Novel research in the general area of reconfigurable computing is also encouraged. Architectures and Programming Models Architectures for high performance and/or low power configurable computing New spatial architectures with immense parallelism but different basic components than FPGAs System-level architectures for reconfigurable computing in either real-time or non real-time systems Heterogeneous architectures that integrate a mix of coarse, fine, special purpose, and general-purpose hardware Implications and effects of new technologies, including nanotechnology on reconfigurable computing (and vice versa) Security enhancements for reconfigurable computing Languages and Compilers New languages and development environments to describe spatial or heterogeneous applications Tools to make run-time reconfiguration more accessible to application designers Compilation and CAD techniques for reconfigurable computing systems and other spatial computers Run-Time Systems and Run-Time Reconfiguration Operating system techniques to manage run-time reconfiguration of resources in reconfigurable computing or spatial computing systems Run-time CAD algorithms to support the above techniques or improve fault tolerance/avoidance Use of reconfigurability to build evolvable or adaptable computing systems Novel uses of run-time reconfiguration in application-specific systems Implications of run-time reconfiguration on security Applications Applications that use reconfigurability to customize hardware for scientific computation, mobile communications, medical image processing, data and communication security, network infrastructure and other embedded systems. These papers should describe novel use of some particular attribute of the reconfigurable device used, or discuss lessons that will help other users. Comparison of application implementations on different spatial hardware, such as GPUs, multi-core processors, and FPGAs