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                          Call For Papers
                            EMSOFT 2004
          Fourth ACM International Conference on Embedded Software
                     Pisa, September 27-29, 2004

              Conference web site:  http://www.emsoft.org/
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                  IMPORTANT DATES

     Full paper Submission:     April 1, 2004
     Acceptance Notification:   June  1, 2004
     Camera-ready version due:  July  5, 2004

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The purpose of the conference is to bring together researchers and 
developers from academia, industry, and government to advance the
science, engineering, and technology in embedded software development.
EMSOFT was started three years ago with focus on principles of embedded
software development and aims at  covering all aspects of embedded
software.

Topics of Interest

- System design and integration methodologies
- Programming languages and software engineering
- Operating systems and scheduling
- Hardware/software interfaces and system-level design
- Models of computation and formal methods
- Compilers and execution time analysis
- Networked embedded systems
- Sensor networks and distributed wireless architectures
- Hardware/software co-design and systems-on-chip
- Middleware and QoS management
- Applications and case studies (e.g., in control and multimedia)


The proceedings of the conference will be published by ACM. 
Selected papers will be invited after the meeting to submit an 
extended version to a special issue of ACM Transactions on 
Embedded Computing Systems.

A number of satellite workshops on specific topics will be organized
the day before the conference and will be announced later.

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                       Keynote Speakers
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Nevin Heintze – Agere Systems, USA
Alan Kay – HP, USA
Richard Newton – University of California at Berkeley, USA
Krithi Ramamritham – IIT Bombay, India
Hideyuki Tokuda – Keio University, Japan

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                  Instructions for Submission
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Submitted papers must present original research, which is unpublished
and not submitted elsewhere. Papers should be prepared in electronic
format according to the instructions on the conference web page.

Important dates

April 1, 2004:	Deadline for Submission
June 1, 2004:	Acceptance Notification
July 5, 2004:	Final version of accepted papers

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                       Conference Chairs
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Program Chair           Giorgio Buttazzo  - University of Pavia, Italy
                        Email: buttazzo@unipv.it

Finance Chair           Ettore Ricciardi  – ISTI/CNR, Pisa, Italy
                        Email: ricciardi@isti.cnr.it

Publicity Chair         Stephen Edwards   – Colombia University, USA
                        Email: sedwards@cs.columbia.edu

Registration Chair      Rigoletto Bartoli - ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy 

Local Organization      Ettore Ricciardi  - ISTI/CNR, Pisa, Italy
                        Ovidio Salvetti   - ISTI/CNR, Pisa, Italy

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                       Program Committee
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Luis Almeida (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
Albert Benveniste (IRISA/INRIA, France)
Guillem Bernat (University of York, UK)
Shuvra Bhattacharyya (University of Mariland, USA)
Alan Burns (University of York, UK)
Marco Caccamo (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana, USA)
Luca De Alfaro (UC Santa Cruz, USA)
Jean-Dominique Decotignie (CSEM, Switzerland)
Stephen Edwards (Colombia University, USA)
Petru Eles (University of Linkoping, Sweden)
Gerhard Fohler (Malardalen University, Sweden)
Marisol Garcia Valls (U. Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Michael Gonzalez Harbour (Univ. Cantabria, Spain)
Tom Henzinger (UC Berkeley, USA)
Joerg Kaiser (University of Ulm, Germany)
Edward Lee (UC Berkeley, USA)
Insup Lee (Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA)
Giuseppe Lipari (Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Italy)
Lucia Lo Bello (University of Catania, Italy)
Daniel Mossé (Univ. of Pittsburg, USA)
Frank Mueller (North Carolina State University)
Peter Puschner (Tech. Univ. of Vienna, Austria)
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli (UC Berkeley, USA)
John Stankovic (University of Virginia, USA)
Janos Sztipanovits (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Walid Taha (Rice University, USA)
Martin Törngren (KTH, Sweden)
Eduardo Tovar (ISEP-Porto, Portugal)
Wayne Wolf (Princeton University, USA)
Sergio Yovine (Verimag, France)

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                    Steering Committee
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Gerard Berry (Esterel Technologies, France)
Tom Henzinger (UC Berkeley, USA)
Hermann Kopetz (TU of Vienna, Austria)
Edward Lee (UC Berkeley, USA)
Ragunathan Rajkumar (CMU, USA)
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli (UC Berkeley, USA)
Douglas Schmidt (DARPA, USA)
Joseph Sifakis (Verimag, France)
John Stankovic (University of Virginia, USA)
Reinhard Wilhelm (Univ. des Saarlandes, Germany)
Wayne Wolf (Princeton University, USA)

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