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Submissions are solicited on a wide<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>variety of topics related to the acceleration for high-performance<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>computation, including but not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>- Architectures and systems:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>--- Novel systems/platforms for efficient acceleration based<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>on FPGA, GPU, and other devices<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>--- Heterogeneous processor architectures and systems for scalable,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>high-performance, high-reliability, and/or low-power computation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>--- Reconfigurable and configurable hardware and systems including<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>IP-cores, embedded systems, SoCs, and cluster/grid/cloud<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>computing systems for scalable, high-performance and/or<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>low-power processing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>--- Custom computing system for domain-specific applications such<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>as Big-data, multimedia, bioinformatics, cryptography, and more<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>--- Novel architectures and device technologies that can be applied<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>to efficient acceleration, including many-core/NoC architectures,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>3D-stacking technologies and optical devices<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>- Software and applications:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>--- Novel applications of high-performance computing and Big-data<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>processing with efficientacceleration and custom computing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>--- System software, compilers and programming languages for<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>efficient accelerationsystems / platforms, including many-core<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>processors, GPUs, FPGAs and otherreconfigurable /custom processors<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>--- Run-time techniques for acceleration, including Just-in-Time<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>compilation and dynamicpartial-reconfiguration<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>--- Performance evaluation and analysis for efficient acceleration<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>--- High-level synthesis and design methodologies for heterogeneous,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>reconfigurable and/orcustom processors/systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>In order to encourage open discussion on future directions, the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>program committee will provide higher priority for papers that<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>present highly innovative and challenging ideas.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>We are planning to organize special sessions on HPC, Big data, and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>Dynamic Reconfiguration. When submitting a paper, please select<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>topic(s) if the paper is related to them. Note that regardless of<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>the selection of special session topic(s), your paper will undergo<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>the same peer-review process as the main technical track.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>Prospective authors are invited to submit original and unpublished<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>contributions as 6-page papers to be considered as regular papers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>or 4-page papers to be considered as poster papers. All contributions<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>must be submitted electronically in PDF format (two columns,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>US letter size, single-spacing, 10 points for main body text).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>For double-blind review, manuscripts must NOT identify the authors<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>in any way, so author names, affiliations, e-mail addresses and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>self-references should be blanked out. Papers that identify authors<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>may be rejected without review. You can submit your contribution(s)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>by following this easychair submission link.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>Subm ission: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=heart2017<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>Each accepted paper MUST have at least one author with a regular<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>registration for the manuscript to be included and published in<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>the symposium proceedings and ACM post-proceedings (tentative).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>Authors are also expected to attend and present their paper(s) at<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>the symposium.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>The HEART2017 paper template can be download here: HEART2017 template<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>in MS-Word, HEART2017 template in Latex.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>MS-Word: http://www.isheart.org/HEART2017/heart2017.doc<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>Latex: http://www.isheart.org/HEART2017/heart2017.cls<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>-------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>Organizing Committee:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>General co-chairs:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>Michael Huebner, Ruhr-University Bochum, DE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>Diana Goehringer, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, DE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>Technical program co-chairs:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>Holger Blume, Leibniz University Hannover, DE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>Martin Herbordt, Boston University, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>Hiroki Nakahara, Tokyo Tech, JP<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>Publicity co-chairs:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>Kenji Kanazawa, University of Tsukuba, JP<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>Brain Veale, IBM, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>Gabriel Almeida, Harman International, DE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>Finance and local arrangement chair:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>Linda Trogant, Ruhr-University Bochum, DE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>Publication chair:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>Yuichiro Shibata, Nagasaki University, JP<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>Design contest chair:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>Donald Bailey, Donald Bailey, NZ<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F3864'>Best regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p 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