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Second CALL FOR PAPERS

The Fourth International Symposium on
Highly Efficient Accelerators and Reconfigurable Technologies
-- HEART2013 --
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
13 - 14 June, 2013
(http://www.isheart.org)
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IMPORTANT DATES (all 23:59, GMT):
- Paper submission: March 15, 2013
- Author notification: April 15, 2013
- Camera-ready due: April 30, 2013
- HEART2013 Symposium: June 13 - 14, 2013
- Post-proceedings (ACM CAN): see below

The HEART symposium is an international forum for state-of-the-art
research in high-performance and power-efficient computing using
accelerator technologies such as reconfigurable architectures, GPGPUs,
and/or specialized accelerators. The fourth edition of HEART will take
place in the City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

The scope of the symposium includes, but is not limited to:

* Architectures and systems:
- Novel systems/platforms for efficient acceleration based on FPGA,
GPU, and other devices
- Heterogeneous processors/systems for scalable, high-performance,
high-reliability and/or low-power computation
- Reconfigurable/configurable hardware and systems including
IP-cores, embedded systems, SoCs and cluster/grid/cloud computing
systems for scalable, high-performance and/or low-power processing
- High-performance custom-computing processors/systems
- Novel architectures and device technologies that can be applied to
efficient acceleration, including many-core architectures, NoC
architectures, 3D-stacking technologies and optical devices

* Software and applications:
- Novel applications for efficient acceleration systems/platforms,
and custom computing
- System softwares, compilers and programming languages for
efficient acceleration systems/platforms, including many-core
processors, GPUs, FPGAs and other reconfigurable/custom processors
- Run-time techniques for acceleration, including Just-in-Time
compilation and dynamic partial-reconfiguration
- Performance evaluation and analysis for efficient acceleration
- High-level synthesis and design methodologies for heterogeneous,
reconfigurable and/or custom processors/systems

As in previous HEART editions, we plan to publish selected accepted
papers at HEART 2013 in post-proceedings ACM SIGARCH Computer
Architecture News (CAN).

All contributions must be submitted electronically in PDF format (two
columns, US letter size, single-spacing, 10 points for main body text)
and be no more than 6 pages in length. For double-blind review,
manuscripts must NOT identify the authors in any way, so author names,
affiliations, e-mail addresses and self-references should be blanked
out. You can submit your contribution(s) through the following
easychair link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=heart2013

Each accepted paper MUST have at least one author with a paid
registration for the manuscript to be included and published in the
symposium proceedings and ACM SIGARCH CAN post-proceedings. Authors
are also expected to attend and present the paper at the symposium.

In addition to presentations of accepted papers, we will also have
keynote lectures by:
- Mr. Ken Chapman, Xilinx
Title: Highly Efficient Designs: Art, Magic or Engineering?
- Prof. David Broman, UC Berkeley/Linkoping University
Title: Execution time should be as short as possible, but not shorter

Further information can be found on the symposium website at:
http://www.eng.ed.ac.uk/HEART2013/

If you require any more information, please contact us on the
following email: heart2013@eng.ed.ac.uk


Committees
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General Chair:
- Khaled Benkrid, The University of Edinburgh, UK

Program Co-Chairs:
- Michael Hubner, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany
- Kenneth B. Kent, University of New Brunswick, Canada
- Yoshiki Yamaguchi, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Publication Chair:
- Yuichiro Shibata, Nagasaki University, Japan

Publicity Co-Chairs:
- Suhaib Fahmy, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Chuan Hong, The University of Edinburgh, UK
- Kentaro Sano, Tohoku University, Japan

Program Committee (TBC):
- Ali Akoglu, University of Arizona, USA
- Philip Brisk, University of California, Riverside, USA
- Florent Dinechin, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, FR
- Diana Goehringer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE
- Guy Gogniat, Universite de Bretagne Sud, France
- Gary Grewal, University of Guelph, CA
- Yajun Ha, National University of Singapore, SG
- Masanori Hashimoto, Osaka University, JP
- Martin Herbordt, Boston University, USA
- Yohei Hori, AIST, JP
- Tomonori Izumi, Ritsumeikan University, JP
- Peter Jamieson, Miami University, USA
- Qiwei Jin, Imperial College London, UK
- Nachiket Kapre, Imperial College London, UK
- Dirk Koch, Universitetet i Oslo, NO
- Herman Lam, University of Florida, USA
- Philip Leong, University of Sydney, AU
- Tsutomu Maruyama, University of Tsukuba, JP
- Zaltan Nagy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, HU
- Smail Niar, University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambresis, FR
- Miquel Pericas, Tokyo Institute of Technology, JP
- Gregory Peterson, University of Tenessee, USA
- Yukinori Sato, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, JP
- Hayden So, University of Hong Kong, HK
- Yiannis Sourdis, Chalmers University of Technology, SE
- Henry Styles, Xilinx, USA
- Bharat Sukhwani, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
- David Thomas, Imperial College London, UK
- Thomas Vancourt, Akamai Technologies, USA
- Wim Vanderbauwhede, University of Glasgow, UK
- Tanya Vladimirova, University of Leicester, UK
- Najjar Walid, University of California, Riverside, USA
- Minoru Watanabe, Shizuoka University.
- Stephan Wong, Delft University of Technology, NL
- Dai Yamamoto, Fujitsu Laboratories
- Masato Yoshimi, University of Electro-Communications, JP
- Chiwai Yu, City University of Hong Kong, HK

Steering Committee:
- Hideharu Amano, Keio University, Japan
- Khaled Benkrid, The University of Edinburgh, UK
- Wayne Luk, Imperial College London, UK
- Hironori Nakajo, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology,Japan
- Kentaro Sano, Tohoku University, Japan
- Yuichiro Shibata, Nagasaki University, Japan
- Yoshiki Yamaguchi, University of Tsukuba, Japan
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