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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'> <span lang=EN-GB>[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email]</span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB>*********************IEEE ICESS-2012 CFP ****************************</span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB>The 9th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS-2012) to be held in Liverpool, England, UK, 25-27 June 2012 </span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB><a href="http://www.scim.brad.ac.uk/~hmibrahi/ICESS2012/">http://www.scim.brad.ac.uk/~hmibrahi/ICESS2012/</a> </span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB>Sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Technical Committee of Scalable Computing (TCSC)</span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB>INTRODUCTION<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB>=============<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB>Embedded software and systems are closely related to our daily life, which reside from smart appliances to unmanned trains. As the fastest growing industry, embedded systems will have great societal and environmental impacts. Therefore, the design and implementation of safe and efficient embedded software and systems have utmost importance.</span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB>The 9th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS-2012) will be held during June 25-27, 2012, in Liverpool, UK, a fantastic and popular tourist city destination in the UK. Several areas of the city centre were granted World Heritage Site status by UNESCO in 2004. Referred to as the Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City, the site comprises six separate locations in the city including the Pier Head, Albert Dock and William Brown Street and includes many of the city's most famous landmarks. The conference follows the success of IEEE ICESS-2011 in Changsha, China, and IEEE ICESS-2010 in Bradford, UK.</span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB>The goal of IEEE ICESS-2012 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange novel ideas, results, experiences and work-in-progress on all aspects of embedded software and systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB>SCOPE AND TOPICS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB>================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB>IEEE ICESS-2012 is an international forum for presenting and discussing emerging ideas and trends in embedded software and systems from both the research community as well as the industry. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB>* Systems, Models and Algorithms Track<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB> - Embedded Real-Time Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB> - Embedded Hardware and Architectures<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB> - Embedded Software/Agent<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB> - Power Aware Computing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB> - Distributed Embedded Computing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB> - Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB> - Fault Tolerant & Trusted Embedded Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB> - System on Chip (SoC) and Multicore Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB> - Embedded Real-Time Operating Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB> - Mobile Computing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB> - Reconfigurable Computing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB> - Cyber-Physical Systems</span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB>* Design Methodology and Tools Track<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB> - Hardware/Software Co-Design<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB> - Formal Methods for Embedded Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB> - Embedded Component Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB> - Middleware for Embedded Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB> - Hardware/Software Co-Verification<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB> - Compilation and Debug Techniques<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB> - IDE and Software Tools<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB> - Performance Evaluation Techniques/Tools</span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB>* Embedded Applications and Interdisciplinary Topics Track<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB> - Intelligent Embedded Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB> - Image and Graph Processing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB> - Network Protocol and Security<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB> - Emergency and Disaster Management<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB> - Wireless Sensor Networks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB> - Robotics and Control Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB> - QoS Support for Embedded Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB> - Embedded Database & Multimedia Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB> - Consumer Electronics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB> - Automotive, Medical and Avionics Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB>IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB>===============<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB>Submission Deadline: 01 March, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB>Authors Notification: 08 April, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB>Final Manuscript Due: 08 May, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB>Registration Due: 08 May, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB>Conference Date: 25-27 June, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB>PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB>========================== <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB>All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (http://cse.stfx.ca/~icess2012/sub/) with PDF format. The materials presented in the papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. Each paper is limited to 8 pages (or 10 pages with over length charge) including figures and references using IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, 10 fonts). You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at the following web page: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB>Once accepted, the paper will be included into the IEEE conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press (indexed by EI).</span></p></div></body></html>