No Publication Fees (Full APC Waiver)

The first 20 papers accepted this year for publication by the Leibniz Transactions on Embedded Systems (LITES) will have the usual article processing charge (APC) fully waived, i.e., authors will not be charged any publication fees thanks to sponsorship by EMSIG.

APC waivers will be allocated on a first-come, first-serve basis to accepted papers. Papers (co-)authored by members of the editorial board are not eligible to receive a waiver.

To benefit from the EMSIG APC waiver, submit your work on embedded systems to LITES:
http://lites.dagstuhl.de/
All contributions that advance the state of the art and/or the scientific discourse on embedded computing systems are welcome.

LITES is published by EMSIG, the EDAA Special Interest Group on Embedded Systems Design, in collaboration with Schloss Dagstuhl Publishing.

New Editorial Board

It is our pleasure to announce the new editorial board of LITES:

• Yasmina Abdeddaïm, Université Gustave Eiffel, ESIEE Paris, FR
• Matthias Becker, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SW
• Alessandro Biondi, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna - Pisa, IT
• Björn B. Brandenburg (EiC), MPI-SWS - Kaiserslautern, DE (chair)
• Christian Dietrich, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), DE
• Martin Fränzle, Universität Oldenburg, DE
• Giovani Gracioli, Federal University of Santa Catarina, BR
• Zhishan Guo, North Carolina State University, US
• Jing Li, New Jersey Institute of Technology, US
• Renato Mancuso, Boston University, US
• Alessandro Papadopoulos, Mälardalen University, Västerås, SE
• Heechul Yun, University of Kansas, Lawrence, US

The new editorial board has taken up its work in late 2023 and is actively soliciting new submissions.

Call for Papers

LITES publishes original articles on all aspects of embedded computing systems.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• the design, implementation, testing, validation, and verification of embedded software and hardware systems,
• their temporal and logical correctness,
• resource efficiency and optimization,
• time-sensitive networking,
• embedded security,
• design space exploration and design automation,
• embedded artificial intelligence (AI),
• formal foundations of embedded systems,
• embedded systems in the context of larger cyber-physical systems (CPS), and
• application domains and deployment scenarios (e.g., automotive systems, avionics, robotics, healthcare, autonomous systems, etc.).

The journal is flexible in the types of articles it publishes. The range of acceptable contributions includes (but is not limited to) regular technical papers, industrial experience reports, replication studies, literature surveys, historical perspectives, position papers, tools papers, and companion papers to open-access research artifacts (such as open-source software and hardware designs, data sets, case studies, challenge problems and competitions, etc.).

LITES welcomes all methods of scientific inquiry, including (but not limited to) systems building and empirical evaluation, mathematical modeling and rigorous proof, formal methods, deployment studies and reflections on “lessons learned” in practice, as well as statistical and empirical methods, surveys of industry practice, and user studies.

Why Publish with LITES?

As the only fully open-access, truly nonprofit journal on embedded systems backed by an established publisher, LITES offers the best deal to authors, readers, and the community alike:

1. LITES is fully OPEN ACCESS: All published articles are available online free of charge (without a paywall or registration).

2. LITES publishes QUALITY SCIENCE: The Editorial Board ensures high-quality, professional peer review. Authors receive quality feedback in a timely manner. The journal has a 10-year record of publishing exclusively high-quality scholarly articles.

3. Authors RETAIN FULL RIGHTS to their articles (papers are published under a Creative Commons license).

4. Community and publisher have FULLY ALIGNED INCENTIVES: Published by EMSIG in collaboration with Dagstuhl Publishing, a publicly funded nonprofit publisher, LITES is about the science and only about the science. There is no hidden profit motive; LITES does not have to generate revenue. 

5. The work volunteered by reviewers and editors furthers the ideals of OPEN SCIENCE, not the publisher’s bottom line.

6. LITES is cost-efficient: Unlike certain other commercial publishers and computing associations, LITES collects a modest article processing charge (APC) that offsets only the actual costs incurred during the publication process and does not generate any profits. Authors facing financial hardship or without institutional support may apply for an APC waiver. Additionally, the first 20 accepted papers each year automatically receive a FULL APC WAIVER thanks to financial support by EMSIG.

Please see https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/journal/LITES for further details.