Newsgroups: comp.multimedia,comp.dsp,comp.parallel,comp.arch
From: rajan@salsa.labs.tek.com (Raja Neogi)
Subject: Final call for Paper (ICSE'96)
Keywords: realtime,multimedia,architecture,
Organization: Design Technology Lab, Tektronix
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 17:44:04 GMT
Message-ID: <4a20d4$nlc@news.tv.tek.com>
                
		FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS (extended DEADLINE - December 20)
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        SPECIAL SESSION ON REAL-TIME SYSTEMS

ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS ENGINEERING (ICSE '96)
	       UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS
                      9-11 July 1996

                   Session Organizers: 

Professor Sajal K. Das               Dr. Raja Neogi
Department of Computer Science       Tektronix Inc.
University of North Texas            P. O. BOX 500
P.O. Box 13886                       MS 50-470
Denton, TX 76203-6886, USA           Beaverton, Oregon 97077

Email: das@cs.unt.edu                Email: rajan@salsa.labs.tek.com
Voice: (817) 565-4256                Voice: 503-627-5640 
Fax:   (817) 565-2799                Fax:   503-627-1736

This series of International Conferences is jointly organized  on
a rotational basis among the three Institutions, University of
Nevada, Las Vegas,  USA the Technical University of Wroclaw,
Poland and Coventry University, UK.  The 11th International
Conference on Systems Engineering takes place at the
Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering,  University of Nevada,
Las Vegas on July 9-11, 1996. 

The special session on Real-Time Systems is planned to
cover various aspects of  real-time systems with
specific emphasis on multimedia, graphics and associated
networking technologies.

SPECIAL SESSION PREVIEW:
------------------------

Emerging networked multimedia applications characterized
by intense video-signal/graphics processing (100-10K MIPS) 
and high bandwidth video traffic requirements 
demand specialized architectures focused on a narrow
range of applications to keep the price/performance attribute
attractive. The pace at which the marketplace is changing,
however, calls for programmable architectures in which a
common hardware platform can be used to rapidly develop
new silicon solutions based on software development only.
It is expected that such software/firmware layer(s) sitting
atop specialized real-time kernels will allow enough 
dynamic reconfiguration/programmability
at reasonable price points. In the past, 
high power-consumption and degraded 
performance have been the deterring factors for 
building such systems on silicon.
It is expected that recent advances in VLSI 
technology will foster new research in this direction.


Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

   Indexing, Accessing and Processing Real-time Media
   Real-time Image Processing Architectures
   High-performance Architectures for 2D/3D Graphics
   Multimedia System Architectures
   Real-time Operating Systems for Multimedia
   High-performance Programmable Packet Switching Architectures
   Real-time Network Routing 
   Specialized Architectures for set-top Decoders / interactive Television
   Models of Inter-Processor Communication
   VLSI Implementations
   Applications of Video Signal Processors


SUBMISSION POLICIES:
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Authors are encouraged to submit SIX copies of an
abstract of their manuscript (approximately 1000 words) 
so as to reach to the session chairs on or before December 1, 1995. 
The abstract, written in English,  should be typed double spaced
and must be suitable for a technical review.
Electronic submission of postscript files is strongly encouraged.
Refereeing of abstracts submitted before the deadline date will
take place on a regular basis.  This will allow early decisions
to be taken and should assist authors in their projected
planning arrangements. At least one author of an 
accepted paper in the special session will be expected
to attend the conference. (Abstracts, that cannot be accommodated in
the special session, will be considered for other related sessions 
of the conference.) 

A special issues of a Journal is being planned to publish
selected papers from this session.

Since conference proceedings will be available for participants,
the following deadlines for submission of abstracts/papers 
should be strictly adhered to. 

DEADLINES:
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   Submission of Abstracts     		Dec.  1, 1995 (DEADLINE extended to December 20)
   Acceptance Decisions       		Feb. 15, 1996
   Submission of Full Papers   		Mar. 15, 1996

Please send your abstract for the session on Real-time Systems to:
 (Electronic Submission, ascii Or postscript, of ABSTRACT is preferred)

   Dr. Raja Neogi
   Tektronix Inc.
   P. O. BOX 500
   MS 50-470
   Beaverton, Oregon 97077

   Email: rajan@salsa.labs.tek.com
   Voice: 503-627-5640 
   Fax:   503-627-1736

PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS:
------------------------

Conference fees, provisionally estimated at $250, include a copy of
the Conference Proceedings, the Conference Banquet, a Civic
Reception and lunch on the three conference days. Participants will
have the option of being accommodated in the University dormitories
at a nominal fee.  The Conference fee is exclusive of accommodation
charges. The working language of the Conference is English, which
will be used for all presentations, discussions and printed
material. A full social program for accompanying persons will be
organized providing sufficient numbers are interested in participating.



