Subject: IEEE-CS TC-RTS Newsletter for Mon Dec 01, 1997 _______________________________________________________________________________ __ _ __ ___ ___ __ __ I E E E Technical Committee |\ | |_ | | (_' | |_ | | |_ |_) C S on Real-Time Systems | \| |__ |/\| ,_) |__ |__ | | |__ | \ _______________________________________________________________________________ Table of Contents Line ----------------- ---- 1. Azer Bestavros (122 lines) Final CFP for IEEE RTAS'98 (Abstract Deadline: 12/7/97)............ 3 2. "Alan Burns" (47 lines) LECTURESHIP IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, University of York................ 125 3. Jean-Pierre Talpin (73 lines) Ph.D. Studentship in Distributed Real-Time Systems at INRIA/IRISA.. 171 4. Azer Bestavros (54 lines) Assistant Professorships at Boston University...................... 245 5. maarten@win.tue.nl (Maarten Bodlaender) (102 lines) CFP ISORC '98...................................................... 299 6. Alan Hu (48 lines) CAV'98 Call for Papers............................................. 401 7. Frank Mueller (151 lines) CFP: Embedded Systems Workshop (ACM SIGPLAN LCTES'98).............. 449 8. Laura Dillon (64 lines) PostDoc Position................................................... 600 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<* START OF THE IEEE-CS TC-RTS NEWSLETTER *>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message 1; Postmarked Fri Aug 8 09:36:49 1997 From: Azer Bestavros Subject: Final CFP for IEEE RTAS'98 (Abstract Deadline: 12/7/97) Content-Length: 6342 Dear Colleague: Please note the impending deadline for RTAS'98. The FIRM deadline for the Email ASCII abstract submission is 12/7/1997. The following details the electronic submission procedure (also available on-line from the Symposium's home page). Submission Guidelines Manuscripts to be considered as full papers should be limited to 20 double-spaced pages. Work-in-progress abstracts to be considered for an "Ongoing Work" session should be limited to 6 double-spaced pages. Submissions should reach the program chair by December 7, 1997. Both hard-copy and electronic submissions will be accepted (electronic submission is preferred) as explained below. In addition, a 150-word abstract (in ASCII) must be e-mailed to the Program Chair at by December 7, 1997. Any paper submitted to the Symposium must not have been published in or submitted to other technical conferences/journals. Electronic Manuscript Submission: Postscript submissions of full-paper manuscripts and work-in-progress abstracts will be accepted for upload at ftp://ftp.cs.bu.edu/pub/rtas98/incoming/. Filenames should consist of the last-name of the first author, followed by the initials from the paper title. For example, if the first author is "Jane Doe" and the title of the paper is "Implementing a Real-Time Object-Oriented Database", then the name of the postscript file should be "DoeIRTOOD.ps". Hard-copy Manuscript Submission: If electronic submission is not possible, then six copies of each full-paper manuscript or work-in-progress abstracts should be mailed to the program chair Prof. Azer Bestavros Computer Science Department Email: best@cs.bu.edu Boston University Phone: (617) 353-9726 111 Cummington street, Fax: (617) 353-6457 Boston, MA 02215 --Azer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS ,--. --- .--. ,--. / .--. .--. | | | | | | | | | | Real-Time Technology & Applications Symposium |--' | |--| `--. `--| >--< Denver, Colorado, USA | \ | | | | | | | June 3-5, 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 3, 1998 -> Symposium starts +----------------------------+ RTAS'98 WWW home page is available at http://www.cs.bu.edu/pub/ieee-rts/rtas98 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message 2; Postmarked Thu Oct 16 06:52:59 1997 From: "Alan Burns" Subject: LECTURESHIP IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, University of York Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Length: 1876 LECTURESHIP IN COMPUTER SCIENCE Applications are invited for a lectureship in Computer Science (in the specialism of real-time systems) at the Univerity of York, UK. The post is available immediately on Lecturer Scale Grade A (16,045-21,016 UK pounds). Informal enquires may be made to Dr Keith Mander (Head of Department) on mander@cs.york.ac.uk Six copies of applications with full curriculum vitae and the names of three referees should be sent by Friday 28th November 1997 to the Personnel Office, Univerity of York, Heslington, York, Y01 5DD, UK. The Real-Time Systems Research Group at York was set up in 1990 By Professors Burns and Wellings and is now one of the largest academic research groups in the world focusing on the engineering of real-time systems. The work of the group spans a wide range of topics, including: scheduling, static code analysis, architectures, HRT-HOOD, safety kernels and industrial case studies. Work is also been undertaken on best effort scheduling, specification techniques for timing requirements, language assessment (in particular Ada95), communication protocols, real-time databases, reuse and optimisation algorithms (simulated annealing, stochastic evolution and genetic algorithms) for system configuration. The aim of the group is to undertake fundamental research, and to bring into engineering practice modern techniques, methods and tools. Areas of application of our work include space and avionic systems, engine controllers, automobile control and multi-media systems. Work has been funded by the EPSRC and DTI, BAe, European Space Agency (ESA), NASA, Defence Research Agency (DERA), Rolls Royce Aeroengines, and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Currently there are 9 PhD Research Students, 7 Post-Doc Research Associated, 2 Research Fellows, 2 Professors and a Secretary working within the Real-Time Group. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message 3; Postmarked 29 12:30:29 1997 Subject: Ph.D. Studentship in Distributed Real-Time Systems at INRIA/IRISA From: Jean-Pierre Talpin Content-Length: 2856 IRISA - Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systemes Aleatoire Ph.D. Studentship in Distributed Real-Time Systems ----------------------- Applications are invited for a Ph.D. studentiship at IRISA starting on November 1st, 1997 or at a mutually agreeable date after. This position would be ideally suited to a candidate who wishes to build upon her or his record in a rather unique environment of collaborative fundamental and experimental research. The selected candidate will participate to a large-scale R&D colaborative project involving a telecommunication major company and several research groups at INRIA-Rennes (IRISA) and INRIA-Sophia Antipolis. The goal of this project is to develop a framework and a tool-set for the specification, the verification and the optimization of large distributed applications. Topics of interests for achieving the goals of the project include the specification of distributed application (e.g. using notions of partial orders), formal verification techniques and tools using such specifications (e.g. CAESAR, TGV), optimizations techniques of some real-time computing aspects (BDD, partial orders). Areas of interest include concurrency theory and applications, reactive systems, synchronous and asynchronous programming paradigms, object-oriented distributed systems, specification and verification of distributed systems with applications in the area of telecommunications. Research at IRISA spans a wide range of activities from the development of hardware components to the implementation of advanced applications. Parallelism is a key concept being studied in circuit and novel architecture design. The building of parallel or distributed systems hiding complex hardware resources and yet providing a simple view of the system for its users has produced original ideas in the field of fault tolerant multiprocessor systems. It is also necessary to provide the users of such machines with secure and powerful programming tools. IRISA is developing its research activities in the context of fast technological evolution and fierce international competition. The research undertaken by Irisa therefore has to be of the highest quality, and technology transfer of the results of that research to industry is very important. IRISA is located in Rennes, Britany, two hours away from Paris. For further information, for applications (consisting of a vitae and references), prospective candidates are encouraged to contact: Jean-Pierre Talpin IRISA/INRIA-Rennes Campus universitaire de Beaulieu 35042 Rennes Cedex France Tel: +33 99 84 74 36 Fax: +33 99 84 25 28 E-mail: Jean-Pierre.Talpin@irisa.fr Additional information on IRISA is also available at: http://www.irisa.fr A description of the Ph.D. position, in French, is available at: http://www.irisa.fr/prive/talpin/Drafts/these98.ps.gz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message 4; Postmarked Fri Aug 8 09:36:49 1997 From: Azer Bestavros Subject: Assistant Professorships at Boston University Content-Length: 2174 Boston University Computer Science Department Applications are invited for two tenure-track assistant professorships beginning September 1998. Qualifications required of all applicants include: a PhD in Computer Science; a strong research record; commitment to research and teaching. The department has a special interest in candidates in the areas of databases, visualization, networking, computer graphics and experimental computer science. The Computer Science Department currently consists of 11 faculty, and offers BA, MA, and PhD programs. Our research interests include parallel, distributed, and real-time systems; parallel languages and compilers; networks; image and video computing; logic of computation; and theoretical computer science. The Department has excellent computing resources which include PC's, Sun and SGI workstations, as well as Sun and SGI multiprocessor servers. During the past year, the College funded construction of a new computer science research lab for research in distributed systems, real-time systems, networks, and graphics. The department has been the recent recipient of significant grants for research infrastructure and for graduate student support. We have a close association with other groups on campus working on aspects of computing, and access to University facilities including SGI POWER CHALLENGEarray supercomputers, SGI Origin2000, and campus wide high speed networks (FDDI and HiPPI). Additional information on the department and this search is available from http://www.cs.bu.edu Qualified applicants should send a detailed resume and arrange for at least three references to be sent to: Faculty Search Committee Computer Science Department 111 Cummington Street Boston University Boston, MA 02215 Please include a cover letter stating the names of your references and your major area of specialization. Boston University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Minorities, persons with disabilities, and women are particularly encouraged to apply. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message 5; Postmarked Thu Oct 16 08:51:47 1997 From: maarten@win.tue.nl (Maarten Bodlaender) Subject: CFP ISORC '98 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 4136 CALL FOR PAPERS (v3) (http://dream.eng.uci.edu/isorc/) ISORC '98 The 1st IEEE International Symposium on Object-oriented Real-time distributed Computing April 20 - 22, 1998 Sponsored by: In cooperation with: IEEE Computer Information Kyoto International Society TC on Processing Society Conference Hall Distributed of Japan, SIGSE Kyoto, Japan Processing IFIP WG 10.4 (The 4th IEEE Workshop on Object-oriented Real-time Dependable Systems (WORDS '98) and The 4th Int'l Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Systems (WOORTS '98) will not occur as separate events and instead they are embedded into ISORC '98.) SCOPE The ISORC is a new IEEE Computer Society symposium series dealing with the emerging object-oriented real-time distributed computing (ORC) technology. The ORC is a rapidly growing young technological field. So far, the technical meetings that concentrated on this ORC technology were of the workshop type. It is the judgment of the ISORC Executive Committee that the entire field of ORC has now outgrown the capacity that a typical workshop can provide. The main technical theme of the ISORC is how to extend the well established object-oriented computing technology, i.e., the technology that has prevailed the non-real-time business data processing field in the past decade, into the technologies that are effectively applicable to various classes of real-time applications. The ISORC was created with the goal of becoming an exemplary symposium series with respect to the maintenance of an open symposium spirit. The following guidelines will be used by the Program Committee (PC) in evaluating the submitted papers and composing the technical program. (1) Papers presenting practical techniques, ideas, or evaluations will be favored. Papers reporting practical experiences or experimental developments are particularly welcome. (2) Papers completely lacking originality will not be acceptable. However, for the papers reporting experiences or experiments, the originality will not be interpreted narrowly. For example, new evidences leading to a conclusion similar to the conclusion that was supported by different evidences earlier in literature, will still be given serious considerations as long as clear references to the earlier works are given. (3) Papers that are based on exceedingly unrealistic assumptions will not be accepted however mathematically or logically sophisticated the discussion may be. Papers in all aspects of object-oriented real-time distributed computing are sought, including but not limited to the following aspects: - New ORC paradigms - Object models - Requirements engineering - System (incl. communication), hardware, and software architectures (real-time CORBA, DCOM, etc.) - Specification and design - Languages and tools for structuring real-time objects - Highly Dependable ORC, including fault-tolerant and secure ORC - Resource allocation - Operating system support for ORC and real-time object request brokers - Database architecture for ORC - Real-time simulation - Testing, verification, and evaluation of system properties, including output accuracy, timeliness, dependability, etc. - System/software engineering methodology - Multimedia processing and WAN communication applications - Application areas such as embedded systems (automobile, avionics, consumer electronics), business and industrial applications, etc. Papers dealing with other issues that are related to the specification, design, implementation, and evaluation of object- oriented real-time dependable systems are all welcome. SUBMISSIONS For more information check http://dream.eng.uci.edu/isorc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message 6; Postmarked Sun Oct 19 22:57:25 1997 From: Alan Hu Subject: CAV'98 Call for Papers Content-Length: 1613 CALL FOR PAPERS CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER-AIDED VERIFICATION (CAV '98) June 28 - July 2, 1998 Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA This conference is the tenth in a series dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of computer-assisted formal analysis methods for software and hardware systems. The conference covers the spectrum from theoretical results to concrete applications, with an emphasis on practical verification tools and the algorithms and techniques that are needed for their implementation. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The topics of interest include: Modeling and specification formalisms (such as logical, automata-based, and algebraic methods) Algorithms and tools (such as state-space exploration, model checking, synthesis, and automated deduction) Verification techniques (such as state-space and transition-relation reduction methods, symbolic methods, probabilistic methods, compositional and modular reasoning, integration of algorithmic and deductive methods) Applications and case studies (such as synchronous and asynchronous circuits, communication protocols and distributed algorithms, real-time and embedded control systems) Verification in practice (integration of verification with design, specification, testing, debugging, and code generation) For more information and for submission instruction check http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/ajh/cav98.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message 7; Postmarked Fri Nov 14 12:29:00 1997 From: Frank Mueller Subject: CFP: Embedded Systems Workshop (ACM SIGPLAN LCTES'98) Content-Length: 6655 Call for Papers ACM SIGPLAN 1998 Workshop on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES'98) Montreal, Canada, June 19-20, 1998 (in conjunction with PLDI'98) http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~mueller/lctes98 IMPORTANT DATES: Papers due: February 20, 1998 (5pm MET) Author notification: April 17, 1998 Camera-ready final papers due: May 15, 1998 DESCRIPTION: LCTES '98 provides a link between the programming languages and embedded systems engineering communities. Researchers and developers in these areas are addressing many similar problems, but with different backgrounds and approaches. LCTES is intended to expose researchers and developers from either area to relevant work and interesting problems in the other area and provide a forum where they can interact. Until recently embedded systems development was performed by experienced specialists using a variety of custom kernels, non-standard languages, vendor-specific device interfaces and custom hardware. System integration involved a complicated process of obtaining timing measurements, hand-tuning code, and re-measuring. These ad-hoc techniques do not scale well for modern systems. Also, the majority of system developers is no longer composed of embedded control experts. As a result, a trend is emerging to use off-the-shelf hardware and enhance standard software to meet embedded requirements, ranging from real-time extensions of common programming languages and operating systems to appropriate tools for embedded programmers. Original submissions are invited in all areas relevant to this theme. Appropriate topics include (but are not restricted to) the following aspects of embedded systems. * Real-time and embedded Java * Object-oriented modeling and design * Concurrent and distributed embedded environments / runtime systems * Real-time operating systems: environment and tools (e.g., RT-Linux) * Standardization for embedded systems * Programming languages for embedded applications * Design, specification, analysis of embedded systems * Exception and interrupt handling for real-time * Timing analysis: static and dynamic approaches * Timing predictability of modern architectures: caches, pipelines, windows * Program optimization for real-time performance and for DSPs * Profiling, measurement, and debugging of embedded applications * Real-time scheduling analysis * Memory management and garbage collection for embedded systems * Language support for imprecise computation * Embedded system integration and testing * Support for partitioning, mapping, and compression SUBMITTING PAPERS: Papers should report new research and should not exceed 5000 words (approximately 10 typeset on 16-point spacing), including figures and references. Short papers that describe existing implementations or work-in-progress, or outline new problems or important issues are also welcome. Short papers should not exceed 3000 words (6 pages). All accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and published in the proceedings, which will be distributed at the workshop. The best paper(s) will also be considered for publication in a special section of the Kluwer Journal of Real-Time Systems. All papers will be judged on originality, significance, correctness, and clarity. The summary should clearly express the contribution of the paper, both in general and in technical terms. It is essential to identify what was accomplished, explain its significance, and include a comparison with previous work. Authors should make every effort to make the technical content of their papers understandable to a broad audience. If any author has published or presented on a related topic in a journal or a previous conference, the summary should explain how it advances such previous work. Papers must describe work not previously published in refereed venues. Simultaneous submission to LCTES'98 and another publication outlet (conference or journal) will be considered as grounds for rejection. * Submissions consist of a 100-200 word ASCII abstract and either a 5000 word paper, not to exceed 10 pages, including figures and references, or a 3000 word short paper, not to exceed 6 pages. Submissions must be either electronic (encouraged) or postal (discouraged). We strongly encourage authors to use the LaTeX ACM conference style available on our web page. * Please fill out the submission form available on our web page and include it with your submission. * Electronic submissions must be received by 5:00 PM Middle European Time, Friday, February 20, 1998. Submissions may be sent as a single e-mail message to mueller@informatik.hu-berlin.de (MIME attachments are allowed). The message should contain both the filled out form and the Postscript summary. Electronic summaries should be in Postscript form, which must be interpretable by Ghostscript. The Postscript must use standard fonts, or include the necessary fonts, and must be prepared for USLetter (8.5"x11") or A4 page sizes. Authors who cannot meet these requirements should submit hardcopy by post instead. * Postal submissions must be sent to the workshop co-chair Frank Mueller by airmail and must be received on or before February 20, 1998; 14 copies (printed double-sided if possible) must be provided. These are firm constraints; submissions not meeting the criteria described above will not be considered. CO-CHAIRS: Frank Mueller Azer Bestavros Humboldt University Berlin Boston University Institut fuer Informatik Department of Computer Science Unter den Linden 6 111 Cummington Street 10099 Berlin, Germany Boston, MA 02215 (USA) phone: (+49) (30) 20181-276, fax: -280 phone: 617-353-9726, fax: -6457 mueller@informatik.hu-berlin.de best@bu.edu PROGRAM COMMITTEE: . Gul Agha, University of Illinois, USA . Azer Bestavros, Boston University, USA . Paul Freedman, Centre de recherche informatique de Montreal, Canada . Rajiv Gupta, University of Pittsburgh, USA . John Gough, Queensland University of Technology, Australia . Wolfgang Halang, University of Hagen, Germany . Annie Liu, Indiana University, USA . Thomas Marlowe, Seton Hall University, USA . Frank Mueller, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany . Manas Saksena, Concordia University, Canada . Andy Wellings, University of York, UK . David Whalley, Florida State University, USA . Reinhard Wilhelm, University of the Saarland, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message 8; Postmarked Wed Nov 19 17:25:23 1997 From: Laura Dillon Subject: PostDoc Position Content-Length: 2811 Applications are invited for a one-year Post-Doc position to conduct research in formal specification and analysis of real-time software systems. The start date for the position is flexible, beginning as soon as convenient. Opportunities for an additional year depend on funding; part-time teaching opportunities also exist. Specific areas of research to be investigated include: o real-time temporal logics o visual specification languages o compilation of specifications into test oracles o experimental evaluation of specification and analysis methods o compositional specification and analysis methods o analysis of heterogeneous specifications To be considered for the position, candidates must have a PhD in Computer Science and a previous research record of high quality. An aptitude for programming is also required. Experience with programming in C++ and in Common Lisp is highly desirable. Interested candidates should send a C.V. plus the names and adresses (both postal and email) of 2-3 academic references as soon as possible to: Prof. Laura Dillon Computer Science Department 3115 Engineering Building East Lansing, MI 48864 USA email: ldillon@cps.msu.edu tel: +1 517-353-4387 fax: +1 517-432-1061 Applications will be considered until the position is filled. A unit within the College of Engineering at Michigan State University, the Department of Computer Science offers the Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. It also jointly administers a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering with the Electrical Engineering Department. The department has received extensive funding for support of its instructional and research activities from a broad spectrum of companies and government agencies, local and national. The Department currently has 25 tenure-stream faculty, and an enrollment of approximately 150 graduate students and 500 undergraduates. Laboratories are connected to the MSUnet, which provides access to an array of campus computing resources. The computing facilities in the Department includes more than 200 high-end workstations, two workstation clusters interconnected by high-speed networks, and other specialized research equipment. Michigan State University enjoys a park-like campus of 2,100 developed acres and 3,100 acres of outlying research facilities and natural areas. The campus is adjacent to the cities of East Lansing and the capital city, Lansing. The communities have excellent school systems and place a high value on education. Water sports and outdoor recreational activities are abundant in summer, with ample indoor facilities available at the University and the communities in the winter months; winter sport enthusiasts enjoy excellent cross-country skiing, skating, and sledding. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<* 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------