Call for papers: "Reconfigurable Architectures and Self-Adaptive Autonomic Systems"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Embedded Systems.

New application domains demand ever-increasing adaptability and performance. Today, research is pushing forward, looking for complex heterogeneous, reconfigurable multi-cores architectures. Reconfigurability allows efficient hardware acceleration and virtually unlimited adaptability. Self-adaptive and autonomic computing systems are able to configure, heal, optimise and protect themselves without the need for human intervention.

This special issue aims to collect quality research articles with a solid background in both theoretical and practical aspects of reconfigurable architectures and self-adaptive autonomic systems.

The issue will carry revised and substantially extended versions of selected papers presented at the Third International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI-2014). However, we also strongly encourage researchers unable to participate in the conference to submit articles for this call.

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Coarse-grained reconfigurable architecture
• Collective adaptive systems/systems-of-systems
• Compilation techniques for reconfigurable architectures
• Design space exploration
• Energy efficiency, dependability and security
• Engineering self-adaptive systems
• Evaluations of reconfigurable computing
• Evolvable hardware and dynamic reconfiguration
• Handling uncertainty in autonomic systems
• High-performance reconfigurable computing
• Interconnected architectures for reconfigurable computing systems
• Modelling and formal methods for self-adaptation and context-awareness
• Multiprocessor systems and networks on chip
• New FPGA architectures and reconfigurable fabric
• Programming languages and paradigms for reconfigurable computing
• Reconfigurable architectures for embedded systems
• Reconfigurable computing education
• Reconfigurable computing for DSP and communications
• Reconfigurable computing for security and cryptography
• Reconfigurable fabric architectures
• Resilience through reconfiguration
• Decision making techniques in self-* systems
• Design and architectural language support for self-* systems
• Robustness and dependability of self-* systems
• Self-* requirements
• Self-adaptive many-core systems, distributed systems
• Self-adaptive networked embedded systems
• Self-adaptive software and middleware design
• Software engineering for self-adaptive systems
• Techniques and tools for resilient computing
• Verification and validation of self-* systems
• Application frameworks for reconfigurable embedded systems

Important Dates
Paper submission: 28 February, 2015
Decision notification: 15 May, 2015
Revised paper submission: 30 July, 2015
Final paper submission: 30 August, 2015