ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2018

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Key Dates

April 4, 2018
March 31, 2018

Early Registration Deadline

April 13, 2018
April 9, 2018
To register, click here.

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For more information, visit the website at www.computingfrontiers.org

News

• The Best Short Paper and Poster Award 2018 was awarded to:
  
  
  An area and power efficient on-the-fly LBCS transformation for implantable neuronal signal acquisition systems
  Cosimo Aprile, Johannes Wüthrich, Luca Baldassarre, Yusuf Leblebici and Volkan Cevher
  
  The Best Paper Award 2018, dedicated to Stamatis Vassiliadis, was awarded to the paper:
  
  
  Adaptive and Polymorphic VLIW Processor to Optimize Fault Tolerance, Energy Consumption, and Performance
  Anderson Luiz Sartor, Arthur F. Lorenzon, Sandip Kundu, Israel Koren and Antonio Carlos S. Beck
  
  
  
  The Most-forward-looking Paper Award 2018, selected from 2004-2006 and dedicated to Utpal Banerjee, was awarded to:
  
  
  Toward a quantum process algebra, accepted at Computing Frontiers 2004
  Philippe Jorrand and Marie Lalire
  
  
  The award being presented by Carsten Trinitis and Claudia Di Napoli on behalf of the Steering Committee.
  
  
  
• We were pleased to present Arvind of MIT and Rosa M. Badia of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center as keynote speakers at the conference.
  
  
  
• Conference program: click here.
  
  
• The CF'18 Organizing Committee has obtained special rates at the conference hotel. To book a room at the special rate, you need to use the booking form that is available on the venue page. It is also possible to book a transfer from Naples to the hotel, a separate form is available for this.
  
  
• Apply for Student Travel Grants by downloading and completing this form.
  
  
• We are pleased to host the following co-located workshops:
  • International Workshop on Big Data Analytics (BigDAW '18)
  • 4th Workshop on Design of Low Power EMbedded Systems (LP-EMS '18),
  • Malicious Software and Hardware in the Internet of Things (MAL-IoT '18)
  • Workshop on Sensor Data Fusion and Machine Learning for the Next Generation of Cyber-Physical Systems (SeFuMAL '18)
  More information on the workshops can be found on the workshops page.
  
  

Registration & Hotel Booking

The early registration discount is available until April 13. For information on registration and a link to start the registration process click here.

The CF'18 Organizing Committee has obtained special rates at the conference hotel. To book a room at the special rate, a room reservation should be done directly through the Hotel by sending them the reservation form (available here in PDF or doc format) by fax or email. The fax number and the email address are specified in the form.

It is also possible to book a transfer service from Naples to the Hotel to be arranged directly with the Hotel by sending them the transfer form (available here in PDF or doc format) by fax or email.

Students are encouraged to apply for travel support to attend the conference. To do so, download and complete this form and send it to ppedro (at) chalmers (dot) se. Request for support should be submitted at the time of registration. Preference will be given to students who are authors of accepted papers.

Call For Papers

The next ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers will be held May 8 - 10 in Ischia, Italy. Computing Frontiers is an eclectic, collaborative community of researchers who investigate emerging technologies in the broad field of computing: our common goal is to drive the scientific breakthroughs that transform society. Technology is experiencing revolutions in memory devices and systems, networks, electronic device production, machine learning, data analytics, cloud computing, techniques to improve power and energy efficiency, systems portability/wearability, to name but a few areas. New application domains that affect everyday life are emerging, especially in the era of highly interconnected and collaborative cyber-physical systems. Boundaries between the state-of-the-art and revolutionary innovation constitute the frontiers that mark the advances of science, engineering, and information technology.

Early research that envisions future technologies provides the bases that allow novel materials, devices, and systems to become mainstream. Collaborative efforts among researchers with different expertises and backgrounds enables revolutionary scientific breakthroughs that lead to innovative solutions over a wide spectrum of computer systems, from embedded and hand-held/wearable devices to supercomputers and data centers.

Topics of Interest

We seek original research contributions at the frontiers of a wide range of topics, including novel computing paradigms, computational models, algorithms, application paradigms, development environments, compilers, operating environments, computer architecture, hardware substrates, memory technologies, and smarter life applications:

• Algorithms and Models of Computing — Approximate and inexact computing, quantum computing, and probabilistic computing
• Biological Computing Models — Brain computing, neural computing, computational neuroscience, and biologically-inspired architectures
• Limits on Technology Scaling and Moore's Law — Defect- and variability-tolerant designs, graphene and other novel materials, nanoscale design, optoelectronics, and dark silicon
• Uses of Technology Scaling — 3D stacked technology, challenges of many-core designs, accelerators, PCM's, novel memory architectures, dealing with manufacturing variability, and mobile devices
• Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems — Design space exploration, modeling and development frameworks for interconnected systems and CPS and CPSoS, ultra-low power designs, energy scavenging, reactive and real-time systems, reconfigurable and self-aware systems, robotics, sensor networks and internet of things, and architectural innovation for wearable computing
• Big Data Analytics — High performance data analytics, data search and representation, architecture, and system design
• Machine and Deep Learning — innovative algorithms, innovative architectures, and neuromorphic approaches
• Large-Scale System Design — Homogeneous and heterogeneous architectures, runtimes, networking technologies and protocols, power- and energy-management for cloud and grid systems, data centers, and exa-scale computing
• Fault tolerance and resilience — solutions for ultra-large and safety-critical systems, and hardware and software approaches to cope with adverse environments such as space
• Compiler Technologies — Advanced/novel analyses, hardware/software integrated solutions, domain-specific languages, and high-level synthesis
• Security — Methods, system support, and hardware for protecting against malicious code; real-time implementations of security algorithms and protocols; quantum and post-quantum cryptography; advanced persistent threats, cyber and physical attacks, and countermeasures
• Computers and Society — Education, health, cost/energy-efficient design, smart cities, and emerging markets
• Interdisciplinary Applications — Applications bridging multiple disciplines in interesting ways

We also strongly encourage submissions in emerging fields that may not fit into traditional categories — if in doubt, please contact the PC co-chairs by email.

Submission

Authors are invited to submit full or short papers to the main conference. Papers must be submitted through the conference submission website. Authors must declare in advance to which category they are submitting.

Full papers are a maximum of eight (8) double-column pages in ACM conference format with an option for authors to buy up to 2 extra pages after acceptance. Short paper submissions should be at least two (2) pages and not more than four (4) pages in the same format. These limits include figures, tables, and references. Our review process is double-blind: please remove all identifying information from the paper submission (and cite your own work in the third person). Short papers may cover on-going research that is seeking for early feedback and will be presented at the conference as oral presentation in a dedicated slot and in a poster session.

Both full and short papers will be published in the proceedings and in the ACM Digital Library. Authors of selected best papers will be invited to contribute with an extension of their work in a Special Issue of JSPS.

In addition to the best paper award from current submissions, dedicated to Stamatis Vassiliadis, CF18 will introduce an award for the most influential work from past Computing Frontiers conferences, dedicated to the memory of Utpal Banerjee.