Scope

Embedded computing systems enable highly optimized special-purpose services provided by host devices. Though miniaturized and mostly invisible, embedded systems make up the lion's share of all computer systems in the world. They pervade everyday life unnoticed. Due to microscopic sizes and mass production volumes, the driving system development factor is low unit cost, rather than development cost. The downsizing of embedded systems goes hand in hand with an unrelenting growth of memory and storage capacity. Their functionality is growing proportionally. A continuously expanding range of new applications with sizable data volumes for embedded systems is taking shape. Since "function gravitates to data" (J. Gray, NASD'98), traditional data management issues and problems are re-emerging for embedded systems. Solutions for conventional systems and architectures need to be reconsidered and replanted in the context of embedded systems. EDACS 2009 will provide a forum for presenting and discussing state-of-the-art, on-going and innovative research and development in this exciting new field.

Topics

We are calling for papers presenting original research results, innovative ideas, work in progress, industrial experience, case studies or position statements. Submissions should highlight aspects of Embedded Data-Centric Systems in areas including, but not limited to the following topics:

• Applications (Automotive, Avionic, Domotic, Gaming, Medical, Others)
• Capillary Networking
• Conceptual Modeling and Design
• Data-Centric Appliances
• Data Confidence (Availability, Integrity, Security)
• Debugging, Testing and Profiling
• Dependability and Reliability
• Distribution and Replication
• Embedded AI (Things That Think)
• Embedded Architectures
• Embedded Databases
• Embedded Information Management
• Embedded Networks
• Embedded Monitoring and Control
• Energy-efficient Devices and Services
• Error Diagnosis and Fault Tolerance
• Hard-, Soft- and Middleware Issues
• Interoperability
• Mobile and Wireless Systems
• Multithreading
• Open Source Solutions
• Parallelization
• Performance Evaluation
• Pervasive Data
• Real-Time Systems
• Resource-constrained Updating
• Sensor Systems
• Systems on a Chip (SoC)

Submissions

Please login here and submit an electronic copy (preferably .pdf) of your work by March 1, 2009. Submissions must be neither published nor under revision elsewhere, be written in English, contain an abstract of about 200 words and should not exceed 5000 words. In case of problems, please contact the program chair. We recommend to use the IEEE format of the final versions of accepted papers.

Proceedings

All papers submitted to EDACS 2009 will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers must be presented at the workshop and will be published in an IEEE proceedings volume of the DEXA 2009 workshops. (For example, browse bibliographic details of our previous DEXA workshop HADIS'06.)

Steering Committee

Workshop Chair	Simin Nadjm-Tehrani	Linköping University, Sweden
Program Chair	Stefan Beyer	Instituto Tecnológico de Informática, Valencia, Spain
Co-Chair	Roland Hecker	Technical University Kaiserslautern, Germany
Organizing Chair	Hendrik Decker	Instituto Tecnológico de Informática, Valencia, Spain

Program Committee

	Hamid R. Arabnia	Univ. Georgia, Athens, USA
	Mari Carmen Bañuls	MPI Quantenoptik, Garching, Germany
	Duncan Bates	Birdstep, UK
	Stefan Beyer	Inst. Tecnol. de Informática, Spain
	Stéphane Bressan	National Univ. Singapore
	Tianzhou Chen	Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
	Sergo Dadunashvili	Tech. Univ. Tbilisi, Georgia
	Hendrik Decker	Inst. Tecnol. de Informática, Spain
	Marco Di Natale	Scuola Sup. S. Anna Pisa, Italy
	Gerhard Fohler	Tech. Univ. Kaiserslautern, Germany
	Sabine Glesner	Tech. Univ. Berlin, Germany
	Rajesh Gupta	UC San Diego, USA
	Serag E.-D. Habib	Cairo Univ. Giza, Egypt
	Jörgen Hansson	Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA
	Roland Hecker	Tech. Univ. Kaiserslautern, Germany
	Jozef Hooman	Eindhoven Univ. Tech., Netherlands
	Jérôme Hugues	TELECOM ParisTech, France
	Kyoung-Don Kang	State Univ. New York Binghamton, USA
	Wolfgang Kunz	Tech. Univ. Kaiserslautern, Germany
	Sebastian Lehnhoff	Univ. Dortmund, Germany
	Pedro José Marrón	Univ. Bonn, Germany
	Anirban Mondal	Univ. Tokyo, Japan
	Simin Nadjm-Tehrani	Linköping Univ., Sweden
	Tatsuo Nakajima	Waseda Univ., Japan
	Peter P. Puschner	Tech. Univ. Vienna, Austria
	Sang H. Son	Univ. Virginia Charlottesville, USA
	Flávio Rech Wagner	Univ. Fed. Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
	Horst Wedde	Univ. Dortmund, Germany
	Ming Xiong	Bell Labs, USA
	Laurence T. Yang	St Francis Xavier Univ., Canada