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TRACK: Electronic Systems in Societal Automation
TRACK CHAIR: Adam Kostrzewa, TU Braunschweig, Germany
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SOCIETAL AUTOMATION
Technological & Architectural Frameworks for Societal Automation

CALL FOR REGULAR, SPECIAL SESSIONS, & WORK IN PROGRESS PAPERS
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First International Conference
September 4-6, 2019
AGH University of Science & Technology, Krakow, Poland
Accepted papers will be included in the IEEE eXplore data base
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SPONSORS:

IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society - Chapter, Poland Section
IEEE Computer Society - Chapter, Poland Section
IEEE Robotics & Automation Society - Chapter, Poland Section
IEEE System, Man, & Cybernetics - Chapter, Poland Section
AGH University of Science & Technology, and Innovation 4.0 Institute
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Web site: https://sac2019.org/
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CONFERENCE BACKGROUND:

Technology and arising solutions are fast penetrating practically all areas
and facets of our life; from pocket and werable automation, to robotic
companions, to home and building automation, to energy and transportation
systems, to city/urban automation. In future: space colonies.

Societal Automation, as this rapidly expanding human-centered technology
penetration of our life can be called, has many aims: to make human-made
engineering systems intuitive and safe in use; to strive to improve quality
of our life; to provide comfortable and safe living habitat without degrading
the surrounding natural environment; to observe our privacy, body and
psychological integrity to mention some – in addition to fulfilling other
geo-engineering requirements and societal needs.

The first in the series conference on Societal Automation will attempt to look
in a holistic way at the Societal Automation domain in order to try to determine
what solutions, technologies, architectural frameworks, and design tools are
going to be needed in the design, development and deployment of future
human-centered life-quality improving solutions and systems, as well as (ultra)
complex engineering systems to provide us with a living habitat and supporting
infrastructure. The most crucial, however, are the expectations of us,
individuals without major say in the Societal Automation evolution to ensure
the developments serve our interest and do not threaten our privacy, body
and psychological integrity, and safety in general.
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TRACK'S SCOPE

SYSTEM-LEVEL DESIGN - methodologies & tools for reconfigurable platforms
(programmable logic, partial reconfiguration); FPGA architectures, design,
and CAD; robust & power aware computing and systems; energy management; data
integration and fusion; communication modes; compensation mechanisms for aging
and temperature; methodologies & tools for fault-tolerant designs; hardware
attacks detection, threat modeling & defense; hardware-based security design;
trusted design automation & tools; adaptive and compositional architectures.

NETWORKED EMBEDDED SYSTEMS - design, dependability and tooling for networked
systems including real-time, safety, security, maintainability aspects;
middleware solutions for distributed and networked systems; network protocols
for distributed systems including resource control, admission control,
self-aware adjustments, time synchronization, routing and energy consumption.

COGNITIVE COMPUTING IN CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS- hardware and architectures,
software and algorithmic approaches for artificial intelligence, hardware
accelerators for machine/deep learning algorithms; algorithmic optimizations
for general purpose computing; modeling, design and analysis of networked
control, switched control, and distributed control systems.

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS AND ARCHITECTURES - design methodologies and tools; parallel
and distributed embedded systems; multi/many-core embedded systems; timing
and schedulability analysis; quality of service control; distributed and
system-on-chip architectures; real-time and dependable mechanisms and
architectures; static and dynamic reconfigurable systems; embedded systems
ase studies.

FOR TRACKS SEE - https://sac2019.org/tracks-topics
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CONTACT INFORMATION - E-mail: kostrzewa@ida.ing.tu-bs.de
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SUBMISSIONS: Two types of submissions are solicited. Long Papers – limited to 8
double column pages in a font no smaller than 10-points. Work-in-Progress
and Industry practice – limited to 4 double column pages in a font no smaller
than 10-points.

SUBMISSION DETAILS - https://sac2019.org/paper-submissions
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ABOUT LOCATION:

KRAKOW is one of the most attractive cities in Europe. Featuring a medieval old
town with the largest town square in Europe. The Old Town is packed with
medieval and renesanse era quarters, and sacral buildings dating back to the
romanesque period. Krakow is also one of the cultural centers of the Eastern
Europe. Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, and Penderecki are performed every
day in magnificent sacral environments. Art galleries and exhibitions of modern
art are in abundance. The Krakow’s town square restaurants are buzzing with
life till early morning hours. The Krakow's airport is located just 8 km from
the city center, accessible from most of urban centers in the EU. Taxi from
the airport to the city center costs on average EUR 20. Bus (30 minutes ride)
EUR 1.5. Train EUR 2.5.

SEE KRAKOW PREVIEW - https://sac2019.org/about-krakow
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PROCEEDINGS & INDEXING:
Accepted papers will be be published in the conference proceedings,
and included in the IEEE eXplore data base
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Web site: https://sac2019.org/
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Accepted papers will be included in the IEEE eXplore data base
***** Submissions of regular & special sessions papers due: May 12, 2019 *****
***** Submissions of work-in-progress papers: May 26, 2019 *****
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