*Call for Papers (Final Call)

12th International Symposium on Highly Efficient Accelerators and Reconfigurable Technologies (HEART)

https://heart.lila.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp

** Date: June 9-10, 2022,
** Place: Tsukuba Ibaraki, Japan (hybrid symposium in person and online)
** Submission link: https://heart2022.lila.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp/heart2022/submission

The International Symposium on Highly Efficient Accelerators and Reconfigurable Technologies (HEART) is a forum to present and discuss new research on all aspects of accelerator technologies that improve power- or energy-efficiency of computing systems.


* New in 2022: Special Session on Efficiency-Driven Computing

To advance the frontier in power- and energy-efficient computing, HEART 2022 will organize a special session dedicated to works that can quantitatively demonstrate software, hardware and/or architectural techniques that improve the efficiency of computer systems by meeting the following criteria: Given a baseline system B and an accelerated system A, let perf_A, eff_A, perf_B, eff_B be the performance (higher is better) and power- or energy-efficiency of A and B respectively, then this special session seeks submissions that demonstrate:

eff_A ) eff_B; and
perf_A )= perf_B x 0.8

Criteria 1 specifies that the overarching evaluation criteria for this special session are efficiency improvement. In addition, Criteria 2 specifies that while achieving speedup is usually a desirable feature for an accelerated system, for the purpose of this special session, if the authors can demonstrate efficiency improvement in the resulting system A, then A may be up to 20% slower than B as a tradeoff.

Submission to this special session includes 2 parts:

- An 8-page technical paper describing research contributions.
- A 1-page summary describing quantitatively the measured power and performance of the target system.

See the conference website for more details. Submissions to the special session are single-blinded. Papers submitted to this special session will undergo a peer-review process to evaluate their technical contributions, which must contain at least 30% beyond previously published work. An award will be given to the submission that demonstrates the most increase in efficiency in this session.


*Main Research Track

Following its tradition, HEART 2022 will continue to focus on high efficiency as a cross-cutting issue and seeks contributions for the main research track in, but not limited to, the following areas:

** Architectures for Efficient Acceleration

Novel systems/platforms based on FPGA, GPU, and other devices
Heterogeneous processor architectures and systems for high-performance and/or low-power
Domain-specific architectures

** Design Methods and Tools for Efficient Acceleration

Programming paradigms, languages, and frameworks
High-level synthesis and compilers
Runtime methodologies for heterogeneous systems
Performance evaluation and analysis

** Applications and Systems

Application examples that benefit from efficient acceleration to a great extent
Complete systems demonstrating increased energy efficiency and/or performance
Comparisons between accelerator technologies


*Submission Guidelines (Format and Anonymity)

Prospective authors are invited to submit original contributions as 12-page papers without references to be considered regular papers or 8-page papers without references to be considered special session papers. HEART2022 adopt a double-blind review process, authors should not identify themselves, so author names, affiliations, e-mail addresses, and self-references should be blanked out. All contributions must be submitted electronically in PDF format according to the ACM proceedings style.

Word: https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submission_template.docx
LaTex: https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/consolidated-tex-template/acmart-primary.zip
Overleaf: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acm-conference-proceedings-primary-article-template/wbvnghjbzwpc

Each accepted paper MUST have at least one author with a regular registration for the manuscript to be included and published in the proceedings. Authors are also expected to present their paper(s) at the HEART2022 symposium.

*Ph.D. Forum

Ph.D. students working in areas relevant to HEART 2022 are solicited to submit an extended abstract of up to 4 pages (including references) comprising a summary of their research findings, work in progress, and/or planned research—the Ph.D. Forum is intended as a platform for Ph.D. students to interact with peers and experienced researchers. The Ph.D. forum will be organized as a virtual poster session and include a 5 minutes oral introduction by each student. The Ph.D. student should be the first author; thesis advisors may be coauthors. The technical program committee will review submissions to ensure quality and relevance. Authors of accepted submissions are expected to attend HEART 2022 and present their posters. The accepted extended abstracts will also appear in the conference proceedings.

*Important Dates and Deadlines

April 4, 2022 AOE: Submission deadline of regular papers
April 4, 2022 AOE: Submission deadline of special session papers
April 29, 2022: Notification of regular papers
April 29, 2022: Notification of special session papers
May 6, 2022 AOE: Deadline of camera-ready submission
May 6, 2022 AOE: Deadline of camera-ready submission for special session papers
June 9-10th, 2022: Conference dates


*Program Committee

Jason Anderson, University of Toronto
Nick Brown, The University of Edinburgh
Joao Cardoso, University of Porto
Paul Chow, University of Toronto
Oliver Diessel, The University of New South Wales
Marco Domenico Santambrogio, Politecnico di Milano
Iman Firmansyah, National Research and Innovation Agency
Diana Goehringer, TU Dresden
Martin Herbordt, Boston University
Michael Huebner, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus
Tomonori Izumi, Ritsumeikan University
Peter Jamieson, Miami University
Kenji Kise, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Dirk Koch, The University of Manchester
Miriam Leeser, Northeastern University
Vivek Menon, U.S. Dept. of Defense
Takaaki Miyajima, Meiji University
Hiroki Nakahara, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Hironori Nakajo, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Smail Niar, LAMIH/CNRS, Polytechnic University Hauts-de-France
Kenneth O'Brien, Xilinx Inc
Marco Platzner, Paderborn University
Christian Plessl, Paderborn University
Kentaro Sano, Riken R-CCS
Hayden K.H. So, The University of Hong Kong
Antonio Carlos Schneider Beck Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Yuichiro Shibata, Nagasaki University
Dimitrios Soudris, National Technical University of Athens
Stephan Wong, Delft University of Technology
Yoshiki Yamaguchi, University of Tsukuba


*Organization Committee

General Chair: Yoshiki Yamaguchi, University of Tsukuba
Program Co-Chair: Hayden K.H. So, The University of Hong Kong
Program Co-Chair: Takaaki Miyajima, Meiji University
Publication Chair: Ryohei Kobayashi, University of Tsukuba
Finance Chair: Tomohiro Ueno, RIKEN Center for Computational Science
Publicity Chair: Riadh Ben Abdelhamid, University of Tsukuba