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7th Workshop on AdaPtive and Reconfigurable Embedded Systems (APRES 2015)
                      Seattle, USA, April 13, 2015
                      http://apres2015.di.fc.ul.pt/
                    in conjunction with CPSweek 2015
                        http://www.cpsweek.org/
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*** IMPORTANT DATES ***

Submission deadline: January 30, 2015 
Author notification: March 6, 2015 
Camera ready: March 13, 2015
Workshop: April 13, 2015


*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***

A system is said to be adaptive if it responds to environmental changes
such as hardware/software defects, resource changes, and non-continual
feature usage, in ways that extend the area of operation and improve the
efficiency in the use of system resources. Adaptivity often incurs
overhead in terms of system complexity and resource requirements, but
unfortunately the resulting tradeoffs are usually ignored until a very
late stage of the system development process. Retrofitting existing
prototypes, architectures, middleware, operating systems, and protocols
with concepts and means for flexibility such as run-time system
reconfiguration or reflexive diagnostics and steering methods, typically
leads to disproportionate overhead, unusual tradeoffs, and less
satisfactory results. There is a strong need for adaptivity-centered
research.

This workshop brings together experts in the development and use of
adaptive and reconfigurable embedded systems and researchers from the
embedded systems community at large. Of particular interest are new
concepts and ideas for modeling and analyzing tradeoffs of embedded and
real-time systems, novel algorithms and mechanisms to realize adaptation
and reconfigurability, and experience reports with practical case studies.
Accepted papers will be published in the SIGBED Review newsletter. By
submitting to the workshop the authors are granting permission for ACM to
publish in print and digital formats for the newsletter and the ACM
archive. Note that the copyright remains with authors.


*** PAPER SUBMISSION DETAILS ***

Prospective participants should submit a 4 page paper in PDF format
through the submissions page referred below. The submissions should 
conform to the proceedings publication format (IEEE Conference style).
They should explain the intention of the work, the prospective results,
and make clear the current status of the work. The submissions will be
reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee.

The papers will be published in a Proceedings volume that will be available
for download and print on the Internet, after the event. A draft printout
will be distributed at the workshop to all participants.

Submit your paper on: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apres2015


*** TOPICS ***

- Capturing and modeling of flexible application and reconfiguration requirements
- Tradeoff analysis and modeling
- Programming-language support for adaptivity
- Middleware support for adaptivity
- Operating system support for adaptivity
- Adaptive fault tolerance mechanisms
- Computation and communication models for adaptivity
- Policies and algorithms for single and multi-resource reconfiguration
- Verification and certification of reconfigurable systems
- Case studies and success stories
- Taxonomies and comparative studies
- Diagnostic and steering of embedded systems
- System architecture and design patterns for adaptivity
- Probabilistic reconfiguration techniques
- Scalability, reusability, and modularity of reconfiguration mechanisms
- Dependability and adaptivity across the architectural levels
- Quality of service management
- Application frameworks for reconfigurable embedded systems


*** PROGRAM CHAIR ***

António Casimiro, University of Lisboa, Portugal


*** PROGRAM COMMITTEE ***

Carlos Eduardo Pereira, UFRG
Chang-Gun Lee, Seoul National University
Frank Singhoff, University of Brest
Gera Weiss, Ben Gurion University
Giovani Gracioli, UFSC/LISHA
Guillermo Rodriguez-Navas, Mälardalen University
Insik Shin, KAIST
Jinkyu Lee, Sungkyunkwan University
Juan Antonio de la Puente, Univ. Politécnica Madrid
Kanghee Kim, Soongsil University
Luca Mottola, Politecnico di Milano
Luis Miguel Pinho, CISTER Research Centre/ISEP
Mário Sousa, University of Porto
Martina Maggio, Lund University
Neil Audsley, University of York
Pau Marti, Technical University of Catalonia
Paulo Pedreiras, University of Aveiro
Roman Obermaisser, University of Siegen
Sebastian Zug, Univ. of Magdeburg
Thomas Nolte, Mälardalen University


*** STEERING COMMITTEE ***

Luis Almeida, University of Porto, Portugal
Karl-Erik Ĺrzén, Lund University, Sweden
Sebastian Fischmeister, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada
Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Julian Proenza, Univ. of the Balearic Islands, Spain


*** SPONSORED BY: ***

EMSIG Special Interest Group on Embedded Systems
http://www.emsig.net/