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Call for Papers

36th GI/ITG International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems

June 13-15, 2023, Athens, Greece

https://arcs-conference.org

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UPDATES:

* Added Organic Computing special track:

  https://arcs-conference.org/organic-computing

* Added VERFE Workshop that will be organized as special track:

  https://arcs-conference.org/verfe

* Added Submission Guidelines:

  https://arcs-conference.org/call-for-papers

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THIS YEAR’S FOCUS:

**The impact of next-generation memory on computing systems**

The ARCS conferences series has over 35 years of tradition reporting

leading edge research in computer architectures and operating systems.

Emerging memory technologies such as three-dimensional integrated memory

and non-volatile memory promise tremendous improvements for computing

systems, including lower power consumption, higher processing performance,

byte-addressability, and non-volatility. The focus of the ARCS’23

conference will be on novel hardware-based and software-based approaches

to exploit the potential of emerging memory technologies in terms of

performance, energy consumption, persistence, reliability, and scalability

of future computing systems. This includes research on the level of

computer architectures, runtime and operating systems, design tools,

as well as programming models, algorithms, and data structures.

In addition to the main conference, ARCS will host special tracks

comprising topics such as Organic Computing, operating systems and

middleware for emerging system, or fault tolerance.

The proceedings of ARCS 2023 will be published in the Springer Lecture

Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series. A best paper and best

presentation award will be presented at the conference.

This year the conference will be a physical meeting with a social program.

To ensure a safest possible meeting for all participants, we will monitor

the Corona situation closely and will take all necessary protection steps

following government guidelines as well as extra measures as needed.

**Important Dates**

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* Paper submission deadline:      April 7, 2023

* Notification of acceptance:     May 19, 2023

* Camera-ready papers:            June 2, 2023

* Conference (in Athens, Greece): June 13 – 15, 2023

**Topics of Interest**

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Paper submission: Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished

research papers on one or more of the following topics:

**Hardware Architectures**

  * Hardware and computing architectures for emerging memory technologies

  * System-on-chip

  * Distributed systems

  * Multi- and many-core architectures

  * Heterogeneous computing

  * Reconfigurable architectures

  * Advanced computing architectures

  * Quantum Computing

**Programming Models and Runtime Environments**

 * Operating systems, programming models, algorithms, and data structures

   for emerging memory technology

 * Operating systems, hypervisors and middleware for homogeneous and

   heterogeneous multi-/many-core computing platforms

 * System management including but not limited to scheduling, memory

   management, power/thermal management, and RTOS

 * Domain-specific languages and programming models

 * Architecture specific code generation and optimization

 * Architectural simulation

**Cross-sectional Topics**

 * Near-memory and in-memory computing

 * Effects of new memory technologies on Big Data and Edge Computing

 * Organic Computing

 * Pervasive systems

 * Autonomous systems

 * Approximate Computing

 * Mixed-criticality systems

 * Support for safety and security

**17th Workshop on Dependability and Fault Tolerance (VERFE 2023)

  organized as Special Track in conjunction with 36th ARCS 2023**

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Although the basic reliability of hardware and software components has

improved over decades, their increasing number causes severe problems.

Moreover, in recent years it can be observed that an increasing number

of devices are integrated into environments of other physical components

such as automotive or digital systems. Here, the complexity and number

of interactions with these components creates problems with regard to

maintaining a dependable operation of the entire system in case of

faults or external disturbances. While this is not a problem with micro-

processors, shrinking feature sizes, higher complexity, lower voltages,

and higher clock frequencies increase the probability of design,

manufacturing and operational faults, making fault tolerance techniques

in general purpose processors to be of crucial importance in the future.

As simple solutions (such as TMR) can easily get too expensive, the

ability to trade increased reliability against performance/power

overhead will become important, resulting in light-weight fault

tolerance techniques implemented in hardware, but controllable from

higher software layers.

This workshop aims at presenting contributions and work-in-progress from

the research area of dependable and fault-tolerant computing in order to

bring together scientists working in related fields.

Details: https://arcs-conference.org/verfe

**Special Track on Organic Computing**

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Organic Computing postulates to equip technical systems with `lifelike’

properties. Technically, this means to move traditional design-time

decisions to runtime and into the responsibility of systems themselves.

As a result, systems have a dramatically increased decision freedom that

leads to highly autonomous behaviour. The goal of this process is to allow

for self-adaptation and self-improvement of system behaviour at runtime.

Especially since conditions that occur at runtime can only be anticipated

to a certain degree, efficient mechanisms are needed that guide the

system’s behaviour even in cases of missing knowledge or uncertain

environmental states. Consequently, the research field of Organic

Computing investigates fundamental principles, discusses essential

aspects and researches novel methods that are needed to finally build

self-adaptive and self-organising systems that are capable of reliable

operation in complex real-world environments.

The special track on `Organic Computing’ focusses on developments and

open challenges in the field of self-adaptive and self-organising systems

embedded in real-world environments.

Details: https://arcs-conference.org/organic-computing

**Submission guidelines**

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Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers via

EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arcs2023

ARCS 2023 uses a double-blind reviewing system. Manuscripts must not

identify authors or their affiliation. When citing own work, it must be

done in a neutral form (i.e. avoiding ‘our’, ‘we’, ‘previous work’ etc.).

Papers must be submitted in PDF format, formatted according to Springer

LNCS style and must not exceed 15 pages, including references, appendices

and figures.

https://arcs-conference.org

ARCS 2023 CfP: The impact of next-generation memory on computing systems