Call for Papers

                     ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED Conference on
       Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES'04)
                    Washington, DC, June 11-13, 2004

	             (in conjunction with PLDI'04)
          	  http://www.acm.org/sigplan/lctes.htm

Important Dates

  papers due: February 6, 2004 at UTC 23:00 (5 PM Central time), 
              strict deadline
  author notification: March 15, 2004
  final papers due: April 5, 2004

Description

As the complexity of the application domains for the embedded systems 
increases, new research challenges are encountered for achieving 
desired performance goals, such as speed, real time constraints, code
size, power, and scalability.  Due to limited resources locally
available, embedded systems are increasingly used in networked
(wired, wireless, as well as mobile) environments. In addition,
advances in hardware motivate the use of a combination of hardware
and software techniques.  The aim of LCTES is to provide a forum for
discussing the latest research related to the above trends and to
allow researchers and developers working on different aspects to get
together and interact.  Original submissions are invited in all areas
relevant to this theme.  Appropriate topics include, but are not
limited to the following aspects of embedded systems:

  - Program optimization for real-time performance and DSPs
  - Compilation for hardware/software co-design
  - Compilers for reconfigurable architectures
  - Optimization for low-power architectures
  - Exploitation of memory hierarchies
  - Memory management/garbage collection for embedded systems
  - Programming languages for embedded applications
  - Real-time and embedded Java, real-time UML
  - Object-oriented modeling and design
  - Design, specification, analysis of embedded systems
  - Software Synthesis
  - Validation and verification techniques for embedded software
  - Embedded system integration and testing
  - Standardization for embedded systems
  - Real-time operating systems: environment and tools
  - Real-time scheduling analysis
  - Exception and interrupt handling for real-time
  - Software design for multiprocessor embedded systems
  - Concurrent+distributed embedded environments/runtime systems
  - Timing analysis: static and dynamic approaches
  - Timing predictability of modern architectures
  - Support for partitioning, mapping, and compression
  - Profiling, measurement, debugging of embedded applications

Submitting Papers

Papers should report new, previously unpublished research and should
not exceed 5000 words (approximately 10 pages typeset on 16-point
spacing), including figures and references.  All accepted papers will be
presented at the workshop and published in the proceedings as well as the
ACM Digital Library.

The LCTES'04 submission site at http://www.cse.wustl.edu/LCTES04/ is now 
accepting electronic submissions. All submissions must be received 
by UTC 23:00 (5:00 PM Central Time), February 6, 2004. Detailed submission 
procedures and updates on the submission date will be announced on the 
conference web page:

    http://lctes04.flux.utah.edu


General Chair			    Program Chair
David Whalley			    Ron Cytron
Florida State University	    Washington University Box 1045 
Department of Computer Science      Department of Computer Science
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4530 (USA)    St. Louis, MO 63130
phone: (+1) (850) 644-3506	    phone: (+1) (314) 935-7527
fax:   (+1) (850) 644-0058          fax:   (+1) (314) 935-7302
whalley@cs.fsu.edu      	    cytron@cs.wustl.edu

Program Committee:

Marcel Becker, Kestrel Institute, USA
Morris Chang, Iowa State University, USA 
Perry Cheng, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA 
Trishul Chilimbi, Microsoft Research, USA 
Bruce Childers, University of Pittsburgh, USA 
Alex Dean, North Carolina State University, USA 
Koen De Bosschere, Ghent University, Belgium 
Michael Franz,  University of California Irvine, USA 
Kyle Gallivan, Florida State University, USA 
Rajiv Gupta, University of Arizona, USA 
Mary Jane Irwin, Pennsylvania State University, USA 
Daniel Kaestner, AbsInt, Germany 
Chandra Krintz, University of California Santa Barbara, USA 
E. Christopher Lewis,        University of Pennsylvania, USA 
Peter Marwedel, University of Dortmund, Germany 
Al Mok, University of Texas Austin, USA 
Yunheung Paek, Seoul National University, Korea 
Barry Pangrle, Synopsis, USA 
Isabelle Puaut, IRISA, France 
Karen Tomko, University of Cincinnati, USA 
Youtao Zhang, University of Texas Dallas, USA