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13th International Workshop on
Software and Compilers for Embedded Systems

SCOPES 2010

June 29-30, 2010
Schloss Rheinfels, St. Goar, Germany

http://www.scopesconf.org

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CALL FOR PAPERS

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ABOUT SCOPES 2010

The influence of embedded systems is constantly growing. Increasingly powerful
and versatile devices are developed and put on the market at a fast pace. The
number of features is increasing, and so are the constraints on the systems
concerning size, performance, energy dissipation and timing predictability.
Since most systems today use a processor to execute an application program
rather than using dedicated hardware, the requirements can not be fulfilled by
hardware architects alone: Hardware and software have to work together to meet
the tight constraints put on modern devices.

One of the key characteristics of embedded software is that it heavily depends
on the underlying hardware. The reason of the dependency is that embedded
software needs to be designed in an application specific way. To reduce the
system design cost, e.g. code size, energy consumption etc., embedded software
needs to be optimized exploiting the characteristics of the underlying hardware.

SCOPES focuses on the software generation process for modern embedded systems.
Topics of interest include all aspects of the compilation process, starting with
suitable modeling and specification techniques and programming languages for
embedded systems. The emphasis of the workshop lies on code generation
techniques for embedded processors. The exploitation of specialized instruction
set characteristics is as important as the development of new optimizations for
embedded application domains. Cost criteria for the entire code generation and
optimization process include runtime, timing predictability, energy dissipation,
code size and others. Since today's embedded devices increasingly consist of a
multi-processor system-on-chip, the scope of this workshop particularly covers
compilation techniques for MPSoC architectures.

In addition, this workshop intends to put a spotlight on the interactions
between compilers and other components in the embedded system design process.
This includes compiler support for e.g. architecture exploration during HW/SW
codesign or interactions between operating systems and compilation techniques.
Finally, techniques for compiler aided profiling, measurement, debugging and
validation of embedded software are also covered by this workshop, because
stability of embedded software is mandatory.

SCOPES 2010 is the 13th workshop in a series of workshops initially called
"International Workshop on Code Generation for Embedded Processors". The name
SCOPES has been used since the 4th workshop. The scope of the workshop remains
software for embedded systems with emphasis on code generation (compilers) for
embedded processors. SCOPES will be held in cooperation with ACM SIGBED and EDAA
and is sponsored by ArtistDesign European NoE. SCOPES 2010 is co-located with
the Map2MPSoC workshop.


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IMPORTANT DATES

Full paper submission: Jan 22, 2010
Notification of acceptance: Mar 22, 2010
Final paper submission: Apr 23, 2010


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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Papers should present original research results not published or submitted for
publication in other forums. Papers should not exceed 10 pages in ACM format
(single-spaced, 2 columns, 9pt font; for formatting instructions and templates
visit the ACM website http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates).
Papers must be submitted in PDF format using the SCOPES paper submission website.
To permit blind review, submissions should not include the author names. Accepted
papers will be published via the ACM digital library.


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GENERAL CHAIR

Ed Deprettere
Leiden University, NL


PROGRAM CHAIR

Todor Stefanov
Leiden University, NL


PUBLICITY CHAIR

Peter Marwedel
Dortmund University of Technology, DE

WEB CHAIR

Hristo Nikolov
Leiden University, NL



PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Iuliana Bacivarov
ETH Zurich, CH

Shuvra Bhattacharyya
University of Maryland, USA

Alain Darte
ENS Lyon, FR

Koen de Bosschere
University of Gent, BE

Nikil Dutt
University of Irvine, USA

Heiko Falk
Dortmund University of Technology, DE

Jorg Henkel
University of Karlsruhe, DE

Timothy Jones
University of Edinburgh, UK

Daniel Kaestner
AbsInt GmbH, DE

Andreas Krall
TU Vienna, AT

Christian Lengauer
University of Passau, DE

Annie Liu
Stony Brook University, USA

Bilha Mendelson
IBM Research Lab, IL

Yunheung Paek
Seoul National University, KR

Andy Pimentel
University of Amsterdam, NL

Sander Stuijk
TU Eindhoven, NL

Juergen Teich
University of Erlangen, DE


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FURTHER INFORMATION

Website: http://www.scopesconf.org
Mailing List: http://www.scopesconf.org/list


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SPONSORS

SCOPES 2010 is kindly supported and sponsored by the following companies and
institutions:

+ ACM SIGBED
http://www.acm.org/sigbed

+ ArtistDesign European NoE
http://www.artist-embedded.org

+ European Design and Automation Association, EDAA
http://www.edaa.com


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