First Call for Papers ############################################################ LCTES 2015 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED Conference on Languages, Compilers, Tools and Theory for Embedded Systems ############################################################ LCTES provides a link between the programming languages and embedded systems engineering communities. Researchers and developers in these areas are addressing many similar problems, but with different backgrounds and approaches. LCTES is intended to expose researchers and developers from either area to relevant work and interesting problems in the other area and provide a forum where they can interact. ## Important Dates Submission deadline: Feb. 15 Notifications by: Apr. 1 Camera-ready deadline: Apr. 11 LCTES 2015 will be held on June 18 and 19 as part of the FCRC 2015 (Federated Computing Research Conference 2015) in Portland, Oregon, USA. This will be the sixteenth conference in the LCTES series. Embedded system design faces many challenges both with respect to functional requirements and nonfunctional requirements, many of which are conflicting. They are found in areas such as design and developer productivity, verification, validation, maintainability, and meeting performance goals and resource constraints. Novel design-time and run-time approaches are needed to meet the demand of emerging applications and to exploit new hardware paradigms, and in particular to scale up to multicores (including GPUs and FPGAs) and distributed systems built from multicores. LCTES 2015 solicits papers presenting original work on programming languages, compilers, tools, theory, and architectures that help in overcoming these challenges. Research papers on innovative techniques are welcome, as well as experience papers on insights obtained by experimenting with real-world systems and applications. Papers are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics in embedded systems: - Programming language challenges, including: - Domain-specific languages - Features to exploit multicore, reconfigurable, and other emerging architectures - Features for distributed, adaptive, and real-time control embedded systems - Language capabilities for specification, composition, and construction of embedded systems - Language features and techniques to enhance reliability, verifiability, and security - Virtual machines, concurrency, inter-processor synchronization, and memory management - Compiler challenges, including: - Interaction between embedded architectures, operating systems, and compiler - Interpreters, binary translation, just-in-time compilation, and split compilation - Support for enhanced programmer productivity - Support for enhanced debugging, profiling, and exception/interrupt handling - Optimization for low power/energy, code and data size, and best-effort and real-time performance - Parameterized and structural compiler design space exploration and auto-tuning - Tools for analysis, specification, design, and implementation, including: - Hardware, system software, application software, and their interfaces - Distributed real-time control, media players, and reconfigurable architectures - System integration and testing - Performance estimation, monitoring, and tuning - Run-time system support for embedded systems - Design space exploration tools - Support for system security and system-level reliability - Approaches for cross-layer system optimization - Theory and foundations of embedded systems, including: - Predictability of resource behaviour: energy, space, time - Validation and verification, in particular of concurrent and distributed systems - Formal foundations of model-based design as basis for code generation, analysis, and verification - Mathematical foundations for embedded systems - Models of computations for embedded applications - Novel embedded architectures, including: - Design and implementation of novel architectures - Workload analysis and performance evaluation - Architecture support for new language features, virtualization, compiler techniques, debugging tools - Empirical studies and their reproduction, and confirmation ## Note to Authors A few of the best submissions to LCTES 2015 are planned to be invited for submission, with some revisions, to a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS). The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. ## Organization General Chair Sam H. Noh, Hongik University, Republic of Korea Program Chairs Sebastian Fischmesiter, University of Waterloo, Canada Jason Xue, City University of Hong Kong, China LCTES Steering Committee Bruce Childers, University of Pittsburgh, USA Jan Vitek, Northeastern University, USA Bjorn De Sutter, University of Edinbugh, Great Britain Jaejin Lee, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea Heiko Falk, Ulm University, Germany Wang Yi, Uppsala University, Sweden Jingling Xue, University of New South Wales, Australia Youtao Zhang, University of Pittsbugh, USA Prasad Kulkarni, University of Kansas, USA Program Committee Luis Almeida, University of Porto, Portugal Ian Bate, University of York, Great Britain Philip Brisk, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Marco Caccamo, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Peter Desnoyers, Northeastern University, USA Petru Eles, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden Georgios Fainekos, Arizona State University, USA Guto Froehlich, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Forianopolis, Brazil Giovani Gracioli, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Joinville, Brazil Radu Grosu, Technical University Vienna, Austria Nan Guan, Northeastern University, China Apala Guha, IIT Dehli, India Gernot Heiser, University of New South Wales, Australia Michael Jantz, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Zhiping Jia, ShangDong University, China Jinsoo Kim, Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea Raimund Kirner, University of Hertfordshire, Great Britain Kai Lampka, Uppsala University, Sweden Terrence Mak, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Rahul Mangharam, University of Pennsylvania, USA Florence Maraninchi, VERIMAG, France Sang Lyul MIN, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea Sayan Mitra, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Tulika Mitra, Singapore National University, Singapore Thomas Nolte, Mälardalen University, Sweden Lin Phan, University of Pennsylvania, USA Dumitru Potop-Butucaru, INRIA Rocquencourt, France Zili Shao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Liang Shi, Chong Qing Uniersity, China Aviral Shrivastava, Arizona State University, USA Wilfried Steiner, TTTech, Austria Michael Swift, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA Gera Weiss, Ben Gurion University, Israel Jingling Xue, University of New South Wales, Australia Chengmo Yang, University of Delaware, USA Wang Yi, Uppsala University, Sweden Yuan-Hao Zhang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan