Topics of Interest:

• Design methods and tools for embedded systems design;
• Novel and dedicated architectures for embedded systems (IoT, deep learning, etc);
• Challenges of moving or evolving embedded system architectures to the edge of clouds;
• Application-specific processors: architectures, design tools and hardware/software co-design;
• Processing/Communication trade-offs at architectural level;
• Domain-Specific Languages at various abstraction levels;
• Model-Based or Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) methods and languages targeting embedded systems design at different abstraction levels;
• Reconfigurable architectures and applications;
• Low power processing and communication architectures;
• Real-time challenges for embedded systems and systems-of-systems;
• Human Machine Interface techniques and methods tailored for Embedded Systems;
• Security issues for embedded and real-time systems;
• Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence targeting embedded systems, and their sensors/actuators;
• Case studies of innovative Embedded Systems;
• Embedded Systems Applications: Automotive, Avionics, Medical, Internet-of-Things (IoT), Industry 4.0, Smart Cities, Smart Grids, Computer Vision, ''Intelligent'' Systems.