NEW IEEE BENELUX EMBEDDED SYSTEMS CHAPTER

ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PATICIPATION

Dear Colleague,

The IEEE Benelux Section is proud to announce the establishment of a new (CEDA) chapter on Embedded systems, chair Prof. Dr. Ed F. Deprettere, Leiden University, vice-chair Prof. Dr. Koen De Bosschrere, Gent University.

You are kordially invited to participate in the offical launch and take off of this new chapter, which is the first CEDA chapter world wide.

date: Friday, May 29, 2009
time: 02:00 p.m. - 06:00 p.m.

program:

1. three talks by distiguished guest

02:00 p.m. - 02:45 p.m.,

Prof. Dr. Patrick Dewilde, Technical University of Munich Institute of Advanced Studies, and Delft University of Technology.

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS AND THE IDEA(L) OF UBIQUITOUS INTELLIGENCE

Our embedded systems are getting more and more sophisticated (we'll discuss some nice examples), the claim that we are moving into a world with ubiquitous and distributed 'intelligence' seems more and more warranted. But is that truly so? Do we understand intelligence any better than we used to and are we able to conceive distributed systems that are truly more intelligent? I shall try to make the claim more plausible, but I shall also claim that realizing it will require a fairly dramatic change in computing paradigm, one that we already see creeping up in the background without noticing too much...

03:00 p.m. - 03:45 p.m.,

Prof. Dr. Arjan van Gemund, Delft University of Technology.

FAULT DIAGNOSIS OF EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

Fault diagnosis is the process of localizing the cause of systems failure. Automated fault diagnosis is emerging as an important factor in achieving an acceptable and competitive cost/dependability ratio for embedded systems applications.
I shall survey Model-Based Diagnosis and Spectrum-based Fault Localization which are aimed at diagnosing system hardware, and (control) software, respectively. I shall also try to combine both approaches, to deliver the best of both worlds.

04:00 p.m. - 04:45 p.m.,

Prof. Dr. Rudy Lauwereins, IMEC Leuven.

EMBEDDED COMPUTING: WHERE MORE MOORE MEETS MORE THAN MOORE

Four decades of happy scaling according to Moore's law brought us mass produced, cheap, yet powerful embedded computing, as well as enough data storage to carry recordings of our entire life. Next decades, when scaling gradually hits its economical and physical limits, improving the autonomous operation of embedded systems without "human in the loop" will prove to be a key driver for economic growth and for tackling the mounting societal challenges we face. "More than Moore" technologies implementing mechanical, magnetic, optical, (bio)chemical structures on top of "More Moore" computing and storage systems will enable full embedding of embedded systems in our environment. Designing these hybrid systems will add substantial complexity to the already high algorithm-architecture co-design challenges of today's embedded computing systems. Embedded systems research is guaranteed to have a splendid future ahead.

2. Offical launch of the IEEE Benelux Embedded Systems Chapter.

04.45 p.m. - 05:00 p.m.

Prof. Dr. Georges Gielen, Chair IEEE Benelux Section

3. Closing Reception

05.00 p.m. - 06.00 p.m.