The conference will cover the theory and practice of application-specific systems, architectures and processors. The 2016 conference will build upon traditional strengths in areas such as computer arithmetic, cryptography, compression, signal and image processing, network processing, reconfigurable computing, application-specific instruction-set processors, and hardware accelerators. We especially encourage submissions in the following areas:

• Big data analytics: extracting and correlating information from large-scale semi-structured and unstructured data using application-specific systems.
• Scientific computing: architectures and algorithms that address scientific applications requiring significant computing power and design customization (bioinformatics, climate modeling, astrophysics, seismology, etc.).
• Industrial computing: systems and architectures for providing high- throughput or low latency in various industrial computing applications.
• System security: cryptographic hardware architectures, security processors, countermeasures against side-channel attacks, and secure cloud computing.
• Heterogeneous systems: applications and platforms that exploit heterogeneous computing resources, including FPGAs, GPUs, or CGRAs.
• Design space exploration: methods for customizing and tuning application- specific architectures to improve efficiency and productivity.
• Platform-specific architectures: novel architectures for exploiting specific compute domains such as smartphones, tablets, and data centers, particularly in the context of energy efficiency.