Subject: IEEE-CS TC-RTS Newsletter for Fri Aug 08, 1997 _______________________________________________________________________________ __ _ __ ___ ___ __ __ I E E E Technical Committee |\ | |_ | | (_' | |_ | | |_ |_) C S on Real-Time Systems | \| |__ |/\| ,_) |__ |__ | | |__ | \ _______________________________________________________________________________ Table of Contents Line ----------------- ---- 1. "Kang G. Shin" (23 lines) Textbook on Real-Time Systems...................................... 3 2. ekerrissey@wkap.com (Ellie Kerrissey) (80 lines) New Book Announcement.............................................. 26 3. Sang Hyuk Son (61 lines) Article for next RTS newsletter.................................... 106 4. Chen YangQuan (103 lines) RIOTS_95: optimal control software for MATLAB...................... 167 5. Azer Bestavros (77 lines) RTAS'98 CFP: IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium.. 270 6. "James H. Anderson" (545 lines) RTSS'97 Program and Call for Participation......................... 347 7. Riccardo Bettati (102 lines) CFP: IEEE Workshop on Middleware for Distr. Real-Time Systems and.. 891 8. Azer Bestavros (52 lines) RTSS'97: Work-In-Progress Session Call for Contributions........... 994 9. "Jen-Yao Chung (914/784-7762 (8/863))" (295 lines) RTDB'97: Advance Program and Call for Participation................ 1062 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<* START OF THE IEEE-CS TC-RTS NEWSLETTER *>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message 1; Postmarked Mon Mar 31 21:24:52 1997 From: "Kang G. Shin" Subject: Textbook on Real-Time Systems Content-Length: 616 Title: Real-Time Systems Publisher: McGraw Hill, ISBN 0-07-057043-4 Authors: C. Mani Krishna and Kang G. Shin Targets: Upperclass undergraduates, graduates, and industry practioners Contents: 9 chapters and appendix 448 pages Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Characterizing Real-Time Systems and Tasks Chapter 3. Task Assignment and Scheduling Chapter 4. Programming Languages and Tools Chapter 5. Real-Time Databases Chapter 6. Real-Time Communications Chapter 7. Fault-Tolerance Techniques Chapter 8. Reliability Evaluation Techniques Chapter 9. Clock Synchronization Appendix: Review of Modeling Techniques ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message 2; Postmarked Wed Apr 16 14:14:30 1997 From: ekerrissey@wkap.com (Ellie Kerrissey) Subject: New Book Announcement Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Description: cc:Mail note part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 3540 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THE PUBLICATION OF.... Real-Time Systems Design Principles for Distributed Embedded Applications by Hermann Kopetz, Technische Universität Wien, Austria Real-Time Systems: Design Principles for Distributed Embedded Applications focuses on hard real-time systems, which are computing systems that must meet their temporal specification in all anticipated load and fault scenarios. The book stresses the system aspects of distributed real-time applications, treating the issues of real-time, distribution and fault-tolerance from an integral point of view. A unique cross-fertilization of ideas and concepts between the academic and industrial worlds has led to the inclusion of many insightful examples from industry to explain the fundamental scientific concepts in a real-world setting. Thus, this book serves as an excellent text for advanced level courses on real-time systems. Real-Time Systems: Design Principles for Distributed Embedded Applications also serves as an invaluable reference for professionals in industry. The book explains the relevance of the latest scientific insights to the solution of everyday problems in the design and implementation of distributed and embedded real-time systems. Thus, as a reference source the book presents state-of-the-art real-time technology in a coherent, concise and understandable manner. Because the cost-effectiveness of a particular method is of major concern in an industrial setting, design decisions are examined from an economic viewpoint. The recent appearance of cost-effective powerful system chips has tremendous influence on the architecture and economics of future distributed system solutions. The composability of an architecture, i.e., the capability to build dependable large systems out of pre-tested components with minimal integration effort, is one of the great challenges for designers of the next generation of real-time systems. The topic of composability is thus a recurring theme throughout the book. Real-Time Systems: Design Principles for Distributed Embedded Applications is essential reading for anyone involved in the field of real-time systems. Contents: 1. The Real-Time Environment. 2. Why a Distributed Solution? 3. Global Time. 4. Modeling Real-Time Systems. 5. Real-Time Entities and Images. 6. Fault Tolerance. 7. Real-Time Communication. 8. The Time-Triggered Protocols. 9. Input/Output. 10. Real-Time Operating Systems. 11. Real-Time Scheduling. 12. Validation. 13. System Design. 14. The Time-Triggered Architecture. List of Abbreviations. Glossary. References. Index 1997, 352 pp., Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-9894-7 FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT OUR ON-LINE CATALOGUE AT: WWW.WKAP.NL The specific URL for this title is: http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/kapis/CGI-BIN/WORLD/book.htm?0-7923-9894-7 or contact us at: Kluwer Academic Publishers 101 Philip Drive Norwell, Ma. 02061 Phone: 617-871-6600, Fax: (617) 871-6528 E-mail: kluwer@wkap.com Kluwer Academic Publishers P. O. Box 322 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands Phone 31 78 639 2392, Fax: 31 78 6546474 E-mail: services@wkap.nl ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message 3; Postmarked Wed Apr 16 21:29:05 1997 From: Sang Hyuk Son Subject: Article for next RTS newsletter Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1987 Research Associate/System Programmer Position for Global Multimedia Real-Time Database Systems Real-Time Systems Lab Department of Computing Science University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22903 The Real-Time Systems Lab of the University of Virginia is looking for a research associate/system programmer for a research project to develop global multimedia real-time database systems, called BeeHive. The objective of the BeeHive project is to design and develop a global database that can provide real-time access to both temporally accurate and multimedia data. Such systems require added value beyond today's distributed databases along 4 dimensions: real-time, quality of service for audio, video and images, adaptive fault tolerance, and security. This research requires solutions in the subareas of databases, operating systems, real-time computing, high performance computing, and high speed networking. We are seeking one research associate and/or system programmer with experiences in object-oriented programming and/or real-time systems to join our lab. We are especially interested in individuals who can work in a team environment interacting with faculty and graduate students on a daily basis. Appointment will initially be for one year, renewable based on performance and availability of funds. The starting date is open to discussion, however we would like to have someone in place no later than June 1, 1997. Unfortunately, the position does require U.S. citizenship. Interested candidates should contact one of us at the following address: Prof. John Stankovic Chair, Department of Computer Science University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22903 Phone: 804-982-2275 Fax: 804-982-2214 E-mail: stankovic@cs.virginia.edu or Prof. Sang H. Son Department of Computer Science University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22903 Phone: 804-982-2205 Fax: 804-982-2214 Email: son@cs.virginia.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message 4; Postmarked Wed Jun 4 02:33:44 1997 From: Chen YangQuan Subject: RIOTS_95: optimal control software for MATLAB Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 4922 ANNOUNCING: +--------------------------******--------------------------+ | | | R I O T S _ 9 5 (version 1.0) | | | | A Matlab Toolbox for Solving Optimal Control Problems | | | +--------------------------******--------------------------+ for Windows3.1, Windows95 and WindowsNT. RIOTS is a group of programs and utilities, written mostly in C and designed as a toolbox for Matlab, that provides an interactive environment for solving a very broad class of finite-horizon optimal control problems. This class includes problems with: * Lagrange, Bolza and Mayer type objective functions * Linear or Nonlinear dynamics * Min-Max objective functions * Free final time problems * Variable initial conditions * Endpoint equality and inequality constraints * Trajectory inequality constraints on the states and controls * Simple bounds on the controls and free initial conditions The user can supply objective, constraint and dynamics functions as either object code or M-files. Derivatives of these functions should also be supplied. The optimal control is an accumulation point of the solutions RIOTS obtains to a sequence of discretized optimal control problems. The discretized problems are, in a specific sense, consistent approximations to the original continuous-time, optimal control problem. The discretized optimal control problems are constructed by integrating the system dynamics with one of four fixed step-size Runge-Kutta integration methods, a discretized solver or a variable step-size integration algorithm and by representing the controls as finite-dimensional B-splines. The integrations proceed over a (possibly non-uniform) mesh that specifies the spline breakpoints. Solutions of the discretized, finite-dimensional problems are obtained using one of three descent methods using standard nonlinear programming techniques. The solution obtained for one discretized problem can be used to automatically select a new integration mesh upon which the optimal control problem can be re-discretized to produce a new discretized problem. The new discretized problem will more accurately approximate the original, continuous-time optimal control problem. Hence, its solution will be more accurate. In practice, only a few such re-discretizations need to be performed to achieve an acceptable solution. RIOTS provides three different programs that perform the discretization and solve the finite-dimensional discretized problem. The appropriate choice of optimization program depends on the type of problem being solved as well as the number of points in the integration mesh. In addition to these optimization programs, RIOTS also includes other utility programs that are used to refine the discretization mesh, to compute estimates of integration errors, to compute estimates for the error between the numerically obtained solution and the optimal control and to deal with oscillations that arise in the numerical solution of singular optimal control problems. A complete description of RIOTS is contained in the RIOTS user's manual (91 pages). A postscript version of the user's manual is downloadable from the World Wide Web. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Requirements: IBM PC compatible with Windows3.1, Windows95 or WinNt. Matlab 4.2c or Matlab 4.0 Matlab Spline Toolbox ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A RIOTS_95 demonstration is available from the RIOTS Homepage: http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~adams/riots.html http://www.cadcam.nus.sg/~elecyq/ or http://www.ee.nus.sg/~yangquan/riots.html If you have any questions or comments, please send email to: Adam Schwartz (adams@eecs.berkeley.edu) or Yangquan Chen (yangquan@ee.nus.sg) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- R. Alur, Pennsylvania B. Krogh, Carnegie Mellon P. Antsaklis, Notre Dame S. Lafortune, Michigan K. Astrom, Lund K. Larsen, Aalborg A. Benveniste, INRIA-IRISA O. Maler, VERIMAG A. Bouajjani, VERIMAG Z. Manna, Stanford M. Branicky, Case Western Reserve S. Morse, Yale P. Caines, McGill A. Nerode, Cornell D. Godbole, PATH P. Ramadge, Princeton M. Greenstreet, British Columbia S. Sastry, Berkeley (co-chair) V. Gupta, Xerox R. Segala, Bologna T. Henzinger, Berkeley (co-chair) H. Wong-Toi, Cadence ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message 5; Postmarked Fri Aug 8 09:36:49 1997 From: Azer Bestavros Subject: RTAS'98 CFP: IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium Content-Length: 4417 CALL FOR PAPERS ,--. --- .--. ,--. / .--. .--. | | | | | | | | | | Real-Time Technology & Applications Symposium |--' | |--| `--. `--| >< Denver, Colorado, USA | \ | | | | | | | June 10-12, 1998 | \ | | | `--' `--' `--' Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society TC on Real-Time Systems +----------------------------+ | | Objectives and Scope: | General Chair | -------------------- | ------------- | The IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications | Raj Rajkumar, USA | Symposium brings together real-time (RT) system | | developers and researchers from academia, indu- | Program Chair | stry and government to present advances in real | ------------- | time systems research and discuss the practical | Azer Bestavros, USA | challenges encountered, and adopted solutions. | | An exciting program that fosters discussions | Publicity Chairs | and technical exchanges is planned, including | ---------------- | tutorials, panels, and paper presentations on | Susan Nagy, USA | various aspects of RT computing and communica- | Sten Andler, Sweden | tion. Of particular interest are papers detail- | Farn Wang, ROC | ing experiments, implementations, and experien- | | ces in application domains such as multimedia, | Local Chair | internet and wireless appliances, avionics, | ----------- | advanced highway systems, process control, | Marty Humphrey, USA | robotics and automated manufacturing. | | | Treasurer | Submission Guidelines: | ---------- | --------------------- | Walt Heimerdinger, USA | Manuscripts to be considered as full papers | | should be limited to 20 double-spaced pages. | Ex-Officio | Work-in-progress to be considered as short | ---------- | papers should be limited to 6 pages. Both hard- | Doug Locke, USA | copy and electronic submissions are acceptable. | | Electronic submission is preferred; consult the | Program Committee | RTAS'98 home page for instructions. In addition | ----------------- | to the manuscript, a 150-word abstract in ASCII | Sanjoy Baruah, USA | must be emailed to the Program Chair: | Pam Binns, USA | | Rebecca Callison, USA | Prof. Azer Bestavros | Saurav Chatterjee, USA | Computer Science Dept Email: best@cs.bu.edu | Ray Clark, USA | Boston University Phone: (617) 353-9726 | Duncan Clarke, USA | Boston, MA 02215 Fax: (617) 353-6457 | Jorgen Hansson, Sweden | | Kevin Jeffay, USA | All submissions should reach the Program Chair | Mike Jones, USA | by Dec 7, 1997. Submissions to RTAS'98 must not | Tei-Wei Kuo, ROC | have been published in or submitted to other | Insup Lee, USA | conferences or journals. A Best Student Paper | David L. Levine, USA | Award and honorarium will be presented to a | Jane Liu, USA | student who is designated as the primary author | Al Mok, USA | of a full-length paper. | Doug Niehaus, USA | | Krithi Ramamritham, USA | Proposals for half-day tutorials are also soli- | Manas Saksena, Canada | cited. Contact the Program Chair for details. | Chia Shen, USA | | Kang Shin, USA | Important Deadlines: | Sang Son, USA | ------------------- | Jack Stankovic, USA | Dec 7, 1997 -> Submission of manuscripts | Neeraj Suri, USA | Dec 14, 1997 -> Proposals for tutorials | Bhavani Thuraisingham, USA | Feb 6, 1998 -> Notification of acceptance | Victor Wolfe, USA | Apr 3, 1998 -> Camera-ready of accepted papers | | Jun 10, 1998 -> Symposium starts +----------------------------+ RTAS'98 WWW home page is available at http://www.cs.bu.edu/pub/ieee-rts/rtas98 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message 6; Postmarked Fri Aug 8 10:24:51 1997 From: "James H. Anderson" Subject: RTSS'97 Program and Call for Participation Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 18637 __ __ __ __ , __ __ /_/ / /_ /_ /_/ / 18th IEEE REAL-TIME SYSTEMS SYMPOSIUM / \ / __/__/ __/ / December 2-5, 1997 -- San Francisco, CA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TABLE OF CONTENTS A. RTSS97 ADVANCE PROGRAM AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION technical sessions workshop and exhibition work-in-progress session B. ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM C. REGISTRATION INFORMATION D. HOTEL INFORMATION A. ADVANCE PROGRAM & CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium December 2-5, 1997 San Francisco, CA Sponsored by The IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems IEEE RTSS'97 Home Page http://cs-www.bu.edu/pub/ieee-rts/rtss97 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, December 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8:00 - 5:00pm Workshop on Middleware for Distributed Real-Time Systems and Services. For more information about the workshop, contact Riccardo Bettati (bettati@cs.tamu.edu). 6:00 - 8:00pm RTSS97 registration ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, December 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8:00 - 8:30am Registration and Opening Remarks 8:30 - 10:00am Session 1: Model Checking Formal Modeling And Analysis Of An Audio/Video Protocol: An Industrial Case Study Using UPPAAL K. Havelund, A. Skou, K. G. Larsen, K. Lund, Aalborg U., Denmark Efficient Verification Of Real-Time Systems: Compact Data Structure And State-Space Reduction K. G. Larsen, F. Larsson, P. Pettersson, W. Yi, Uppsala U., Sweden On-The-Fly Symbolic Model Checking For Real-Time Systems A. Bouajjani, S. Tripakis, S. Yovine, Verimag, France 10:00am - 7:00pm Exhibit Room Open 10:30am - 12:30pm Session 2: Scheduling Theory A Better Polynomial-Time Schedulability Test For Real-Time Fixed-Priority Scheduling Algorithms C.C. Han, Ohio State U. Combining (n, m)-Hard Deadlines And Dual Priority Scheduling G. Bernat, U. Illes Balears, Spain, A. Burns, U. York, UK Real-Time Queuing Network Theory J. Lehoczky, CMU Jitter Concerns In Periodic Task Systems S.K. Baruah, U. Vermont, D. Chen, A.K. Mok, UT Austin 2:00 - 3:30pm Session 3: Fault Tolerance Adaptive Fault Tolerance And Graceful Degradation Under Dynamic Hard Real-Time Scheduling O. Gonzalez, H. Shrikumar, K. Ramamritham, U. Massachusetts, J. A. Stankovic, U. Virginia A Low-Cost Processor Group Membership Protocol For A Hard Real-Time Distributed System M. Clegg, K. Marzullo, UCSD Efficient Spare-Resource Allocation For Fast Restoration Of Real-Time Channels S. Han, K.G.Shin, U. Michigan 4:00 - 5:45pm Session 4: Industrial Presentations And Demonstrations 5:50 - 6:30pm Technical Committee Meeting 6:00 - 7:00pm Poster Session 7:00 - 9:00pm Banquet Keynote Speaker: David Wilner, WindRiver Systems ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday , December 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8:00 - 10:00am Session 5: Synchronization And Data Sharing Wait-Free Object-Sharing Schemes For Real-Time Uniprocessors And Multiprocessors J. H. Anderson, R. Jain, S. Ramamurthy, U. North Carolina More Optimism About Real-Time Commit Processing R. Gupta, J. Haritsa, IIS, India, K. Ramamritham, U. Massachusetts Novel Approach To Multiprogrammed Multiprocessor Synchronization For Real-Time Kernels H. Takada, K. Sakamura, U. Tokyo, Japan Similarity-Based Load Adjustment For Real-Time Data-Intensive Applications T.W. Kuo, S.J. Ho, Chung-Cheng U. Taiwan, A. K. Mok, UT Austin 10:00am - 5:00pm Exhibit Room Open 10:30am - 12noon Session 6: Runtime System Implementation Real-Time File Systems: Guaranteeing Timing Constraints For Disk Access In RT-Mach A. Molano, K. Juvva, R. Rajkumar, CMU Implementation And Evaluation Of Real-Time Java Threads A. Miyoshi, T. Kitayama, H. Tokuda, Keio U. Japan Early Detection Of Timing Constraint Violation At Runtime A. K. Mok, G. Liu, UT Austin 1:30 - 3pm Session 7: Cache-Related And Hardware Scheduler Enhanced Analysis Of Cache-Related Preemption Delay In Fixed-Priority Preemptive Scheduling C.G. Lee et al., Seoul National U., Korea A Cache-Aware Scheduling Algorithm For Embedded Systems G. Luculli, M. Di Natale, U. Pisa, Italy Scalable Hardware EDF Scheduler For ATM Network B.K. Kim, K. G. Shin, U. Michigan 3:30 - 5:00pm Session 8: Specification And Design Of Real-Time Systems Formal Development Of A Real-Time Kernel S. Fowler, A. Wellings, U. York, UK A Constraint-Based Approach For Specification And Verification Of Real-Time Systems E. Pontelli, G. Gupta, New Mexico State U. Guidelines For Automated Implementation Of Executable Object Oriented Models For Real-Time Embedded Control Systems M. Saksena, P. Freedman, P. Rodziewicz, Concordia U., Canada 5:00 - 7:00pm Work-In-Progress ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday , December 5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8:00am - 12:00noon Poster Open 8:00 - 10:00am Session 9: Real-Time Networks Smoothness Upperbound And Approximation Techniques For Real-Time VBR Video Traffic Smoothing J. Zhang, J. Hui, Rutgers U. Static Priority Scheduling For ATM Networks C. Li, Wei Zhao, R. Bettati, Texas A&M U. Response-Time Guarantees In ATM Networks A. Ermedahl, H. Hansson, M. Sjodin, Uppsala U. Sweden Integrated Delay Analysis Of Regulated ATM K.-Y. Ng, S. Song, Hong Kong Baptist U., W. Zhao, City U. Of Hong Kong 10:30am - 12:30pm Session 10: QoS And Open Systems A Resource Allocation Model For QoS Management R. Rajkumar, C. Lee, J. Lehoczky, D. Siewiorek, CMU Scheduling Real-Time Applications In An Open Environment Z. Deng, J. W.-S. Liu, UIUC On Adaptive Resource Allocation For Complex Real-Time Applications D.I. Rosu, K. Schwan, S. Yalamanchili, R. Jha, GIT Exploiting Skips In Periodic Tasks For Enhancing Aperiodic Responsiveness M. Caccamo, G. Buttazzo, SSSUP, Italy 2:00 - 4:00pm Session 11: Industrial Panel: Real Issues and Real Solutions ---------------------------------------------- Workshop ---------------------------------------------- A workshop on Middleware for Distributed Real-Time Systems and Services is being organized to be held immediately before the symposium on December 2. Submissions are due October 10, 1997. For more information, contact Riccardo Bettati (bettati@cs.tamu.edu) or see http://www.cs.tamu.edu/research/realtime/wmdrtss97.html. ---------------------------------------------- Exhibition ---------------------------------------------- An exhibition of hardware and software products for real-time systems will be held in conjunction with the symposium. Any industrial and university groups wishing to participate in the exhibition should contact Jen-Yao Chung (jychung@watson.ibm.com). --------------------------------------------- Work-In-Progress Session --------------------------------------------- Contributions to a special Work-In-Progress (WIP) session of RTSS'97 are sought. RTSS'97 WIP will be devoted to the presentation of new and on-going projects in real-time systems and applications. The prime purpose of this session is to provide researchers an opportunity to discuss their evolving ideas and gather feedback thereon from the real-time community at large. The RTSS'97 WIP session will be held on Thursday, December 4, 1997, and will consist of 10-minute presentations of all accepted submissions. Also, accepted submissions will be included in a special RTSS'97 WIP proceedings which will be distributed to all RTSS'97 conference participants, and will be available electronically from the IEEE-CS TC-RTS Home Page on the WWW. Submissions to RTSS'97 WIP should describe original on-going work and should be limited to 2,000 words. Submissions dealing with real-time issues in applications such as multimedia, networking, middleware services, and process control, as well as reports describing on-going system building efforts in such applications are strongly encouraged. Please send all submissions via Email to RTSS'97 WIP Chair: Azer Bestavros Computer Science Dept Email: best@cs.bu.edu Boston University Phone: (617) 493-2823 The deadline for submissions is October 17, 1997. Notification of acceptance will be sent out on November 3, 1997. For more information, please contact RTSS'97 WIP Chair or check the RTSS'97 WIP Home Page at: http://cs-www.bu.edu/pub/ieee-rts/rtss97/wip ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- B. ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM The Real-Time Systems Symposium is a forum for exchanging information on recent technological advances and practices in real-time computing. It has always been the premier international conference in the field of real-time systems - a field that is becoming an essential discipline in the field of computer science and engineering. As the demand for the functionalities and reliabilities of real-time systems continue to grow, our intellectual and engineering abilities are being challenged to come up with practical solutions to the problems faced in design and development of complex real-time systems. The interest in this important field is confirmed by the high number of quality submissions. Following the tradition of RTSS, parallel sessions are avoided to give participants the opportunity to have full interactions with speakers and to exchange ideas with all other participants. The symposium will be preceded by the Workshop on Middleware for Distributed Real-Time Systems and Services, to be held on December 2. For more information about the workshop, contact Riccardo Bettati (bettati@cs.tamu.edu). A special Work-In-Progress (WIP) session will be organized by Azer Bestavros (best@cs.bu.edu) which is devoted to the presentation of new and on-going projects in real-time systems and applications. In addition, an exhibition of hardware and software products for real-time systems will be held in conjunction with the symposium. For the details of the exhibition, contact Jen-Yao Chung (jychung@watson.ibm.com). ============================================================================= C. REGISTRATION INFORMATION Registration details are still being finalized. Registration information will be posted on the conference web page shortly (http://cs-www.bu.edu/pub/ieee-rts/rtss97). ============================================================================= D. HOTEL INFORMATION Hotel Reservation Information Deadline: November 7, 1997 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fairmont Hotel San Francisco Phone: 800-527-4727 Attn: Reservations or 415-772-5000 950 Mason Street Fax: 415-772-5013 San Francisco, CA 94108 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Please phone in your reservation, and make sure you mention "IEEE" for the conference rate. Alternatively, complete the information below (type or print), and mail this form directly to the hotel. RTSS rates for each room for single/double occupancy are $139/$149, respectively, plus 14% sales tax, for main building standard room. Each additional person will be charged $30. Accommodation desired: Single $139 ____ Double $149 ____ Non Smoking Room ____ Smoking Room ____ Name: Address: Phone: Fax: Arrival Date: Departure Date: Check-in is after 3:00 pm, check-out is 1:00 pm. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A block of rooms has been reserved until November 7th, 1997. After this date, room reservations will be accepted on a space available basis. For attendees who plan on staying at the Fairmont over the weekends before and/or after the conference, we suggest taking advantage of the IEEE conference rate as above or any discounted weekend rates offered by the hotel. One night's deposit is required with each reservation. A valid major credit card guarantee is acceptable in lieu of a cash deposit. 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Stay in the left lane and follow the signs for Highway 101 North, Golden Gate Bridge. 3. Take the 9th Street, Civic Center exit. Make a half left onto 9th Street. 4. Go five blocks to Market Street. Stay in the right lane. 5. When you cross over Market Street, 9th Street becomes Larkin Street. 6. Go 14 blocks on Larkin Street and turn right onto California Street. 7. Go five blocks on California Street and turn left onto Mason Street. Shuttle Service from Airport Several airport transportation companies provide service from San Francisco International Airport to the Fairmont Hotel. The one-way person fare is approximately $10-11. Advance airport pickup reservations are not accepted because of flight delays. Upon arrival, call one of the following: Door-to-Door (415) 775-5121; SuperShuttle (415) 558-8500; American Airporter Shuttle (415) 546-6689; or Quake City Shuttle at (415) 255-4899. You may also go out to the curb at Passenger Arrival level of the Airport and find the Shuttle services waiting there. NORTH BAY TO FAIRMONT HOTEL 1. Take Highway 101 South over the Golden Gate Bridge ($3 toll). 2. Go straight ahead on Doyle Drive, take the Lombard Street exit. 3. Go 11 blocks on Lombard Street, turn right onto Van Ness Avenue. 4. Go ten blocks on Van Ness and turn left onto Clay Street. 5. Go six blocks on Clay Street and turn right onto Taylor Street. 6. Go two blocks on Taylor Street to California Street. 7. Left on California, one block to Mason Street. 8. Left on Mason Street. NOB HILL PARKING GARAGES ------------------------ Fairmont Hotel Garage (The Parking Place) Powell and California Streets (415) 772-5223 Rates: $5.00 for the first hour S5.00 each half hour after the first hour $27.00 maximum, per day. Brocklebank Garage (415) 391-1378 1040 Sacramento Street Rates: $5.00 1st hour, $7.00 2nd hour $9.00 up to 9 hours $12.00 up to 10 hours (or 1:30am) $19.00 overnight (out by 7:00am) Masonic Garage Masonic Auditorium 1101 California Street (415) 474-1567 Rates: $2.00 each 20 minutes $15.00 maximum Metro Parking-Crocker 1045 California Street (415) 346-5565 Rates: $2.50 each 20 minutes $20.00 maximum Grace Cathedral - Parking Garage (415) 346-9156 1051 Taylor Street Rates: $2.00 each 20 minutes $16.00 maximum The above information is provided by the Fairmont Hotel for your assistance. The Hotel does not guarantee the rates posted. Prices are subject to change without notice. ============================================================================= Conference Organization General Chair Sang H. Son, USA Program Chair Kwei-Jay Lin, USA Treasurer Walt Heimerdinger, USA Publicity Chairs James H. Anderson, USA Alan Burns, UK Sang Lyul Min, Korea Industrial Chair Jen-Yao Chung, USA Ex-Officio C. Douglass Locke, USA Program Committee Sanjoy Baruah, USA Azer Bestavros, USA Alan Burns, UK Jean-Charles Fabre, France Richard Gerber, USA Ching-Chih Han, USA Michael Gonzalez Harbour, Spain Connie Heitmeyer, USA Tei-Wei Kuo, Taiwan Yann-Hang Lee, USA Jane W.S. Liu, USA Raj Rajkumar, USA Krithi Ramamritham, USA Heonshik Shin, Korea John A. Stankovic, USA Satish Tripathi, USA Wei Zhao, Hong Kong *********************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message 7; Postmarked Mon Jun 23 15:14:43 1997 Subject: CFP: IEEE Workshop on Middleware for Distr. Real-Time Systems and Services From: Riccardo Bettati Sender: bettati@cs.tamu.edu Content-Length: 4053 ============================================================================= **** C A L L F O R P A P E R S **** ============================================================================= IEEE Workshop on Middleware for Distributed Real-Time Systems and Services December 2, 1997 San Francisco, California Held in conjunction with the 18th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS97) ============================================================================= As the field of distributed real-time systems matures, established software architectures and frameworks begin to replace ad-hoc approaches for programming such systems. On the other hand, users start expressing the wish for standardization of programming environments, possibly by extending existing standards, such as CORBA, DCE, TINA, and many others. Initial standardization efforts are under way, as for example in the OMG Real-Time CORBA Special Interest Group. In addition, attempts are being made by the telecommunication community to extend environments for real-time service creation in communication systems from the communication layer to the end-hosts. This workshop will give opportunity to researchers, developers, and practitioners working in related areas to exchange experience on the design and implementation of middleware for distributed real-time services, and to discuss issues on requirements and specifications for programming and engineering frameworks for the development of such systems. The workshop is targeted to be a forum for free flow of ideas. Particularly welcome would be reports on experimental work, experience with current standards and position papers addressing current and future standardization efforts. Topics of submissions include but are not limited to: * experimental frameworks * experimental systems for the deployment of real-time services * real-time CORBA and friends * real-time distributed object technology * extending end-to-end guarantees beyond the network-host boundary * design of off-the-shelf real-time software components * open architectures for QoS control * generic control, management and service APIs * validable middleware * frameworks for secure real-time systems * middleware support for real-time Java Authors are invited to submit regular papers, reports on work in progress, position papers, as well as proposals for panel discussions. Regular paper submissions should be limited to 16 pages (12 pages for reports and position papers,), double space, including figures. The title page should include a maximum 150-word abstract, five keywords, full mailing address, e-mail address, phone number, fax number, and a designated contact author. An electronic version (postscript file) or five copies of your manuscript should be submitted by Oct 10, 1997 to the program chair at the following address: Professor Riccardo Bettati Department of Computer Science H.R. Bright Building Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-3112 tel: +1 (409) 845-5469 fax: +1 (409) 847-8578 e-mail: bettati@cs.tamu.edu Important Dates: ---------------- Paper submission deadline: Oct 10, 1997 Notification of acceptance: Oct 31, 1997 Camera ready paper due: Nov 14, 1997 For more information about the workshop, send email to realtime@cs.tamu.edu or visit our home page at http://www.cs.tamu.edu/research/realtime/wmdrtss97.html This workshop will be held in conjunction with the 18th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS-18) in San Francisco, which will be held Dec. 3-5, 1997. For information about RTSS'97, see its WWW page at http://cs-www.bu.edu/pub/ieee-rts/rtss97. ============================================================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message 8; Postmarked Fri Jul 15 09:07:03 1997 From: Azer Bestavros Subject: RTSS'97: Work-In-Progress Session Call for Contributions Content-Length: 2302 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---. --- ,--.,--. / .--. .---. 18th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium | | | | | | | | | December 3-5, 1997 |--' | `--.`--. `--| / San Fransisco, CA | \ | | | | / | \ | `--'`--' `--' / SESSION ON WORK IN PROGRESS Sponsored by IEEE-CS TC-RTS Call for Contributions ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Contributions to a special Work-In-Progress (WIP) session of RTSS'97 are sought. RTSS'97 WIP will be devoted to the presentation of new and on-going projects in real-time systems and applications. The prime purpose of this session is to provide researchers an opportunity to discuss their evolving ideas and gather feedback thereon from the real-time community at large. The RTSS'97 WIP session will be held on Thursday, December 4, 1997, and will consist of 10-minute presentations of all accepted submissions. Also, accepted submissions will be included in a special RTSS'97 WIP proceedings which will be distributed to all RTSS'97 conference participants, and will be available electronically from the IEEE-CS TC-RTS Home Page on the WWW. Submissions to RTSS'97 WIP should describe original on-going work and should be limited to 2,000 words. Submissions dealing with real-time issues in applications such as multimedia, networking, middleware services, and process control, as well as reports describing on-going system building efforts in such applications are strongly encouraged. Please send all submissions via Email to RTSS'97 WIP Chair: Azer Bestavros Computer Science Dept Email: best@cs.bu.edu Boston University Phone: (617) 493-2823 The deadline for submissions is October 17, 1997. Notification of acceptance will be sent out on November 3, 1997. For more information, please contact RTSS'97 WIP Chair or check the RTSS'97 WIP Home Page at: http://www.cs.bu.edu/pub/ieee-rts/rtss97/wip ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message 9; Postmarked Wed Jun 25 14:45:27 1997 From: "Jen-Yao Chung (914/784-7762 (8/863))" Subject: RTSS97 industrial session Content-Length: 403 We would like to invite you and your organization to participate in the Exhibits portion of 18th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 1997). The detailed information can be found on the Web at "http://www.eng.uci.edu/~cpeng/rtss-ind.html" We look forward to hearing from you soon. If you have any questions or wish any further information, please contact Jen-Yao Chung (jychung@watson.ibm.com). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message 10; Postmarked Fri Aug 8 09:07:03 1997 From: Azer Bestavros Subject: RTDB'97: Advance Program and Call for Participation Content-Length: 11060 RTDB'97 Second International Workshop on Real-Time Databases Advance Program and Call for Participation September 18-19, 1997 Burlington, Vermont, USA Objectives and Scope -------------------- The International Workshop on Real-Time Databases is the primary forum for the presentation and discussion of the issues involved in the design and implementation of real-time information systems and databases. Following the success of RTDB'96, the goal of this workshop will continue to be the promotion of an active interaction among real-time database researchers and practitioners in the following areas: - Advances in the state-of-art in real-time database technology, including: novel data and transaction models and standards, and novel protocols for integrating scheduling, overload management, concurrency control, and recovery. - Research in disciplines related to real-time databases such as active databases, temporal databases, and mobile databases. - Research work dealing with real-time database issues in applications such as multimedia, telecommunication networks, financial transaction systems, real-time internet and intranet applications, among others. - Reports describing on-going real-time database system building efforts, including requirement specifications and design tools, integration with active, dependable, and secure database features, and interactions with operating systems and programming environments. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Program ------- Wednesday September 17 * 6:00-7:00pm: Informal reception ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday September 18 * 8:00-9:00am: Apropos - Registration and breakfast - Welcome remarks * 9:00-10:00am: Applications I - "Real-time Mutable Broadcast Disks". Sanjoy Baruah, University of Vermont, and Azer Bestavros, Boston University, USA. - "Real-Time Data and Coordination Control for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems". M. Tayara, N. Soparkar, J. Yook, and D. Tilbury, University of Michigan. * 10:00-10:30am: Break * 10:30-11:30am: Applications II - "File Layout Design of VBR Video on Zoned-Disks". Yu-Chung Wang, Shiao-Li Tsao, Meng Chang Chen, Jan-Ming Ho and Ming-Tat Ko, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. - "A Framework For Using Redundant Data to Optimize Read-Intensive Database Applications". Timothy Griffin, Richard Hull, Bharat Kumar, Daniel Lieuwen, and Gang Zhou Lucent Technologies, USA. - "Object-Oriented Data Management and Distribution for Real-Time Command and Control Systems". Roman Ginis, Eric Hughes, Steven Wohlever, Bhavani Thurasingham, Peter Krupp, John Maurer, MITRE Corporation, USA. * 11:30-Noon: Discussion: - New Applications For RTDBs * Noon-1:30pm: Lunch * 1:30-3:10 pm: Scheduling - "Integrating Fixed Priority and Static Scheduling for External Consistency". Wolfgang Albrecht and Dieter Zobel, Institut fuer Informatik of the Universitae Koblenz, Germany. - "Scheduling Nested Transactions in Real-time Database System". Erdogan Dogdu and Gultekin Ozsoyoglu Case Western Reserve University, USA. - "Data State Dependent Approach for Criticality Assignment in Real-time Active Databases". Kam-yiu Lam, Gary C.K. Law and Victor C.S. Lee City University of Hong Kong, China. - "Towards Unifying Database Scheduling and Concurrency Control: A Frontier Approach" Gregory Jones, Naval UnderSea Warfare Center, Lisa Cingiser DiPippo and Victor Fay Wolfe, University of Rhode Island, USA. * 3:10-3:45pm: Break * 3:45-5:30pm Panel: Future Directions for RTDB on the Internet - Chair: Jen-Yao Chung, IBM. - Participants from IBM, Lucent, Computer Associate, HP, Open Sesame, and the University of Michigan. * 6:30 Banquet ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Friday September 19, 1997 * 8:00-8:30am: Breakfast * 8:30-10:30am: Concurrency Management I - "A Performance Study of the Semantic-Based Concurrency Control Protocol in Air Traffic Control systems". Ching-Shan Peng, Kwei-Jay Lin, and Tony Ng, University of California, Irvine, USA. - "Enhancement of Alternative Version Concurrency Control Using Dynamic Adjustment of Serialization Order for a Mixed Load of Transactions". Inho Yoon LG Electronics, and Seog Park, Sogang University, Korea. - "Concurrency Control for Approximate Query Processing of Real-Time Database Systems" Susan V. Vrbsky, Sasa Tomic, University of Alabama and Nenad Jukic, Grand Valley State University, USA. - "Concurrency Admission Control for Real-Time Databases". S. Nagy The Open Group and Azer Bestravos Boston University, USA. * 10:30-11:00am: Break * 11:00am-12:10pm: Concurrency Management II - "A Study of Priority Cognizance in Conflict Resolution for Firm Real-Time Database Systems". Anindya Datta, Igor R. Viguier, Vijay Kumar, and Sang H. Son University of Arizona, USA. - "Implementing Hard Real Time Transactions on Multiprocessors". James H. Anderson, Rohit Jain, Srikanth Ramamurthy, University of North Carolina, USA. - "Transaction Processing in the RODAIN Real-Time Database System" Jukka Kiviniemi, Tiina Niklander, Pasi Porkka, and Kimmo Raatikainen, University of Helsinki, Finland. * 12:10-1:30pm: Lunch * 1:30-2:50pm: Languages - "Toward Specification and Analysis of Real-Time Active Databases". Ming Xiong and Krithi Ramamritham, University of Massachusetts, USA. - "Optimizing Performance-Polymorphic Declarative Database Queries". Thomas Padron-McCarthy and Tore Risch, Linkoping University, Sweden. - Invited presentation: "Real-Time SQL" Janet Prichard, East Carolina University, and Paul Fortier, University of Massachusetts/Dartmouth, USA. * 2:50 - 3:30: Discussion - Real-Time Database Community Involvement in the Real-Time SQL Standard. * 3:30-4:00pm: Break * 4:00-5:00pm: Logging and Architectures - "A Logging Technique Based on Transaction Types in Real-Time Databases". Le Gruenwald and Shih Jen Cheng, University of Oklahoma, USA. - "The Case For Client/Server Real-Time Databases" Vinay Kanitkar and Alex Delis, Polytechnic University New York, USA. - "BeeHive: Global Multimedia Database Support for Dependable, Real-Time Applications". John A. Stankovic, Sang H. Son, and Jorg Liebeherr, University of Virginia, USA. * 5:00 pm: Closing Remarks and Discussion ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RTDB'97 Registration Form -- Register Today! Name ______________________________________________________________ Affiliation _______________________________________________________ Mailing Address____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ City/State/Zip/Country ____________________________________________ Daytime Phone Number __________________ Fax Number ________________ E-mail address ____________________________________________________ _____ Do not include my mailing address on workshop attendee lists. Workshop Registration Fee (Please check appropriate fee) Registration includes a complimentary copy of ``Real-Time Database and Information Systems: Research Advances'', Azer Bestavros and Victor Wolfe eds, Kluwer Academic Publishers (a Book based on the Workshop Technical Program). Advance (until 9/1) On-site Regular registration ___ US $250 ___ US $325 Full-time Student (no dinner) ___ US $150 ___ US $150 Amount due: $_____________________ *Guest tickets for dinner and lunches will be available on-site. Please tell us if you have any special meal request: (e.g. vegetarian) _____________________________________________________________________ Please make check payable to "Real-Time Database Workshop". (All payments must be in US dollars, drawn on US banks.) Return the registration form and check to: Prof. Kwei-Jay Lin Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of California at Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-2625, USA Phone: 714-824-7839 Fax: 714-824-2321 Email: klin@uci.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Burlington in September ----------------------- From diverse cultural activites to back country roads, mountain views, spectacular scenery, world class food, fun, and adventure, Burlington, Vermont is one of America's "Dream Towns". In September, that lovely town attracts tourists from all over the world to enjoy New England's fabulous foliage. Workshop Hotel -------------- Raddison Hotel Burlington 60 Battery Street Brulington, VT Phone: 1-802-658-6500 Fax: 1-802-658-4659 Rates: (special rate for RTDB'97 before August 20, 1997) Single/Double $110 For any problem, contact Della R. Hertzberg (sales manager) Hotel Transportation -------------------- There is a complementary shuttle from Burlington International Airport to the hotel. Use the courtesy phone at the baggage claim area. Directions from I-89, take exit 14W, follow main street to lakefront, turn right onto Battery street. 1 hour 20 min from Montreal, 4 hours to Boston Mass. The hotel has a pool and excercise facilities also within walking distance to many attractions. Maps and other local information are available on: http://www.cs.bu.edu/pub/rtdb97 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Organizing Committee -------------------- General Chairs Sang H. Son, University of Virginia Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California, Irvine Program Committee Chairs Azer Bestavros, Boston University Victor Wolfe, University of Rhode Island Local Arrangements Chair Paul Fortier, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth Program Committee Members Alexandros Biliris, AT&T Laboratories, USA Rebecca Callison, Oregon State University, USA Anindya Datta, University of Arizona, USA Ramez Elmasri, University of Texas, Arlington, USA Jorgen Hansson, University of Skoevde, Skoevde, Sweden Jane Liu, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA Janet Prichard, East Carolina University, USA Krithi Ramamritham, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA Oliva Sheng, Hong Kong Science and Technology University, Hong Kong Kang Shin, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA Morikazu Takegaki, Mitsubishi Electric, Japan Bhavani Thurasignham, MITRE, Bedford, MA, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<* END OF THE IEEE-CS TC-RTS NEWSLETTER *>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The TC-RTS repository is maintained by Azer Bestavros at Boston University WWW Home Page of the TC-RTS is at: http://cs-www.bu.edu/pub/ieee-rts/Home.html Internet address for anonymous FTP to the TC-RTS repository is: cs-ftp.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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------