Call for Papers — flyer

Constant advances in manufacturing yield and field reliability are important enabling factors for electronic devices pervading our lives, from medical to consumer electronics, from railways to the automotive and space scenarios. At the same time, both technology and architectures are today at a turning point; many ideas are being proposed to postpone the end of Moore’s law, such as extending CMOS technology as well as finding alternatives to it like CNTFET, QCA, memristors, etc. At the architectural level, the spin towards higher frequencies and aggressive dynamic instruction scheduling has been replaced by the trend of including many simpler cores on a single die. These paradigm shifts imply new dependability issues and require a rethinking of design, manufacturing, testing, and validation of reliable next-generation systems. These manufacturability and dependability issues will be resolved efficiently only if a cross-layer approach that takes into account technology, circuit and architectural aspects will be developed.

In the framework of the COST Action IC1103 – MEDIAN, (Manufacturable and Dependable Multicore Architectures at Nanoscale) this Workshop will provide an open forum for presentations in the above-mentioned fields. The topics include (but are not limited to) the following ones:

1. Methodologies/techniques for manufacturing reliable nanoscale devices
2. System level design, on-line testing/fault tolerance
3. Verification and Validation/Debug Methodologies
4. Fault tolerance for space applications
5. Fault tolerance for transportation systems
6. Fault tolerance for medical devices

Workshop registration

Registration is available by following the instructions on this page. Please note that the early registration deadline is Feb. 28, 2014.

Travel funding

Based on to the availability of COST Action IC1103 funding, authors of accepted contributions will be eligible for travel reimbursement. In case of limited budget availability, the selection of beneficiaries will be based on the following criteria, in priority order:
1) Young researchers (Master thesis / Ph.D. students);
2) Balance of allocation among different Working Groups;
3) First come first serve (date of submission of contribution).

For general information, contact the General co-Chairs. For paper submission information, contact the Program co-Chairs.

General co-Chairs

• Mehdi Tahoori
  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  GERMANY
  mehdi.tahoori@kit.edu
• Oliver Brignmann
  FZI/University of Tuebingen
  GERMANY
  bringman@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de

Program co-Chairs

• Maria K. Michael
  University of Cyprus
  CYPRUS
  mmichael@ucy.ac.cy
• Ozcan Ozturk
  Bilkent University
  TURKEY
  ozturk@cs.bilkent.edu.tr

Panel Session Chair

• Said Hamdioui
  Delft University of Technology
  THE NETHERLANDS
  s.hamdioui@tudelft.nl

Publication Chair

• Michael Skitsas
  University of Cyprus
  CYPRUS
  skitsas.michael@ucy.ac.cy

Program Committee

• Chris Bleakley, UC Dublin, IE
• Adrian Cristal, BSC, ES
• Shidhartha Das, ARM, UK
• Oguz Ergin, TOBB University, TR
• Adrian Evans, IROC, FR
• Dimitris Gizopoulos, Univ. Athens, GR
• Said Hamdioui, TUDelft, NL
• Viacheslav Izosimov, Semcon, SE
• Ben Kaczer, IMEC, BE
• Ismail Kadayif, COMU, TR
• Israel Koren, Univ. Massachusetts Amherst, US
• Zdenek Kotasek, Brno Univ. Technology, CZ
• Hans Manhaeve, Ridgetop, BE
• Maria Michael, University of Cyprus, CY
• Antonio Miele, Politecnico di Milano, IT
• Amir Nahir, IBM, IL
• Smail Niar, Universit of Valenciennes, FR
• Chrysostomos Nicopoulos, University of Cyprus, CY
• Marco Ottavi, Univ. Rome “Tor Vergata”, IT
• Ozcan Ozturk, Bilkent University, TR
• Salvatore Pontarelli, Univ. Rome “Tor Vergata” , IT
• Guillaume Prenat, Spintec, FR
• Pedro Reviriego, University of Nebrija, ES
• Ioannis Sourdis, Chalmers University, SE
• Vilas Sridharan, AMD, UK
• Suleyman Tosun, Ankara University, TR
• Osman Unsal, BSC, ES