Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: taubin@u-aizu.ac.jp (Alexander B. Taubin)
Subject: Reminder on Async96 Symposium
Organization: University of Aizu, Fukushima, Japan
Date: 22 Sep 1995 15:28:36 GMT
Message-ID: <43ukn4$44u@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>

                         SECOND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON 
      ADVANCED RESEARCH IN ASYNCHRONOUS CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS

                                         Sponsored by: 
           The IEEE Computer Society  Technical Committee on VLSI 
                The IEICE Technical Group on VLSI Design 
                                    in cooperation with: 
                                       IFIP WG 10.5
                            The University of Aizu, Japan

                  AIZU-WAKAMATSU, FUKUSHIMA, JAPAN
                                 MARCH 18 - 21, 1996

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                             *   CALL FOR PAPERS   *
                             ***********************
The Second International Symposium on Advanced Research in Asynchronous
Circuits and Systems is being organized as a forum for disseminating
advanced research results on asynchronous circuit and system design. 
Asynchronous systems design is currently enjoying a strong revival, and
many clear directions for further research have begun to emerge.  A major
goal of this symposium is to articulate emerging focal areas through
invited papers, and thereby foster research growth.  Special emphasis will
be given to industrial applications and mature CAD tools. To this end,
papers are being sought on all aspects of asynchronous circuit and system
design, as well as in the following focal areas (in no specific order of
priority):
 --- Industrial Applications of Asynchronous Design
 --- Hybrid Synchro-Asynchronous Systems
 --- CAD Tools for Asynchronous Design
 --- Testing/Design-for-Testability of Asynchronous Circuits
 --- Noise Immunity in Asynchronous Digital Circuits
 --- Low-Power Techniques
 --- High Performance Asynchronous Circuits
 --- Hazard-Free Logic Synthesis and Optimization
 --- Design of Asynchronous State Machines
 --- Metastability and Related Issues
 --- Formal Methods for Asynchronous Design
 --- Petri-Nets, Trace Theory and Related Formalisms
 --- High-Level Synthesis of Asynchronous Circuits and Systems
 --- Asynchronous Design in Commercial HDL Environment
 --- Verification of Asynchronous Circuits and Systems
 --- Asynchronous Datapath and Processor Design
 --- Practical Design Examples
 --- Future Trends (Optical Computing, Neural Networks, Nanotechnology, etc.)


Submissions:
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Submitted papers should be no more than 15 pages in 11-point font (or
equivalent) with a 60-word abstract, and should include a cover page with
authors' physical and e-mail addresses, phone and FAX numbers.  Prospective
authors should submit papers in one of the following
forms: 
(1) Send six single-sided copies of the manuscript with a cover-page to:
          Alexander Taubin (Async96)
          THE UNIVERSITY OF AIZU   
          Tsuruga, Ikki-machi, Aizu-Wakamatsu City
          Fukushima, 965-80 Japan 

(2) Email compressed Postscript(tm) files to "async96@u-aizu.ac.jp".
Accepted papers will appear in a published proceedings. 

Important Dates:
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Papers due:                    October 10, 1995
Notification of acceptance by : December 1, 1995
Final Version by:              January 10, 1995
       

Symposium Officers
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General  Chair 
       Tosiyasu Kunii (The University of Aizu, Japan, kunii@u-aizu.ac.jp)
Conference Co-Chairs:
       Takashi Nanya (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, 
                              nanya@cs.titech.ac.jp, tel. +81-3-5734-3041,
fax: +81-3-5734-2817)
       Alex Kondratyev (The University of Aizu, Japan, 
                                  kondraty@u-aizu.ac.jp, tel.
+81-242-37-2557, fax: +81-242-37-2744)
Program  Co-Chairs:
       Luciano Lavagno (Politecnico di Torino, Italy, Cadence Berkeley, USA, 
                                  lavagno@polv2k.polito.it, tel.
+39-11-5644150, fax: +39-11-5644099)
      Alexander Taubin (The University of Aizu, Japan, 
                                    taubin@u-aizu.ac.jp, tel.
+81-242-37-2572, fax: +81-242-37-2744))
Publication Chair:
       Takeshi Yoshimura (NEC, Japan, yoshi@swl.cl.nec.co.jp)
Publicity Chair: 
       Fumiyasu Hirose ( Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd, Japan,
hirose@flab.fujitsu.co.jp)
Finance/Registration Chair : 
      Kazuaki Yamauchi (The University of Aizu, Japan, yamauchi@u-aizu.ac.jp)

Local Arrangement Chair: 
      Yuko Kesen (The University of Aizu, Japan, kesen@u-aizu.ac.jp).
Tutorial/CAD booth Chair:
      Michael Kishinevsky (The University of Aizu,Japan, kishinev@u-aizu.ac.jp)
Industry relations:
      Tsuneo Ikedo (The University of Aizu, Japan, ikedo@u-aizu.ac.jp)
      Masatoshi Sekine (Toshiba, Japan, sekine@srd.ull.rdc.toshiba.co.jp)
US industry representative/chair:
       Alan Davis (University of Utah, USA, ald@endo.cs.utah.edu)
US academy representative/chair:
       Erik Brunvand  (University of Utah, USA, elb@telemark.cs.utah.edu)
European representative/chair :
      Steve Furber  (University of Manchester,UK, sfurber@cs.man.ac.uk)

Program Committee:
 Kunihiro Asada (Japan), Graham Birtwistle (UK), Steven Burns (USA)
Tam-Anh Chu (USA), Jordi Cortadella (Spain), David Dill (USA)
Jo Ebergen (Canada), Ran Ginossar (Israel),  Ganesh Gopalakrishnan (USA)
Mark Greenstreet (Canada),  Mark Josephs (UK), Sadatoshi Kumagai(Japan)
Bill Lin (Belgium),  Alain Martin (USA),  Viacheslav Marakhovski (Japan)
Charles Molnar (USA), Steven Nowick (USA), Takuji Okamoto (Japan)
Martin Rem (Netherlands),  Jens Sparso (Denmark),  Robert Sproull (USA)
Pasupathy Subrahmanyam (USA), Jan Tijmen Udding (Netherlands), Stephen
Unger (USA) Peter Vanbekbergen (USA),  Kees van Berkel (Netherland), 
Victor Varshavsky (Japan) Alex Yakovlev (UK),  Tomohiro Yoneda (Japan)

-- 
Kind regards

Alexander Taubin

THE UNIVERSITY OF AIZU                   phone   +81-242-37-2572 (office)        
Tsuruga, Ikki-machi, Aizu-Wakamatsu City fax     +81-242-37-2744         
Fukushima, 965-80 Japan                  e-mail  taubin@u-aizu.ac.jp     
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