intelligent Mobility (automotive, construction machinery)
Power-aware computing and energy harvesting
Smart-grid application
Intra-system and inter-systems electromagnetic compatibility
Human Machine Interface for embedded systems
Security of embedded devices
Functional safety, fault tolerance
Real-time OS development and application
Embedded systems software and optimization
Hardware/Software co-design of embedded systems
Embedded systems design automation
ASICs and FPGAs
System/Network-on-chip
The use and development of RTOS and the middleware
Comparative study of RTOSs including TRON RTOS Family
Theory and practice of embedded systems education/training

IoT
USN (Ubiquitous Sensor Network)
M2M communications
Cyber Physical Systems (CPS)
Computer-Augmented Environment
IoT architectures
IoT infrastructures
IoT applications and IoT services
IoT architectures and application frameworks (uID architecture, SmartM3, etc.)
Implementation of servers for uID Architecture (1.0, 2.0), ucode, etc.
RFID tags, ucode tags, etc.
Location-based Information Systems
Theory and practice of building real-world IoT application systems
Cloud computing
Open Data, Big Data processing for the IoT
IoT security

General
Assistive technology (such as EnableWare)
Impact of technology on society
Security and privacy
Standardization efforts, regulatory aspects and governance of the IoT

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Program Committee
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Chair:
Dr. Ken Sakamura, Professor of the University of Tokyo, Chair of T-Engine Forum

Vice Chairs:
Prof. Dr. Tatu Koljonen,
Director, Strategic Networks and Operations,
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

Dr. Tomohiro Hase,
Professor, Ryukoku University, Japan,
Vice President, IEEE Consumer Electronics Society

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About TRON Project and TRON Symposium:
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TRON Project was established in 1984. It aims to build the open
architecture of advanced embedded systems. It has developed very
popular TRON real-time OS (RTOS) family: ITRON specification, and
T-Kernel, for example. TRON Project’s original goal included the
vision of "Computer Everywhere" (which is basically the same as
ubiquitous computing or the IoT (the Internet of Things). (See
http://www.t-engine.org/ for the detailed background on TRON Project.)
To disseminate the result of the project and foster communication of
interested parties, TRON Project has held the annual TRON Symposium
for the last 29 years. TRON Symposium is the place to discuss the
applications and services of the IoT in the future such as the home
electronic appliances, homes, buildings and cities of the future, and
to discuss the nuts and bolts of embedded systems such as RTOS kernel,
the implementation issues such as interaction of the IoT paradigm and
Cloud. We welcome discussions of the impact of technology on society.

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