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C A L L F O R P A P E R S -- A R C S 2 0 2 4
37th GI/ITG International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems
May 14-16, 2024, Potsdam, Germany
https://arcs-conference.org
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THIS YEAR’S FOCUS: *HPC - Challenges for Sustainable Computing*

*UPDATES:*
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* Submission deadline for ARCS and OC track extended to March 7th, 2024
* VERFE CfP added


The ARCS conferences series has over 36 years of tradition reporting
leading edge research in computer architecture and operating systems.

High performance computing represents an important tool for tackling
climate change. In many other HPC application fields, the need for
more high computing power has increased enormously in recent years,
especially due to the high demand of AI-specific workloads. The
operation of correspondingly powerful computing systems therefore
represents an increasing problem in terms of energy requirements and
the associated CO2 emissions. HPC is therefore not only part of the
solution to tackling climate change, but also part of the overall
problem.

Heterogeneous computer architectures promise a significant increase
in the energy efficiency of HPC systems. The selection of different
accelerator architectures can contribute significantly to increasing
efficiency, but there is currently a lack of appropriate concepts
for their seamless and scalable integration, as well as the support
through appropriate programming models.

The focus of the ARCS’24 conference will be on novel accelerator
architectures, which are suited for the integration into HPC systems.
This includes fine and coarse grain reconfigurable architectures as
well as new ideas for their integration to achieve higher energy
efficiency as typical homogeneous architectures. In addition, the
topics cover HPC-specific research at the level of computer architec-
tures, runtime and operating systems, design tools and HPC programming
models and algorithms.

In addition to the main conference, ARCS will host special tracks on
Organic Computing and Dependability and Fault Tolerance.

The proceedings of ARCS 2024 will be published in the Springer
Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series. A best paper
and best presentation award will be presented at the conference.


*Important Dates*
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* Paper submission deadline for ARCS and OC track: March 7, 2024 (extended)
* Paper submission deadline for VERFE: March 10, 2024
* Notification of acceptance: March 28, 2024
* Camera-ready papers: May 2, 2024
* Conference (in Potsdam, Germany): May 14 – 16, 2024


*Topics of Interest*
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Paper submission: Authors are invited to submit original,
unpublished research papers on one or more of the following topics:

**Hardware Architectures**
* HPC-workload specific accelerator architectures
* Reconfigurable architectures
* Advanced computing architectures
* System-on-chip
* Distributed systems
* High performance systems
* Heterogeneous multi- and many-core architectures
* Architectures for real-time and mixed-criticality systems
* Coarse- and fine-grained reconfigurable architectures
* Flexible I/O support
* Advanced computing architectures
* Using new non-volatile memory for energy-efficient architectures
* New smart network technologies (e.g. SmartNICs, SmartSwitches)

**Programming Models and Runtime Environments**
* HPC programming models for heterogeneous computing
* Tools to monitor and to optimize the power consumption of HPC architecture
* Operating systems, programming models, algorithms, and data structures for heterogeneous HPC architectures
* Operating systems, hypervisors and middleware for homogeneous and heterogeneous multi-/many-core computing platforms
* System management including but not limited to scheduling, memory management, power/thermal management, and RTOS
* Domain-specific languages and programming models
* Architecture specific code generation and optimization
* Architectural simulation

**Cross-sectional Topics**
* Near-memory and in-memory computing
* Memory and network compression technologies
* Organic computing
* Pervasive systems
* Autonomous systems
* Approximate Computing
* Mixed-criticality systems
* Support for safety and security
* Hardware in the loop simulations


*Special Track on Organic Computing*
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Organic Computing postulates to equip technical systems with `lifelike’
properties. Technically, this means to move traditional design-time
decisions to runtime and into the responsibility of systems themselves.
As a result, systems have a dramatically increased decision freedom that
leads to highly autonomous behaviour. The goal of this process is to
allow for self-adaptation and self-improvement of system behaviour at
runtime. Especially since conditions that occur at runtime can only be
anticipated to a certain degree, efficient mechanisms are needed that
guide the system’s behaviour even in cases of missing knowledge or
uncertain environmental states. Consequently, the research field of
Organic Computing investigates fundamental principles, discusses
essential aspects and researches novel methods that are needed to
finally build self-adaptive and self-organising systems that are
capable of reliable operation in complex real-world environments.

Details and Topics of interest:
https://arcs-conference.org/organic-computing


*18th Workshop on Dependability and Fault Tolerance (VERFE 2024)*
organized as Special Track in conjunction with 37th ARCS 2024
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Dependability is a property of technical systems – in particular of
computer systems - that requires special attention during design and
operation phases. One important means to achieve dependability is
supporting fault-tolerance, i.e. making the system resilient to hardware
and software faults by construction. Fault-tolerance techniques are
in the focus of this workshop, either implemented in hardware or as
software-based distributed algorithms. In addition, surrounding
techniques will be considered, such as computation models or simulations
to assess the impact of fault tolerance techniques to reliability and
availability.

Details and Topics of interest:
https://arcs-conference.org/verfe


*Submission guidelines*
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Submissions should be done through the link that is provided on the
conference website https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arcs2024.
Papers must be submitted in PDF format.

They should be formatted according to Springer LNCS style (see:
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines)
and must not exceed 15 pages, including references and figures.


*Organizers*
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General Chairs
Dietmar Fey, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Benno Stabernack, Universität Potsdam / Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institut

Program Chairs
Stefan Lankes, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Mathias Pacher, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Proceedings Chair
Thilo Pionteck, Magdeburg University, Germany

Publicity and Web Chair
Lars Bauer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany


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