Call For Papers

                          Santa Fe New Mexico, USA
                            April 26 - 27, 2004

   The 11th Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop (RAW 2004) will be held
   at  the Eldorado Hotel, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, on April 26 and 27,
   2004.   RAW  2004  is  associated  with  the 18th Annual International
   Parallel  &  Distributed  Processing  Symposium  (IPDPS  2004)  and is
   sponsored  by  the  IEEE   Computers  Society's Technical Committee on
   Parallel  Processing.  RAW  2004  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.

   Main Focus of the Workshop:

       Run-Time & Dynamic Reconfiguration: Architectures, Algorithms,
                                Technologies

   Run-Time  and Dynamic Reconfiguration are characterized by the ability
   of  underlying hardware architectures or devices to rapidly  alter (on
   the fly) the functionalities of its components and the interconnection
   between   them   to   suit   the  problem.  Key  to  this  ability  is
   reconfiguration  handling  and  speed.  Though  theoretical models and
   algorithms  for  them  have  established  reconfiguration  as  a  very
   powerful  computing  paradigm,  practical  considerations  make  these
   models difficult to realize. On the other hand, commercially available
   devices (such as FPGAs and new coarse-grain FPFAs) appear to have more
   room for exploiting run-time reconfiguration (RTR). An appropriate mix
   of   the  theoretical  foundations  of  dynamic  reconfiguration,  and
   practical  considerations,  including  architectures, technologies and
   tools  supporting  RTR  is  essential  to fully reveal and exploit the
   possibilities  created  by  this powerful computing paradigm. RAW 2004
   aims  to  provide  a  forum  for  creative  and productive interaction
   between all these disciplines.

   Topics of Interest:

   Authors  are  invited  to  submit  manuscripts of original unpublished
   research   in  all  areas  of  dynamic  and  run-time  reconfiguration
   (foundations,    algorithms,    hardware    architectures,    devices,
   systems-on-chip    (SoC),    technologies,    software    tools,   and
   applications). The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

   Models & Architectures

     Theoretical Models (RMesh, etc.)
     RTR Models and Systems
     RTR Hardware Architectures
     Optical Interconnect Models
     Simulation and Prototyping
     Bounds and Complexity Issues  Algorithms & Applications


     Algorithmic Techniques
     Mapping Parallel Algorithms
     Distributed Systems & Networks
     Fault Tolerance Issues
     Wireless and Mobile Systems
     Automotive Applications, etc.  Technologies & Tools


     Configurable Systems-on-Chip
     Energy Efficiency Issues
     Devices and Circuits
     Reconfiguration Techniques
     High Level Design Methods
     System support



   Submission Guidelines:

   Authors  should  submit an electronic version of their work for review
   by    October    3,    2003   to   Serge   Vernalde   IMEC,   Belgium,
   (vernalde@imec.be).  In  addition,  authors  should register the paper
   through the web-interface that will be accessible through this site at
   a later date.

   All  manuscripts  will  be  reviewed  by at least three members of the
   program committee. Submissions should be a complete manuscript (not to
   exceed  8  pages  of single spaced text, including figures and tables)
   or,  in  special cases, may be a summary of relevant work. Submissions
   should  be  in  pdf-format (preferred), or alternatively in Postscript
   (level  2) format. Authors should make sure that the submission can be
   viewed  using ghostscript and will print on standard letter size paper
   (8.5" x 11").

   The  IEEE  CS  Press  will  publish  the  IPDPS symposium and workshop
   abstracts  as  a  printed  volume. The complete symposium and workshop
   proceedings  will  also  be published by the IEEE CS Press as a CD-ROM
   disk.


   Important Dates:
     * Manuscript due October 3, 2003
     * Notification of acceptance/rejection November, 2003
     * Final version due January, 2004

   Organization :

   Workshop  Chair:                          Juergen Becker, Universitaet
   Karlsruhe (TH), Germany

   becker@itiv.uni-karlsruhe.de
   Program  Chair:                                  Serge Vernalde, IMEC,
   Belgium

   vernalde@imec.be
   Steering  Chair:                                   Viktor K. Prasanna,
   University of Southern California, USA

   prasanna@ganges.usc.edu
   Publicity  Chair  (USA):                    Ramachandran Vaidyanathan,
   Louisiana State University, USA

   vaidy@ece.lsu.edu
   Publicity  Chair  (Europe,  Asia):  Reiner Hartenstein, Kaiserslautern
   University of Technology, Germany

   reiner@hartenstein.de

                               RAW 2004 Home

                    http://www.ece.lsu.edu/vaidy/raw04/