Embedded Software Design

The Journal of Systems Architecture: Embedded Software Design (JSA) is a journal covering all design and architectural aspects related to embedded systems and software. It ranges from the microarchitecture level via the system software level up to the application-specific architecture level. Aspects such as real-time systems, operating systems, programming languages, communications (limited to analysis and the software stack), mobile systems, parallel and distributed architectures as well as additional subjects in the computer and system architecture area will fall within the scope of this journal. Technology will not be a main focus, but its use and relevance to particular designs will be. Case studies are welcome but must contribute more than just a design for a particular piece of software.

Design automation of such systems including methodologies, techniques and tools for their design as well as novel designs of software components fall within the scope of this journal. Novel applications that use embedded systems are also central in this journal. While JSA does not focus on hardware design, hardware/software co-design techniques with an emphasis on software are also relevant here.

Reproducibility Badge Initiative and Software Publication

Reproducibility Badge Initiative (RBI) is a collaboration with Code Ocean (CO), a cloud based computational reproducibility platform that helps the community by enabling sharing of code and data as a resource for non-commercial use. CO verifies the submitted code (and data) and certifies its reproducibility. Code submission will be verified by the Code Ocean team for computational reproducibility by making sure it runs, delivers results and it is self-contained. For more information please visit this help article . Note that an accepted paper will be published independently of the CO application outcome. However, if the paper receives the Reproducibility badge, it will be given additional exposure by having an attached R Badge, and by being citable at the CO website with a DOI.

Special Issue on In-storage Computing Systems
Submission Date: 2024-07-31

Emerging intelligent systems, such as artificial intelligence of things (AIoT), autonomous vehicles, and medical devices continuously generate massive volumes of data that require efficient storage and processing. In traditional computing architectures, data should be moved from the storage devices into the main memory of the host before being processed. Such data movements not only consume the computing power of the host, but also bring high energy consumption and I/O latency. To address data movement issues, a new paradigm has been designed to allow near data processing. It could be realized in different data-centric computing methods, such as in-memory computing, SmartNICs, and in-storage computing. This special issue (SI) focuses on in-storage computing systems, also called computational storage. This paradigm promises to relieve the problems of data movements. However, the design and application of such computing systems are still in an “embryonic” stage and new efforts need to be paid for those systems. This special issue gives some room to exploratory work on in-storage computing.

Guest editors:

Prof. Yuan-Hao Chang, Academia Sinica
Prof. Jalil Boukhobza, Lab-STICC, ENSTA-Bretagne
Prof. Xianzhang Chen, Chongqing University

Special issue information:

In this SI, we aim to focus the research on the design, application, and integration of in-storage computing systems. It will include novel research on the in-storage computing architecture, and will investigate both general purpose and application-specific architectures. This SI will also explore the operating system and software for managing in-storage computing systems and integrating them with common computing architectures. In addition, this SI will also include the algorithms for optimizing in-storage computing systems. We believe the research presented in this SI will constitute a reference reading for the storage community in both academia and industry.

Concretely, the topics of the SI include but are not limited to the following scopes:

We welcome submissions that explore the latest research and developments in in-storage computing systems.

Manuscript submission information:

General information for submitting papers to JSA can be found at Guide for authors - Journal of Systems Architecture.

Submissions should be made online Submission site for Journal of Systems Architecture . Please select the “VSI:ICS” option as article type of the paper.

JSA has adopted the Virtual Special Issue model to speedup the publication process, where Special Issue papers are published in regular issues, but marked as SI papers. Acceptance decisions are made on a rolling basis. Therefore, authors are encouraged to submit papers early, and need not wait until the submission deadline.

Important Dates:

Submission Open Date: April 17, 2024
Final Manuscript Submission Deadline: July 31, 2024
Expected Acceptance Deadline (subject to change): 31 December, 2024