This special session addresses all aspects of multi-core and many-core embedded systems design. It presents new ideas in the multi-core field such as theory and modeling, scalable and fault tolerant design approaches and frameworks, algorithms, software, tools and applications, analysis and comparison, design techniques and emerging implementations.

The proceedings of the special session will be published together with the proceedings of PDP 2014 by the IEEE Computer Society, which are available worldwide through the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. An extended version of the best papers of the MC3 be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the ISI-indexed high-quality journals.

Authors are invited to submit high quality papers representing original work from both the academia and industry in (but not limited to) the following topics:

* Design space exploration and design methodology for embedded multi-core and many-core systems
* Specification and Formal modeling of embedded multi-core and many-core systems
* Multi-core/many-core embedded system design challenges
* Parallel programming and software for embedded multi-core and many-core systems
* Memory management
* 3D architectures, integration and synthesis for embedded multi-core and many-core systems
* On-chip communication architectures and networks-on-chip for embedded systems
* Heterogeneous multi-core and many-core architectures
* Hardware/software co-design
* Simulation, validation and verification
* QoS management and performance analysis
* Multi-core and many-core cyber-physical systems
* Programming languages and compilers
* Thermal-, energy-, and power-aware architectures
* Monitoring and reconfiguration
* System prototyping
* Industrial practices and case studies
* IMPORTANT DATES

Special session chairs:
Amir-Mohammad Rahmani (University of Turku, Finland)
Pasi Liljeberg (University of Turku, Finland)
Juha Plosila (University of Turku, Finland)