Editorial Message for the Special Track on Embedded Systems: Applications, Solutions, and Techniques Alessio Bechini (co-chair) Università di Pisa Dip. di Ingegneria dell’Informazione via Diotisalvi, 2 56100 PISA (Italy) a.bechini@ing.unipi.it François Bodin (co-chair) IRISA Campus de Beaulieu 35042 Rennes Cedex FRANCE bodin@irisa.fr Cosimo Antonio Prete (co-chair) Università di Pisa Dip. di Ingegneria dell’Informazione via Diotisalvi, 2 56100 PISA (Italy) prete@iet.unipi.it 1. INTRODUCTION Recently, demand for high performance embedded computing has experienced an impressive growth. At the same time, embedded software has become more and more complex, posing new challenging issues never faced before in this application field. The need to timely tackle changes in the market pushes toward the employment of methodologies for shortening the development time and for driving the evolution of existing products. Furthermore, the adoption of solutions already established in other areas of computer science (such as Java technologies) can be made viable only through specific re-engineering processes. The solutions to new problems emerging in this setting call for a joint effort by academia and industry. The focus of this conference track is on the application of both novel and well-known techniques to the embedded systems development. Particular attention is paid to solutions that require expertise in different fields (e.g. computer architecture, OS, compilers, software engineering, simulation). In this setting, researchers, and practitioners from academia and industry will get a chance to keep in touch with problems, open issues and future directions in the field of development of dedicated applications for embedded systems. This year ACM SAC hosts the third edition of the Track on Embedded Systems, which is gaining more and more popularity in the research community, experiencing also an increasing quality level of submissions (25 from 13 different countries). The success of this special track on embedded system mainly comes from the collaboration of many knowledgeable people, who served in the Program Committee and/or as referees. The reviewing process has taken advantage of their expertise in a wide variety of fields. Thus, the chairmen express their personal acknowledgments to all the people who have given their contribution during the reviewing process 1 . Further details can be found at the track website: http://www.ing.unipi.it/sac05/ 2. PROGRAM COMMITTEE 1 A list of the reviewers for this track can be found on the track website. Sandro Bartolini - University of Pisa – Italy Giorgio Buttazzo – University of Pavia - Italy João Manuel Paiva Cardoso - University of Algarve – Portugal Thao Dang – Verimag - France Marc Engels - FMTC, Leuven - Belgium Pierfrancesco Foglia - University of Pisa - Italy Roberto Giorgi - University of Siena - Italy Niraj K. Jha - Princeton University - USA Peter Knijnenburg - Leiden University - The Netherlands Andreas Krall - TU Wien - Austria Tei-Wei Kuo - National Taiwan University – Taiwan Ákos Lédeczi - Vanderbilt University - USA Jie Liu - Microsoft Research - USA Gokhan Memik - Northwestern University - USA Michael O'Boyle - University of Edimburgh - UK Richard Schants - BBS Technologies - USA Henk J. Sips - TU Delft - The Netherlands Jean-Pierre Talpin - INRIA/IRISA - France Stamatis Vassiliadis - TU Delft - The Netherlands I-Ling Yen - University of Texas at Dallas - USA 3. TRACK STATISTICS In the current edition of this event, 10 regular papers out of 25 submissions have been accepted. Moreover, four poster papers have been selected for the track. 836 2005 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing