The First Workshop on Low-Power Dependable Computing (LPDC)

In conjunction with the 2014 International Green Computing Conference (IGCC)

Nov. 3-5, 2014, Dallas, TX USA

Accepted Papers and Workshop Program on Nov. 3, 2014

· 2:00pm -- 2:30pm : A Node Allocation Algorithm for Resilient CPSs Under Energy-Exhaustion Attack, by Tam Chantem and Ryan Gerdes (Utah State University, USA) [presentation]

· 2:30pm -- 3:00pm : A Task Morphing Framework For Energy Consumption and Reliability Tradeoffs, by Sathish Gopalakrishnan (The University of British Columbia, Canada) [presentation]

· 3:00pm -- 3:30pm : Empirical Study of Energy Minimization Issues for Mixed-Criticality Systems with Reliability Constraints, by Zheng Li, Xiayu Hua, Chunhui Guo and Shangping Ren (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA) [presentation]

Submission Deadline: Aug. 10, 2014

Introduction:

Dependable computing is normally achieved through various redundancy (such as modular, temporal and/or information) techniques at different levels (for instance, circuit, architecture, runtime, operating systems and software) in the systems. With the scaled technology size and miniaturization of computing systems, faults will become more common and it is imperative for most modern computing systems to deploy various fault-tolerance techniques. On the other hand, redundancy based fault-tolerance generally has energy implications, which warrants careful consideration since energy has been promoted to be the first-class system resource recently.

This workshop aims at establishing a forum for practitioners and researchers from both industry and academia who work on different aspects of fault tolerance and system energy efficiency to exchange ideas on how to achieve low-power dependable computing. To cover a broad range of research related to energy efficiency and dependable computing, the workshop will consider various levels (from circuits to software), components (from memory to computation) and systems (from battery-powered embedded systems to large scale reliable servers). The topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:

Novel energy-efficient redundant circuit design
Novel energy-efficient fault-tolerance architecture
Compilation techniques for redundancy and low-power
Runtime management for energy-efficiency and fault tolerance
Scheduling algorithms for energy-efficiency and fault tolerance
Energy-efficiency tradeoffs for different fault-tolerance techniques
Low-power reliable memory and storage systems
Low-power and reliable on-chip communications
Case study on low-power dependable systems

Author Information:

The workshop invites authors to submit papers in the above mentioned areas that describe original and unpublished work that are not concurrently under review elsewhere.

The papers submitted to this workshop is limited to be six (6) single-spaced, double-column pages (with IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style: 11-point fonts and 8.5 x 11 inch), which should include everything (e.g., abstract, research description, figures, tables, and references).

All submissions will be reviewed by the program committee. Once a submission is accepted, at least one author needs to register the conference following the instructions on IGCC webpage, and attends the conference to present the work.

The accepted papers will be included in the supplementary proceedings of IGCC, which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society and indexed by EI.

Paper Submission:

Please submit your papers through the following link with EasyChair. If you do not have an EasyChair account yet, you need to create an account first.

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=igcc14ws

On the submission webpage, please select the following track for your submission "WS6: The First Workshop on Low-Power Dependable Computing".

Important Date:

Submission deadline: Aug. 10, 2014
Notification date: Sep. 12, 2014
Final paper due: Sep. 30, 2014

Workshop Organizers:

	Abdullah Al Muzahid	University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
	Shangping Ren	Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
	Dakai Zhu	University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

Technical Program Committee:

	Koushik Chakraborty	Utah State University, USA
	Tam Chantem	Utah State University, USA
	Alireza Ejlali	Sharif University of Technology, Iran
	Petru Eles	Linkoping University, Sweden
	Yifeng Guo	NetApp. Inc., USA
	Song Han	University of Connecticut, USA
	Houman Homayoun	George Mason University, USA
	Linwei Niu	California State University at Bakersfield, USA
	Li Wang	Devry University, USA
	Kaijie Wu	Chongqing University, China
	Baoxian Zhao	MicroStrategy Inc, USA
	Xuan Qi	Oracle, USA

Steering Committee:

	Gul Agha	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
	Ishfaq Ahmad	University of Texas at Arlington, USA
	Kevin Kwiat	Air Force Research Laboratory at Rome, NY, USA
	Rami Melhem	University of Pittsburgh, USA