ACM SIGPLAN 1999 Workshop on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES'99) Call for Participation [program in postscript | program in pdf] ( May 5, 1999, Atlanta, Georgia, USA ) Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN. In conjunction with the ACM Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI'99) ( May 1 - 4, 1999, Atlanta, Georgia, USA ) and ACM Federated Computing Research Conference (FCRC'99) ( April 30 - May 6, 1999, Atlanta, Georgia, USA ) Prior workshops: LCTES'98, LCT-RTS'97, LCT-RTS'95, LCT-RTS'94.

• General Description
• Invited Talk
• Workshop Schedule and Related Events [program in postscript | program in pdf]
• Proceedings and Author Guidelines
• Registration Open
• Workshop Organization
• Call for Papers
• LCTES'2000

General Description

LCTES '99 provides a link between the programming languages and embedded systems engineering communities. Researchers and developers in these areas are addressing many similar problems, but with different backgrounds and approaches. LCTES is intended to expose researchers and developers from either area to relevant work and interesting problems in the other area and provide a forum where they can interact.

Until recently embedded systems development was performed by experienced specialists using a variety of custom kernels, non-standard languages, vendor-specific device interfaces, and custom hardware. System integration involved a complicated process of obtaining timing measurements, hand-tuning code, and re-measuring. These ad-hoc techniques do not scale well for modern systems. Also, the majority of system developers is no longer composed of embedded control experts. As a result, a trend is emerging to use off-the-shelf hardware and enhance standard software to meet embedded requirements, ranging from real-time extensions of common programming languages and operating systems to appropriate tools for embedded programmers.

Workshop Schedule

7:00am-8:00am Breakfast

8:00am-10:00am Session I: Compiler Issues                  Chair: Reinhard Wilhelm

• Optimizing for Reduced Code Space using Genetic Algorithms (30 minutes)
  Keith D. Cooper, Philip J. Schielke, and Devika Subramanian
  (Rice University)
• Effective Exploitation of a Zero Overhead Loop Buffer (30 minutes)
  Gang-Ryung Uh (Lucent Technologies), Yuhong Wang (Florida State University), David Whalley (Florida State University), Sanjay Jinturkar (Lucent Technologies), Chris Burns (Lucent Technologies), and Vincent Cao (Lucent Technologies)
• Minimizing Cost of Local Variables Access for DSP-Processors (20 minutes)
  Erik Eckstein (Atair Software GmbH, Austria) and Andreas Krall (Technical University Wien, Austria)
• Modulo Scheduling for the TMS320C6x VLIW DSP Architecture (20 minutes)
  Eric Stotzer (Texas Instruments) and Ernst Leiss (University of Houston)
• Pipeline Behaviour Prediction for Superscalar Processors by Abstract Interpretation (20 minutes)
  Joern Schneider (University of the Saarland, Germany) and Christian Ferdinand (AbsInt GmbH, Germany)

10:00am-10:20am Coffee Break

10:20am-11:20am Session II: Garbage Collection               Chair: Seongsoo Hong

• Live Memory Analysis for Garbage Collection in Embedded Systems (30 minutes)
  Patrik Persson (Lund University, Sweden)
• Scheduling Garbage Collector for Embedded Real-Time Systems (30 minutes)
  Taehyoun Kim, Naehyuck Chang, Namyun Kim, and Heonshik Shin
  (Seoul National University, Korea)

11:30am-12:30pm FCRC Plenary Speaker: Ken Kennedy (Rice University)

12:30pm-13:30pm Lunch

13:30pm-14:30pm Invited Speaker: Dr. In Ryu (Samsung Electronics)
                                                                                                               Chair: Annie Liu

14:30pm-15:30pm Session III: Databases and QoS

• Table-Based QoS Control for Embedded Real-time Systems (30 minutes)
  Tomoyoshi Sugawara and Kosuke Tatsukawa
  (NEC Corporation, Japan)
• A Secure Dynamic Copy Protocol in Real-Time Database Systems (30 minutes)
  Soo-Yeon Park (Kyung-Hee University, Korea), Sungyoung Lee (Kyung-Hee University, Korea), Byung-Soo Jeong (Kyung-Hee University, Korea), and Hyon Woo Seung (Seoul Women's University, Korea)

15:30pm-16:00pm Coffee Break

16:00pm-17:00pm Session IV: Tools and Environments     Chair: Jack Davidson

• Performance Re-Engineering of Embedded Real-Time Systems (20 minutes)
  Minsoo Ryu, Jungkeun Park, Kimoon Kim, Yangmin Seo, and Seongsoo Hong
  (Seoul National University, Korea)
• A Software Synthesis Tool for Distributed Embedded System Design (20 minutes)
  D.-I. Kang (University of Maryland), R. Gerber (University of Maryland), L. Golubchik (University of Maryland), J.K. Hollingsworth (University of Maryland), and M. Saksena (Concordia University)
• Why SpecInt95 Should Not Be Used to Benchmark Embedded Systems Tools (20 minutes)
  Jakob Engblom (Upssala University, Sweden)

FCRC'99 Plenary Speakers

Sunday, May 2: Shafi Goldwasser, M.I.T. (most recent winner of the Grace Murray Hopper Award)

Monday, May 3: John L. Hennessy, Stanford University

Tuesday, May 4: James Gray, Microsoft (current Turing Award winner)

Wednesday, May 5: Ken Kennedy, Rice University

Thursday, May 6: Charles Bennett, IBM Research

Proceedings and Author Guidelines

Authors of accepted papers must sign the ACM copyright form. ACM will not publish any paper that is not accompanied by a signed copyright form.

The camera-ready copy must be prepared following the ACM SIG Proceedings Specifications. Authors may use the ACM SIG Proceedings Templates for the preparation. It is of particular importance that you leave sufficient space in the lower left corner of the first column on the first page for ACM to fill in the copyright information. Please do not put page numbers on your paper.

Please federal express or mail signed copyright form and your paper (produced on a high-resolution output device on 8 1/2" x 11" paper) to Annie Liu at the following address:

Computer Science Department Indiana University 215 Lindley Hall Bloomington, IN 47405, U.S.A. Phone: (812)855-4373

The postscript version of your paper should be sent by e-mail to liu@cs.indiana.edu. Both the surface mail and the e-mail must be received by April 23, 1999.

Registration Open

Additional Information

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