From: IEEE-RTTC@cs.bu.edu Subject: IEEE-RTTC digest for Thu Jan 30, 1992 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Electronic Newsletter of the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ##### ##### ##### ##### #### ##### ##### ### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #### #### #### #### #### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ##### ##### ##### ##### # # # # ### ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Requests should be sent to the maintainer Azer Bestavros (bestavros@cs.bu.edu) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Table of Contents Line ----------------- ---- 1. best@cs.bu.edu (Azer Bestavros) (270 lines) The IEEE-RTTC Repository........................................... 3 - Apropos.......................................................... 16 - Mailing List Subscription ....................................... 36 - The IEEE-RTTC Digest............................................. 105 - IEEE-RTTC Archive................................................ 163 - Maintainer Information........................................... 254 2. krithi@nirvan.cs.umass.edu (krithi) (71 lines) 13th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium: Call for papers............. 274 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<* START OF THE IEEE-RTTC DIGEST *>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message 1; Postmarked Tue Jan 28 22:43:08 1992 From: best@cs.bu.edu (Azer Bestavros) Subject: The IEEE-RTTC Repository The IEEE-RTTC Repository at Boston University by Azer Bestavros January 1992 Subject: - Apropos The idea of the IEEE-RTTC repository developed at the conclusion of the 12th Real-Time Systems Symposium held in San Antonio, Texas, in December 1991, as a convenient way of exchanging information among members of the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Computing, who are accessible via the Internet. This document overviews the services offered by the IEEE-RTTC repository at Boston University: how to automatically subscribe to and unsubscribe from the IEEE-RTTC mailing list (using Internet mail), and how to obtain information/papers from the repository's archive (using anonymous FTP). The IEEE-RTTC mailing list will be used to send a frequent electronic digest (newsletter) that would include, in addition to announcements and technical discussions pertinent to the community, abstracts of papers and/or technical reports that could be obtained via anonymous ftp from the IEEE-RTTC repository's archive. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: - Mailing List Subscription Requests to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the IEEE-RTTC mailing list are processed daily by the repository automatic server. To add one or more members to the IEEE-RTTC mailing list, send to the maintainer (a list of addresses is supplied at the end of this document) a message with the following "Subject:" line. +-------------------------------+ | Subject: IEEE-RTTC[subscribe] | +-------------------------------+ The Body of the message should include one line per new member. The format of that line should be +-----------------------------------+ | >>> (LastName, FirstName) e-mail | +-----------------------------------+ Any other lines not on the above format (that is starting with ">>>" and then a space ... etc.) are ignored. For example to add a new member, say "Kathy Leonard" whose e-mail address is "leonard@dept.school.edu", then send a message like the following +-----------------------------------------------+ | To: bestavros@cs.bu.edu | | From: (don't care) | | Subject: IEEE-RTTC[subscribe] | | --text follows this line-- | | | | ... | | >>> (Leonard, Kathy) leonard@dept.school.edu | | ... | | | +-----------------------------------------------+ To remove one or more entries from the IEEE-RTTC mailing list, send to the maintainer (a list of addresses is supplied at the end of this document) a message with the following "Subject:" line +---------------------------------+ | Subject: IEEE-RTTC[unsubscribe] | +---------------------------------+ The body of t he message should include one line per unsubscribing member. The format of that line should be +---------------------------+ | >>> (LastName, FirstName) | +---------------------------+ Any other lines not on the above format (that is not starting with ">>>" and then a space ... etc.) are ignored. For example to unsubscribe the member "Paul Murphy" then send a message like the following: +--------------------------------------------+ | To: bestavros@cs.bu.edu | | From: (don't care) | | Subject: IEEE-RTTC[unsubscribe] | | --text follows this line-- | | | | ... | | >>> (Murphy, Paul) | | ... | | | +--------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: - The IEEE-RTTC Digest The IEEE-RTTC electronic Digest is compiled and mailed bi-weekly -- the frequency can be changed if need be -- to all members of the IEEE-RTTC mailing list. The messages included in the Digest are those received by the IEEE-RTTC server during the week preceeding the Digest's issuance. Messages to be posted on the IEEE-RTTC Digest should be e-mailed to the following address: IEEE-RTTC@cs.bu.edu Please notice that the above address is different from the IEEE-RTTC maintainer's address. Messages sent to the maintainer for inclusion in the Digest might not be processed in time. Each issue of the digest starts with a convenient table of contents that lists, for each message in the issue, the identity of the sender and the subject(s) discussed therein. If you are sending a message that includes a number of subjects and you want these subjects to appear in the table of contents, then do the following: at the point in your message where you want to switch to a new subject, insert a Subject: line. The subject line should start with the keyword "Subject:" (No leading spaces and only the "S" should be capitalized). The remainder of the line will be considered to be the title of the subject you are switching to. Please make use of that facility if you intend to post more than one message on a given issue. The main subject of your message (the one that you pass on to your mail program) will be considered to be the subject of the first topic (or the only topic) you are addressing. Messages with unspecified main subject will appear in the table of contents with a subject line that reads "Unspecified subject". For the convenience of the digest readers you are highly encouraged to include meaningful subjects in all your messages. If you include a message inside your own message (e.g. a forwarded message), the autodigestifier will not consider the included message as a new message. Thus, the subject of that message will appear in the table of contents under your name. Due to restrictions on the maximum length of messages that some mailers impose, it is advisable not to post very long articles on the Digest. Long articles, postscript files, ... etc. are better exchanged using the repository anonymous FTP service described below. To reply to an article, please address your reply to the appropriate destination. If you want your reply to be public, then send it as a regular posting to the Digest. Failure to receive the digest for an extended period of time is a sign that "something is wrong with your subscription". Entries in the mailing list, which are consistently erroneous, are removed by the maintainer without any further notice. If you fail to receive the digest for few consecutive weeks (especially if you post something on it, or if you know that somebody else got it), then this is a sign that there might be a problem with your e-mail address. You should contact the maintainer, if this is the case. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: - IEEE-RTTC Archive The IEEE-RTTC Archive allows access and exchange of information among members of the IEEE-RTTC community using anonymous FTP. To access or add to the contents of the Archive, please follow the following instructions (1) Use FTP to get to "cs.bu.edu".. For Unix users, just type: ftp cs.bu.edu (2) You will be prompted for a login name. Just type: anonymous (3) You will be prompted for a password. Just type: guest (or your ID) (4) At the FTP prompt, type: cd IEEE-RTTC (5) At the FTP prompt, type: binary This will allow you to access binary as well as regular files. (6) At this point you are accessing the subdirectory that contains the IEEE-RTTC Archive. To know what's in there, just type: ls -l you should find at least the following files: README -- This document CONTENTS -- The contents of the IEEE-RTTC Archive Digest.MM-DD-YY -- The IEEE-RTTC digest for MM/DD/YY (7) To get a copy of any of these files on your machine, just type: get for instance, to get this document just type "get README". (8) To make a file from your account available through the archive, just type: put for instance, to put a paper called "paper.tex" in the archive, just type "put paper.tex". If you add anything to the archive you are expected to report it to the maintainer so that appropriate description would be available in the README file. Failure to do so, will result in the deletion of your file(s) from the Archive. Also, in an effort to standardize file extensions, please follow the following convention: .txt Plain text .tex LaTex source .ps Postscript .dvi DVI format (9) To exit from FTP, type: quit Please refer to the FTP manual page for more details on using Unix File Transfer Protocol. The IEEE-RTTC Archive is intended to contain different files and information that would be beneficial to the Real-Time community. In particular, copies of papers and/or technical reports can be exchanged using this service. For an up-to-date directory of the different files in the Archive and the contents of these files, refer to the file named "CONTENTS". The content of the IEEE-RTTC Archive will be periodically updated to reflect new/modified information. At the end of the "CONTENTS" file, a time-stamp indicates when the current version of the Archive was produced. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: - Maintainer Information The current maintainer of t he IEEE-RTTC Repository is Azer Bestavros . Members experiencing problems with their subscription should report such problems to him. All requests should be sent in a regular message at the following address: bestavros@cs.bu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Azer Bestavros, Ph.D. Computer Science Department Email: best@cs.bu.edu Assistant Professor 111 Cummington St., MCS-276 Work : (617) 353-9726 Boston University, CLA Boston, Massachusetts 02215 Home : (617) 495-2187 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message 2; Postmarked Tue Jan 28 16:46:58 1992 From: krithi@nirvan.cs.umass.edu (krithi) Sender: best@cs.bu.edu Subject: 13th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium: Call for papers CALL FOR PAPERS 13th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium December 2 - 4, 1992 Pheonix, Arizona Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society TC on Real-Time Computing. SCOPE The purpose of this symposium is to bring together researchers and developers from academia, industry and government for advancing the science and technology in real-time computing. Papers in all aspects of real-time computing are sought, including formal methods, databases, operating systems and scheduling, fault tolerance, programming languages, architectures, performance modeling, and case studies or applications. Prior to the symposium, a workshop on imprecise computation will be held. Please contact Kwei-Jay Lin (klin@cs.uiuc.edu) or Wei Zhao (zhao@cs.tamu.edu) for details. SUBMISSIONS Papers should describe original work, and be 20 double-spaced pages (5,000 words) or less in length. Short synopses (3 double-spaced pages or less in length) of substantial real-time applications are also invited, and should contain enough information for the program committee to understand the scope of the project and evaluate the novelty of the problem or approach. All accepted submissions will appear in the proceedings. Please send electronically an 80 word abstract of the paper or synopsis by May 1, 1992 to rtss92@cis.upenn.edu. Also send (5) copies of your submission by the same date to Susan Davidson at the following address: Department of Computer and Information Science University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389 SYMPOSIUM TIMETABLE Abstract and Paper/Synopsis Due................May 1, 1992 Acceptance Letters.............................July 20, 1992 Camera-Ready Papers............................September 15, 1992 Workshop on Imprecise Computation..............December 1, 1992 Symposium......................................December 2-4, 1992 GENERAL CHAIR: Lui Sha, SEI TREASURER: Walter Heimerdinger LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS: Earl Swartzlander PROGRAM CHAIRS: Susan Davidson and Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS: Theodore Baker Phil Hwang Kwei-Jay Lin Alan Shaw Robert Brown Mathai Joseph Nancy Lynch John Stankovic Marc Donner Mani Krishna Keith Marzullo Jay Strosnider Hector Garcia Thomas LeBlanc Al Mok Steve Vestal Richard Gerber Y.H. Lee Karsten Schwan Wei Zhao ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<* END OF THE IEEE-RTTC DIGEST *>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Requests or comments should be E-mailed to: Bestavros@cs.bu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------