Call for Papers & Sessions: The 2012 Intl. Conf. on Computer Design (CDES'12), USA, July 16-19, 2012

[A. M. G. Solo]

 
CALL FOR PAPERS
and
Call For Conference Tracks

CDES'12
The 2012
International Conference on Computer Design

Date and Location: July
16-19, 2012, USA

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/
Location: See the
above web site for venue/city

You are invited to submit a full paper for
consideration. All accepted
papers will be published in printed conference
books/proceedings (they
will also be available on the web). The proceedings
will be indexed in
Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering and
Technology, DBLP /
Computer Science Bibliography, and others. Like prior
years, extended
versions of selected papers (about 40%) will appear in
journals and
edited research books (publishers include: Springer, Elsevier,
...).

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the
following:

O Processor and co-processor design
O
Microarchitectures
O VLSI systems design and scaling techniques
O
Superscalar and dataflow design
O Interconnect and interface design
O
Performance analysis and evaluation
O Multi-thread, multi-cluster, multi-core
systems and processors
O Benchmarking and measurements
O ASIC design and
architectures
O Arithmetic circuits + Logic and circuit design
O
Power-efficient computer design and power management
O
Parallel/multi-processor computer architectures
O Innovative
hardware/software architectures
O Architecture simulation systems
O Branch
prediction
O System-on-a-chip: design and methodologies
O Cache and memory
systems
O Reliable architectures
O Computer systems design and
applications
O High-level design methodologies
O Support of operating
systems and languages
O Compiler technologies
O Synthesis
O
Pipelining
O Mixed-signal design and analysis
O Electrical/packaging
designs and co-designs
O FPGA-based design
O Quantum computing
O Impact
of novel technologies on computer architecture
O Case studies

O
Workshop on Nanotechnology - all areas of nanotechnology are of interest:
-
Miniaturization of science
- Integration of high-performance computing in
nanotechnology
- Bio-inspired and nano-scale integrated computing
-
Material science as it relates to nanomaterials and technology
- Nanodevices
and nanostructures
- Biomolecular machinery
- Nanomedicine
- Scanning
probes
- Nanoelectronics
- Nanosensors
- Supramolecular chemistry and
technology
- Self-assembly
- Nanoscale structures and nanosystems
-
Biomedical engineering and nanotechnology
- Nanotech and space
exploration
- Nanotechnology and bioinformatics
- Case studies and
emerging applications

O Workshop on Real-Time Computing and Systems:
-
Hardware software co-design
- Energy-aware real-time systems and
applications
- System-on-chip
- Quality of service and scheduling
-
System design and analysis (probabilistic analysis,
quality of service
support, validation technologies,
survivability and security, reliability
issues, ...)
- Infrastructure and hardware (embedded devices,
resource
constrained methods, time synchronization, ...)
- Software
technologies (real-time operating systems,
middleware and distributed
technologies, compiler support,
component-based technologies, ...)
-
Embedded systems and ubiquitous computing
- Real-time network connection
scheduling
- Resource management
- Scheduling algorithms and analysis
-
Real-time kernel support
- Modeling and synthesis techniques
- Real-time
control and sensing
- Real-time and embedded distributed algorithms and
systems
- Multimedia and QoS support
- Real-time middleware systems
-
Knowledge-based real-time systems
- Algorithms and emerging applications
-
Case studies

IMPORTANT DATES:

March 12, 2012: Submission of
full papers (about 7 pages)
April 12, 2012: Notification of acceptance (+/-
two days)
April 26, 2012: Final papers + Copyright/Consent +
Registration
July 16-19, 2012: The 2012 International Conference on Computer
Design (CDES'12)

CO-SPONSORS:

Currently being prepared - The
ACADEMIC sponsors of the last offering of
CDES (2011) included research labs
and centers affiliated with (a
partial list): University of California,
Berkeley; Harvard University;
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT);
University of Texas at
Austin; University of Southern California; Minnesota
Supercomputing
Institute, University of Minnesota; Germany's University of
Siegen; UMIT,
Institute of Bioinformatics and Translational Research,
Austria; Georgia
Institute of Technology; University of Iowa; Russian Academy
of Sciences,
Russia; University of Naples Federico II, Italy; University of
Naples
Parthenope, Italy; Second University of Naples, Italy; ICEL, Texas
A&M
University Com.; University of North Dakota; and others.
CORPORATE
Co-Sponsors and Sponsors at-large included (a partial list):
Intel
Corporation; Microsoft Research; Altera Corporation; Pico
Computing;
SuperMicro Computer, Inc., USA; High Performance Computing for
Nanotechnology
(HPCNano); International Society of Intelligent Biological
Medicine; World
Academy of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies; Int'l
Council on Medical
and Care Compunetics; UK Department for Business,
Enterprise and Regulatory
Reform; Scientific Technologies Corporation; and
HoIP - Health without
Boundaries; and others.

SUBMISSION OF
PAPERS:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by
uploading them
to the evaluation web site at: http://world-comp.org
Submissions must be uploaded by March
12, 2012 and they must be in
either MS doc or pdf formats (about 7 pages
including all figures,
tables, and references - single space, font size of 10
to 12). All
reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors
of
accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting
format
to prepare their final papers for publication.) Papers must not
have
been previously published or currently submitted for
publication
elsewhere. The first page of the paper should include: title of
the
paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for
each
author. The first page should also identify the name of the Contact
Author
and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the
content
of the paper. The name of the conference (ie, CDES) that the paper
is
being submitted for consideration must be stated on the first page of
the
paper as well as a 100 to 150-word abstract. The length of the
final
Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (two-column
IEEE
style) pages.

Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in
the field for originality,
significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In
cases of contradictory
recommendations, a member of the conference program
committee will be charged
to make the final decision (accept/reject); often,
this would involve seeking
help from additional referees by using a
double-blinded review process. In
addition, all papers whose authors include
a member of the conference program
committee will be evaluated using the
double-blinded review process.
(Essay/philosophical papers will not be
refereed but may be considered for
discussion/panels). Proceedings of CDES
will be published and indexed in:
Inspec / IET / The Institute for
Engineering & Technology, DBLP / CS
Bibliography, & others. The
printed proceedings/books will be available for
distribution on site at the
conference.

In addition to the publication of the proceedings, selected
authors will be
invited to submit extended versions of their papers for
publication in a
number of research books contracted with various publishers
(such as,
Springer, Elsevier, ...) - these books will be composed after
the
conference. Also, many chairs of tracks will be forming journal
special
issues to be published after the conference.

PROPOSAL FOR
ORGANIZING CONFERENCE TRACKS:

CDES 2012 is composed of a number of
tracks. A track can be a session,
a workshop, or a symposium. A session will
have at least 6 papers; a
workshop at least 12 papers; and a symposium at
least 18 papers. Track
chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their
tracks, including:
soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ... The names of
track chairs
will appear as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings
and on
the cover of the printed books (and indexed in science databases as
such).

Proposals to organize tracks (sessions, workshops, or symposiums)
should
include the following information: name and address (+ email) of
proposer,
his/her biography, title of track, a 100-word description of the
topic of
the track, the name of the conference (ie, CDES) the track is
submitted
for consideration, and a short description on how the track will
be
advertised (in most cases, track proposers solicit papers from
colleagues
and researchers whose work is known to the track proposer). E-mail
your
track proposal to edi...@world-comp.org . We
would like to receive the
track proposals as soon as possible but by no later
than January 31, 2012.

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING
COMMITTEES:

Currently being finalized:
The members of the Steering
Committee of The 2011 congress included:
Dr. Selim Aissi (Chief Strategist,
Intel Corp., USA); Prof. Hamid Arabnia
(ISIBM elected Fellow & Professor,
University of Georgia; Editor-in-Chief,
The Journal of Supercomputing /
Springer; Board member, Journal of
Computational Science / Elsevier; Advisory
Board, IEEE TC on Scalable
Computing); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (Member, National
Academy of Engineering,
IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, Professor; University of
California, Berkeley,
USA); Prof. Hyunseung Choo (ITRC Director of Ministry
of Information &
Communication; Director, ITRC; Director, Korea
Information Processing
Society; Assoc. Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet
Technology; Professor,
Sungkyunkwan University, Korea); Prof. Winston Wai-Chi
Fang (IEEE Fellow,
TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor, National ChiaoTung
University, Hsinchu,
Taiwan; Director, System-on-Chip Research Center); Prof.
Kun Chang Lee
(Professor of MIS and WCU Professor of Creativity Science,
Sungkyunkwan
University, South Korea); Prof. Andy Marsh (Director of HoIP and
Director
of HoIP Telecom, UK; Secretary-General WABT; Vice-President Int'l
Council
for Engineering and Technology, University of Westminster, UK); Prof.
Layne
T. Watson (IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow, Fellow of The
National
Institute of Aerospace, Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
& State
University, USA); Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Member, National Academy
of
Engineering; IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IFSA
Fellow;
Director, BISC; Professor, University of California, Berkeley,
USA).
2012 Publicity Chair:  A. M. G. Solo (Fellow of British Computer Society;
Principal/Interdisciplinary R&D Engineer and Mathematician, Maverick
Technologies America Inc.; Director/Interdisciplinary Researcher, Solo
Research Lab, Crocels, Swansea University; Principal/Intelligent Systems and
New Math Instructor, Trailblazer Intelligent Systems, Inc.)

The 2012 Program
Committee for CDES is currently being compiled. Many
who have already joined
the committees are renowned leaders, scholars,
researchers, scientists and
practitioners of the highest ranks; many are
directors of research labs.,
members of National Academy of Engineering,
fellows of various societies,
heads/chairs of departments, program
directors of research funding agencies,
as well as deans and provosts.

Program Committee members are expected to
have established a strong and
documented research track record. Those
interested in joining the Program
Committee should email edi...@world-comp.org the
following information
for consideration/evaluation: Name, affiliation and
position, complete
mailing address, email address, a one-page biography that
includes
research expertise and the name of the conference(s) offering to
help with.
The list of Program Committee of CDES 2011 appears at:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp11/ws/conferences/cdes11/committee

GENERAL
INFORMATION:

The CDES 2012 conference is being held jointly (same
location and dates)
with a number of other research conferences (WORLDCOMP).
WORLDCOMP is the
largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science,
computer
engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have 2,100 or
more
attendees from over 80 countries. WORLDCOMP 2012 will be composed
of
research presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations,
tutorials,
panel discussions, and poster presentations. In recent past,
keynote/
tutorial/panel speakers have included: Prof. David A. Patterson
(pioneer,
architecture, U. of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler
(known as
Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father
of
Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father
of
Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer,
VR, U.
of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of
MIT
Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X
Window
System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of
Genetic
Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program
Director,
U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of
Southern
California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and
Consultant),
Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard
U.),
Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi
(Head,
NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director,
Project
Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA;
Director,
NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration), Prof. David Lorge Parnas
(Fellow
of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI; Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof.
Emeritus,
McMaster U. and U. of Limerick), Prof. Eugene H. Spafford
(Executive
Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue University), Dr.
Sandeep
Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief Technology Officer,
SourceTrace
Systems, Inc.), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a
feeling
about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2010 delegates
photos
available at: www.pixagogo.com/1676934789

An important mission of
WORLDCOMP is "Providing a unique platform for
a diverse community of
constituents composed of scholars, researchers,
developers, educators, and
practitioners. The Congress makes concerted
effort to reach out to
participants affiliated with diverse entities
(such as: universities,
institutions, corporations, government agencies,
and research centers/labs)
from all over the world. The congress also
attempts to connect participants
from institutions that have teaching as
their main mission with those who are
affiliated with institutions that
have research as their main mission. The
congress uses a quota system to
achieve its institution and geography
diversity objectives."

One main goal of the congress is to assemble a
spectrum of affiliated
research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a
coordinated
research meeting held in a common place at a common time. This
model
facilitates communication among researchers in different fields
of
computer science, computer engineering, and applied computing.
The
Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary and
inter-disciplinary
research initiatives; ie, facilitating increased
opportunities for
cross-fertilization across
sub-disciplines.

MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF WORLDCOMP:

As
of November 23, 2011, papers published in WORLDCOMP set of proceedings
have
received 15,860 citations. In recent months (March to November 2011),
there
had been 1,475 citations to WORLDCOMP papers (about 164 citations per
month).
The above record is significant (thanks to the authors). As the
result of
high impact (based on citations) of WORLDCOMP papers, "Microsoft
Academic
Search" has listed each individual track of the congress among its
compiled
list of "Top Conferences". The citation record of WORLDCOMP set
of
proceedings is in fact higher than the citation data of many
reputable
journals in computer science and computer engineering. (The above
citation
data does not include citations to WORLDCOMP papers published in
2011; thus,
it is highly probable that the actual number of citations is
higher;
citation data was obtained from http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ )

USEFUL
WEB LINKS:
To see the DBLP entries for CDES, go to:
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/cdes/
The
main web site of CDES'12 is currently under construction, it will
soon appear
at: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/
The Table of
Contents of last offering of CDES (2011) appears at:
http://world-comp.org/proc2011/cdes/contents.pdf

CONTACT:
Inquiries
should be sent to: wco...@world-comp.org