ERSA'07: June 25, 2007 Schedule

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6:30am - 5:00pm:  Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)


08:30 - 08:45am:  WORLDCOMP'07 Opening Remarks
                  Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia (General Chair & Coordinator)
                  University of Georgia, Georgia, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

08:45 - 09:45am:  Keynote Lecture 1:
                  Humans in Real and Virtual Space
                  Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy
                  University of California, Berkeley, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

09:50 - 10:50am:  Keynote Lecture 2:
                  Innovation
                  Prof. John H. Holland
                  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

10:55 - 11:55am:  Keynote Lecture 3:
                  Challenges in Consumer Electronics for 21st Century
                  Steve Leibson
                  Tensilica, Inc.
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

11:55a - 01:00p:  LUNCH (On Your Own)


01:00 - 01:15pm:  Opening Remarks: T. Plaks

01:15 - 02:00pm:  Invited Talk
                  Novel Uses of Memory for Adaptive Power-Down in FPGAs
                  John Villasenor
                  University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA


SESSION 1-ERSA:   APPLICATIONS
                  Chair: Dr. Jaehwan John Lee, Purdue Univ., USA
                  June 25, 2007 (Monday); 02:00pm - 04:40pm
                  (LOCATION: Gold Room)

02:00 - 02:20pm:  FREE SLOT

02:20 - 02:40pm:  A Scalable and Reconfigurable Shared-Memory Graphics
                  Cluster Architecture
                  Ross Brennan, Michael Manzke, Keith O'Conor, John Dingliana,
                  and Carol O'Sullivan
                  Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

02:40 - 03:00pm:  High Efficiency Protection Solution for Off-Chip Memory
                  in Embedded Systems
                  Romain Vaslin, Guy Gogniat, Jean-Philippe Diguet,
                  Russell Tessier, and Wayne Burleson
                  LESTER - Centre de Recherche, France;
                  University of Massachusetts, USA

03:00 - 03:20pm:  BREAK

03:20 - 03:40pm:  Simulation Framework for Performance Prediction in the
                  Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Applications
                  Eric Grobelny, Casey Reardon, Adam Jacobs, and Alan D. George
                  University of Florida, USA

03:40 - 04:00pm:  Efficient FPGA Based Implementation of Time and Frequency
                  Synchronization for MIMO-OFDM
                  Jeoong Sung Park and Hong Jip Jung
                  Silicon Image Inc. Sunnyvale, California, USA
                  Samsung Electronics, Seoul, Korea

04:00 - 04:20pm:  FPGA Implementation of Analytic Design Method for a
                  Cycle-Optimal 2-D DCT/IDCT
                  Michaela E. Amoo and Clay S Gloster, Jr.
                  Howard University, Washington, DC, USA

04:20 - 04:40pm:  Prototyping of a Two-Phase Micropipeline on FPGAs
                  Abdel Ejnioui
                  University of South Florida, USA

04:40 - 06:00pm:  DISCUSSION SESSION
                  Chair: TBA
                  June 25, 2007 (Monday); 04:40pm - 06:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Gold Room)

                  O. Reducing the Reconfiguration Overhead: A Survey of Techniques
                     Elena Perez-Ramo, Javier Resano, Daniel Mozos, and
                     Francky Catthoor
                     Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain;
                     Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
                  O. Implementing The G.723.1 Speech Codec Using A Coarse-Grained
                     Reconfigurable Coprocessor
                     Henrik Svensson, Thomas Lenart, and Viktor =D6wall
                     Lund University, Sweden
                  O. Exploring Partial Reconfiguration for Mitigating SEU
                     Faults in SRAM-Based FPGAs
                     Cristiana Bolchini, Fabio Salice, and Marco D. Santambrogio
                     Politecnico di Milano, Italy
                  O. Performance Analysis of Multi-Process Execution Model on
                     Dynamically Reconfigurable Processor
                     Vu Manh Tuan, Yohei Hasegawa, and Hideharu Amano
                     Keio University, Japan
                  O. Agent-Based Reconfigurability for Fault-Tolerance in Network-on-Chip
                     Pekka Rantala, Jouni Isoaho, and Hannu Tenhunen
                     University of Turku, Finland
                  O. Design and Evaluation of a Software Infrastructure for the
                     Runtime Management of Reconfigurable Resources
                     Dimitris Syrivelis and Spyros Lalis
                     UTH, Greece
                  O. Evolvable Hardware: a Functional Level Evolution Framework
                     Based on ImpulseC
                     Anna Antola, Marco Castagna, Pamela Gotti, David Pellerin, and
                     Marco D. Santambrogio
                     Politecnico di Milano, Italy

06:00 - 09:00pm:  FIVE TUTORIALS  (planned)

                  Robust Resource Allocation for Heterogeneous Parallel and
                  Distributed Computing Systems
                  Prof. H. J. Siegel
                  Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished Professor of ECE & Professor of CS;
                  Director, ISTeC Center; Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
                  Location: Ballroom 6

                  Developing Enterprise Web Services and Mobile/Wireless Systems
                  Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee
                  Chief Executive Officer, Cyndeo LLC, USA
                  Location: Ballroom 7

                  Intelligent Pattern Recognition and Applications
                  Prof. Patrick Wang, IAPR Fellow
                  Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
                  Location: Gold Room

                  Introduction to Uncertainty and Fuzzy Logic with Data Mining Applications
                  (Mini-Tutorial - one hour)
                  Ashu M. G. Solo
                  Principal/R&D Engineer, Maverick Technologies America Inc., USA
                  Location: Ballroom 1

                  Systems Biology in Present Day Bioinformatics: Tools, Tricks, Ticks and Traps
                  Prashanth Suravajhala
                  Roskilde University, Greater Copenhagen, Denmark
                  Location: Ballroom 8


09:10 - 11:30pm:  CONFERENCE RECEPTION DINNER & BANQUET KEYNOTE - June 25 (Monday)
                  Dr. Jack Y. Yang and Dr. Mary Qu Yang
                  Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery of Human Genome and Competitive
                  Genomes, Past, Future, and the Impact on the Science and Medicine
                  Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA and
                  National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA
                  (LOCATION: Ballrooms 1-5)

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