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Call for Papers: ESTIMedia 2008
6th IEEE Workshop on Embedded Systems for
Real-Time Multimedia
October 23-24, 2008, Atlanta, Georgia

IEEE ESTIMedia '08 is organized as part of the
Embedded Systems Week 2008

http://www.science.uva.nl/events/ESTIMedia08/
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Today, the design process for high-end multimedia
systems has become a crucial bottleneck due to the
increasing complexity of both the software and the
underlying hardware, coupled with shortened time-to-market pressures. While there has been a notable growth in the use and applications of multimedia
systems and in the evolution of system-on-chip
design technology, there are still enormous opportunities for improving design productivity in
this domain. Given this backdrop, the aim of this
workshop is to bring together people from different multimedia-related research communities (e.g,
software, architectures, real-time systems, DSP,
compilers, multimedia applications) who have worked
separately, but did not interact sufficiently to address
the challenges facing the design of hardware and
software for multimedia systems.

After a very successful debut in 2003, consolidated
in successive years, we hope that this sixth edition
will present a good opportunity for specialists from
academia and industry to contribute to this exciting
research area. The program will bring together original work from both, academic and industrial
research and development. As in the previous
editions, papers will be accepted for 30-min oral
presentation followed by interactive poster sessions.

All accepted papers will appear in the workshop
proceedings to be published by the IEEE.

A special issue of Springer's Journal of Signal
Processing Systems with the best papers from
ESTIMedia '07 will appear this year and a similar
journal special issue is planned for ESTIMedia '08.

Areas of Interest (but not restricted to)
- Specification and modeling of multimedia systems
- Multimedia systems design methodologies and case studies
- Circuits and architectures for embedded multimedia architectures
- Multimedia processors and reconfigurable architectures
- Emerging trends (SoCs, NoCs, Game applications, etc.)
- Validation and verification
- Software optimization and compiler techniques
- Timing aspects of media streams
- Scheduling of media processing
- Resource and QoS management methods
- Temporal estimation and protection of media streams
- Real-time kernels, OS and middleware support

Paper Submission Guidelines
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Both research and application-oriented papers are
welcome. Research papers should describe original research, such as new ideas, promising approaches
and experiences with practical systems. Application-oriented papers should describe interesting technical
aspects of real-life applications, prototypes,
experiences, and standards. All papers should be
submitted electronically via the workshop webpage. Papers must be in PDF format and should include (1)
title, (2) authors and affiliation, (3) e-mail address of
the contact author. Submissions must be limited to 6
pages, single-spaced, double-column IEEE format with 10-point fonts. Papers deviating significantly
from these paper size and font constraints may be
rejected without review. All submitted papers should have original content that has not been previously
published in other conferences or journals.

Any questions regarding the submission process may
be directed to the TPC Co-Chairs Petru Eles
(petel@ida.liu.se) and Andy D. Pimentel
(andy@science.uva.nl).

Important Dates
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Submission Deadline: June 30, 2008
Author notification: August 22
Camera-ready version: September 1
ESTIMedia Workshop: October 23-24

Organizers
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General Chair
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Samarjit Chakraborty, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Past General Chair
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Soonhoi Ha, Seoul National University, Korea

Technical Program Chairs
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Petru Eles, Linköping University, Sweden
Andy D. Pimentel, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Technical Program Committee Members
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Twan Basten, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands
Mladen Berekovic, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya, University of Maryland at College Park, USA
Naehyuck Chang, Seoul National University, Korea
Kristof Denolf, IMEC, Belgium
Nikil Dutt, University of California at Irvine, USA
Rolf Ernst, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Heiko Falk, University of Dortmund, Germany
Gerhard Fohler, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany
Marisol Garcia-Valls, University Carlos III, Spain
Catherine Gebotys, University Waterloo, Canada
Soonhoi Ha, Seoul National University, Korea
Joerg Henkel, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Tomas Henriksson, NXP, The Netherlands
Seongsoo Hong, Seoul National University, Korea
Erwin de Kock, NXP, The Netherlands
Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Ville Lappalainen, Nokia, Finland
Youn-Long Lin, Natl. Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Radu Marculescu, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Miguel Miranda, IMEC, Belgium
Kostas Masselos, Imperial College London, UK
Gabriela Nicolescu, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
Maurizio Palesi, University of Catania, Italy
Massoud Pedram, University Southern California, USA
Mihaela van der Schaar, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California at Irvine, USA
Wayne Wolf, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Sungyoo Yoo, Samsung Electronics, Korea
Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore, Singapore