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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>36th ACM/SIGAPP SAC Symposium on Applied Computing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> March 22-March 26, 2021. Gwangju, Korea<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> T r a c k EMBS – <b><span style='color:red'>deadline extension -> September 28</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>*------------------------------------------------*<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> EMBEDDED SYSTEMS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> New Perspectives<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> for Hardware, System Software, and Applications<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> </span><a href="https://www.cs.ccu.edu.tw/~ccho/sac2021"><span lang=EN-US>https://www.cs.ccu.edu.tw/~ccho/sac2021</span></a><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> Conference (main) page<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> </span><a href="http://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2021/"><span lang=EN-US>http://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2021/</span></a><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>*------------------------------------------------*<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Full paper submission: <s>September 15, 2020</s><span style='color:red'>. September 28, 2020</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Author notification: November 10, 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Camera ready paper: November 25, 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>________________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>High performance embedded computing has recently become more and more present in devices used in everyday life. A wide variety of applications, from consumer electronics to biomedical systems, require building up powerful yet cheap embedded devices. In this context, embedded software has turned out to be more and more complex, posing new challenging issues. The adoption of further flexible programming paradigms/architectures is becoming almost mandatory. Nonetheless, even nowadays the development of embedded systems must rely on a tight coupling of hardware and software components.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Moreover, the market pressure calls for the employment of new methodologies for shortening the development time, and for driving the evolution of existing products. New efficient solutions to problems emerging in this setting can be put into action by means of a joint effort of academia and industry.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Design of embedded systems must take into account a wide variety of<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>constraints: performance, code size, power consumption, presence of real-time tasks, robustness, maintainability, security, and possibly scalability. The more convenient trade-off has to be found, often operating on a large number of different parameters. In this scenario, solutions can be proposed at different levels of abstraction, making use of an assortment of tools and methodologies: researchers and practitioners have a chance to propose new ideas and to compare experimentations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>The focus of this conference track is on the application of both novel and well-known techniques to the embedded systems development. Particular attention is paid to solutions that require expertise in different fields (e.g. computer architecture, OS, compilers, security, software engineering, simulation). The track will benefit also from direct experiences in the employment of embedded devices in "unconventional" application areas, so to show up new challenges in the system design/development process. In this setting, researchers and practitioners from academia and industry will get a chance to keep in touch with problems, open issues and future directions in the field of development of dedicated applications for embedded systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>*-----------------------------------------------*<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> Topics of Interest<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>*-----------------------------------------------*<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> * Embedded Systems, Cyberphysical Systems (CPS), and Internet-of-Things<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>(IoT):<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> 1. System-level specification, modeling, virtual prototyping and simulation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> 2. Embedded system synthesis and optimization<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> 3. Many- and multi-core SoC architecture<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> 4. HW/SW co-design, co-simulation and co-verification<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> 5. Energy/power management design and energy harvesting<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> * Embedded Software:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> 1. Kernel, middleware, and virtual machine<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> 2. Energy-efficient embedded software<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> 3. Real-time software and operating systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> 4. Software design for multicores, GPUs, and heterogeneous embedded architectures<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> 5. Testing, debugging, profiling and performance analysis of Embedded Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> * Memory Architecture and Near/In Memory Computing:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> 1. Storage system and memory architecture <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> 2. On-chip memory architectures and management: Scratchpads, compiler, controlled memories, etc. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> 3. Memory and storage hierarchies with emerging memory technologies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> 4. Near-memory and in-memory computing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> 5. Memory architecture and management for emerging memory technologies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> * Neural Network and Deep Learning System Designs:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> 1. AI and machine learning for embedded systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> 2. Hardware and devices for neuromorphic and neural network computing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> 3. Systems for neural computing (including deep neural networks) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> 4. Neural network acceleration co-design techniques <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> 5. Design techniques for AI of Things<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText>*-----------------------------------------------*<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Important dates (PAPERS & SRC ABSTRACTS)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>*-----------------------------------------------*<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Full paper submission: <s>September 15, 2020</s><span style='color:red'>. September 28, 2020</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Author notification: November 10, 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Camera ready paper: November 25, 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>*-----------------------------------------------*<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> Paper Submissions<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>*-----------------------------------------------*<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Submission of Papers: Manuscripts must be submitted electronically in PDF<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>format, according to the instructions contained in the main Conference web<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>site. The review process is double blind. Please anonymize the paper<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>submitted for review. The paper length is 8 pages, with the option to add 2<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>additional pages at extra charge, up to a maximum of 10 pages. Contributions<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>must contain original unpublished work. Papers that have been concurrently<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>submitted to other conferences or journals (double submissions) will be<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>automatically rejected. All papers must submitted through the main<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>conference web page.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Paper Acceptance: Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>attending ACM SAC MUST present the paper: This is a requirement for the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>paper/poster to be included in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>scheduled papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM/IEEE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>digital library.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>*-----------------------------------------------*<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> Student Research Competition at ACM SAC<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>*-----------------------------------------------*<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Graduate students seeking feedback from the scientific community on their<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>research ideas are invited to submit abstracts of their original unpublished<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>and in-progress research work in areas of experimental computing and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>application development related to SAC Tracks. The Student Research<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Competition (SRC) program is designed to provide graduate students the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with researcher and practitioners in<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>their areas of interest.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>All research abstract submissions will be reviewed by researchers and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>practitioners with expertise in the track focus area to which they are<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>submitted. Authors of selected abstracts will have the opportunity to give<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>poster presentations of their work and compete for three top winning places.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>The SRC committee will evaluate and select First, Second, and Third place<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>winners. The winners will receive cash awards and SIGAPP recognition<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>certificates during the conference banquet dinner. Authors of selected<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>abstracts are eligible to apply to the SIGAPP Student Travel Award program<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>for support.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Submission - Graduate students are invited to submit abstracts (minimum of<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>two pages; maximum of four pages) of their original unpublished and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>in-progress research work following the instructions published at SAC<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>web-site. The submissions must address research work related to a SAC track,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>with emphasis on the innovation behind the research idea, including the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>problem being investigated, the proposed approach and research methodology,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>and sample preliminary results of the work. In addition, the abstract should<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>reflect on the originality of the work, innovation of the approach, and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>applicability of anticipated results to real-world problems. All SRC works<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>must be submitted through the main conference web page.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Please note SRCs and regular papers must be submitted at different pages of<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>the START web system. Submitting the same abstract to multiple tracks is not<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>allowed. 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