Subject: IEEE-CS TC-RTS Newsletter for Thu Dec 03, 1998 _______________________________________________________________________________ __ _ __ ___ ___ __ __ I E E E Technical Committee |\ | |_ | | (_' | |_ | | |_ |_) C S on Real-Time Systems | \| |__ |/\| ,_) |__ |__ | | |__ | \ _______________________________________________________________________________ Table of Contents Line ----------------- ---- 1. "Azer Bestavros" (23 lines) LCTES'98 Proceedings are online.................................... 3 2. Lisa Cingiser DiPippo [mailto:cingiser@cs.uri.edu] (164 lines) IEEE RTAS 99: Call for Papers (Deadline 12/7/98)................... 26 3. "Azer Bestavros" (67 lines) Tenure-Track Assistant Professorships @ BU......................... 190 4. Administration (324 lines) WRTP'99 & ARTDB-99 Call for Papers................................. 257 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<* START OF THE IEEE-CS TC-RTS NEWSLETTER *>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message 1; Postmarked Fri Oct 16 19:03:24 1998 From: "Azer Bestavros" Subject: LCTES'98 Proceedings are online Content-Length: 516 The proceedings of the 1998 Sigplan Workshop on Languages Compiler and Tools for Embedded Systems, which was held in Montreal earlier this year were published as an edited book by LNCS. F. Mueller, A. Bestavros (Eds.): Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems ACM SIGPLAN Workshop LCTES'98, Montreal, Canada, June 1998. Proceedings This book is now available for a limited time only (till 12/30) on the Web from http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1474.htm Best regards, --Azer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 (Deadline 12/7/98) Content-Length: 6246 ****************** Note Extended Deadline ************************** 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 Final 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 14, 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 14, 1998 -> EXTENDED 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 Thu Nov 5 08:42:05 1998 From: "Azer Bestavros" Subject: Tenure-Track Assistant Professorships @ BU Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2422 BOSTON UNIVERSITY Computer Science Department Tenure-Track Assistant Professorships Applications are invited for four tenure-track assistant professorships beginning September 1999. Qualifications required of all applicants include, a PhD in Computer Science, a strong research record, and commitment to teaching. The department has a special interest in candidates pursuing experimental computer science research, including: networking, operating systems, distributed systems, scalability, reliability and security of networked systems, databases, information retrieval and visualization, and computer graphics. Currently, the Computer Science Department consists of 12 faculty, and offers BA, MA, and PhD programs. Our research interests include parallel, distributed, and real-time systems; networks; performance evaluation; image and video computing; logic of computation; and theoretical computer science. In addition, we have a close association with other groups on campus working on various areas of applied computing. The Department has excellent computing resources which include PC's, Sun and SGI workstations, as well as Sun and SGI multiprocessor servers. In addition, the department has access to the university supercomputing facilities, high-speed campus networks, and national vBNS and I2 internetworking. Recently, 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 government and industry grants for research, research infrastructure and for graduate student support. We anticipate a sustained period of strong growth based on our recent successes. 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(s) of specialization. Additional information on the department and this search is available from http://www.cs.bu.edu. Please send inquiries or questions regarding this search via email to . Boston University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Minorities, persons with disabilities, and women are particularly encouraged to apply. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message 4; Postmarked Fri Oct 30 06:27:26 1998 From: Administration Subject: WRTP'99 & ARTDB-99 Call for Papers Content-Length: 12145 ******* WRTP'99 ******* ARTDB-99 ******* WRTP'99 ******* ARTDB-99 ******* WRTP'99 & ARTDB-99 First Announcement and 2nd 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 Northwestern University, USA Sten F. Andler University of Skovde, Sweden Sven-Arne Andréasson Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Azer Bestavros Boston University, USA Alan Burns University of York, UK ------------------------------------------------------------------ Matjaz Colnaric University of Maribor, Slovenia Alfons Crespo Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Anindya Datta University of Arizona, USA Jorgen Hansson University of Skovde, Sweden Mike Hinchey University of Nebraska-Omaha, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------ Joerg Kaiser Universitaet Ulm, Germany Tei-Wei Kuo National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Swamy Kutti Deakin University, Australia Kam-Yiu Lam City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Phillip Laplante Pennsylvania Institute of Technology, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------ Kwei-Jay Lin University of California, USA C. Douglas Locke Lockheed Martin Corporation, USA Kin-F. Man City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Karlotto Mangold ATM Computer, Germany Marga Marcos Muñoz Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain ------------------------------------------------------------------ Sias Mostert University of Stellenbosch, South Africa Leo Motus Tallinn Technical University, Estonia Carlos E. Pereira Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Juan A. de la Puente Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Ragunathan Rajkumar Carnegie Mellon University, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------ Helmut Rzehak Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen, Germany Abd-El-Kader Sahraoui Ecole Nationale Superieure D'Ingenieur des Constructions Aeronautiques, France Jean-Jacques Schwarz Institut National des Sciences Appliquees de Lyon, France Bran V. Selic ObjecTime Limited, Canada Alan Shaw University of Washington, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jacques Skubich Institut National des Sciences Appliquees de Lyon, France Jack A. Stankovic University of Virginia, USA Tomasz Szmuc Stanislaw Staszic University of Mining and Metallurgy, Poland Theodor Tempelmeier Fachhochschule Rosenheim, Germany Paulo Jorge Verissimo Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal ------------------------------------------------------------------ Horst Wedde Universitaet Dortmund, Germany Janusz Zalewski University of Central Florida, USA Lichen Zhang Shantou University, P.R. China Wei Zhao Texas A&M University, 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 papers are to be submitted through our WWW server, or directly sent to the workshop chair by electronic mail. The submitted texts are to be 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 instructions (found in our WWW home page, at http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/IT/wrtp99/) 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 ******* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<* 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------