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Call for Papers

13th IEEE/IFIP International Conferences on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC-2015), Porto, Portugal on October 21-23, 2015.

http://www.fe.up.pt/euc2015
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Important Dates:
Extended Submission Deadline for Papers:
June 15, 2015, midnight AOE timezone (anywhere on earth), (strict deadline)
Author Notification:
July 24, 2015
Camera-Ready and Author Registration:
September 4, 2015
Conference dates:
October 21-23, 2015
Workshops and Tutorials:
October 20, 2015

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Highlights:

== Journal Special Issues to be announced soon!
- Journal's System Architectures (Elsevier) SI on Design Automation for Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing Systems, Deadline is Nov 01, 2015
- Microprocessors and Microsystems (Elsevier) SI on Heterogeneous Architectures for Cyber-physical Systems, Deadline is Nov 01, 2015
- Other Journal Special Issues to be announced soon!

== Keynotes:
- Mateo Valero, UPC/BSC, Barcelona, Spain. Title: "Runtime Aware Architectures"
- Other exciting keynote talks to be announced soon!

== NVIDIA Tutorial on October 20

== And more to come!
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Overview:
Embedded and ubiquitous computing is an exciting paradigm that promises to provide computing and communication services to the end users all the time and everywhere. Its systems are now invading every aspect of our daily life and promise to revolutionize our life much more profoundly than electric motors or even personal computer evolution ever did. The emergence of this technology is a natural outcome of research and technological advances in a variety of areas including embedded systems, pervasive computing and communications, wireless networks, mobile computing, distributed computing and agent technologies.

The 13th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC-2015) is the next event, in a series of highly successful international conferences on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing. EUC 2015 will take place in Porto, Portugal. The conference will be held from 21 to 23 October, 2015.

Topics:
The EUC-2015 conference will provide a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address all challenges including technical, safety, social, and legal issues related to embedded and ubiquitous computing and to present and discuss their ideas, results, work-in-progress and experience on all aspects of embedded and ubiquitous computing. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

*Hardware architectures and design tools
Architectures for low-power wireless communication
Reconfigurable architectures (e.g., FPGAs, CGRAs)
Hardware accelerators
System-level, high-level, and RTL/Logic synthesis
Hardware/software co-design, partitioning, and interaction
Efficient hardware implementation for ubiquitous algorithms/computing
Application-specific processors and systems for ubiquitous computing
Prototyping and simulation of ubiquitous and embedded applications
Hardware support for collaborative ubiquitous applications
System/Network-on-Chip
Simulation and validation of mixed Hardware/Software systems

*Software for embedded and ubiquitous computing
Prototyping and simulation of ubiquitous and embedded applications
Operating systems services for embedded systems.
Programming paradigms, languages, aspects of modeling and specification
Software architectures and design methodologies, including compilers, memory management, virtual machines, scheduling, operating systems, middleware, and code generation
Modeling, analysis, and optimization of non-functional and performance aspects such as timing, memory usage, energy, QoS, and reliability
Scheduling, execution time analysis, timing aspects, and real-time support
Formal methods and verification
Model based design of heterogeneous systems

*Cyber-physical systems
Smart sensing and sensor networks
Wireless sensor networks
Body area networks
Distributed sensing and sensor fusion
Wireless Communication & Networks
Network Protocols

*Power/energy-aware and green embedded and ubiquitous computing
Power- and Thermal-Aware Design
Operating systems services for power/energy savings
Programming paradigms and languages aware of power/energy
Software architectures and design methodologies, including compilers, for power/energy savings
Algorithms for power/energy savings
Case studies
Middleware and virtual machines aware of power/energy

*Adaptive and context-aware computing
Self-awareness
Self-Adaptive and Self-Healing Systems
Runtime adaptability
Reconfiguration management techniques
Adaptivity provided by reconfigurable hardware
Programming models and languages for context-aware computing
Compilers for adaptivity and for context-aware computing

*Mobile systems and social media
Smart mobile systems
Mobile and social media applications
Wearable computing
Big data analytics
Multimedia and Data Management
Pervasive Computing and Communications

*Security, safety and reliability/dependability
Operating systems security
Human-computer interaction security and privacy
Malicious software analysis and detection
Detection, analysis, and prevention of distributed attacks
Anti-fraud techniques; security of mobile devices
Integrating security in Internet protocols: routing, naming, network management
Security for emerging technologies: sensor/wireless/mobile/personal
Security for future home networks, internet of things, body-area networks
Security for large-scale systems and critical infrastructures (electronic voting, smart grid)
Security of Web-based applications and services
Fault-tolerant systems: Reconfigurable systems, application- and domain-specific systems, Systems-on-Chip, Networks-on-Chip, and memory subsystems
Fault-tolerant runtime system management and variability or aging aware monitoring
Fault-tolerant, variability or aging aware design
Modeling and characterization of defects, faults and degradation mechanisms
Test and diagnosis techniques

*Parallel and distributed systems
Distributed computing on embedded devices
Programming paradigms
Languages and compilers
Middleware and virtual machines
Agents and Distributed Computing
Middleware and Peer-to-Peer Computing
Offloading computations

*Applications for embedded and ubiquitous computing
Real-time and critical applications for embedded systems
Information systems and data management for embedded systems
Multimedia and consumer electronics applications
Transportation application: automotive, avionics, etc.
Novel applications for Reconfigurable Computing
Cloud Computing for mobile systems
Intelligent sensors
Pervasive systems

*PhD Forum
In all the subtopics considered in the other tracks

Submission of Papers:
Authors are invited to submit original papers in English including, but not limited to, the areas of interest mentioned above. All contributions must be submitted electronically in the PDF format conforming to the IEEE Conference Proceedings Format (8.5" x 11", Two-Column).
Papers should be submitted through the EasyChair paper submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=euc2015). Each paper is limited to 8 pages (or 10 pages with an overlength charge of 100€ per additional page).

By submitting a paper to the conference, authors assure that if the paper is accepted, at least one author will attend the conference and present the paper. For no-show authors, their papers will be removed from the digital library after the conference and their affiliations will be notified.
The program committee will select and award two "Best Paper Awards" for this conference.

Publications:
The EUC-2015 accepted papers from this conference will be published by IEEE Computer Society in IEEE proceedings.
Selected distinguished papers will be considered for possible publication in special issues of prestigious international journals.


Organizing Committee:
* General Chairs:
João M. P. Cardoso, University of Porto, Portugal
Eli Bozorgzadeh, University of California, Irvine, USA

* Program Chairs:
Seda Ogrenci Memik, Northwestern University, USA
Rui Abreu, University of Porto, Portugal

* Steering Chairs:
Minyi Guo, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

* Workshop/Tutorial/Special Sessions Chairs:
Cristina Silvano, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
José G. F. Coutinho, Imperial College London, UK

* Finance Chair:
João Pascoal Faria, University of Porto, Portugal

* Proceedings Chair:
João Canas Ferreira, University of Porto, Portugal

* Sponsorship Chair:
Raul Vidal, University of Porto, Portugal

* Publicity Chairs:
Arda Yurdakul, Bogazici University, Turkey
Alberto Barrio, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Pao Ann-Hsiung, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan

* Web Chair:
João Bispo, University of Porto, Portugal

*Track Chairs:
Hardware architectures and design tools
Laura Pozzi, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Stephan Wong, TU Delft, NL

Software for embedded and ubiquitous computing
Franz Wotawa, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Luis Veiga, University of Lisbon/IST/INESC-ID, Portugal

Power/energy-aware and green embedded and ubiquitous computing
Jose Ayala, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Lovic Gauthier, Ariake National College of Technology, Japan

Parallel and distributed systems
Andrea Marongiu, University of Bologna, Italy
Maged Ghoneima, NVIDIA, USA

Security, safety and reliability/dependability
Osman Unsal, BSC/UPC, Spain
Qin Liu, Central South University, China

Adaptive and context-aware computing
Marco D. Santambrogio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Rogério de Lemos, Kent University, UK

Mobile systems and social media
Alvin Chin, University of Toronto, CA
Cheng-Hsin Hsu, NTU, Taiwan

Cyber-physical systems
Brian Dougherty, Virginia Tech, USA
Vijay Raghunathan, Purdue University, USA

Applications for embedded and ubiquitous computing
Paul Havinga, University of Twente, NL
Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan

PhD Forum
Diana Goehringer, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
William Fornaciari, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Technical Program Committee:
Please, visit http://www.fe.up.pt/euc2015 for information about the TPC.

Previous Events:
Previous events of the International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC) were ICDCS-ECS04 (Tokyo, Japan, 2004), EUC-04 (Aizu, Japan, 2004), EUC-05 (Nagasaki, Japan, 2005), EUC-06 (Seoul, Korea, 2006), EUC-07 (Taipei, Taiwan, 2007), EUC-08 (Shanghai, China, 2008), EUC-09 (Vancouver, Canada, 2009), EUC-10 (Hong Kong,China, 2010), EUC-11 (Melbourne, Australia, 2011), EUC-12 (Paphos, Cyprus, 2012), EUC-13 (Zhangjiajie, China, 2013), and EUC-14 (Milan, Italy, 2014).

Sponsors:
IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), IFIP
NVIDIA

Contact:
If you need any further information, please contact us at:
euc2015conf@gmail.com

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