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3rd Workshop on Adaptive and Reconfigurable Embedded Systems **** APRES 2011 **** Chicago, Illinois -- April 11, 2011 http://apres2011.uwaterloo.ca Integrated in the CPSWEEK 2011 http://cpsweek2011.cs.illinois.edu/ With support from the ArtistDesign European Network of Excellence on Embedded Systems Design http://www.artist-embedded.org/artist/ and Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation http://www.mri.gov.on.ca Adaptive embedded systems can respond to environmental changes including hardware/software defects, resource changes, and non-continual feature usage. As such, adaptive systems can extend the area of operations and improve efficiency in the use of system resources. However, adaptability also incurs overhead in terms of system complexity and resource requirements. For example, an adaptive system requires some means for reconfiguration. These means and their mechanisms introduce additional complexity to the design and the architecture of the system, at the same time require additional resources such as computation, power, and communication bandwidth. Consequently, adaptive systems must be diligently planned, designed, analyzed, and built to find the right tradeoffs between flexibility and complexity. A key challenge in the development of adaptive systems is how to provide adaptability to the application, because it affects all aspects of the development process (e.g., capturing, methodologies, modeling, analysis, testing, and implementation), the chosen system technologies (e.g., computation and communication models, interfaces, component-based design, programming languages, dependability, and design patterns) and the system itself (e.g., operating system, middleware, network protocols, and application frameworks). Currently, adaptability and its resulting tradeoffs are usually ignored until a very late stage of the system development process. Existing systems are often built by retrofitting existing prototypes, middleware, operating systems, and protocols with concepts and means for flexibility such as run-time system reconfiguration or reflexive diagnostics and steering methods. Such retrofitting typically leads to disproportionate overhead, unusual tradeoffs, and less satisfactory results. The purpose of this workshop is to provide an open forum to discuss new and on-going research that is centered on the idea of adaptability as first class citizen and that considers the involved tradeoffs. The target audience includes researchers from academia, tool vendors, system suppliers, and users in industry who are interested in the all aspects of the topics mentioned below. The workshop will be based on presentations of selected works with sufficient time for feedback from the audience and discussions. We encourage all the prospective participants to submit short papers, work-in-progress reports, or position papers. Information on the previous edition of the workshop can be found here http://www.artist-embedded.org/artist/APRES-09.html Topics The following topics provide examples of what fits into the workshop, however, the list is not exhaustive and submissions not precisely falling into these categories are also welcome. - Capturing and modeling of flexible application and reconfiguration requirements - Tradeoff analysis and modeling - Programming-language support for adaptability - Middleware support for adaptability - Operating system support for adaptability - Computation and communication models for adaptability - Policies and algorithms for single and multi-resource reconfiguration - Verification and certification of reconfigurable systems - Case studies and success stories - Taxonomies and comparative studies - Diagnostic and steering of embedded systems - System architecture and design patterns for adaptability - Probabilistic reconfiguration techniques - Scalability, reusability, and modularity of reconfiguration mechanisms - Dependability and adaptability across the architectural levels - Quality of service management - Application frameworks for reconfigurable embedded systems Submission Guidelines Prospective participants should submit a 4 page paper in PDF format through the submissions page referred below. The submissions should conform to the proceedings publication format (IEEE Conference style). They should explain the intention of the work, the prospective results, and make clear the current status of the work. The submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. The papers will be published in a Proceedings volume that will be available for download and print on the Internet, after the event. A draft printout will be distributed at the workshop to all participants. The proceedings will be published through lulu.com with its own ISBN (like the APRES'09 proceedings). Additional copies of the proceedings can be purchased through lulu.com at a nominal fee. Important Dates Deadline: Feb 18, 2011 Notification: Mar 10, 2011 Final versions: Mar 21, 2011 Workshop: April 11, 2011 Program Chairs Linh T.X. Phan, University of Pennsylvania Sebastian Fischmeister, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada Program Committee Madhukar Anand, Cisco, USA Guillem Bernat, Rapita Systems, UK Antonio Casimiro, University of Lisbon, Portugal Petru Eles, Linkoepping University, Sweden Marisol Garcia-Valls, Univ. Carlos III in Madrid, Spain Sathish Gopalakrishnan, University of British Columbia, Canada Jorg Kaiser, University of Magdeburg, Germany MoonZoo Kim, KAIST, Korea Christoph Kirsch, University of Salzburg, Austria Chang-Gun Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Xue Liu, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA Jane Liu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Lucia LoBello, University of Catania, Italy Pau Marti, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Thomas Nolte, Malardalen University, Sweden Roman Obermaisser, University of Siegen, Austria Paulo Pedreiras, University of Aveiro, Portugal Carlos Eduardo Pereira, UFRG, Brazil Stefan Petters, ISEP - IPP, Portugal Dumitru Potop-Butucaru, INRIA, France Eric Rutten, INRIA Grenoble, France Ina Schaefer, Technical University Braunschweig, Germany Martin Torngren, KTH, Sweden Shaofa Yang, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, China Steering Committee Luis Almeida, University of Porto, Portugal Karl-Erik Arzen, University of Lund, Sweden Sebastian Fischmeister, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania, USA Julian Proenza, Univ. of the Balearic Islands, Spain _______________________________________________ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
