RAW 2024 CALL FOR PAPERS
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31st Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop (RAW 2024)
May 27-28, 2024. San Francisco, CA, USA
Website:http://raw.necst.it/
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IMPORTANT DATES:
– Round one submission deadline: Nov 3, 2023 (No Extension)
– Round one decision notification: Dec 18, 2023
– Round one camera-ready: Jan 17, 2024
– Conference: May 27-28, 2024
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SUBMISSION WEBSITE:
(Please choose “Workshop: RAW 2024 Round 1”)
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The 31st Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop (RAW 2024) will be held in
San Francisco, CA, USA in May 2024. RAW 2024 is associated with the 38th
Annual IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing
Symposium (IEEE IPDPS 2024) and is sponsored by the IEEE Computer
Society and the Technical Committee on Parallel Processing. The workshop
is one of the major meetings for researchers to present ideas, results,
and on-going research on both theoretical and practical advances in
Reconfigurable Computing.
A reconfigurable computing environment is characterized by the ability of underlying hardware architectures or devices to rapidly alter (often on the fly) the functionalities of their components and the interconnection between them to suit the problem at hand. The area has a rich theoretical tradition and wide practical applicability. There are several commercially available reconfigurable platforms (FPGAs and coarse-grained devices) and many modern applications (including embedded systems and HPC) use reconfigurable subsystems. An appropriate mix of theoretical foundations and practical considerations, including algorithms, applications, architectures, technologies, systems, programming models and tools, is essential to fully exploit the possibilities offered by reconfigurable computing. The Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop aims to provide a forum for creative and productive interaction for researchers and practitioners in the area.
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NEW for RAW 2024
For RAW 2024, to encourage more submissions and more attendance, we plan to have two rounds of submissions. Round one will be the major submission round and its submission deadline is Nov 3, 2023. Round two submission deadline is tentatively at the end of Jan 2024. All submission deadlines are with respect to 11:59 pm Anywhere on Earth (UTC -12). NO EXTENSION is provided for the round 1 submission.
For RAW 2024, we are collaborating with ACM TRETS to organize a journal special issue. We will invite top papers from the RAW 2024 program to extend their work and submit to the ACM TRETS special issue on RAW 2024.
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TOPICS OF INTEREST
Submissions are solicited on the following topics including, but not limited to:
Applications of Reconfigurable Architectures
– ML/AI Acceleration
– Big Data Analytics Acceleration
– Applications in FinTech
– Applications in Organic Computing, Biologically-Inspired Solutions
– Applications in Computational Genomics and Healthcare
– Applications in Autonomous Driving
– Applications in Digital Media and Entertainment
– Applications in HPC and Datacenters
– Applications in Edge Devices and IoT Devices
– Other Novel Use of Commercial FPGAs
Reconfigurable System Architectures & CAD Support
– Domain-Specific Architectures and Overlays
– Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architectures
– Specialized Memory Systems including Volatile, Non-Volatile, and Hybrid Memory Subsystems
– Near Data Reconfigurable Architectures and Systems (e.g., SmartNIC, SmartSSD)
– Reconfigurable Datacenters and Cloud
– FPGA-based MPSoC Architectures and Systems
– Emerging Technologies (e.g., Optical Models, 3D Interconnects, Devices)
– Other Evolvable, Adaptable, or Autonomous Reconfigurable Computing Systems
– Low-Level CAD Support for the above Architectures and Systems
– Critical Issues (Security, Reliability, Fault-Tolerance)
Software Programmability and Tool Support
– Domain-Specific Languages and Compilers
– High-Level Synthesis
– System-Level Synthesis
– Runtime Systems
– Operating Systems and Virtualization
– Debugging and Verification Tools
– Runtime Reconfiguration Models
– Partial Reconfiguration Techniques
– Fast Simulation, Prototyping, and Profiling Tools
– Other Tool Support to Facilitate Software-Defined Reconfigurable Computing
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SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
All manuscripts will be reviewed by at least three members of the program
committee, with a single-blind review process. Submissions should be a
complete manuscript or, in special cases, may be a summary of relevant
work. There are two types of manuscripts: 1) full papers (up to 6 pages)
and 2) short papers (up to 4 pages). Both manuscripts should follow the
IEEE conference style: single-spaced, double-column pages using
10-point size font on 8.5X11 inch pages. The page limits exclude
references and both manuscripts can include up to 2 pages of references.
A conformant LaTeX template is available here:
https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/pubs/conference-latex-template_10-17-19.zip.
Overleaf users can find the LaTeX template here:
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/ieee-bare-demo-template-for-conferences/ypypvwjmvtdf.
A Microsoft Word template is available here:
https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/conferences/conference-template-letter.docx.
Papers are to be submitted through https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ipdps/?page=Submit&id=WorkshopRAW2024Round1FullSubmission&site=ipdps2024
(Please choose “Workshop: RAW 2024 Round 1”). All papers must be
submitted electronically in PDF format. Submitted papers should not have
appeared in or be under submission for a different workshop, conference
or journal. It is also expected that all accepted papers (full or
short) will be presented at the workshop by one of the authors.
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PUBLICATION AND JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
IEEE CS Press will publish the IPDPS symposium and workshop abstracts as a printed volume. Proceedings of the workshops are distributed at the
conference and are submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital
Library after the conference. We will also invite top papers from the
workshop to extend their work and submit to the ACM TRETS special issue
on RAW 2024.
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AWARDS
RAW 2024 will have 3 different awards:
– Best paper (selected after the presentation of the 3 best paper candidates)
– Best poster (selected among all the poster presentations at RAW 2024)
– Best artifact (see the following section for more information)
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ARTIFACT EVALUATION
RAW 2024 will continue the experimental Artifact Evaluation (AE) initiated in RAW 2023.
Authors of accepted papers at RAW 2024 can optionally participate in the AE process to formally describe supporting materials(code, data, models,
workflows, results).
Artifacts are digital objects that were created by the authors as part of the research or experiments performed with the submitted work. Examples of artifacts are:
– Software: models, source code, scripts, Makefiles, container images (like Docker files), etc.
– Hardware: Verilog, VHDL, schematics, CAD tools, flows, etc.
– Data: spreadsheets, databases, binary files, design sets, etc.
High-quality artifacts are as important as the manuscript itself. The goal of
submitting artifacts promotes the availability and reproducibility of
the experimental results and data such that other researchers can repeat
experiments and replicate results with less effort.
Note that this submission is voluntary and will not influence the final decision regarding the papers. The goal is to help the authors validate
experimental results from their accepted papers by an independent AE
Committee (AEC) in a collaborative way while helping readers find
articles with available (i.e., publicly accessible in an archival
repository), functional (i.e., consistent, documented, and reusable),
and validated (i.e., main results from the paper) artifacts.
Each submitted artifact is evaluated by at least two members of the AEC.
During the process, authors and evaluators are allowed to communicate
anonymously with each other to overcome technical difficulties. Ideally,
we hope to see all submitted artifacts successfully pass the artifact
evaluation. More details on the AE process will follow.
Finally, we are seeking volunteers to take part in the AE Committee. If you are interested in taking part of this initiative please check the RAW
website at https://raw.necst.it/
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ORGANIZERS
Workshop Chair
Marco Domenico Santambrogio, Politecnico di MIlano, Italy
Program Chair
Zhenman Fang, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Steering Committee
Juergen Becker, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA
Ramachandran Vaidyanathan, Louisiana State University, USA
Marco D. Santambrogio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Steering Chair
Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA
Artifacts Chair
Davide Conficconi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Finance Chair
Andrew Schmidt, AMD, USA
PhD Forum Chair
Peipei Zhou, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Publicity Co-Chairs
Brian Veale, IBM, USA
Christian Pilato, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Webmaster
Francesco Peverelli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy