Special Sessions and Workshop
Special Session on Internet of Things
Organizer: Lionel Torres (paper submission open). See the corresponding weblinkThe aim of this special session is to examine challenges that the phenomenon of ‘Internet of Things’ presents to reconfigurable communication-centric System On Chip. Certainly Internet of Things (IoT) will become the next big wave of IT industry. Last year, there were more than 10 billion units connected to the Web - a number that is predicted to increase by a magnitude of five by 2020. The Internet of Things beyond the societal impact is a real emerging market. We will focus on IoT technology innovation challenges and opportunities for a wide spectrum of applications : Smartphones, Smart TVs, and Wearables, Connected cars, Connected health etc. In this special session we propose to analyze the contribution of the Reconfigurable Communication-centric Systems-on-Chip community for IoT and what is the future R&D direction. This session will provide a brief introduction to the main concepts and features of IoT, as well as analyzed the objectives and scientic challenges of IoT Technoloy
DreamCloud Workshop 2014 International Workshop on Dynamic Resource Allocation and Management in Embedded, High Performance and Cloud Computing
Organizer: Leandro Soares Indrusiak (paper submission open). See the corresponding weblinkDreamCloud is the first workshop aiming to encourage technical and scientific exchanges between senior academics, young researchers and industrialists in the area of dynamic resource management in embedded, high performance and cloud computing. It aims to foster cooperation across the different domains by emphasising the latest trends bringing together the respective research communities:
- embedded systems are increasingly complex, having to cope with dynamic workloads, and using multiprocessor and communication-centric platforms, while fulfiling strict timing and energy requirements;
- high-performance and cloud computing critically need to address fundamental problems in energy efficiency and performance predictability, despite having little or no a priori knowledge about their workloads.
Special Session on Emerging Technologies in Reconfigurable Architectures
Organizer: Sébastien Le Beux (paper submission closed)During the last decade, the commercial breakthrough of reconfigurable architectures has been limited by their energy and performance overhead, of orders of magnitude over custom designs. This gap is directly related to the evolution of CMOS technologies, which mostly focuses on increasing transistor integration density, with a lack of innovative solutions for interconnect and memories, intrinsic key enablers for reconfigurable architectures. Predicting the impact of emerging technologies on reconfigurable architectures is crucial to leverage power and performances issues and to thus better target future end-user requirements, which is the objective of the special session. The contributions of this special session will 1) identify promising technological properties to improve current reconfigurable architectures and 2) illustrate how reconfigurability can be applied to emerging technologies and identify potential benefits.