The Approximate Computing (AxC) design paradigm emerged as a promising solution to effectively enhance performance of computing systems. It cleverly leverages the intrinsic error resilience of applications to inaccuracy in their inner calculations to achieve a required trade-off between efficiency, performance, power demand, and acceptable error of returned results. Indeed, approximate results are hardly distinguishable from exact results for a vast plethora of applications, including audio, image, and video processing, data mining, information retrieval, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and even safety-critical applications.

Submission Guidelines

AxC2025 accepts extended abstract and short papers submissions, up to 4 pages plus references. Prospective attendees interested in giving a talk are invited to submit their contributions to the 10th Workshop on Approximate Computing track using the standard IEEE conference template through the Easy-chair submission site. All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.

List of Topics

• Approximation for Deep Learning applications
• Approximation techniques for emerging processor and memory technologies
• Approximation-induced error modeling and propagation
• Approximation in edge computing applications
• Approximation in HPC and embedded systems
• Approximation in reconfigurable computing
• Architectural support for approximation
• Cross-layer approximate computing
• Hardware/software co-design of approximate systems
• Dependability of approximate circuits and systemsDesign automation of approximate architectures
• Design of approximate reconfigurable architectures
• Error resilient Near-Threshold Computing 
• Methods for monitoring and controlling approximation quality
• Modeling, specification, and verification of approximate circuits, and systems 
• Safety and reliability applications of approximate computing
• Security in the context of approximation
• Software-based fault-tolerant technique for approximate computing
• Test and fault tolerance of approximate systems 

Committees

Organizing committee

• Salvatore Barone, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
• Somayeh Sadeghi-Kohan,Paderborn University, Germany
• Jorge Castro-Godínez, Costa Rica Institute of Technology, Costa Rica

Publication

Accepted papers will be published in the 55th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks supplemental volume and made available through the IEEE Xplore digital library.

Venue

The workshop will be held in conjunction with the 55th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, which will held in Naples, Italy, from June 23th to 26th, 2025.

The venue is either the Royal Continental Hotel and University of Naples Federico II Conference Center in Via Parthenope, Naples. The two venues are adiacent and are located on the main seafront of the city.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Salvatore Barone (salvatore.barone@unina.it), Somayeh Sadeghi-Kohan (sadeghis@upb.de), or Jorge Castro-Godínez (jocastro@itcr.ac.cr)