SiPS 2011
IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems
October 4-7, 2011, Beirut, Lebanon
Preliminary Call for Papers
http://www.sips11.org/

The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum for discussion of new developments, recent progress, and innovations in the design and implementation of digital signal processing systems. It addresses all aspects of architecture and design methods of these systems. Emphasis is on current and future challenges in research and development in both academia and industry. Hard-bound proceedings of the workshop will be published. Original and unpublished papers are solicited in the following areas, but not limited to:

VLSI Based Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems
-Low-power signal processing circuits and applications
-High performance VLSI systems
-FPGA and reconfigurable architecture based systems
-System-on-chip and network-on-chip
-VLSI Systems for Wireless Sensor Network and RF Identification Systems
 
Software Based Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems
-Programmable digital signal processor architecture and systems
-Application specific instruction-set processor (ASIP) architecture and systems
-SIMD, VLIW and multi-core CPU architecture
-Graphic processing unit (GPU) based massively parallel implementation

Design Methods of Signal Processing Algorithms and Architectures 
-Optimization of signal processing algorithms
-Compilers and tools for signal processing system design
-Algorithm transformation and algorithm-to-architecture mapping

Signal Processing Application Systems
-Audio, speech and language processing
-Biomedical signal processing and bioinformatics
-Image, video and multimedia signal processing
-Information forensics, security and cryptography
-Machine learning for signal processing
-Sensing and sensor signal processing
-Wireless communications and networking
-Coding and Compression
-Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) and Communication Systems
-Software Defined Radio

Emerging Technologies
-Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET)
-Cognitive radio networks
-Bio-inspired networks
-Context-aware mobile networking
-Wireless body area networks (WBANs)
-Tele-medicine/e-health networks

Important Dates
Paper submission          April 9
Acceptance notification   June 27
Final version due         July 25

Best Student Paper Contest: The finalist papers will be presented in a poster session during an evening reception on Tuesday October 4th. The papers will be judged based on both manuscript and presentation. The finalist papers will have free student registration and certificate. The top three winning papers will be announced during lunch on Thursday October 6th.

Special Issue: Selected papers will be considered for publication in a Special Issue of the Journal of VLSI on Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image and Video Technology, Springer Publisher.

Details on author schedules, submission, program and venue are available on the workshop website: http://www.sips11.org/

General Chairs:
Magdy Bayoumi
University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Ibrahim Hajj
American University of Beiru

Technical Program Chairs:
Mohammad Mansour
American University of Beirut

Brian L. Evans
University of Texas at Austin

Industry Liaison Chair:
Khaled El-Maleh
Qualcomm

Administration Committee:
Ahmed Abdelgawad
University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Sponsored by:
IEEE Signal Processing Society
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society