Second International Workshop on Multi-Objective Many-Core Design

Call for Papers
Second International Workshop on
Multi-Objective Many-Core Design (MOMAC)
Porto, Portugal, March 24, 2015
http://www12.cs.fau.de/momac/

in conjunction with International Conference on
Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 2015)

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*** IMPORTANT DATES ***

Paper submission deadline: December 1, 2014
Notification of acceptance: January 16, 2015
Final version: February 16, 2015

Dear colleagues,

please consider the opportunity to contribute to the Second Workshop
on Multi-Objective Many-Core Design (MOMAC) to be held in Porto,
Portugal in conjunction with ARCS 2015.

*** ABOUT MOMAC ***

Semiconductor industry is hitting the utilization wall, resulting in
parallel and heterogeneous many-core architectures. Applications have
to exploit the available parallelism and heterogeneity to meet their
functional and non-functional requirements and to gain performance
improvements. A main challenge originates from many-cores promoting
highly dynamic usage scenarios as already observable in today's "smart
devices", where multiple and varying numbers of applications are
running at different points in time. As a consequence, providing
mapping of applications to processor cores which is optimal and
predictable with respect to performance, timing, energy consumption,
safety, security, etc. may not be guaranteed by static design-time
optimization alone. At the same time, pure run-time optimization may
result in unpredictable and non-optimal system states. This workshop
investigates this field of tension of run-time, design-time, and
hybrid design methodologies for the mapping of applications on
many-core systems, particularly addressing the aspect of multiple
conflicting objectives that drive the design.

This field of research includes numerous intermeshed aspects:
- Languages, Models, and Compilers: How to specify, analyze,
parallelize, and compile programs which support dynamic usage
scenarios in many-cores?
- Formal methods, Test, and Verification: How to analyze and verify
predictable execution of applications despite unforeseeable
run-time events?
- Optimization Techniques: Which design-time and run-time techniques
as well as combinations of them provide optimized and predictable
application mapping for many-cores?
- Architecture: Which architectural concepts are required to support
predictability, run-time management and (self-)optimization?

*** TOPICS OF INTEREST ***

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Multiple Objectives & Predictability
* Performance
* Hard & Soft Real-time
* Energy Efficiency
* Fault Tolerance & Reliability
* Safety
* Security
* Scalability
* Flexibility

Specification
* Programming
* Modelling
* Parallelization
* Resource awareness

Design-time Optimization
* Multi-Objective Optimization
* Design Space Exploration
* Verification
* Profiling
* Performance Analysis

Run-time Optimization
* Resource Management
* Temperature and Power Management
* Decentralized vs Centralized Management
* Reconfigurable Computing
* Operating System
* Online Verification
* Auto-tuning
* Machine Learning

Architecture
* Architectural Predictability
* Reconfiguration
* Power Management
* Benchmarking
* Monitoring

*** SUBMISSION ***

Paper can be submitted as regular papers or as position papers.
Formats requirements:

- up to 8 pages (regular paper) IEEE style
- 4 pages (position paper) IEEE style: Preliminary and exploratory
work are welcome in this category, including wild & crazy ideas.
Authors submitting papers in this category must prepend
"Position Paper:" to the title of the submitted paper.

Papers are required to be in English using the IEEE style in A4 paper
size.

Full Paper submission until December 01, 2014 via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=momac2015

All papers undergo a blind review process. Authors will be notified
until January 16, 2015. Final version is due to February 16, 2015.
All accepted papers will be published in the ARCS Workshop Proceedings
and are expected to be published online under IEEE Xplore.

*** LOCATION ***

MOMAC will be held conjunction with the 28th International Conference
on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 2015), March 24-27,
2015 in Porto, Portugal.

*** ORGANIZERS ***

Stefan Wildermann (FAU, Germany, stefan.wildermann@fau.de)
Michael Glaß (FAU, Germany, michael.glass@fau.de)

*** PROGRAM COMMITTEE ***

Lars Bauer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany)
Omar Hammami (ENSTA, France)
Markus Happe (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Christian Haubelt (University of Rostock, Germany)
Akash Kumar (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Martin Lukasiewycz (TUM CREATE, Singapore)
Sanaz Mostaghim (Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany)
Mathias Pacher (University of Hannover, Germany)
Gianluca Palermo (Politecnico Di Milano, Italy)
Marco Domenico Santambrogio (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Muhammad Shafique (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany)
Lucian Vintan (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania)
Sebastian Voss (fortiss GmbH, Germany)