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CALL FOR PAPERS

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1st international Workshop on Emulation Tools, Methodology and Techniques (EMUTools) to be held in conjunction with SIMUTools 2013 Cannes, French Riviera -

March 5th, 2013

EMUTools, 1st workshop on Emulation Tools, Methodology and Techniques, is a major event dedicated to emulation tools and methodology, collocated with SIMUTools 2013. Emulators represent a family of tools where real and emulated components interact at various levels and scales with external element. Where simulators aim at evaluating the performance and conformity of models, emulators aim at evaluating that of real components and execution environment. The potential of emulators have been acknowledged, notably as complementary approach to field-operational test, and as a validation and integration technique (or methodology) prior to deployment. Emulators have also recently been subject to an increasing interest from practitioners in various fields of research. Yet, emulation tools have experienced only little dedicated visibility from the community to breed inter-disciplinary collaborative research and exchange of ideas in the very specific and challenging methodologies and techniques required by emulator tools or available in major emulation platforms.

The workshop therefore aims at providing an interaction environment between academic and industrial researchers along with practitioners in the emulation field. EMUTools proposes to address research challenges in the emulation methodologies, architecture, analysis, applicability, performance, practice and platforms. This event also aims as building a bridge between the simulation and emulation communities to foster collaborative research to address common challenges in the complementary fields of emulation and simulation.

We invite submissions of original high quality work in the area of emulation methodology, techniques, tools and applications. We would especially like to emphasize EMUTools' "Student Demo Contest". This year, we are challenging undergraduate and graduate students to show us their latest, coolest, chair-rocking and mind-blowing innovation in an operational demonstration. Go beyond the theoretical limitations and shed off the numerous assumptions about emulation techniques and applications, and present an operational prototype that has the potential to revolutionize the role of emulation tools.

EMUTools’ general area includes but is not limited to:

- Emulation methodology: architecture, distributed systems, load-balancing, multi-processor, scalability, cloud, emulation-as-a-service.

- Emulation Techniques: multi-granularity, co-emulation/simulation, application, system, protocol or channel emulation.

- Emulation Tools: framework, software, platforms, front-end/back-end, and interactions between different simulation and emulation tools.

EMUTools invites submissions in all application areas of emulation methodology, tools and techniques. Specific topics include (but are not limited to):

- Wireless technologies and access networks (cellular, vehicular, mesh, ad hoc, wireless sensor networks)

- Backbone and core network (LTE, LTE-A, Internet)

- Peer-2-Peer and overlay networks

- Cloud systems and networks

- Parallel and distributed systems, high-performance computing systems

- Infrastructure systems (transportation, smart grid)

- Intelligent transportation systems

- Cyber-physical systems

- E-Health

- Sensors and M2M networks

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

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We invite the following types of submission:

- Full papers up to 10 pages

- Short papers up to 6 pages for work-in-progress aspects

- Poster and Demo abstracts of 3 pages for demostrations and emerging concepts of emulation platforms.

Submissions should be prepared in ACM conference proceedings format and be original research that is unpublished and not currently under consideration for publication. Paper should be submitted only in .pdf format on Easychair at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=emutools2013

Further detailed submission instructions, together with format files, are available on the workshop website.

Submissions that are accepted and presented at the workshop will appear in the SIMUTools 2013 proceedings, on CD, in EU-DL, and in the ACM Digital Library (pending approval).

Supporting Projects

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- FP7 ICT CONECT, http://www.conect-ict.eu/

- FP7 ICT LOLA, http://www.ict-lola.eu/

- FP7 ICT @cropolis Network of Excellence, http://www.ict-acropolis.eu/

IMPORTANT DATES

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- Paper submission: December 3rd, 2012

- Notification of acceptance: January 17th, 2013

- Camera-Ready version: February 7th, 2013

- Conference: March 5th, 2013

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

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Workshop Co-Chairs:

- Jérôme Härri, EURECOM, France

- Navid Nikaein, EURECOM, France

- Thanasis Korakis, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, USA

Program committee (tentative):

- Max Ott, NICTA, Australia

- Jérôme Haerri, EURECOM, France

- Thanasis Korakis, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, USA

- Navid Nikaein, EURECOM, France

- Xiaolin Hu, Georgia State University, USA

- David M. Nicol, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA

- Raymond Knopp, EURECOM, France

- Luca De Nardis, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy

- Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada

- Laurent Roullet, Alcatel Lucent Labs, France

- Ivan Seskar, Rutgers University, USA

- Gentian Jakllari, University of Toulouse, France

TBC..

CONTACT

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Please send an e-mail to the workshop chairs (haerri@eurecom.fr, nikaein@eurecom.fr, korakis@poly.edu),

or visit the workshop website on http://www.simutools.org/2013/ for further information.