SEC 2008
Oct 6-8,2008
Beijing,China

SCOPE AND INTERESTS:
In today's world, embedded computers are everywhere: automobiles, airplanes, home appliances, medical devices, cell phones, network processors, handhelds, digital audio/video, imaging, game consoles, graphics and other system-on-a-chip (SoCs). Only recently has embedded computing moved from craft to an emerging and very promising discipline.

The IEEE SEC is aiming to be a premier international conference in embedded computing. This symposium is to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental or theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the area of embedded computing include all aspects of embedded computing systems with emphasis on algorithms, systems, models, compilers, architectures, tools, design methodologies, test and applications.

Among the main topics (but not limited to) are:
* Embedded System Architectures
* Embedded Software Development and Optimizations
* Cyber-Physical Systems
* Security and Fault Tolerance
* Embedded Hardware Support
* Hardware/Software Co-design
* Real-time Systems
* Power and Energy-aware Computing
* Sensor Networks
* Pervasive Computing & Communications
* Middleware and Peer-to-Peer Computing
* Internet Computing and Applications
* Multimedia and Data Management
* Human-computer Interaction
* Mobile Computing
* Agents and Distributed Computing
* Application-specific Processors and Devices
* Industrial Practices and Benchmark Suites
* Supporting Technologies: SoC, FPGA, etc.
* Embedded & Ubiquitous Applications Development
* Emerging New Topics: New challenges for next generation embedded computing systems, arising from new technologies (e.g., nanotechnology), new applications (e.g., ubiquitous computing, embedded internet tools), new principle (e.g., embedded engineering), etc.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION:

Go to the conference web site to submit papers.

Submitted papers should represent original, substantive research results. We will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published (or accepted) for publication in another conference or journal venue.

Submissions should include an abstract with 5-10 keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and must not exceed 20 pages, including tables and figures, in PDF format. Submission of a paper should be regarded as assurance that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors should attend the conference to present the work.

Contributions will be reviewed by at least three reviewers from both Program Committee and external reviewers for relevance and technical contents on basis of papers. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Selected papers will be published on a special issue of Journal of Embedded Computing from IOS Press, The Netherlands.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper submission Due: April 2, 2008
Notification of Acceptance: June 1, 2008
Final camera-ready paper July 6, 2008
Author Registration July 6, 2008

[CONFERNCE COMMITTEES]
HONORARY CHAIRS:
Prof. Jinpeng Huai, Beihang University, China
Prof. Tianmiao Wang, Beihang University, China

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS:
Prof. Edwin Sha, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Prof. Dianfu Ma, Beihang University, China
Prof. Jian Ma, Nokia Research Center (Beijing), China

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS:
Prof. Jason Xue, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Prof. Zili Shao, HongKong Polytechnical University, Hong Kong
Prof. Jianwei Niu, Beihang University, Beijing

STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR:
Prof. Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada
Prof. Xiang Long, Beihang University, China
Prof. Wei Wu, Beihang University
Prof. Yunhong Wang, Beihang University
Prof. Hongxing Wei, Beihang University, Beijing

PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS:
Prof. Meikang Qiu, University of New Orleans, USA
Prof. Yongxin Zhu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Jun Hu, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
Yian Zhu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Prof. Jingwei Tian, Beijing Union University, China
Prof. Guoyin Zhang, Harbin Engineering University, China
Xiumin Shi, Beijing Institute of Technology,

REGISTRATION CHAIR:
Prof. Yimei Kang, Beihang University, China
Prof. Diansheng Chen, Beihang University
Prof. Xiaopeng Gao, Beihang University
Guangyun Ma, Beihang University

LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIR:
Prof. Limin Sun, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Prof Cai Meng, Beihang University
Youdong Chen, Beihang University

PUBLICATION CHAIR:
Prof. Wusheng Chou, Beihang University
Prof. Ziping Jia, Shandong University.