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MEMOCODE 2011 Call for Papers
The ninth ACM-IEEE* International Conference on Formal Methods and
Models for Codesign (MEMOCODE 2011) will be held on July 11-13, 2011
in Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK.
http://www.memocode-conference.com
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission deadline: February 25, 2011
Paper submission deadline:March 4, 2011
Notification of acceptance: April 29, 2011
Final Version for Papers: May 13, 2011
Poster submission deadline: May 13, 2011
Notification for Posters: May 27, 2011
The ninth MEMOCODE conference will attract researchers and
practitioners who create methods, tools, and architectures for the
design of hardware/software systems. These systems face increasing
design complexity including tighter constraints on timing, power,
costs, and reliability. MEMOCODE seeks submissions that present novel
formal methods and design techniques addressing these issues to
create, refine, and verify hardware/software systems. We also invite
application-oriented papers, and especially encourage submissions that
highlight the design perspective of formal methods and models,
including success stories and demonstrations of hardware/software
codesign. Furthermore, we invite poster presentations describing
ongoing work with promising preliminary results.
Topics of interest for regular submissions include but are not limited
to
* system- and transaction-level modeling and verification, abstraction
and refinement between different modeling levels, formal,
semi-formal, and specification-driven verification,
* design and verification methods for composition of concurrent
systems: multi-core platform architectures, systems-on-chip,
networks-on-chip,
* formal methods and tools for hardware and software verification
including theorem proving, decision procedures,
* non-traditional and domain-specific design languages for hardware
and software, novel models of computation, and new design paradigms
that unify hardware and software design,
* system-level estimation of performance and power in heterogeneous
hardware/software architectures,
* applications and demonstrators of formal design methodologies and
case studies of innovative system-level design flows,
* modeling and reuse of intellectual property at system-level, and
* design abstraction and high-level design demonstrating productivity
and quality in generating and validating RTL and software.
PROCEEDINGS:
Conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society.
SUBMISSION:
Submissions of research and experience papers will only be accepted
through the conference website. Papers must not exceed 10 pages and
must be formatted following IEEE Computer Society guidelines.
Submissions must be written in English, describe original work, and
not substantially overlap papers that have been published or are being
submitted to a journal or another conference with published
proceedings. Poster submissions should consist of an abstract of at
most 250 words. The abstract will be distributed to the conference
attendants but will not be published. Note that the poster deadline is
different from the paper deadline.
SUBMISSION WEBSITE:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=memocode2011
DESIGN CONTEST:
MEMOCODE will again have a design contest. The contest will start
March 1, 2011. The deadline for submission is 31 March 2011 and the
notification of the results is on May 13, 2011. The conference will
sponsor at least two prize categories, each with a significant cash
award. We awarded a $1000 prize in each of the two categories in 2010.
Each team that submits a complete and working entry will be invited to
submit for review a 2-page abstract for the formal conference
proceedings and present a poster at the conference; winning teams will
be invited to contribute a 4-page short paper and present their work
at the conference. Each team submitting a completed and working entry
will also receive a commemorative plaque with their name and results.
Please refer to the website for more information and updates.
DESIGN CONTEST WEBSITE: see conference webpage
SPONSORS:
Microsoft Research Cambridge, IEEE CEDA*, IEEE CAS*, ACM SIGBED*, and
ACM SIGDA*
ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE:
General and Finance Chair: Satnam Singh (MSR Cambridge)
Program Chairs: Barbara Jobstmann (CNRS/Verimag)
Michael Kishinevsky (Intel)
Design Contest Chair: Derek Chiou (UT Austin)
Publication Chair: Jens Brandt (TU Kaiserslautern)
