Subject: IEEE-CS TC-RTS Newsletter for Mon Sep 28, 1998 _______________________________________________________________________________ __ _ __ ___ ___ __ __ I E E E Technical Committee |\ | |_ | | (_' | |_ | | |_ |_) C S on Real-Time Systems | \| |__ |/\| ,_) |__ |__ | | |__ | \ _______________________________________________________________________________ Table of Contents Line ----------------- ---- 1. Azer Bestavros (82 lines) Statistical Rate Monotonic Scheduling: TRs Available............... 3 2. Lisa Cingiser DiPippo [mailto:cingiser@cs.uri.edu] (169 lines) IEEE RTAS 99: Call for Papers...................................... 85 3. Richard Gerber [mailto:rich@cs.umd.edu] (449 lines) RTSS '98 - Call for Participation.................................. 254 4. Gerhard Fohler [mailto:gerhard.fohler@mdh.se] (116 lines) RTSS'98: Call for Exhibits and Demos............................... 703 5. goddard [mailto:goddard@cse.unl.edu] (55 lines) RTSS'98 WIP CFP.................................................... 819 6. Gerhard Fohler [mailto:gerhard.fohler@mdh.se] (114 lines) 11th EUROMICRO CONFERENCE ON REAL-TIME SYSTEMS..................... 874 7. Alceu.Frigeri@FernUni-Hagen.de (Alceu Heinke Frigeri) (283 lines) WRTP'99 & ARTDB-99 : Call for Papers............................... 988 8. Sang Hyuk Son [mailto:son@cs.virginia.edu] (135 lines) WECWIS'99: Call for Papers......................................... 1271 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<* START OF THE IEEE-CS TC-RTS NEWSLETTER *>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message 1; Postmarked Tue Jun 18 10:57:05 1998 From: Azer Bestavros Subject: Statistical Rate Monotonic Scheduling: TRs Available Content-Length: 3417 The following Technical Reports on Statistical Rate Monotonic Scheduling are now available from http://www.cs.bu.edu/techreports/. --Azer ---------------------------------------------- Computer Science Dept, CAS Tel: (617)353.9726 Boston University MA 02215 Fax: (617)353.6457 Http://www.cs.bu.edu/~best MailTo:best@bu.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Design and Implementation of SRMS in Kurt Linux (BUCS-TR-98-013) Authors: Alia Atlas and Azer Bestavros Date: September 2, 1998 Abstract: Statistical Rate Monotonic Scheduling (SRMS) is a generalization of the classical RMS results of Liu and Layland \cite{ll:sched} for periodic tasks with highly variable execution times and statistical QoS requirements. The main tenet of SRMS is that the variability in task resource requirements could be smoothed through aggregation to yield guaranteed QoS. This aggregation is done over time for a given task and across multiple tasks for a given period of time. Similar to RMS, SRMS has two components: a feasibility test and a scheduling algorithm. SRMS feasibility test ensures that it is possible for a given periodic task set to share a given resource without violating any of the statistical QoS constraints imposed on each task in the set. The SRMS scheduling algorithm consists of two parts: a job admission controller and a scheduler. The SRMS scheduler is a simple, preemptive, fixed-priority scheduler. The SRMS job admission controller manages the QoS delivered to the various tasks through admit/reject and priority assignment decisions. In particular, it ensures the important property of task isolation, whereby tasks do not infringe on each other. In this paper we present the design and implementation of SRMS within the KURT Linux Operating System \cite{hspn:kurt,sphan:cots,srin:kurt}. KURT Linux supports conventional tasks as well as real-time tasks. It provides a mechanism for transitioning from normal Linux scheduling to a mixed scheduling of conventional and real-time tasks, and to a focused mode where only real-time tasks are scheduled. We overview the technical issues that we had to overcome in order to integrate SRMS into KURT Linux and present the API we have developed for scheduling periodic real-time tasks using SRMS. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: An Omniscient Scheduling Oracle for Systems with Harmonic Periods (BUCS-TR-98-014) Authors: Alia Atlas and Azer Bestavros Date: September 2, 1998 Abstract: Most real-time scheduling problems are known to be NP-complete. To enable accurate comparison between the schedules of heuristic algorithms and an optimal schedule, we introduce an omniscient oracle. This oracle provides schedules for periodic task sets with harmonic periods and variable resource requirements. Three different job value functions are described and implemented. Each corresponds to a different system goal. The oracle is used to examine the performance of different on-line schedulers under varying loads, including overload. We have compared the oracle against Rate Monotonic Scheduling, Statistical Rate Monotonic Scheduling, and Slack Stealing Job Admission Control Scheduling. Consistently, the oracle provides an upper bound on performance for the metric under consideration. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message 2; Postmarked Wed Sep 23 17:18:11 1998 From: Lisa Cingiser DiPippo [mailto:cingiser@cs.uri.edu] Subject: IEEE RTAS 99: Call for Papers Content-Length: 6376 Fifth IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel June 2-4, 1999 Sponsored by The IEEE Computer Society TC on Real-Time Systems Call For Papers Objectives and Scope: The IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium brings together real-time system developers and researchers from academia, industry and government to present the latest advances in real-time systems research, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. An exciting program that fosters discussions and technical exchanges is planned, including tutorials, panel discussions, full-paper presentations and work-in-progress sessions. Full-length papers, work-in-progress abstracts and tutorial proposals on various aspects of real-time computing and communication are sought, ranging from multimedia applications, case studies, systems integration, application requirements, scheduling, operating systems, middleware, software engineering, dependability, databases, programming languages, system development tools, communications, and performance modeling. Of particular interest are papers detailing experiments, implementations, and experiences in application domains such as multimedia, internet and wireless appliances, communications, process control, automated manufacturing, avionics, advanced highway systems and robotics. As in previous years, the best papers presented at the symposium will be selected for publication in respected IEEE journals. 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, 1998. 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, 1998. Any paper submitted to the Symposium must not have been published in or submitted to other technical conferences/journals. Electronic Manuscript Submission: The preferred format for electronic submission is PDF suitable for Acrobat Reader. Postscript with US Letter size pages will also be accepted. Papers should be emailed as attachments to rtas99@cs.uri.edu by the indicated deadlines. 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. Victor Fay Wolfe Computer Science Department Email: wolfe@cs.uri.edu 258 Tyler Hall Phone: 401-874-2499 University of Rhode Island Fax: 401-874-4617 Kingston, RI 02881 USA Tutorial Proposals Submission: Proposals for half-day tutorials in technically appealing areas of the Symposium are also solicited. Tutorial proposals should be submitted to the program chair by December 14, 1998. Hotel Information: The Symposium will be held at the Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel, which is located at the heart of beautiful downtown Vancouver, minutes away from the Waterfront and from many other attractions. For more information contact the hotel at the address below or visit it on the Web at Http://www.sheraton.com/destinations/properties/hr_709.html Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel 1088 Burrard Street Vancouver, British Columbia V6Z 2R9, Canada Tel: (604) 331-1000 Fax: (604)331-1001 Inquiries and Questions: For more information about the Symposium, send e-mail to the General Chair Azer Bestravos at best@cs.bu.edu. For questions regarding conference submissions, send e-mail to the Program Committee Chair Victor Fay Wolfe at wolfe@cs.uri.edu. The Web page for the conference can be accessed at http://www.cs.uri.edu/rtas99. Important Dates: December 7, 1998 -> Deadline for Email-submission of paper abstract December 7, 1998 -> Deadline for submission of full/short paper December 14, 1998 -> Deadline for tutorial proposal submission February 22, 1999 -> Notification of acceptance of papers and tutorials April 12, 1999 -> Deadline for camera-ready of accepted manuscripts June 2, 1999 -> Symposium begins June 4, 1999 -> Symposium ends Organizing Committee: General Chair Azer Bestavros, Boston University Program Committee Chair Victor Fay Wolfe, University of Rhode Island Publicity Chair Lisa Cingiser DiPippo, University of Rhode Island Program Committee Members Alia Atlas , BBN Technologies USA Neil Audsley, University of York, England Hanene Ben-Abdallah, FSEG, Univ. de Sfax, Tunisia Lisa DiPippo, University of Rhode Island, USA Steve Goddard, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Michael Gonzalez Harbour, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain Jorgen Hansson, University of Skovde, Sweden Marty Humphrey, University of VirginiaUSA Farnam Jahanian, University of Michigan, USA E. Douglas Jensen, MITRE Corporation, USA Russell Johnston, US Navy SPAWAR SYSCEN San Diego, USA Michael B. Jones, Microsoft Research, USA Peter Kortman, Tri-Pacific Software, USA Tei-Wei Kuo, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Jane Liu, University Of Illinois USA Douglass Locke, Lockheed Martin Corporation, USA Peter H. Mills, Applied Research Associates, Inc., USA Daniel Mosse', University of Pittsburgh, USA Susan Nagy, EMC Corp., USA Raj Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Manas Saksena, Concordia University, Canada Douglas C. Schmidt, Washington University, USA Anoop Singhal, AT&T Labs, USA Jack Stankovic, University of Virginia, USA Wei Zhao, Texas A&M University, USA For more information check RTAS'99 Home Page at http://www.cs.uri.edu/rtas99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message 3; Postmarked Fri Sep 4 13:42:20 1998 From: Richard Gerber [mailto:rich@cs.umd.edu] Subject: RTSS '98 - Call for Participation Content-Length: 15715 ======================================================================= CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The 19th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium Madrid, Spain December 2-4, 1998 Sponsored by The IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems ======================================================================= Contents -------- - Scope of the Conference - Advance Technical Program - Industrial Exhibition and Demos - Work-in-Progress Sessions - Workshop on Programming Languages - Preliminary Registration and Hotel Information - Conference Organization ======================================================================= SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE RTSS '98 will bring together a wide body of researchers and developers, to advance the science and practice of real-time computing. The RTSS program includes many aspects of real-time and embedded systems, including modeling and design methods, operating systems, scheduling algorithms, databases, file systems, networks and communications, programming languages, formal methods, architecture, middleware and APIs, instrumentation, fault tolerance, software engineering, performance analysis, embedded systems, signal-processing, multimedia applications, process control, tool support - and a lot more. In 1998, RTSS received a record number of submitted papers. There were 182 papers in all, 80 more than last year, 50 more than any RTSS ever held. Of these, 45 were chosen to appear on the program, which follows below. ======================================================================= PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE SCHEDULE December 1, 1998 ---------------- PLRTI: IEEE Workshop on Programming Languages for Real-Time Industrial Applications. See below for details on the details on the workshop. December 2, 1998 ---------------- 09.30: Session 1 Invited Talk (Speaker TBA) 11.30: Session 2 - Systems and Scheduling INTEGRATING MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS IN HARD REAL-TIME SYSTEMS. Luca Abeni and Giorgio Buttazzo ISOCHRONOUS SCHEDULING AND ITS APPLICATION TO TRAFFIC CONTROL. Masaaki Iwasaki, Tadashi Takeuchi, Masahiko Nakahara and Takahiro Nakano SCHEDULABILITY ANALYSIS FOR TASKS WITH STATIC AND DYNAMIC OFFSETS. J.C. Palencia Gutierrez M. Gonzalez Harbour 13.00: Lunch 14.30: Session 3.A - Databases and Filesystems DEADLINE-MODIFICATION-SCAN WITH MAXIMUM-SCANNABLE-GROUPS FOR MULTIMEDIA REAL-TIME DISK SCHEDULING Ray-I Chang Wei-Kuan Shih Ruei-Chuan Chang USING SEPARATE ALGORITHMS TO PROCESS READ-ONLY TRANSACTIONS IN REAL-TIME SYSTEMS Kwok-Wa Lam, Sang H. Son, Victor C. S. Lee and Sheung-Lun Hung MAINTAINING TEMPORAL COHERENCY OF VIRTUAL WAREHOUSES Raghav Srinivasan, Chao Liang and Krithi Ramamritham 14.30: Session 3.B - Systems Design and Development I SPECIFICATION AND MODELING OF DYNAMIC, DISTRIBUTED REAL-TIME SYSTEMS Lonnie R. Welch, Binoy Ravindran, Behrooz A. Shirazi and Carl Bruggeman DETAILED DESIGN OF AVIONICS CONTROL SOFTWARE Ulf Nilsson, Siwert Streiffert, Anders Torne SCHEDULABILITY ANALYSIS FOR AUTOMATED IMPLEMENTATIONS OF REAL-TIME OBJECT-ORIENTED MODELS M. Saksena, A. Ptak, P. Freedman, and P. Rodziewicz 16.30: Session 4.A - Scheduling and Analysis I A BETTER POLYNOMIAL-TIME SCHEDULABILITY TEST FOR REAL-TIME MULTIFRAME TASKS Ching-Chih Han A GENERAL MODEL FOR RECURRING REAL-TIME TASKS Sanjoy Baruah STATISTICAL RATE MONOTONIC SCHEDULING Alia K. Atlas Azer Bestavros 16.30: Session 4.B - Timing Analysis and Compiler Techniques TESTING THE RESULTS OF STATIC WORST-CASE EXECUTION-TIME ANALYSIS Peter Puschner and Roman Nossal COMBINING ABSTRACT INTERPRETATION AND ILP FOR MICROARCHITECTURE MODELLING AND PROGRAM PATH ANALYSIS Henrik Theiling and Christian Ferdinand COMPILER OPTIMIZATIONS FOR REAL TIME EXECUTION OF LOOPS ON LIMITED MEMORY EMBEDDED SYSTEMS Sundaram Anantharaman and Santosh Pande 18.00: Work-In-Progress Session I December 3, 1998 ---------------- 09.30: Session 5 Invited Talk (Speaker TBA) 11.30: Session 6 - Systems and Scheduling THE TIME-TRIGGERED MODEL OF COMPUTATION Hermann Kopetz SYNTHESIS TECHNIQUES FOR LOW-POWER HARD REAL-TIME SYSTEMS ON VARIABLE VOLTAGE PROCESSOR Inki Hong, Gang Qu, Miodrag Potkonjak, and Mani B. Srivastava TASK PERIOD SELECTION AND SCHEDULABILITY IN REAL-TIME SYSTEMS Danbing Seto, John P. Lehoczky, and Lui Sha 13.00: Lunch 14.30: Session 7.A - Testing, Verification and Analysis I AUTOMATIC TESTING OF REACTIVE SYSTEMS Pascal Raymond, Xavier Nicollin, Nicolas Halbwachs, Daniel Weber ANALYZING NON-DETERMINISTIC REAL-TIME SYSTEMS WITH (MAX,+) ALGEBRA Guillaume P. Brat and Vijay K. Garg TIMED TEST CASES GENERATION BASED ON STATE CHARACTERISATION TECHNIQUE. A. En-Nouaary, R. Dssouli, F. Khendek and A. Elqortobi 14.30: Session 7.B - Operating Systems and Services GENERAL DATA STREAMING Frank W. Miller, Pete Keleher, and Satish K. Tripathi DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A REAL-TIME ATM-BASED PROTOCOL SERVER Martin Borriss and Hermann Haertig PROPORTIONAL SHARE SCHEDULING OF OPERATING SYSTEM SERVICES FOR REAL-TIME APPLICATIONS Kevin Jeffay, F. Donelson Smith, Arun Moorthy, James Anderson 16.30: Session 8.A - Testing, Verification and Analysis II MEMBERSHIP QUESTIONS FOR TIMED AND HYBRID AUTOMATA R.Alur and R.P.Kurshan and M.Viswanathan ON CHECKING TIMED AUTOMATA FOR LINEAR DURATION INVARIANTS Victor Adrian Braberman and Dang Van Hung VERIFICATION OF SCHEDULING POLICIES FOR A CLASS OF SIMPLE CONCURRENT PROCESSES Michael J. Meyer and Howard Wong-Toi 16.30: Session 8.B - Quality of Serivice Issues ELASTIC TASK MODEL FOR ADAPTIVE RATE CONTROL Giorgio Buttazzo, Giuseppe Lipari, Luca Abeni PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS FOR QOS-BASED RESOURCE ALLOCATION Chen Lee, Raj Rajkumar, John Lehoczky and Dan Siewiorek A DYNAMIC QUALITY OF SERVICE MIDDLEWARE AGENT FORMEDIATING APPLICATION RESOURCE USAGE Scott Brandt, Gary Nutt, Toby Berk, James Mankovich 18.00: Work-In-Progress Session II December 4, 1998 ---------------- 09.30: Session 9 Invited Talk (Speaker TBA) 11.30: Session 10 - Operating Systems and Runtimes TECHNIQUES FOR SOFTWARE THREAD INTEGRATION IN REAL-TIME EMBEDDED SYSTEMS Alexander G. Dean and John Paul Shen A WORST CASE TIMING ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE FOR MULTIPLE-ISSUE MACHINES Sung-Soo Lim, Jung Hee Han, Jihong Kim, Sang Lyul Min EFFICIENT OBJECT SHARING IN QUANTUM-BASED REAL-TIME SYSTEMS James H. Anderson, Rohit Jain, and Kevin Jeffay 13.00: Lunch 14.30: Session 11.A - Systems Design and Development Tools II A DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK FOR ULTRA-DEPENDABLE AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS BASED ON A TIME-TRIGGERED ARCHITECTURE Bernd Hedenetz INTEGRATED DESIGN TOOLS FOR HARD REAL-TIME SYSTEMS Carlos Puchol and Aloysius K. Mok PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT USING LOW PERTURBATION AND HIGH PRECISION HARDWARE ASSISTS Alan Mink, Wayne Salamon, Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth, and Ramu Arunachalam 14.30: Session 11.B - Scheduling and Analysis II REAL-TIME SCHEDULING IN A GENERIC FAULT-TOLERANT ARCHITECTURE A.J. Wellings, Lj. Beus-Dukic & D. Powell IMPROVED RESPONSE TIME ANALYSIS CALCULATIONS Mikael Sjodin and Hans Hansson SYMBOLIC SCHEDULABILITY ANALYSIS OF REAL-TIME SYSTEMS Hee-Hwan Kwak, Jin-Young Choi, Insup Lee, Anna Philippou, and Oleg Sokolsky 16.30: Session 12.A - Dependability & Fault Tolerance FAULT-TOLERANT CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION IN CAN Luis Rodrigues and Mario Guimaraes and Jose Rufino USING LIGHT-WEIGHT GROUPS TO HANDLE TIMING FAILURES IN QUASI-SYNCHRONOUS SYSTEMS Carlos Almeida and Paulo Verissimo DEPENDABLE ONLINE SYSTEM UPGRADE USING ANALYTICALLY REDUNDANT CONTROLLERS Lui Sha 16.30: Session 12.B - Communications and Networks STATISTICAL DELAY GUARANTEE OF VIRTUAL CLOCK Pawan Goyal and Harrick M. Vin REALIZING SERVICES FOR GUARANTEED-QOS COMMUNICATION ON A MICROKERNEL OPERATING SYSTEM Ashish Mehra, Anees Shaikh, Tarek Abdelzaher, Zhiqun Wang, and Kang G. Shin SCHEDULING COMMUNICATION NETWORKS CARRYING REAL-TIME TRAFFIC John P. Lehoczky ======================================================================= INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION AND DEMOS RTSS '98 will include an industrial exhibition in a centrally located space, for vendors to demonstrate state-of-the-art systems, development tools and applications; where RTSS attendees can engage in technical discussions with product engineers and developers; and where company representatives meet (and potentially recruit) young researchers specializing in real-time and embedded systems. To reserve space for the exhibition, please contact the RTSS '98 Industrial Chair, Dr. Gerhard Fohler at (gerhard.fohler@mdh.se). ======================================================================= WORK-IN-PROGRESS SESSIONS As in previous years, RTSS '98 is soliciting contributions to a special Work-In-Progress (WIP) track, featuring short presentations on new work in real-time systems and applications. The purpose of this session is to provide researchers with an opportunity to discuss new and evolving ideas, and gather feedback from the real-time community at large. All accepted papers to the RTSS'98 WIP sessions will be presented at the conference, in short 10-minute talks. Papers will be published in a special RTSS'98 WIP proceedings, to be distributed to all RTSS'98 conference participants, and then made available on the WWW, via the IEEE-CS TC-RTS Home Page. Submissions to RTSS'98 WIP should describe original, on-going work, and should be limited to 2,000 words. Authors should email papers to the RTSS'98 WIP Chair: Steve Goddard Dept of Computer Science and Engineering Email: goddard@cse.unl.edu University of Nebraska-Lincoln Phone: +1-402-472-9968 Lincoln, NE 68588-0115 USA Fax: +1-402-472-7767 The deadline for submissions is October 23, 1998. Notification of acceptance will be sent out on November 2, 1998. For more information, please contact RTSS'98 WIP Chair or check the RTSS'98 WIP Home Page at: http://www.cse.unl.edu/rtss98wip ======================================================================= WORKSHOP ON PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES RTSS '98 is co-hosting the IEEE Workshop on Programming Languages for Real-Time Industrial Applications, to take place on December 1 - the day preceding the conference. Several topics to be covered at the workshop are: developments in real-time and embedded flavors of Java; implementing real-time virtual machines for Java; Java vs. Ada 95 real-time profiles; support for distributed applications using real-time Java, Ada, and MPI; getting real-time functionality in Java chips; developments in real-time POSIX - ongoing and in the future. If you're interested in these or related topics, please consult the Workshop home page: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~mueller/plrtia98 ======================================================================= PRELIMINARY REGISTRATION AND HOTEL INFORMATION Registration forms will available shortly; however, for early information please the RTSS98 Registration Chair, Ms. Linda Buss, at ljbuss@win.bright.net. Two hotels have been selected for RTSS, both of which are centrally located in Madrid's Museum District, and a few blocks from the famed Museo del Prado. For those making early travel plans, the RTSS Conference Hotels are: Hotel Reina Victoria Rooms (minus VAT) Plaza de Santa Ana, 14 ------------------- 28014 Madrid Singles: 18,500 pts. tel. +34-91-523-5215 Doubles: 21,000 pts. fax: +34-91-522-0307 Breakfast included. Hotel Villa Real Rooms (minus VAT) Plaza de las Cortes, 10 ------------------- 28014 Madrid Singles: 14,500 pts. fax: +34-91-420-2547 Doubles: 16,050 pts. tel. +34-91-420-3767 Breakfast included. ======================================================================= ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California, Irvine Program Chair: Richard Gerber, University of Maryland Finance Chair: Walt Heimerdinger, Honeywell Technology Center Local Arrangements Chair: Angel Alvarez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Industrial Chair: Gerhard Fohler, Malardalen University Work-In-Progresss Chair: Steve Goddard, University of Nebraska Registration Chair: Linda Buss Local Treasurer: Juan A. de la Puente, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Publicity Co-Chairs: Alejandro Alonso, Universidad Politicnica de Madrid (Europe) Chao-Ju Jennifer Hou, Ohio State University (Americas) Joseph Ng, Hong Kong Baptist University (Asia/Pacific) European Chair: Alan Burns, University of York Ex-Officio: (RTS-TC Chair) Doug Locke, Lockheed Martin Corporation ======================================================================= PROGRAM COMMITTEE James Anderson (University of North Carolina) Azer Bestavros (Boston University) Sanjoy Baruah (University of Vermont) Giorgio ButTazzo (Scuola Superiore e Sant'Anna) Gerhard Fohler (Malardalen University) Michael Gonzalez Harbour (Universidad Cantabria) Jeffrey Hollingsworth (University of Maryland) Seongsoo Hong (Seoul National University) Farnam Jahanian (University of Michigan) Kevin Jeffay (University of North Carolina) Hermann Kopetz (Vienna University of Technology) Kim G. Larsen (Aalborg University) Insup Lee (University of Pennsylvania) Jane W.S. Liu (University of Illinois) Keith Marzullo (University of California at San Diego) Sang Lyul Min (Seoul National University) Al Mok (University of Texas at Austin) Ragunathan Rajkumar (Carnegie Mellon University) Jennifer Rexford (AT&T Research) Manas Saksena (Concordia University) Bran Selic (ObjectTime, Ltd.) Andy Wellings (University of York) David Wilner (Wind River Systems) Sergio Yovine (CNRS/VERIMAG) Hui Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University) ======================================================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message 4; Postmarked Mon Sep 14 10:40:24 1998 From: Gerhard Fohler [mailto:gerhard.fohler@mdh.se] Subject: RTSS'98: Call for Exhibits and Demos Content-Length: 4047 Call for Exhibits and Demos RTSS '98: 19th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium December 2-4, 1998 The IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium is the flagship international conference on real-time systems. RTSS '98 includes an exhibition and show; participants are solicited to demonstrate state-of-the art systems, development tools and applications. In addition to presence at the venue, exposure will continue after the conference. The RTSS technical program includes most aspects of real-time and embedded systems, including * modeling and design * operating systems * instrumentation * scheduling algorithms * databases * fault tolerance * file systems * networkstion * software engineering * programming languages * formal methods * performance analysis * architecture * middleware and APIs * embedded systems * signal-processing * multimedia application* process control * tool support -- and a lot more. In 1998, RTSS received a record number of submitted papers - 80 more than last year, and 50 more than any RTSS ever held. Forty-five of these papers will be on the program, in parallel tracks covering 3 days. The conference attracts a large and diverse body of researchers and developers, from academic researchers, to CEOs and CTOs of major corporations. Applications covered at the conference run the gamut, from small embedded controllers, to web servers, to real-time IP, to high-performance signal processors. Based on experience from the last RTSS held in Europe (RTSS '95, Pisa), most top real-time researchers in Europe are expected to attend. The exhibition and show provides exhibitors with the following benefites: At the Conference: *to present to the audience of the major conference in the field from all the world *to engage in discussions with leading researchers *to get access to state-of-the art research results *to build contacts for future interactions/consulting *to meet (and potentially recruit) top young researchers in real-time and embedded systems. After the Conference: *Technical summaries will be publiished in the conference proceedings *The RTSS home page will link to your site - and these links will stay active forever Details Exhibition space Exhibition space will be provided at the Palace Hotel in the hall where breaks will be held and coffee be served (Meeting Facilities - R. Canovas). RTSS will have parallel sessions this year: The main auditorium will be at Spanish Research Council, across the street from Palace Hotel. The parallel sessions will be held next to the exhibit room (Meeting Facilities - R. Cortes). RTSS will provide space and basic equipment, eg, tables, chairs, power. Inclusion in conference The exhibition, and a summary of the exhibits, will be announced in hand outs, conference schedule, and conference program. Anncouncements will be made in the course of the technical presentations. Exhibitors will have the possibility to make short (5 minutes) presentations of their exhibits. Exhibition time Dec 2 and 3, 1998 Exposure after conference Exhibitors will get: * Space for presentation in proceedings (1/4 page, provided printing deadlines are kept) in special section along the technical program. * RTSS proceedings are published by IEEE and a leading source of information about state-of-the art research regularly consulted by both scientific and industrial researchers. * Links from the RTSS 98 webpage (hit rates have been in the range of 15000+/week both before submission deadline and after program announcement/call for participation) Information and booking For pricing, further details or to reserve space for the exhibition, please contact the RTSS '98 Industrial Chair, Gerhard Fohler (gfr@mdh.se). More information can be found at http://www.cs.umd.edu/~rich/rtss98/ and http://www.idt.mdh.se/personal/gfr/rtss98-exhibit.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message 5; Postmarked Sun Aug 23 22:17:21 1998 From: goddard [mailto:goddard@cse.unl.edu] Subject: RTSS'98 WIP CFP Content-Length: 2277 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---. --- ,--.,--. / .--. .---. 19th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium | | | | | | | | | December 2-4, 1998 |--' | `--.`--. `--| `---' Madrid, Spain | \ | | | | | | | \ | `--'`--' `--' `---' 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'98 are sought. RTSS'98 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'98 WIP session will be held on Thursday, December 3, 1998, and will consist of 10-minute presentations of all accepted submissions. Also, accepted submissions will be included in a special RTSS'98 WIP proceedings which will be distributed to all RTSS'98 conference participants, and will be available electronically from the IEEE-CS TC-RTS Home Page on the WWW. Submissions to RTSS'98 WIP should describe original on-going work and should be limited to 2,000 words. Submissions dealing with real-time issues in applications involving COTS-based integrated systems, mission-critical/safety- critical systems, distributed systems, and hybrid systems are strongly encouraged. Evaluations of new software engineering methods and tools used in the development of real-time applications are also sought. Please send all submissions via Email to RTSS'98 WIP Chair: Steve Goddard Dept of Computer Science and Engineering Email: goddard@cse.unl.edu University of Nebraska-Lincoln Phone: +1-402-472-9968 Lincoln, NE 68588-0115 USA Fax: +1-402-472-7767 The deadline for submissions is October 23, 1998. Notification of acceptance will be sent out on November 2, 1998. For more information, please contact RTSS'98 WIP Chair or check the RTSS'98 WIP Home Page at: http://www.cse.unl.edu/rtss98wip ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message 6; Postmarked Mon Sep 14 10:40:24 1998 From: Gerhard Fohler [mailto:gerhard.fohler@mdh.se] Subject: 11th EUROMICRO CONFERENCE ON REAL-TIME SYSTEMS Content-Length: 6372 11th EUROMICRO CONFERENCE ON REAL-TIME SYSTEMS University of York, York, England June 9-11th, 1999 CALL FOR PAPERS General Chair The eleventh Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems Alan Burns (RTS'99) is a forum aimed at covering state-of-the-art Dept. of Computer research and development in real time computing. The Science 1999 conference will have a special emphasis on University of York Real-Time and Control and Automotive Systems. The burns@cs.york.ac.uk special session on Real-Time and Control will focus on the use of control engineering related information in Program Chair real-time systems design. The session on Automotive Hans A. Hansson Systems is motivated by the increasing use and demand Dept. of Computer Eng. for real-time methods and tools in this area. Malardalen Univ. Submissions related to these areas are welcome, as are P.O. Box 883 general Real-Time Systems contributions. These S-721 23 Vasteras, include, but are not limited to: Sweden han@idt.mdh.se Specification and Design: Software: design and behavior specification; analysis; validation; WiP Session Chair description formalisms; languages; operating Andy Wellings design and verification systems; distributed Dept. of Computer methodologies; performance systems; scheduling; Science evaluation and verification; monitoring; software University of York concurrent engineering. reuse; object oriented YORK, YO1 5DD, UK approaches. andy@cs.york.ac.uk Applications: Hardware: architectures; Publicity Chair multi-media systems; distr. real-time oriented Gerhard Fohler real-time information devices; coprocessors; Dept. of Computer Eng. systems/databases; embedded timing engines; Malardalen Univ. systems for automation; hardware assisted gfr@mdh.se sensors/actuators; scheduling. knowledge-based systems; Program Committee digital signal processing; Communication: Martin Adelantado, F animation and simulation. communication protocols; Peter Altenbernd, D protocol engines; Neil Audsley, UK analysis tools; Albert Benveniste, F development tools. Azer Bestavros, US Giorgio Buttazzo, I SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Gianfranco Prospective authors are encouraged to e-mail (or Ciccarella, I provide an URL to) the pdf or uuencoded Postscript Jean-D. Decotignie,CH version of their full paper to the program chair. If Gerhard Fohler, S electronic submission is not possible, five hardcopies Josep M. Fuertes, SP of the full paper should be sent. The material must be Karl E. unpublished and not under submission elsewhere. The Grosspietsch, D paper should not exceed 4000 words, and include an Wolfgang Halang, D abstract of up to 150 words. The title page should Hans Hansson, S clearly show the name, mailing address, e-mail address Guy Juanole, F and fax number of the author to contact. In the cover Jukka Karjalainen, FI letter the relevant topic areas should be pointed out. Herman Kopetz, A The following signed statement should be included on Gilad Koren, IL the title page: "Neither this paper nor any version Kim G. Larsen, DK close to it has been or is being offered elsewhere for Jane W.S. Liu, US publication. All necessary clearances have been Insup Lee, US obtained for the publication of this paper. If Kwei-Jay Lin, US accepted, the paper will be made available in Sang Lyul Min, K Camera-ready forms by March 15th, 1999, and it will be Lorenzo Mezzalira, I personally presented at RTS'99 by one of the authors. John Moelgaard, DK The presenting author(s) will pre-register for RTS'99 Frederic before the due date of the Camera-ready paper." The Patricelli, I proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Peter Puschner, A Society. Papers exceeding 8 pages (in IEEE format) Petri Pulli, FI will be charged NLG 100 per page in excess. In recent Juan A. de la years, authors of the best RTS-papers have been Puente, SP invited to submit papers to a special issue of the Ewald von Journal of Systems Architecture. Puttkamer, D Anders P. Ravn, DK A special Work in Progress (WiP) session will be Eric Rutten, F organised. This session is mainly intended for Karsten Schwan, US presentation of on-going and recent work. Accepted John A. Stankovic, US papers will not be included in the conference Ken Tindell, UK proceedings, instead they will be made available Hans Toetenel, NL available in WWW. Submission in the above areas should Eduardo Tovar, PT be sent in the same format (but not exceeding 2000 Anders Torne, S words) to WiP session chair Andy Wellings. Juri Vain, ES Horst Wedde, D Andy Wellings, UK Wang Yi, S Karl-Erik Arzen, S IMPORTANT DATES Submission of papers: December 1, 1998 Notification of acceptance: February 15, 1999 Camera-ready paper due: March 15, 1999 Submission of WiP papers: April 15, 1999 GENERAL INFORMATION The city of York is one of the most beautiful in Britain, as well as one of the oldest. It has extensive remains from each major period since its foundations by the Romans. There are several award winning museums in the city, as well as a large range of restaurants, cafes and public houses. London and Edinburgh are both about two hours by train (the fastest trains to London take about 1 hour and 40 minutes. Regular trans-pennine services connect York to Manchester (including direct services to Manchester Airport). MORE INFORMATION WWW: http://www.idt.mdh.se/EWRTS99/ or from the Euromicro Office (euromicro@standby.nl) Additional information about York is available at http://www.york.gov.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message 7; Postmarked Wed Sep 16 11:35:50 1998 From: Alceu.Frigeri@FernUni-Hagen.de (Alceu Heinke Frigeri) Subject: WRTP'99 & ARTDB-99 : Call for Papers Content-Length: 10277 ******* WRTP'99 ******* ARTDB-99 ******* WRTP'99 ******* ARTDB-99 ******* WRTP'99 & ARTDB-99 First Announcement and CALL FOR PAPERS Joint 24th IFAC/IFIP Workshop on Real-Time Programming and The Third International Workshop on Active and Real-Time Database Systems Schloss Dagstuhl, Saarland, Germany May 31st - June 2nd, 1999 Sponsored by IFAC Technical Committee on Real-Time Software Engineering and IFIP Working Group on Industrial Software Quality and Certification [IFAC] [IFIP] Organised by GI/GMA - Fachgruppe "Echtzeitsysteme" Co-Organised by Schloss Dagstuhl Scope: The workshop will consist of formal presentations, discussions, and informal meetings covering recent advances and current issues in theory, applications, and technology of real-time programming and real-time database management. It is intended to promote interaction among researchers and practitioners and to evaluate the maturity of new directions in real-time software and real-time database systems. The topics to be covered include, but are not limited to: * Advances in real-time software engineering o Real-time programming languages o Requirements engineering methods for real-time systems o Software analysis and design methods for predictable behaviour and verification & validation o Object orientation in real-time environments * Real-time systems issues o Scheduling of real-time tasks and transactions o Real-time concurrency control and resource management o Real-time operating and database systems o Real-time system architectures o Communication in real-time systems o Distributed real-time and database systems * New directions in real-time database systems o Active and real-time databases, time-constrained rule management o Event monitoring under temporal constraints o Transactions with temporal urgency and validity constraints * Real-time software quality aspects o Verification and validation, esp. of timing and safety properties o Quality of service issues: Dependability, quality assurance etc. * Real-time applications and experience o Industrial applications and experience o Evaluation of current real-time systems and databases o Real-time/control systems with challenging time constraints Workshop Chair: Alceu Heinke Frigeri Faculty of Electrical Engineering FernUniversitaet D-58084 Hagen, Germany Phone: +49(2331) 987 4527 Fax: +49(2331) 987 375 Email: Alceu.Frigeri@FernUni-Hagen.de International Programme Committee: Co-chairs: Wolfgang A. Halang Faculty of Electrical Engineering FernUniversitaet D-58084 Hagen, Germany Phone: +49(2331) 987 372 Fax: +49(2331) 987 375 Email: Wolfgang.Halang@FernUni-Hagen.de Sang H. Son Dept. of Computer Science University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA Phone: +1(804) 982-2205 Fax: +1(804) 982-2214 Email: Son@CS.Virginia.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------ Members: Brad Adelberg, USA Sten F. Andler, Sweden Sven-Arne Andreasson, Sweden Azer Bestavros, USA Alan Burns, UK ------------------------------------------------------------------ Matjaz Colnaric, Slovenia Alfons Crespo, Spain Anindya Datta, USA Jorgen Hansson, Sweden Mike Hinchey, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------ Joerg Kaiser, Germany Tei-Wei Kuo, Taiwan Swamy Kutti, Australia Kam-Yiu Lam, Hong Kong Phillip Laplante, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------ Kwei-Jay Lin, USA C. Douglas Locke, USA Kin-F. Man, Hong Kong Marga Marcos Munoz, Spain Sias Mostert, South Africa ------------------------------------------------------------------ Leo Motus, Estonia Carlos E. Pereira, Brazil Juan A. de la Puente, Spain Ragunathan Rajkumar, USA Helmut Rzehak, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------ Abd-El-Kader Sahraoui, France Jean-Jacques Schwarz, France Bran V. Selic, Canada Alan Shaw, USA Jacques Skubich, France ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jack A. Stankovic, USA Tomasz Szmuc, Poland Theodor Tempelmeier, Germany Paulo Jorge Verissimo, Portugal Horst Wedde, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------ Janusz Zalewski, USA Lichen Zhang, P.R. China Wei Zhao, USA National Organising Committee: Chair: Mohammad A. Livani Universitaet Ulm Members: Sten F. Andler Wolfgang A. Halang Alceu Heinke Frigeri Janine Magnussen Angelika Mueller Submission Details: Submissions: The submission of full papers with up to 6 pages is invited. They should address the topics outlined above and focus on insights and lessons gained from recent research and practical experience. Position papers describing new ideas, promising approaches, and work in progress are considered particularly appropriate. These papers should outline the contribution that the authors intend to make at the Workshop. The submitted texts are to be sent to the workshop chair by electronic mail in one of the two following forms: * as a plain ASCII file, i.e., without any mark-up, or * as a PostScript file (adhering to the Adobe Document Structuring Conventions - ADSC). The authors are asked to submit, with their papers, the following information in an attached ASCII file: * Paper Title * Author's Name * Contact Address & Email * Abstract * Keyword list If e-mail is not available, the files may be mailed on 3.5" MS-DOS diskettes. Final Papers: The final papers must be prepared according to the Author's Kit instructions, using a certain LaTeX2e style that will be sent to the authors with the notification of acceptance. Accepted papers must be presented in person at the Workshop. To speed up the revision and publication processes, authors are urged to follow the Author's Kit (found in our WWW home page, at http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/IT/wrtp99/) instructions from the very beginning, i.e., starting with the submission. Language: English will be the working language of the workshop and will be used for the proceedings, the presentations and discussions. No simultaneous translation will be provided. Correspondence: All correspondence should be addressed to the Workshop chairman Alceu Heinke Frigeri FernUniversitaet FB Elektrotechnik (LG IT) D-58084 Hagen, Germany Phone: +49(2331)987 4527 Fax: +49(2331)987 375 Email: Alceu.Frigeri@FernUni-Hagen.de Electronic mail should be used whenever possible. Important Dates: Submissions due by: December 18th, 1998 Notification of acceptance: March 1st, 1999 Registration: March 15th, 1999 Full papers due by: March 31st, 1999 Workshop: May 31st - June 2nd, 1999 Participation: Attendance will be limited to approx. 60 active workers in the field. Participants are requested to register in advance not later than March 15th, 1999. Copyright Conditions: The material submitted for presentation at an IFAC workshop must be original, not published or being considered elsewhere. All papers accepted for presentation will appear in the Preprints of the meeting and will be distributed to the participants. Papers duly presented will be archived and offered for sale, in the form of Proceedings, by Elsevier Science Ltd., Oxford, UK. The presented papers will be further screened for possible publication in the IFAC journals Automatica and Control Engineering Practice, or in an IFAC affiliated journals. A record of all presented papers will also appear in Control Engineering Practice. Copyright of material presented at an IFAC meeting is held by IFAC. Authors will be sent a copyright transfer form. Automatica, Control Engineering Practice and, after these, IFAC affiliated journals have priority access to all contributions presented. However, if the author is not contacted by an editor of these journals, within three months after the meeting, the author is free to re-submit the material for publication elsewhere. In this case, the paper must carry a reference to the IFAC meeting where it was originally presented. For more detailed information see the WWW-Servers: http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/IT/wrtp99/ http://www.ifac-control.org/ ******* WRTP'99 ******* ARTDB-99 ******* WRTP'99 ******* ARTDB-99 ******* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message 8; Postmarked Sat Sep 19 03:47:08 1998 From: Sang Hyuk Son [mailto:son@cs.virginia.edu] Subject: WECWIS'99: Call for Papers Content-Length: 4366 =============== Call for Papers =============== International Workshop on Advance Issues of E-Commerce and Web-based Information Systems (WECWIS'99) Santa Clara, California, April 8-9, 1999 (Joint Workshop of the 3rd RTDB (Real-Time Databases) and 2nd DARE (Dependable & Real-Time E-C Systems)) In Cooperation with IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems IBM Institute for Advanced Commerce The workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society. Web page: http://www.eng.uci.edu/~cpeng/WECWIS.html The pervasive connectivity of the Internet and the powerful architecture of WWW have created a tremendous opportunity for conducting business on Internet. The terms e-commerce and e-business have been used to describe those systems and technologies that make conducting business on Internet possible. The purpose of this workshop is to identify and to explore the technical issues and solutions for e-commerce. In particular, we are interested in the security and real-time properties of e-commerce and web-based information systems. To our opinion, these topics are one of the most challenging and the most critical for the success of future e-commerce systems. The WECWIS workshop is to be a forum for free exchange of ideas. Particularly welcome are reports on experimental work, experience with current standards and position papers addressing current and future needs of e-commerce systems. Topics for submission include but are not limited to: * Real-time internet delivery technology * Security issues for e-commerce * Web-based information systems for e-commerce * Real-time scheduling protocols for Internet activities * Real-time Java technology * Design of Internet applications * QoS support in e-commerce systems * Data mining techniques for e-commerce systems and WIS * E-commerce based business models and architectures * Integration of e-commerce servers with legacy systems 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 10 pages double-spaced, including figures. The title page should include a maximum 150-word abstract, five keywords, full mailing address, e-mail address, phone numbers, and a designated contact author. Four hard copies or an electronic version (postscript file) of the manuscript should be submitted by November 15, 1998 to: Professor Sang H. Son Department of Computer Science University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22903 Tel: +1 (804) 982-2205 Fax: +1 (804) 982-2214 E-mail: son@cs.virginia.edu Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: November 15, 1998 Notification of Acceptance: January 5, 1999 Camera Ready Paper Due: February 1, 1999 ================================================= WECWIS'98 Program Organization General Co-Chair ---------------- Jen-Yao Chung, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Kwei-Jay Lin , University of California, Irvine Program Chair ------------- Sang H. Son, University of Virginia Publicity Co-Chair ------------------ Marty Humphrey, University of Virginia K.Y. Lam, City University of Hong Kong Publication Chair ----------------- Ching-Shan Peng, HP Program Committee ----------------- Sanjoy Baruah, University of Vermont Amit Basu, Vanderbilt University Elisa Bertino, University of Milan, Italy Alejandro P. Buchmann, Technical Univ. Darmstadt, Germany Anindya Datta, Georgia Tech Patrick Gannon, CommerceNet Jorgen Hansson, University of Skovde, Sweden Jan-Ming Ho, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Tomas Isakowitz, Janney, Montgomery & Scott Inc. Anant Jhingran, IBM Research Norihisa Komoda, Osaka University, Japan T. P. Liang, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan Al Mok, University of Texas, Austin Hsin Pan, IBM Raj Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon University Krithi Ramamritham, IIT Bombay, India Kang Shin, University of Michigan Bhavani Thuraisingham, Mitre Doug Tygar, University of California, Berkeley Andrew Winston, University of Texas, Austin Vic Wolfe, University of Rhode Island Andy Yang, Oracle Corporation Workshop Location ------------------ Biltmore Hotel & Suites 2151 Laurelwood Road, Santa Clara, CA 95054 (408) 988-8411, fax: (408) 988-0225, (800) 255-9925 http://www.hotelbiltmore.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<* 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------