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CALL FOR PAPERS
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SIES'2012
7th IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
20-22 June 2012

***** Submission Deadline : February 26, 2012 *****

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Web site: http://sies2012.ira.uka.de
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Aim: The aim of the symposium is to bring together researchers and practitioners
from industry and academia and provide them with a platform to report on recent
developments, deployments, technology trends and research results, as well as
initiatives related to embedded systems and their applications in a variety of
industrial environments.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS: Design and Validation of Embedded Systems; Real-Time Issues;
Models of Embedded Computation; Design and Verification Languages; Operating
Systems and Quasi-Static Scheduling; Timing and Performance Analysis; Power
Aware Embedded Computing; Adaptive Embedded Systems; Security in Embedded
Systems.

SYSTEM-on-CHIP and NETWORK-on-CHIP DESIGN & TESTING: Design of Application-
Specific Instruction-Set Processors; Design and Programming of Embedded
Multiprocessors; SoC Communication and Architectures; NoC Communication and
Architectures; Design of SoC/NoC; Platform-Based Design for Embedded Systems;
Reconfigurable Platforms; Multiprocessor SoC Platforms and Tools; Testing of
Embedded Core-based Integrated Circuits.

NETWORKED EMBEDDED SYSTEMS: Design Issues for Networked Embedded; Middleware
Design and Implementation for Networked Embedded Systems; Self Adaptive
Networked Entity Sensor Networks: Architectures, Energy-Efficient Medium
Access Control, Time Synchronization Issues, Distributed Localization
Algorithms, Routing, Distributed Signal Processing, Security.

EMBEDDED APPLICATIONS: Industrial Automation and Controls; Automotive
Applications; Industrial Building Automation and Control; Power (sub-)
Station Automation and Control; Intelligent Sensors, etc. - design, maintenance,
fault tolerance & dependability, networks, infrastructure, safety and security.

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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:

Manuscripts must be submitted electronically in PDF format, according to the
instructions contained in the Conference web site. Contributions must contain
original unpublished work. Papers that have been concurrently submitted to other
conferences or journals (double submissions) will be automatically rejected.
Papers are to be submitted electronically in PDF format.

Two types of submissions are solicited:
* Long Papers - from 6 to 10 double-column pages (typically 8 pages).
* Work-in-Progress Papers - limited to 4 double-column pages.

For further details, please consult the conference web pages, or symposium
secretariat: email: j.chen@kit.edu.

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IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline for long papers: February 26, 2012
Notification for acceptance of long papers: April 15, 2012
Deadline for final manuscript of long papers: May 6, 2012
Submission deadline for WIP papers: March 4, 2012
Notification for acceptance for WIP papers: April 22, 2012
Deadline for final manuscript of WIP papers: May 6, 2012

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ORGANIZERS

General Co-Chairs
Jian-Jia Chen, KIT, Germany
Richard Zurawski, ISA Group., USA

Program Committee Chairs
Thomas Nolte, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Samarjit Chakraborty, TU Munich, Germany

Local Organizing Chair
Bjoern Hein, KIT, Germany
Wolfgang Karl, KIT, Germany

WiP Chairs
David Macii, University of Trento, Italy
Lars Bauer, KIT, Germany

Finance Chairs
Wolfgang Karl, KIT, Germany
Richard Zurawski, ISA Group, USA


SIES Series Steering Committee:

Rolf Ernst, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Giovanni De Micheli, EPFL, Switzerland
Rajesh Gupta, UC San Diego, USA
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, UC Berkeley, USA
Lothar Thiele, ETHZ, Switzerland
Reinhard Willhelm, University of Saarland, Germany
Richard Zurawski, ISA Group, USA


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CONTACT INFORMATION

Jian-Jia Chen
Department of Informatics
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Germany
Phone: +49 721 608-47693
Fax: +49 721 608-47141
Email: j.chen@kit.edu

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