SAC 2021

Submission timeline

• 12 Oct 2020 Full paper UTC 15 Sep 2020 → 12 Oct 2020 +27 days
• 24 Nov 2020 Notification 10 Nov 2020 → 24 Nov 2020 +14 days

• 22 Mar 2021 Conference opens

What to submit

Format

8+2 pages ACM SAC

Proceedings

ACM — ACM Digital Library

44 tracks, student abstracts, Student Research Competition, etc. WARNING: double-blind.

Call for papers

• After a deadline extension SAC-2021-extended.txt · TXT · shown below
• As first published SAC-2021.txt · TXT

The call, as published

Reproduced verbatim from the organisers’ announcement, after a deadline extension. The conference’s own page is at www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2021/.

36th ACM/SIGAPP SAC Symposium on Applied Computing
   March 22-March 26, 2021. Gwangju, Korea
 
                    T r a c k    EMBS – deadline extension -> October 12                    
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                EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
                New Perspectives
for Hardware, System Software, and Applications
 
      https://www.cs.ccu.edu.tw/~ccho/sac2021
 
 
              Conference (main) page
 
        http://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2021/
 
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IMPORTANT DATES
 
Full paper submission:    September 28, 2020. October 12, 2020
Author notification:      November  10, 2020.
Camera ready paper:       November  25, 2020.
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High performance embedded computing has recently become more and more present in devices used in everyday life. A wide variety of applications, from consumer electronics to biomedical systems, require building up powerful yet cheap embedded devices. In this context, embedded software has turned out to be more and more complex, posing new challenging issues. The adoption of further flexible programming paradigms/architectures is becoming almost mandatory. Nonetheless, even nowadays the development of embedded systems must rely on a tight coupling of hardware and software components.
Moreover, the market pressure calls for the employment of new methodologies for shortening the development time, and for driving the evolution of existing products. New efficient solutions to problems emerging in this setting can be put into action by means of a joint effort of academia and industry.
 
Design of embedded systems must take into account a wide variety of
constraints: performance, code size, power consumption, presence of real-time tasks, robustness, maintainability, security, and possibly scalability. The more convenient trade-off has to be found, often operating on a large number of different parameters. In this scenario, solutions can be proposed at different levels of abstraction, making use of an assortment of tools and methodologies: researchers and practitioners have a chance to propose new ideas and to compare experimentations.
 
The focus of this conference track is on the application of both novel and well-known techniques to the embedded systems development. Particular attention is paid to solutions that require expertise in different fields (e.g. computer architecture, OS, compilers, security, software engineering, simulation). The track will benefit also from direct experiences in the employment of embedded devices in "unconventional" application areas, so to show up new challenges in the system design/development process. In this setting, researchers and practitioners from academia and industry will get a chance to keep in touch with problems, open issues and future directions in the field of development of dedicated applications for embedded systems.
 
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               Topics of Interest
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  * Embedded Systems, Cyberphysical Systems (CPS), and Internet-of-Things
(IoT):
      1. System-level specification, modeling, virtual prototyping and simulation
      2. Embedded system synthesis and optimization
      3. Many- and multi-core SoC architecture
      4. HW/SW co-design, co-simulation and co-verification
      5. Energy/power management design and energy harvesting
  * Embedded Software:
      1. Kernel, middleware, and virtual machine
      2. Energy-efficient embedded software
      3. Real-time software and operating systems
      4. Software design for multicores, GPUs, and heterogeneous embedded architectures
      5. Testing, debugging, profiling and performance analysis of Embedded Systems
  * Memory Architecture and Near/In Memory Computing:
      1. Storage system and memory architecture
      2. On-chip memory architectures and management: Scratchpads, compiler, controlled memories, etc.
      3. Memory and storage hierarchies with emerging memory technologies
      4. Near-memory and in-memory computing
      5. Memory architecture and management for emerging memory technologies
  * Neural Network and Deep Learning System Designs:
      1. AI and machine learning for embedded systems
      2. Hardware and devices for neuromorphic and neural network computing
      3. Systems for neural computing (including deep neural networks)
      4. Neural network acceleration co-design techniques
      5. Design techniques for AI of Things
 
 
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    Important dates   (PAPERS & SRC ABSTRACTS)
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Full paper submission:    September 28, 2020. October 12, 2020                    
Author notification:      November  10, 2020.
Camera ready paper:       November  25, 2020.
 
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               Paper Submissions
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Submission of Papers: Manuscripts must be submitted electronically in PDF
format, according to the instructions contained in the main Conference web
site. The review process is double blind. Please anonymize the paper
submitted for review. The paper length is 8 pages, with the option to add 2
additional pages at extra charge, up to a maximum of 10 pages. Contributions
must contain original unpublished work. Papers that have been concurrently
submitted to other conferences or journals (double submissions) will be
automatically rejected. All papers must submitted through the main
conference web page.
 
Paper Acceptance: Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of
the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy
attending ACM SAC MUST present the paper: This is a requirement for the
paper/poster to be included in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of
scheduled papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM/IEEE
digital library.
 
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     Student Research Competition at ACM SAC
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Graduate students seeking feedback from the scientific community on their
research ideas are invited to submit abstracts of their original unpublished
and in-progress research work in areas of experimental computing and
application development related to SAC Tracks. The Student Research
Competition (SRC) program is designed to provide graduate students the
opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with researcher and practitioners in
their areas of interest.
 
All research abstract submissions will be reviewed by researchers and
practitioners with expertise in the track focus area to which they are
submitted. Authors of selected abstracts will have the opportunity to give
poster presentations of their work and compete for three top winning places.
The SRC committee will evaluate and select First, Second, and Third place
winners. The winners will receive cash awards and SIGAPP recognition
certificates during the conference banquet dinner. Authors of selected
abstracts are eligible to apply to the SIGAPP Student Travel Award program
for support.
 
Submission - Graduate students are invited to submit abstracts (minimum of
two pages; maximum of four pages) of their original unpublished and
in-progress research work following the instructions published at SAC
web-site. The submissions must address research work related to a SAC track,
with emphasis on the innovation behind the research idea, including the
problem being investigated, the proposed approach and research methodology,
and sample preliminary results of the work. In addition, the abstract should
reflect on the originality of the work, innovation of the approach, and
applicability of anticipated results to real-world problems. All SRC works
must be submitted through the main conference web page.
 
Please note SRCs and regular papers must be submitted at different pages of
the START web system. Submitting the same abstract to multiple tracks is not
allowed. It is recommended to refer to the official SRC Information Sheet
for further details.
 
 
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                 Track Chairs
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Wei-Chung Hsu - National Taiwan University - Taiwan
Jalil  Boukhobza – ENSTA-Bretagne - France
Chien-Chung Ho - National Chung Cheng University - Taiwan