Subject: IEEE-CS TC-RTS Newsletter for Wed Mar 31, 1993 _______________________________________________________________________________ __ _ __ ___ ___ __ __ I E E E Technical Committee |\ | |_ | | (_' | |_ | | |_ |_) C S on Real-Time Systems | \| |__ |/\| ,_) |__ |__ | | |__ | \ _______________________________________________________________________________ Table of Contents Line ----------------- ---- 1. best@cs.bu.edu (Azer Bestavros) (69 lines) Article on the IEEE Computer Magazine about this Newsletter/servi.. 3 Real-Time TC capitalizes on electronic media....................... 15 2. son@bbibbi.cs.virginia.edu Wed Mar 24 11:02:29 1993 (255 lines) RTOSS'93 advance program........................................... 71 3. best@cs.bu.edu (Azer Bestavros) (153 lines) CFP for the 14TH IEEE REAL-TIME SYSTEMS SYMPOSIUM.................. 327 CFP for the 1993 RTSS WORKSHOP ON REAL-TIME & MULTIMEDIA COMPUTIN.. 425 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<* START OF THE IEEE-CS TC-RTS NEWSLETTER *>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message 1; Postmarked Thu Mar 25 20:28:38 1993 From: best@cs.bu.edu (Azer Bestavros) Subject: Article on the IEEE Computer Magazine about this Newsletter/service Dear Newsletter Recipient, The following article regarding this Newsletter has been prepared by Bob Carlson for inclusion in the April issue of the IEEE Computer magazine (page 88). --Azer Subject: Real-Time TC capitalizes on electronic media The IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems is facilitating the exchange of information among its members by providing both an electronic repository and an electronic newsletter. The Real-Time Repository, maintained by Azer Bestavros at Boston University, was set up to contain files and information of benefit to the real-time-computing community. It allows members easy access via Internet to exchange copies of papers, technical reports, surveys, recent bibliographies, etc. Access is via anonymous FTP. An up-to-date directory is maintained in a file named "contents." Periodic updates to the repository reflect new or modified information. To contribute to the repository, contact Bestavros at bestavros@cs.bu.edu. The anonymous FTP Internet address for the repository is cs.bu.edu. The IP address for anonymous FTP is 128.197.10.1. The TC's newsletter is compiled and mailed monthly to everyone on the committee's mailing list. It includes conference announcements, technical discussions pertinent to real-time-computing practitioners, abstracts of papers and/or technical reports obtainable from the repository, notices of position vacancies with job descriptions and requirements, calls for papers, and occasional requests for information from colleagues. A service provided to members of the Computer Society, the newsletter currently goes to almost 400 recipients. Computer Society members can be added to the TC's mailing list by sending Bestavros a message at the e-mail address shown above. The "subject" line should read Subject: IEEE-RTTC[add] The body of the message should include one line per new member, formatted as follows: >>> (LastName, FirstName) e-mail address Messages to be posted in the newsletter should be e-mailed to IEEE-RTTC@cs.bu.edu. The newsletter is mailed at the beginning of each month, and messages received by the server as late as the week preceding the newsletter's mailing will be included. Readers can reply to an article in the newsletter privately at the address of origin or publicly through a regular posting in the newsletter itself. Requests or inquiries about the newsletter should be sent directly to Bestavros at IEEE-RTTC-request@cs.bu.edu. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message 2; Postmarked Wed Mar 24 11:02:29 1993 Subject: RTOSS'93 advance program IEEE Workshop ON Real-Time Operating Systems and Software Advance Program * * * May 13 (Thursday) 7:30 Registration and coffee 8.15 Opening Remarks 8.30 Session I: Scheduling How to integrate precedence constraints and shared resources in real-time scheduling M. Spuri and J. Stankovic, Scuola Superiore S.Anna Scheduling with relative timing constraints M. Saksena, R. Gerber, A. Agrawala, University of Maryland Issues in the static allocation and scheduling of complex periodic tasks K. Ramamritham, G. Fohler and J. Adan, University of Massachusetts A general search framework for dynamic scheduling of real-time tasks B. Hamidzadeh and S. Shekhar, University of Minnesota 10:15 Break 10:45 Panel: Semantics of Timing Constrainst: Where do they come from and where do they go? Karsten Schwan (Chair) 12:00 Lunch 1:30 Session II: Operating Systems Engineering and analysis of real-time operating systems J. Strosnider and D. Katcher, Carnegie Mellon University Scheduling support in a real-time multimedia storage service K. Ramakrishnan, L. Vaitzblit, D. Ting, P. Tzelnic, DEC Performance evaluation of real/ix, a real-time UNIX operating system B. Furht, Florida Atlantic University Cooperative resource management in R-Shell Wei Zhao and S. Natarajan, Texas A & M University 3:15 NSF Real-Time AI Workshop Report 3:40 Break 4:00 Session III: Real-Time Databases Real time data management M. Graham, Carnegie Mellon University A model for real-time object-oriented databases V. Wolfe, L. Cingiser, J. Peckham and J. Prichard, University of Rhode Island A design methodology for real-time database systems H. Nakazato and K. Lin, University of Illinois Real-time concurrency control with analytic worst-case latency guarantees M. Young and L. Shu, Purdue University 6:30 Reception May 14 (Friday) 7:30 Registration and coffee 8.30 Session IV: Real-Time Software and Tools Using an applicative language for computer system specification with real-time constraints S. Habib and T. Jin, City University of New York Scheduling with compiler transformations: the TCEL approach S. Hong and R. Gerber, University of Maryland Incremental analysis for reuse and change in a software development environment for hard-real-time systems T. Marlowe, A. Stoyenko, L. Welch, P. Laplante, New Jersey Institute of Technology Timing refinement in real-time systems H. Ben-Abdallah and I. Lee, University of Pennsylvania 10:15 Break 10:45 Panel: RT OS and Tools: Why can't we share? Kang Shin (Chair) 12:00 Lunch 1:30 Session V: Specification, Verification, and Analysis A generalized approach to real-time schedulability analysis R. Cleaveland and A. Fredette, North Carolina State University Real-time architecture specification and analysis P. Binns and S. Vestal, Honeywell On modularity and tightness of real-time verification J. Krone and M. Sitaraman, Denison University 2:45 Break 3:15 Session VI: Pot Pourri A reactive and reflective model for meta-state machines M. Champlain and J. Houle, College militaire royal de Saint-Jean A benchmark for comparing different approaches for specifying and verifying real-time systems C. Heitmeyer and B. Labaw, Naval Research Laboratory On scheduling real-time tasks with nondeterministic synchronization behavior J. Huang, S. Hwang, and P. Patiath, Honeywell 4:30 Closing Remarks Tenth IEEE Workshop on Real-Time Operating Systems and Software (RTOSS'93) May 13-14, 1993 General Information Over the past 10 years, the RTOSS meetings have accumulated a good tradition of unusually dense and substantial discussions on hot real-time issues, notably on problems and experiences in practical system design and development. This year the workshop will be held in the Ramada Hotel Pennsylvania which is conveniently located in downtown Manhattan, in the heart of all centers of cultural activities in this unique metropolitan area. The exact street address is: 401 7th Avenue, at 33rd street NEW YORK, NY 10001-2062. Directions: The Ramada hotel is just across the street from Pennsylvania (Penn) Station, with all its Amtrak, local train and subway connections. >From the JFK ($12), La Guardia and Newark ($10) International Airports, take the shuttle bus to Penn Station (information available at the airport information desks). Valet parking is available at the Ramada at $26/day but at much more economic rates between 3rd and 6th Avenue. The room rates for participants will be $95.00 per night and room (single or double). Reservations can be made through calling (800) 2-RAMADA [(800) 272-6232] or through fax (212) 502-8712. Please be sure to mention your participation in the RTOSS'93 workshop in order to obtain the very modest rate. Also, the reservation should be made before April 27. After this date you cannot rely on getting the same favorable conditions. The workshop is held in conjunction with the 1st IEEE Workshop on Real-Time Applications which takes place on May 11 and 12, 1993, in the same hotel. For more information please contact Prof. Alex Stoyenko, Computer and Information Science Dept., New Jersey Institute of Technology, University Heights, NEWARK, NJ 07102; phone: 201-596-5765, fax: 201-596-5777, e-mail: alex@vienna.njit.edu. People who have registered for this workshop will receive a 10% discount on their registration fee for RTOSS'93. Registration Form (RTOSS'93) I want to register with the 10th IEEE Workshop on Real-Time Operating Systems and Software. Participitation is limited to ca. 80 . Name: _________________________________________ Address/ Affiliation: _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ phone: _________________________________________ fax: _________________________________________ e-mail: _________________________________________ Enclosed is a check made out to IEEE Workshop RTOSS'93 with the amount of (check one) IEEE-CS member Non-member Student early registration (check received before April 23, 1993) o $150.00 o $190.00 o $100.00 late/ on-site registration (check received after April 23, 1993) o $175.00 o $220.00 o $100.00 The fee includes the workshop proceedings, the reception, 1 dinner, 1 luncheon, 1breakfast, coffie breaks between sessions. As a participant of the 1st IEEE Workshop on Real-Time Applications (add copy of your registration form) please take 10% off as discount. _____________________________ signature/ date Please mail this form to: Prof. Horst F. Wedde RTOSS'93 Computer Science Dept. Wayne State University DETROIT, MI 48202 USA You may fax this form to the number: (313) 577-6868 or e-mail it to: HWEDDE@cs.wayne.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message 3; Postmarked Thu Mar 31 12:28:38 1993 From: best@cs.bu.edu (Azer Bestavros) Subject: CFP for the 14TH IEEE REAL-TIME SYSTEMS SYMPOSIUM C A L L F O R P A P E R S 14TH IEEE REAL-TIME SYSTEMS SYMPOSIUM December 1-3, 1993 Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society TC on Real-Time SYSTEMS SCOPE The purpose of this symposium is to bring together researchers and developers from academia, industry and government to advance the science and technology in real-time computing. Papers on all aspects of real-time computing are sought, including formal methods, operating systems and scheduling, fault-tolerance, databases, programming languages, tools, communication networks, architectures, performance modeling, case studies, and applications. Of particular interests are reports describing practical experiences, experimental results and real-time issues in applications such as avionics, multimedia, robotics, automated process control and manufacturing. SUBMISSIONS Papers should describe original work, and be 20 double-spaced pages (5,000 words) or less in length. Brief synopses (5 double-spaced pages or less in length) of real-time applications, experimental results, and practical experiences in the design and development of real-time systems are also invited. The synopses 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 5 copies of your submission by May 1, 1993 to the program chair. Also send electronically an 80 word abstract of the paper or synopsis by the same date to farnam@@watson.ibm.com. Include in the abstract your mailing address, phone number, and indicate whether the submission is a full paper or a synopsis. GENERAL CO-CHAIRS TREASURER Susan Davidson and Insup Lee Walter Heimerdinger University of Pennsylvania Honeywell PROGRAM CHAIR PUBLICITY CHAIR Farnam Jahanian Ragunathan Rajkumar IBM T. J. Watson Research Center SEI, CMU P.O.Box 704 rr@sei.cmu.edu Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 farnam@watson.ibm.com EX-OFFICIO Tel: (914) 784-7498 Fax: (914) 784-7455 Kang Shin, U. Of Michigan RTS-TC Chair PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS Rajiv Alur Steve Howell Doug Locke Thomas Bihari Kevin Jeffay Nancy Lynch Ken Birman Dilip Kandlur Miroslaw Malek Alan Burns Hermann Kopetz Sang Son Flaviu Cristian John Lehoczky Jack Stankovic Richard Gerber Joseph Leung Satish Tripathi Connie Heitmeyer Jane Liu Victor Wolfe SYMPOSIUM TIMETABLE Abstract and Paper/Synopsis Due May 1, 1993 Acceptance Letters July 22, 1993 Camera-Ready Papers September 15, 1993 Workshop on Multimedia Systems November 30, 1993 Symposium December 1-3, 1993 WORKSHOP ON THE ROLE OF REAL-TIME COMPUTING IN MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS Prior to the symposium, a workshop on the role of real-time computing in multimedia /interactive systems will be held. The goal of the workshop is to bring the multimedia and real-time research communities together to explore mutual research interests, and to define the key research challenges. Please contact Jay Strosnider (jks@ece.cmu.edu) for details. Subject: CFP for the 1993 RTSS WORKSHOP ON REAL-TIME & MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING CALL FOR PAPERS WORKSHOP ON THE ROLE OF REAL-TIME IN MULTIMEDIA/INTERACTIVE COMPUTING SYSTEMS There will be a workshop on the "Role of Real-Time in Multimedia/Interactive Computing" in conjunction with the 14th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium. Opinions range from "there is no role for real-time, just buy a faster processor" to "multimedia/interactive are real-time systems not unlike Command, Control and Communication (C3) Systems". This workshop is attempting to bring together researchers and practitioners from across this opinion spectrum in an attempt to cleanly identify and delineate the role of real-time in commercial multimedia/interactive systems. The emergence of multimedia systems into the commercial mainstream is creating new opportunities and challenges for the real-time research community. The opportunity is for the real-time community to have broad commercial impact. The challenge is for the real-time community to clearly demonstrate its value added to the commercial community. Specifically, that the theory and practice of real-time computing is not only necessary, but is also the cost effective engineering approach for commercial multimedia/interactive systems. We seek 5 page position papers from across the opinion spectrum which: - illustrate where real-time capabilites are/are not required, - articulate the relationship between classical real-time systems, multimedia/interactive commercial systems, and general purpose computing systems, - capture the research challenges associated with widespead commercially available multimedia/interactive systems, - characterize multimedia data types and control types, - propose multimedia/interactive computing benchmarks, - summarize industry specific computing requirements, telecommunications, workstations, etc. Other solicited topics include: - multi-media applications in distributed and parallel systems and studies of their timing and scheduling requirements, - support of multi-media applications' timing requirements in communication protocols, by operating system schedulers, or at hardware and user levels, - tools and programming support for evaluation and realization of for multi-media/interactive applications. The workshop will be held on in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina on November 30, 1993. Important dates are: position papers due September 15, 1993, notification to authors by November 1, 1993. For more information, contact Jay K. Strosnider by email at strosnider@ece.cmu.edu. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<* END OF THE IEEE-CS TC-RTS NEWSLETTER *>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The TC-RTS repository is maintained by Azer Bestavros at Boston University Internet address for anonymous FTP to the TC-RTS repository is: cs.bu.edu Contributions to this forum should be sent via E-mail to: IEEE-RTTC@cs.bu.edu Requests / inquiries should be sent via E-mail to: IEEE-RTTC-request@cs.bu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------