IEEE Transactions on Computers seeks original manuscripts for a Special Issue on Domain-Specific Architectures for Emerging Applications scheduled to
appear in May 2020.
Domain-specific architectures have gained
prominence in the effort to overcome the stagnation in transistor feature-size
scaling. The push towards greater performance and energy efficiency gains have
necessitated in dedicated hardware focused on accelerating key application
kernels. Such accelerators have proliferated, particularly in the machine
learning and deep learning space, and are increasingly becoming essential
components of mainstream commercial processors across a multitude of other
domains as well. The rapid rate at which application and system software are
evolving has also been reflected in processor design methodologies with most
general-purpose computers being augmented with custom accelerators, both on and
off-chip, making hardware-software co-development an essential component of the
design and manufacturing flow. This IEEE Computer Special Issue on Domain
Specific Architectures for Emerging Applications seeks to expand our
understanding of novel accelerator designs across emerging application domains,
from circuit and microarchitecture aspects, to solutions at the compiler and
system-software level.
Topics of interest to this special issue include, but not limited
to:
· Novel accelerator designs catering to biomedical, healthcare, geo-spatial, industrial
and manufacturing sectors, big data analytics, autonomous driving systems and
other emerging domains
· Prototype demonstrations of field deployment-ready accelerators
· Novel cloud-backed edge accelerator designs and architecture/system-software support thereof
· Special optimizations targeted towards
maximizing energy efficiency and reliability of the accelerator
· Design of novel memory architectures for accelerators
· Leveraging emerging logic and memory technologies in accelerator designs
· Novel interconnect designs for heterogeneous accelerator-rich systems
· New agile design automation techniques for design and manufacturing of accelerator-rich systems
· Scalable distributed algorithms and architectures for homogeneous/heterogeneous accelerator swarms
Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently submitted for
journal publication elsewhere. As an author, you are responsible for
understanding and adhering to the Transactions submission guidelines. Those
guidelines are available on the IEEE Computer Society web site,
www.computer.org. Please thoroughly read these before submitting your
manuscript. Please submit your paper to Manuscript Central at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tc-cs
Please note the following important dates.
• Submission Deadline: January
5th, 2020
• Reviews Completed: February 8th, 2020
• Major Revisions Due: March 1, 2020
• Reviews of Revisions Completed:
March 15, 2020
• Notification of Final Acceptance:
March 15, 2020
• Publication Materials for Final
Manuscripts Due: April 1, 2020
• Publication date: May 2020.
• Website: https://www.computer.org/digital-library/journals/tc/call-for-papers-special-issue-on-domain-specific-architectures-for-emerging-applications.
Please address all other correspondence regarding this special session to Guest Editors
Karthik Swaminathan (kvswamin@us.ibm.com) and Lisa Wu Wills (lisa@cs.duke.edu)