Digital systems in intelligent transportation systems (ITS) will play an important role and are becoming increasingly complex. New applications for these ITS have emerged to respond to people and societal needs and to ensure driver and passenger safety. Applications such as Driverless cars, Vehicle-to-X (V2X) communications, in-vehicle infotainment, and assistance for elderly and disabled drivers require powerful processing and communication capabilities. Moreover, modern transport tools play the leading role in strategically worldwide projects such as green and sustainable mobility in future smart cities and smart roads. To fulfill these tasks, the number and types of sensors in next generation of transportations tools will continually increase and requires significant computing power, low energy consumption and high reliability and security.

The purpose of this special session is to look deeper into these issues, and bring researchers and practitioners from industry and academia to explore and discuss recent progress, and stimulate the interaction between them through exchange of ideas and experience sharing.


TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE (BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO)

System architecture & software design for ITS: Multicore, FPGA, GP-GPU and heterogeneous system challenges
Safety, Security and Reliability. Assessment and detection of security threats and vulnerabilities
Designing architecture and software for security
Interfaces & Driver Assistance Systems, and in-vehicle networks (Most, Flexray, Can, Ethernet, etc.)
Standards (AUTOSAR, ISO, EN, etc.) deployments
HMI, infotainment development and usability testing in ITS
Development methods for advanced driver assistance systems
Design methods and tool-chains for embedded systems in autonomous vehicles and active safety
Architectural design and optimization for EVs and HEVs
Infrastructure analysis, modeling, simulation and optimization in ITS
Energy-efficient vehicles, connected vehicles and infrastructure design, energy generation and saving
Hardware and software solutions for run-time system management, self-diagnostics and repair
New architectures, protocols and implementations for communicating vehicles (V2X) and infrastructures
Digital systems and circuits for smart cities and smart roads

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Authors are encouraged to submit their manuscripts to the Easychair System. Should an unexpected web access problem be encountered, please contact the Program Chair.

Each manuscript should include the complete paper text, all illustrations, and references. The manuscript should conform to the IEEE format: single-spaced, double column, US letter page size, 10-point size Times Roman font, up to 8 pages. In order to conduct a blind review, no indication of the authors' names should appear in the manuscript, references included.

CPS, Conference Publishing Services, publishes the (ISI indexed) DSD Proceedings, available worldwide through the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Extended versions of selected best papers will be published in a special issue of the ISI indexed “Microprocessors and Microsystems: Embedded Hardware Design” Elsevier journal.


IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for paper submission: April 8th
Notification of acceptance: May 30th
Camera ready papers: June 27th

SPECIAL SESSION CHAIR

Smail Niar (University Of Valenciennes, FR)

SPECIAL SESSION PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Mohamed Bakhouya (Interna. U. of Rabat, MA)
Morteza Biglari-Abhary (Auckland Univ., NZ)
Philippe Bonnot (Thales group, FR)
Oliver Bringmann (FZI Karlsruhe, GR)
Wassim Drira (QMIC Doha, QT)
Yassin El-Hillali (Univ. of Valenciennes, FR)
Suhaib A Fahmy (Nanyang Technol. Univ., SG)
Daniel Gracia-Perez (Thales group, FR)
Arnaud Grasset (Thales group, FR)
Naim Harb (Univ of Mons, BE)
Andreas Herkersdorf (TU München, GR)
Enno Luebbers (Intel Corp. Hillsboro, US)
Fadi Kurdahi (U. California Irvine, US)
Alejandro Masrur (TU Chemnitz, GR)
Reda Nouacer (CEA-LIST, FR)
Atika Rivenk (Univ. of Valenciennes, FR)
Selma Saidi (TU of Hamburg Harburg, GR)
Mazen Saghir (AUB, Beirut , LB)
Yervant Zorian (Synopsys, US)

CONTACT INFORMATION
Smail Niar
LAMIH, University of Valenciennes
«Decision, Interaction & Mobility » Research Group
59313, Valenciennes, Cedex. France
tel.: +33 327511948