iNIS 2015 - 1ST IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON NANOELECTRONIC AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Efficient and secure data sensing, storage and processing play pivotal roles in the current information age. State-of-the-art nanoelectronic technology based very-large-scale-integration (VLSI) systems caters to the needs of efficient sensing, storage, and computing. At the same time, efficient algorithms and software used for faster analysis and retrieval of desired information are becoming increasingly important. Big data which are large, complex data sets, are now a part of the Internet world. Storing and processing needs of the enormous amount of structured and unstructured data are getting increased challenging. At the same time, Internet of Things (IoT) and cyber-physical systems (CPS) have been evolving with the simultaneous development of hardware and software. The performance and efficiency of the present as well as the future generation of computing and information processing systems are largely dependent upon advances in both hardware and software. The primary objective of iNIS is aimed to provide a platform for both hardware and software researchers to interact under one umbrella for further development of efficient and secure information processing circuits and systems.
TECHNICAL SCOPE / 6 Tracks
Nanoelectronic VLSI and Sensor Systems (NVS)
Posted on 22nd Feb 2015
Different revolutionary and evolutionary technologies in nanoscale have evolved to cater to the needs of future generation computing and information processing systems. Some of the thrust areas in this domain include:
a) Nanotechnologies, nanowire, nanotubes and nano-sensors;
b) Molecular electronics, bio-sensors and biologically-inspired computing;
c) Nanoelectronics for energy harvesting;
d) Spintronics, domain-wall, and phase-change memories;
e) Memristor and memristive systems;
f) Advanced 3D ICs & 3D packaging;
g) On-chip interconnection network design, modeling, and simulation;
h) GPU, HPC and large-scale cloud-based computing;
i) Quantum computing;
j) Application specific circuit, system, and sensor design using nanoelectronics; and
k) computer-aided design (CAD) methods covering these areas.
Energy-Efficient, Reliable VLSI Systems (ERS)
Posted on 22nd Feb 2015
Consumption of energy or power dissipation has become a major issue in today’s nanoelectronic and information processing systems. Researchers are trying to address and overcome this critical bottleneck in different ways. Some of the major thrust are as follows:
a) Energy efficient hardware-software design and co-synthesis;
b) Energy efficient applications using field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs);
c) Sustainability of energy efficient applications;
d) Dynamic power management;
e) Modelling, simulation and validation;
f) Energy generation, recovery and management systems;
g) Reliability analysis, modeling, and reliable system design;
h) Low-power wearable and implantable systems;
i) multi-core systems, network-on-chip and MPSoCs; and
j) computer-aided design (CAD) methods covering these areas.
Hardware/Software Solutions for Big Data (SBD)
Posted on 22nd Feb 2015
The large, complex data set that are difficult to process using traditional data processing tools are called big data which provide multiple challenges including privacy, analysis, search, storage, transfer, and visualization. Novel hardware and software mechanism are needed to addresses the challenges for the big data to make it useful for the end users of big data. The issues in discussion include performance evaluation, optimizations, accessibility and usability of new technologies. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to the followings:
a) Big Data ? regression, machine learning, and exploitation;
b) Graphs and networks for big data;
c) Distributed, and scalable systems for big data;
d) Application specific systems using big data;
e) Privacy, integrity, and security in big data;
f) Storage solutions for big data;
g) Search and mining techniques in big data; and
h) Hardware designs for big data.
Hardware/Software for Internet of Things (IOT)
Posted on 22nd Feb 2015
IoT envisions the development of tools, techniques, and standards to make ‘things’ more intelligent and programmable to develop more capable ‘things’ to address the necessity of human beings. It covers all types of sensors, communication protocols, computational tools, techniques, devices, processors, embedded systems, data warehousing, big data, cloud computing, server farms, grid computing etc. Topics of interests include the following:
a) IoT architecture;
b) IoT enabling technologies, services and applications;
c) IoT system integration, management, and standards;
d) IoT big data analytics;
e) IoT security and privacy concerns;
f) IoT at nanoscale; and
g) Emerging hardware/software solutions for IoT.
Hardware for Secure Information Processing (SIP)
Posted on 22nd Feb 2015
Due to ever increasing demand of network and information contents, hardware capacity for storage, analytics, and processing are catching the eyes of researchers to provide efficient solution to the above. Some of the thrust areas are as follows:
a) Circuits and systems for digital rights management (DRM), watermarking, and encryption;
b) Data protection strategies and controls;
c) Mobile security and bring your own device (BYOD);
d) Medical device security;
e) Cyber security; and
f) Emerging embedded solutions for security.
Cyber Physical Systems and Social Networks (CSN)
Posted on 22nd Feb 2015
CPS provides the efficient integration of computation, networking, and physical processes to cater the needs of next generation embedded computing and information processing. Social networks are playing a dominant role in business intelligence and analytics nowadays. Special types of hardware and software are being developed to handle the enormous amount of unstructured data available via such networks. Some of the thrust areas are as follows:
a) Modeling of distributed real-time software for CPS;
b) Mobile cyber-physical systems;
c) Design challenges of CPS;
d) Data portability and management;
e) Graphs, algorithms, and Disambiguation in semantic search; and
f) Special purpose architectural solution.