MOCHA Design Symposium 2007
HICSS’40
HAWAI'I
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES
January 3 - 6, 2007
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Introduction
Computer and communication applications
are shifting from tethered systems to mobile systems. There will be at least two big consumer markets: mobile handheld
appliances (consumer appliances like wireless communication systems,
cellular and video phones, MP3 players, global positioning systems, digital
cameras, personal digital advisors etc.), and
vehicular mobile systems (electronics in automotive industry, in addition
to traditional consumer appliances, wireless Internet access points, vehicular
ad hoc networks; car engine and break control systems).
These new applications present new
challenges for designers: mobile devices must be multifunctional, provide high
computational performance and be very energy efficient. The traditional
microprocessors and digital signal processors can’t meet these requirements
because of the low computational efficiency: relatively low performance and
high power consumption. Also, the computationally efficient designs based on
application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) can't meet these requirements
either, because of their inflexibility for multifunctional use. Thus, the
new applications demand a new hardware technology.
Also, in mobile, wireless computing
and communication environments the security
problems gain extremely high importance as wireless technology is more
vulnerable for attacks. Many secure computing and communication problems can be
efficiently solved in hardware level, even more effectively than on software
level. Again, new requirements demand
new technology.
The recent advances in wireless
computing systems and research for suitable architectural solutions have
emphasized the ideas behind configurable or adaptive computing platform—adaptive hardware architecture—which
aims at implementing algorithms in a computational space consisting of a huge
number of elementary computing cells. This computational space can be
configured, or adapted, for solving a given problem. The adaptive computing approach integrates the flexibility of
programming conventional computers, with the efficiency of dedicated hardware
devices on ASICs. Adaptive computing platform has intensively considered as
a new prospective architecture for mobile systems.
One important issue, which arises
in this context, is the design method. One reason for the great success of
microprocessor based designs in embedded systems during the last thirty years
has been the fact that, in this case, the problem solving is programming.
Solutions that based on hardware design and require logic design skills are
expensive and long-term projects. The
configurable computing approach intends to turn the hardware design into
programming using standard programming languages as C/C++, which reduces
the design time and reduces dramatically the design cost. Also, there are ten
times more programmers than hardware designers in the world.
The mobile computing together with
reconfigurable computing has becoming an innovative trend in hardware designs
and is an important area of active scientific research.
Topics:
The list of topics includes
but is not limited by the following:
O
Reconfigurable computing architectures
O
Compiling high-level languages for reconfigurable platform
O
Adaptive libraries for configurable computing
O
Run-time configuration and process management
O Energy
efficient adaptive architectures
O
Communication system algorithms and protocols
O Image
and signal processing algorithms
O Audio
and video compression
O Security architectures and algorithms in mobile systems
O Other
topics related to wireless communication systems
Submission of Papers:
MOCHA Design consists of 1) invited
papers and position papers, and 2) regular research papers, both from academy
and industry.
All interested authors must contact
the MOCHA Symposium Chairman, Toomas P. Plaks, as soon as possible, but no
later than May 31, 2005.
Those MOCHA Symposium papers
targeted for publication must be submitted to the peer review system in
accordance with the conference schedule, and will be reviewed by at least three
reviewers. Papers accepted by this
process will be included in the symposium section of the HICSS proceedings.
After conference, the best papers
will be published in a special issue of International Journal.
Important Deadlines:
May 31,
2006
Authors contact MOCHA
Symposium Chair for guidance and indication of appropriate content
June
15, 2006 Authors submit full research papers to the Peer Review
System
August
15, 2006 Authors
receive decisions regarding paper acceptances from the Peer Review System.
September 15, 2006 Deadline for Authors to submit the final
version of their accepted papers for publication. At least one author of each paper must register by this date
to attend the conference to present the paper.
For the more information; visit
the HICSS web site at: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu
Instructions for Paper Submission:
• MOCHA Research Papers must
contain original material not previously published, or currently submitted
elsewhere.
• Submit your full paper according
to the detailed formatting and submission instructions found on the HICSS website.
You have to submit to MOCHA Design minitrack
under the Software Track.
Note: All papers will be submitted in double column
publication format and limited to 10 pages including diagrams and references.
MOCHA
Design Chairman
Email:
plakst@lsbu.ac.uk
BCIM
MOCHA Web Page:
http://www.scism.lsbu.ac.uk/ERA/mocha07/mocha.htm
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information about MOCHA and other related events
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To
join, send email to Toomas P Plaks: plakst@lsbu.ac.uk
HICSS’39 CONFERENCE ADMINISTRATION
Ralph Sprague, Conference
Chair
Email: sprague@hawaii.edu
Sandra Laney, Conference
Administrator
Email: hicss@hawaii.edu
Eileen Robichaud Dennis, Track Administrator
Email: eidennis@indiana.edu
For the latest information;
visit the HICSS web site at: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu
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