9th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium
Kos International Convention Center, Kos Island, Greece
July 7-9, 2003

General Chair
M. Nicolaidis,
iRoC Technologies
D. Gizopoulos,
U. Piraeus

Program Chairs
M. Sonza Reorda,
Politec. di Torino
C. Metra,
U. Bologna

Vice General Chair
Y. Zorian,
LogicVision
A. Paschalis,
U Athens

Vice Program Chair
M. Abramovici,
DAFCA Inc.
R. Leveugle,
TIMA

Publicity
L. Anghel,
TIMA Laboratory

Publications
M. Violante,
Politec. di Torino

Local Chair
M. Virvou,
U. Piraeus

Financial Chair
N. Kranitis,
U. Athens

Audio Visual Chair
R. Velazco,
TIMA Laboratory

Industrial Liaison
E. Dupont,
iRoC Technologies

ETTTC Liaison
J. Figueras,
U. P. de Catalunya

Program Committee
J. Abraham,
U. Texas
R. Aitken,
Agilent
J. Arlat,
LAAS
E. Boehl,
Robert Bosch GmbH
C. Bolchini,
Politecnico di Milano
S. Chakravarty,
Intel
A. Dandache,
U. Metz
P. Girard,
LIRMM
M. Goessel,
U. of Postdam
Th. Haniotakis,
U. Southern Illinois
J. Hayes,
U. of Michigan
A. Ivanov,
U. of Brit. Columbia
R. Iyer,
U. Illinois
D. Kagaris,
U. Southern Illinois
J. Karlsson,
Chalmers U.
R. Kleihorst,
Philips
A. Krasniewski,
Warsaw U.T.
K. Kuchukyan,
Armenian NAS
P.K. Lala,
U. of Arkansas
H. Levendel,
Motorola
I. Levin,
U. Tel Aviv
J.C. Lo,
U. Rhode Island
Y. Maidon,
U. Bordeaux
S. Mitra,
Intel
H. Manhaeve,
QStar
D. Nikolos,
U. Patras
A. Orailoglu,
U. of Cal. San Diego
M. Pflanz,
IBM
S. Piestrak,
Warsaw U.T.
D. Pradhan,
U. Bristol
P. Prinetto,
Politecnico di Torino
M. Rebaudengo,
Politecnico di Torino
K. Roy,
Purdue U.
J. Segura,
U. Illes Balears
M. Sheriff,
iRoC Technologies
E. Simeu,
TIMA Laboratory
J. Sosnowski,
Warsaw U.T.
G. Stamoulis,
U. Crete
B. Straube,
Fraunhofer IIS/EAS
C.E. Stroud,
U.N. Carolina
N.A. Touba,
U. Texas
S. Tragoudas,
U. Southern Illinois
Y. Tsiatouhas,
ISD
F. Vargas,
PUCRS
H.T. Vierhaus,
Brandenburg T.U.
C. Landrault,
LIRMM

Call For Papers

Starting from this year the IEEE International On-Line Testing Workshop is transformed to Symposium, to reflect the continues growing in size and improvement in quality of the event, and the increased importance of on-line testing in modern electronics systems. In particularly, the huge complexity of electronic systems has seen reliability needs growing up in various application domains as well as pressure for low cost products. There is a corresponding increasing demand for cost-effective on-line testing techniques. These needs have increased dramatically with the introduction of very deep submicron and nanometer technologies. These technologies impact adversely noise margins and make mandatory integrating on-line test in modern ICs. The Symposium is also emphasizing on on-line testing in the continuous operation of large applications such as wired, cellular and satellite telecommunication, as well as in cryptographic chips. The Symposium is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Test Technology Technical Council (TTTC), co-organized by the TTTC On-line Testing TAC and the European Group of TTTC, in collaboration with University of Piraeus, University of Athens, Politecnico di Torino, TIMA Laboratory, IRoC Technologies and University of Bologna.

The topics include (but are not limited to) the following ones:

  • Reliability issues in nanometer technologies.
  • Field diagnosis, maintainability and reconfiguration.
  • Security issues in cryptographic chips.
  • On-line testing in automotive, railway, avionics and industrial control.
  • On-line test in the continuous operation of large systems.
  • On-line testing of analog and mixed signal circuits.
  • Self-checking circuits and coding theory.
  • On-line and off-line BIST.
  • Synthesis of on-line testable circuits.
  • Radiation effects.
  • Fault-tolerant and fail-safe systems.
  • On-line power monitoring and control.
  • On-line monitoring of current, temperature and other reliability indicators.
  • Reliability evaluation.

Submissions: All submissions should have a title page with the name, address, phone number, fax number, and e-mail address of a contact author. Authors of accepted papers will have the option of having their papers included in a formal Proceedings to be published by the IEEE. The title page of each submission should state whether or not the authors want the paper to be considered for publication in the Symposium Proceedings. To be included in the Proceedings, a full-length paper must be submitted by the submission deadline. Authors not wishing their work published in the Proceedings may submit either a full-length paper or an extended abstract.

Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF or Postscript (large Postscript files should be compressed and uuencoded) to the following address: IOLTS03.

For ftp submissions please contact M. Sonza Reorda.

Matteo Sonza Reorda
Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica
Politecnico di Torino
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi,24
Torino, Italy
Tel.: +39 011564 7055
Fax: +39 011564 7099

Please observe the following deadlines:
Submission deadline: February 7th, 2003
Notification of acceptance: March 23rd, 2003


General Information:
Dimitris Gizopoulos
University of Piraeus
Department of Informatics
80 Karaoli & Dimitriou Street
18534 Piraeus
Greece
Tel.: +30 210 4142372
Fax: +30 210 4142328
                Michael Nicolaidis
iRoC Technologies
World Trade Center
BP 1510
38025 Grenoble Cedex
France
Tel.: +33 4 3812 0763
Fax: +33 4 3812 9615

About the location:

The Symposium will be held on Kos Island, one of the most beautiful places in Greece. The climate is mild most of the year, with long hours of sunshine in summer time. Kos Island, the birth place of Hippocrates - the father of of medicine- is famous by the enormous historical interest and its archeological sites and monuments (the Stadium, the Agora, the Sanctuary of Hercules, the Sanctuary of Aphrodite, the great fortress of the Knights of St John of Rhodes, ...). You will discover the attractiveness of the city of Kos, the many deserted places around the island with a more traditional way of life, and, close to the Asklepeion sanctuary and hospital, the famous plane tree under which Hippocrates taugh medicine students, still alive 2500 years later to symbolise the perpetration, through the mileniums, of the medicine science that he introduced and of his serment still in use by modern doctors.
The island is very close to the Asia Minor and 201 nautical miles from Piraeus, and can be easily reached by air from Athens and Rhodes, and by ferry from Piraeus, Rafina, the Cyclades, Crete, Rhodes and other islands from Dodecanese.

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