The call for papers for the Workshop on Automatic Program Generation for Embedded Systems has been released:
In association with GPCE 2007, colocated with ESWEEK, Salzburg, Austria, and in co-operation with ACM SIGPLAN.
*Submission deadline*: Monday June 18th (one week after GPCE notification)
*Notification*: July 31st
*Workshop*: October 4th
Exploiting the synergy offered by co-locating GPCE as part of ESWeek, this new workshop aims to bring together researchers in automatic program generation with researchers and practitioners in embedded systems.
Papers are invited exploring the problems of program generation in embedded systems, especially in the conceptual and theoretical foundations for software generation tools that can enhance the robustness and productivity of generation-based embedded software
engineering.
The increase in complexity of embedded systems software has led to greater interest in improved automation of software production. Automatic program generation is widely promoted in embedded systems design in the form of model-driven development, software product lines, automatic design-space exploration and tailor-made data management, as well as more familiar template-based instantiation of software designs. By taking advantage of the opportunities offered by new research, for example in programming languages and compiler techniques, it may be possible to achieve dramatic productivity gains, with consequently reduced time to market, and yet still offer the
necessary strong guarantees of non-functional behaviours such as time, space restrictions, power consumption, reliability and other important system metrics.
The topics to be covered by this workshop include (but are not restricted to):
o Industrial experience of automatic program generation techniques
o Correctness and safety issues in model-driven generators
o Automatic design-space exploration for resource-bounded systems
o New tools and methods for automatic generation of embedded systems
o Models for automatically generating embedded systems, including model-driven design approaches
o Tailor-made data management and generation of embedded database systems
o New and emerging program generation technology
o Models and analysis of real-time, hard-space and power consumption constraints for reasoning about automatically generated embedded systems
o Software product lines, languages for architectures and configurations of embedded systems
o Optimisation of generated programs for embedded systems
*Workshop organisation*
Kevin Hammond University of St Andrews (General Chair)
Paul Kelly Imperial College, London (Program Chair)
*Program Committee*:
Danilo Beuche - pure-systems GmbH, Germany
Paul Caspi - Verimag-CNRS, Grenoble, France
Zbigniew Chamski - NXP, the Netherlands
Mark Dalgarno - Software Acumen Ltd, UK
Bernd Fischer - University of Southampton, UK
Reinhard von Hanxleden - Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel, Germany
Christoph Kirsch - University of Salzburg, Austria
Anne-Francoise Le Meur - INRIA and Universite des Sciences et Technologies de Lille
Christian Lengauer - University of Passau, Germany
Michael Mendler - Otto-Friedrich-Universitaet Bamberg, Germany
Olaf Spinczyk - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany
Satnam Singh - Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
Jonathan Sprinkle - Berkeley and University of Arizona, USA
Bruce Trask - MDE Systems, USA
*Publication*:
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for a special issue of Science of Computer Programming (Elsevier).
*Submission*:
Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 8 pages, or shorter position papers or extended abstracts (which, if accepted, may be allocated shorter presentation slots). Please refer to the web site for formatting and submission details. Papers must not be previously published or already submitted elsewhere.
