The ASAP 2016 conference will cover the theory and practice of application-specific systems, architectures and processors. The 2016 conference will build upon traditional strengths in areas such as computer arithmetic, cryptography, compression, signal and image processing, network processing, reconfigurable computing, and all types of hardware accelerators. We especially encourage submissions in the following areas:

- Big data analytics: extracting and correlating information from large-scale semi-structured and unstructured data using application-specific systems.

- Scientific computing: architectures and algorithms that address scientific applications requiring significant computing power and design customization (bioinformatics, climate modeling, astrophysics, seismology, etc.).

- Industrial computing: systems and architectures for providing high- throughput or low latency in various industrial computing applications.

- System security: cryptographic hardware architectures, security processors, countermeasures against side-channel attacks, and secure cloud computing.

- Heterogeneous systems: applications and platforms that exploit heterogeneous computing resources, including FPGAs, GPUs, or CGRAs.

- Design space exploration: methods for customizing and tuning application- specific architectures to improve efficiency and productivity.

- Platform-specific architectures: novel architectures for exploiting specific compute - domains such as smartphones, tablets, and data centers, particularly in the context of energy efficiency.

Guidelines for Submissions

ASAP 2016 will accept 8-page full papers for oral presentations, 4-page short papers for short oral or poster presentations, with a single-blind review process. Full papers may have a maximum of two extra pages at a fee of USD 100 per page. Submissions to ASAP 2016 must use the double-column IEEE conference proceedings format, and be in PDF format.