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1993 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON 
APPLICATION-SPECIFIC ARRAY PROCESSORS

ASAP'93

25-27 October 1993, Venice, Italy

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Sponsored by the EUROMICRO Association.  
In cooperation with IEEE Computer Society (pending), 
IFIP WG 10.5, AEI,  AICA  (pending). 

................::::::  CALL FOR PAPERS  ::::::.................

ASAP'93  is an international conference encompassing the  theory, 
design,  implementation, and evaluations of  application-specific 
computing.   This  conference  is  a  successor  to   the   First 
International  Workshop  on  Systolic  Arrays  held  in   Oxford, 
England, in July 1986. The title has been modified to reflect the 
expanded interest in highly-parallel  algorithmically-specialized 
processors   as   well  as  the  application-driven   nature   of 
contemporary systems.

Since application-specific array-processor research represents  a 
cross-disciplinary  field of interest to a broad  audience,  this 
conference  will  present a balanced program  covering  technical 
subjects encompassing conceptual design, programming  techniques, 
electronic   and  optical  implementations,  and   analysis   and 
evaluation  of  final systems. It is expected  that  participants 
will  include  people from research institutions  in  government, 
industry, and academia around the world.

The conference will feature an opening keynote address, technical 
presentations,  a panel discussion, and poster displays.  One  of 
the  poster  sessions will be reserved for very  recent  results, 
ongoing  projects and exploratory work. The official language  is 
English.

The  themes emphasized at this conference include  architectures, 
algorithms,   applications,   hardware,  software,   and   design 
methodology for application-specific parallel computing  systems. 
Papers  are  expected to address both theoretical  and  practical 
aspects of such systems. Of particular interest are contributions 
that  achieve large performance gains  with  application-specific 
parallel  processors,  introduce  novel  architectural  concepts, 
propose  formal and practical frameworks for  the  specification, 
design  and  evaluation  of  these  systems,  discuss  technology 
dependencies  and  the  integration  of  hardware  and   software 
components,  and describe fabricated systems and  their  testing. 

The  topics  of  interest include, but are not  limited  to,  the 
following:

Application-Specific Architectures
- systolic, SIMD, MIMD, dataflow systems
- homogeneous, heterogeneous, reconfigurable systems
- intelligent memory systems and interconnection network
- embedded systems and interfaces

Algorithms for Application-Specific Computing
- matrix operations
- transformations (e.g., FFT, Hough)
- sorting algorithms
- graph algorithms

Applications that Require Specialized Computing Systems
- signal processing
- image processing and vision
- communications
- robotics and manufacturing
- neural networks
- scientific computing
- artificial intelligence and data bases

Software for Application-Specific Computing
- languages
- operating systems
- optimizing compilers

Hardware for Application-Specific Computing
- VLSI/WSI systems
- optical systems
- custom and commercial processors
- implementation and testing issues
- fabricated systems
- synchronous vs asynchronous systems

Design Methodology for Application-Specific Systems
- mapping algorithms onto architectures
- partitioning large problems
- design tools
- fault tolerance (hardware and software)
- benchmarks and performance modeling

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS

Authors are invited to send a one-page abstract, the title of the 
paper  and the author's address by electronic or postal  mail  to 
the Program Chair by MARCH 27, 1993.

Authors  must  submit five copies of  their  double-spaced  typed 
manuscript  (maximum 5000 words) with an abstract to the  Program 
Chair  by APRIL 16, 1993. In the submission letter,  the  authors 
should  indicate which conference areas are most relevant to  the 
paper,  and  the author responsible for  correspondence  and  the 
camera-ready version. Papers submitted should be unpublished  and 
not currently under review by other conferences. 

Notification of acceptance will be posted by JUNE 10, 1993.
The   camera-ready  version  must  arrive  by  AUGUST  1,   1993. 
Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

GENERAL CHAIR

Prof. Luigi DADDA
Dept. of Electronics and Information, Politecnico di Milano
p.za L. da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy
phone no. (39-2) 2399-3405, fax no. (39-2) 2399-3411
e-mail dadda at ipmel2.elet.polimi.it

PROGRAM CHAIR

Prof. Benjamin W. WAH
Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois
1308 West Main Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
phone no. (217) 333-3516, fax no. (217) 244-7175
e-mail wah at manip.crhc.uiuc.edu

FINANCIAL & REGISTRATION CHAIR

Prof. Vincenzo PIURI
Dept. of Electronics and Information, Politecnico di Milano
p.za L. da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy
phone no. (39-2) 2399-3606, fax no. (39-2) 2399-3411
e-mail piuri at ipmel1.polimi.it