Program

9:00 - 10:00 Opening and Keynote

• Chair: Hans-Joachim Wunderlich, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  
• Opening Remarks
  Sybille Hellebrand, University of Paderborn, Germany
• Keynote: Approximate Computing: Ready for Prime Time?
  Anand Raghunathan, Purdue University, USA

10:00 - 10:30: Coffee and Posters

• Approximate Computing: Facing The Control Flow
  M. Ammar Ben Khadra, Dominik Stoffel and Wolfgang Kunz
  University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
• Towards Approximate Computing Applications by Employing Mutation Code Approach
  Mario Barbareschi^1,2, Domenico Amelino^1,2, Antonino Mazzeo^1,2 and Alberto Bosio^{3
  1}DIETI - University of Naples Federico II, Italy, ²CeRICT scrl - Centro Regionale Information, Communication Technology, ³LIRMM, France
• The Gamma multiset rewriting paradigm: a parallel approximate computing framework
  Gabriel Paillard¹, Rubens Almeida², Rui Mello Junior² and Felipe França^{3
  1}Federal University of Ceara (UFC), ²Brazil, Brazilian Navy Research Institute (IPqM), Rio de Janeiro, ³Brazil, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil
• Data Driven Optimizations for MTJ based Stochastic Computing
  Ankit Mondal and Ankur Srivastava
  University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
• Weather and Climate Simulations with Approximate Computing
  Stephen Jeffress, Tim Palmer and Peter Duben
  University of Oxford, Department of Atmospheric Physics, UK

10:30 - 12:30: Session 1: Multi-Level Design and Test

• Chair: Jörg Henkel, KIT, Germany
  
• Data Dependent Loop Approximation Technique in High-Level Synthesis
  Seogoo Lee, Lizy K. John and Andreas Gerstlauer
  The University of Texas at Austin, USA
• Multi-Level Approximation for Inexact Accelerator Synthesis Under Voltage Island Constraints
  Georgios Zervakis, Sotirios Xydis, Vasileios Tsoutsouras, Dimitrios Soudris and Kiamal Pekmestzi
  School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
• Hardware/Software Co-Characterization for Approximate Computing
  Alexander Schöll, Claus Braun and Hans-Joachim Wunderlich
  University of Stuttgart, Germany
• A Case Study on the Approximate Test of Integrated Circuits
  Imran Wali¹, Arnaud Virazel¹, Patrick Girard¹, Mario Barbareschi² and Alberto Bosio^{1
  1}LIRMM, France, ²DIETI - University of Naples Federico II, Italy

12:30 - 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 15:30: Session 2: Near Memory Computing and Deep Learning

• Chair: Marco Platzner, University of Paderborn, Germany
  
• NAX: Near Data Approximate Computing
  Amir Yazdanbakhsh¹, Choungki Song², Pejman Lotfi-Kamran³, Hadi Esmaeilzadeh¹, Nam Sung Kim⁴ and Jake Sacks^{1
  1}Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, ²University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, ³Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), USA, ⁴University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Approximate Computing in Deep Neural Networks
  Hokchhay Tann, Soheil Hashemi, Iris Bahar and Sherief Reda
  Brown University, USA
• Using deep learning and imprecise computation for safety critical applications
  Chi-Sheng Daniel Shih¹, Chang-Min Yang¹, Chun-Yo Lin¹, Pei-Kuei Tsung² and Roy Ju^{2
  1}Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, ²MediaTek Inc. Taiwan

15:15- 15:45 Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30: Session 3: Applications

• Chair: TBA
  
• Trading sharpness with energy consumption in a lens autofocus application
  Anca Molnos, Yves Durand and Nicolas Gonthier (Presenter: Christian Fabre)
  Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France. CEA - LETI, MINATEC Campus, Grenoble, France
• Numeric Function Approximation with Separate Accuracy Domains
  Jochen Rust and Steffen Paul
  Institute of Electrodynamics and Microelectronics (ITEM), University of Bremen, Germany
• Using Approximate Computing in Scientific Codes
  Michael Lass, Thomas D. Kühne and Christian Plessl
  University of Paderborn, Germany