DSD Special Session

Scope

The Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD) addresses all aspects of (embedded, pervasive and high-performance) digital and mixed HW/SW system engineering, covering the whole design trajectory from system specification down to micro-architectures, digital circuits and VLSI implementations.

This Special Session (SS) aims at discussing recent advances in development of embedded and cyber-physical systems for health care, wellness monitoring and personal assistance for any kind of persons, either suffering from a disease or not. The recent progress in (intelligent) miniaturized sensors and actuators, powerful embedded processors, wireless communications and energy efficient design made feasible and economically justified new systems that are able to not only acquire bio-medical signals, but also to perform complex processing and classifications and related decision making, often allowing a remote monitoring or interaction with medical personnel. This enables new or better systems not only in the traditional fields like medicine and surgery, but also in those related to ageing population or to personal well-being.

This SS focuses both on the design and implementation methodologies and technologies, as well as, the advanced applications and holistic development of systems from the concept to its actual realisation and validation. Consequently, contributions from both industry and academia are welcome. Considerations of multi -disciplinary aspects implicitly included in the design of such systems are of special interest.

Topics

The topics of this special session include but are not limited to:

  • cyber-physical systems for healthcare, well-being and personal (elderly, disability …) assistance
  • body-area networks, wearables, implantable and pill-size devices
  • HWPA applications and internet-of things
  • sports and medicine devices
  • rehabilitation equipment
  • system ergonomy and human-machine interfaces
  • RT biomedical signal and image processing
  • biomedical instrumentation
  • lab-on-chip
  • neuromorphic chips
  • design, implementation and validation technologies, methods and tools for HWPA systems

Special Session Chairs

Technical Program Committee

  • Antonio José Rodríguez Almeida, IUMA, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
  • Arnaldo Oliveira, Universidade de Aveiro – DETI / Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
  • Chiharu Ishii, Hosei University, Japan
  • Faycal Bensaali, Qatar University, Qatar
  • Graziano Pravadelli, Dipartimento di Informatica – Università di Verona, Italy
  • José Machado Da Silva, University of Porto, Portugal
  • João Manuel R. S. Tavares, FEUP & INEGI, Portugal
  • Julien le Kernec, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
  • María Castro-Fernández, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
  • Mehdi Modarressi, University of Tehran, Iran
  • Olivier Romain, Cergy Paris Université, France
  • Olga Melnik, Ryazan State Radioengineering University, Russia
  • Ondrej Krejcar, Skoda Auto University, Czech Republic
  • Rens Baeyens, University of Antwerp, Belgium
  • Salvatore Vitabile, University of Palermo, Italy
  • Serge Autexier, DFKI, Germany
  • Theofanis Orphanoudakis, Hellenic Open University, Greece
  • Tiziana Margaria, Lero, Ireland
  • Walter Daems, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
  • Yang Liu, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • Yolanda Lechuga, University of Cantabria, Spain
  • Vincenzo Conti, Università degli Studi di Enna Kore, Italy