IFIP Working Group 10.5 Meeting Minutes

International Congress Center Dresden, Germany
Tuesday March 25, 18:30-20:30
 

Notes taken by Luc Claesen and Dominique Borrione

Attendees: Jose Luis Ayala, Dominique Borrione, Luc Claesen, Ayse Coskun, Masahiro Fujita, Michael Hübner, Masaharu Imai, Tiziana Margaria, Salvador Mir, Ian O'Connor, Adam Pawlak, Luis Miguel Silveira, Fatih Ugurdag

Invited Attendees: Profs. Naehyuck Chang, Seoul National University (representing the VLSI-SoC 2015 organizing Committee), Alexander Ivannikov, Russian Academy of Sciences (representing Alexander Stempkovsky), Alex Orailoglu, U.C. San Diego (VLSI-SOC 2013 Program Chair)

Apologies: David Agnew, Juergen Becker, Kiyoung Choi, Carlos Delgado Kloos, Dan Gale, Manfred Glesner, Matthew Guthaus, Reiner Hartenstein, Ahmed Jerraya, Takashi Kambe, Osamu Karatsu, Srinivas Katkoori, Odysseas Koufopavlou, Wolfgang Nebel, Franz Rammig, Flávio Rech Wagner, Ricardo Reis, Wolfgang Rosenstiel, Donatella Sciuto, Leandro Soares, Dimitrios Soudris, P.A.Subrahmanyam, Lionel Torres, Chi Ying Tsui, Eugenio Villar

The minutes are complemented by several slide presentations used during the meeting, which are attached as a separate documents. Contents of the slide presentations are not necessarily repeated in the minutes.

Agenda

1. Welcome
2. Approval of minutes of Istanbul meeting
3. Introduction of new member elect: Fatih Ugurdag
4. Status of VLSI-SOC 2012 and 2013 books
5. Status of preparation of VLSI-SoC 2014
6. Status of preparation of VLSI-SoC 2015
7. Summary of 2014 events sponsored by WG
8. Procedure/requirements for the selection of future VLSI-SoC Conferences
9. Any other business

For reasons of time, point 8 of the agenda was not covered.

2- Minutes of Istanbul meeting

The minutes of the Istanbul meeting (October 6 and 8, 2013, in conjunction with VLSI-SOC) are approved unanimously. These minutes are posted on the WG web site:

http://tima.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/ifip/wg10-5/Minutes/2013-10-08_IFIP_Istanbul_minutes.html

3- Introduction of new member elect: Fatih Ugurdag

Fatih Ugurdag had received 22 support messages from WG members. He introduces himself at the Dresden meeting, and is congratulated as new member of the WG.

4 - Status of VLSI-SoC books.

VLSI-SoC 2012

Salvador Mir reports that Ricardo Reis has informed him that the book on VLSI-SoC 2012 is published

VLSI-SoC 2013

On the book for VLSI-SoC 2013 no information is available yet. Fatih Ugurdag and Alex Orailoglu provided information on the selected papers on 12 December 2013.  It is urged that the co-chairs, as co-editors Fatih Ugurdag, Luigi Carro, Alex Orailoglu, Luis Miguel Silveira should take action to invite and review the papers and forward the .pdf files to Ricardo Reis when this information is available. We should not wait too long as it will impact the readership and exposure of the papers and the conference.

5 - Status of preparation of VLSI-SoC 2014

Luc Claesen, Program Chair, provides the list of TPC members for VLSI-SoC 2014 (there are some double TPC members in the tracks as indicated by Prof. Masahiro Fujita, but this is currently being updated). See attached file tpc.pdf.

The schedule is re-worked during the meeting, as follows:

Deadline call for abstracts: 18 April 2014

Extended deadline full papers: 25 April 2014

start bidding for papers by TPC members: 19 April 2014

deadline bidding for papers by TPC members: 25 April 2014

start review process: 5 May 2014

deadline review hand-in: 30 May 2014

paper selection decision by track chairs: 9 June2014

globalization of program: 17 June 2014

notification of acceptance to authors: 18 June 2014

camera ready papers: 10 July 2014

conference: 6 - 8 October 2014

The updated call is attached: see file VLSISoC2014CFPn.pdf

The program will include special sessions: 3 keynotes + 1 panel + 4 submitted special sessions organized by Salvador Mir

Other points

• As a matter of smoothing the paper submission and evaluation process, it is recommended to use the paid version of Easychair: include in the budget around 250 British pounds for 150 papers
• It is a requirement that one of the authors must present the paper as a condition for having the paper published at IEEEXPlore.
• The Web-site should be updated to include the TPC and new schedules. The layout needs to be improved. A link to the web-sites of previous conferences should be added.
• As in previous years the program will include special sessions: 3 keynotes + 1 panel + up to 4 submitted special sessions organized by Salvador Mir
• A special track for managing the "conflict of interest papers" for the track chairs will be added. These papers will be reviewed by members of the track where they were submitted, but the Program Chair will manage the track.

6 - Status of preparation of VLSI-SoC 2015

Naehyuck Chang, General Co-Chair, presents the plans for the venue of VLSI-SOC 2015 in Daejeon, South Korea. See attached slides, file [DATE 2014] VLSI-SoC 2015 Report.pdf

7 - Summary of 2014 events sponsored by WG

See last two slides in file IFIP WG Intro 25-March-14.pdf

The call for papers for FDL 2014 and SBCCI2014 are attached.

Proposal and formalized procedure for the selection of VLSI-SoC 2016 and after. This has not yet been discussed due to lack of time. An e-mail discussion will be organized, and the topic will be discussed at the next meeting.

8 - WG Chair and Vice-chairs

Chairperson Dominique Borrione indicated that her term is coming to an end, as well as the term of Vice-chairs Ricardo Reis and Luis Miguel Silveira.

She invites members as candidates for being the new chair and vice-chairs: please send her e-mail. Elections of new officers will take place in October, at the meeting in conjunction with VLSI-SOC.

Next meetings:

- Dominique Borrione cannot go to DAC this year. Luis Miguel Silveira plans to go, and will chair a meeting at DAC if there are enough members that plan to attend.

- There will be a meeting in conjunction with VLSI-SOC, probably the preceding Sunday as the years before.