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C A L L F O R P A P E R S
IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium
Le Royal Meridien, King Edward, Toronto, Canada, May 25-28th
Submission Deadline: January 12th, 2004
Web site: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/rtas04
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The best papers of RTAS 2004 will be published in an upcoming
special issue of the Journal of Real-Time Systems.
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NEW in 2004: RTAS is now a multitrack conference with separate
sub-committees to review each track. Tracks cover: (i) Real-time
infrastructure, (ii) Real-time control, (iii) QoS, (iv) Industrial
applications.
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RTAS 2004 seeks papers describing significant original contributions
to the broad field of embedded and open real-time computing, control,
and communication, that cover QoS issues in computation and networking,
systems integration, scheduling, operating systems, middleware,
software engineering, dependability, databases, programming languages,
system development tools, performance modeling, and performance
control. Special focus is on real-time and embedded applications
ranging from industrial embedded applications such as aeronautics
and automotive systems to open multimedia, telecommunication and
mobile computing systems. Of particular interest are papers detailing
experiments, implementations, and experiences in application domains
that present new model problems or identify significant temporal
constraints.
As of this year, the scope of RTAS is broadly broken into four
major areas:
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Area A. Real-time Infrastructure and Development:
(Area PC Chair: Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Virginia, USA)
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This thrust continues from previous years with focus on embedded and
real-time systems that exhibit significant timing constraints. Papers
should describe significant contributions to the fundamental
infrastructure, system support, or theoretic foundations for real-time
computing. Topics include all of those associated with real-time
computing platforms and development tools and techniques, such as
real-time resource management, real-time operating systems, security,
real-time Java, middleware, real-time CORBA, secure real-time systems,
support for QoS, novel kernel-level mechanisms, power-aware real-time
systems, real-time software component models, model-based development,
QoS-aware design, real-time system modeling and analysis, formal
methods, scheduling, and performance control.
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Area B. Real-time control:
(Area PC Chair: Karl-Erik Arzen, Lund, Sweden)
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New this year is an explicit track on the role of feedback control
in real-time computing, and the interaction between computing and
control systems. Topics cover the use of real-time control methods
within infrastructures as well as end-user applications, including
but not limited to the interaction of feedback control and scheduling,
nonlinear and uncertain real-time systems, modeling and simulation of
performance control, computational models and languages for control
applications, resource-constrained control or resource-aware control,
temporal robustness, robotics, embedded and hybrid systems, and hybrid
control.
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Area C. Embedded Applications:
(Area PC Chair: David Sharp, Boeing, St. Louis, USA)
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We invite papers on industrial and other real-time and embedded
applications. The focus of this track is on contributions associated
with systems that are actually deployed in commercial industry,
military, or other production environments, including automotive,
avionics, telecom, industrial control, aerospace, consumer
electronics, and sensors. Papers in this area include, but are not
limited to challenges, requirements, model problems, and constraints
associated with various application domains, use of real-time and
embedded technologies in meeting particular system requirements,
performance, scalability, reliability, security, or other assessments
of real-time and embedded technologies for particular application
domains, mining of architectural and design patterns from
applications, and technology transition lessons learned. Experience
papers are especially encouraged within this topic, which may be
less formal than traditional research papers, as well as proposals
for panels which may offer a broader view of industrial activity
on a particular subject.
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Area D. QoS in Open Systems:
(Area PC Chair: Yongguang Zhang, HRL Labs, USA)
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The domain of real-time computing has broadened from primarily hard
real-time closed embedded systems such as avionics and automotive
applications to new open environments with other types of
performance constraints such as the Internet and mobile computing
systems. In such open environments independently developed system
components and applications share common resources (aften across
a network). Exact load and resource characterization is difficult
to attain. Yet, some form of performance assurances are needed
typically in the face of large uncertainty. Papers submitted to
this track should address or extend the broad spectrum of
performance assurance problems, QoS constraints, and quality
metrics in open systems. Topics include but are not limited
to interoperability of open QoS-aware application components,
performance guarantees under uncertainty, combining/trading-off
time with other dimensions such as dependability, mobility, and
security, QoS-aware communication, including Internet and Web-based
applications, QoS in wireless and mobile computing, ad hoc networks,
sensor networks, peer-to-peer computing, novel quality and peformance
metrics, user studies, and user-perceived QoS.
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Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: Monday, January 12, 2004
Acceptance Decisions: Monday, March 1st, 2004
Final Manuscript: Friday, March 19th, 2004
Conference: May 25 - May 28, 2004
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Organizing Committee:
General Chairs:
Greg Bollella, Sun Microsystems
Doug Schmidt, Vanderbilt University
Program Chairs:
Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Virginia
David Sharp, Boeing, St. Louis
Finance Chair: Wei Zhao, Texas A&M.
Ex-Officio (IEEE RTS-TC Chair): Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania.
Local Arrangements Chair: H.-Arno Jacobsen, University of Toronto, Canada.
Publicity Chairs:
Luis Almeida, University of Aveiro, Portugal.
Anton Cervin, Lund, Sweden.
Chenyang Lu, Washington University.
Area Chairs:
Real-Time Infrastructure: Tarek Abdelzaher, Univ. of Virginia
Real-Time Control: Karl-Erik Arzen, Lund, Sweden
Embedded Applications: David Sharp, Boeing
QoS in Open Systems: Yongguang Zhang, HRL Labs
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Technical Program Committee:
Real-Time Infrastructure (Chair: Tarek Abdelzaher)
Luis Almeida, University of Aveiro, Portugal
James Anderson, University of North Carolina, USA
Sanjoy Baruah, University of North Carolina, USA
Lucia Lo Bello, University of Catania, Italy
Azer Bestavros, Boston University, USA
Riccardo Bettati, Texas A&M University, USA
Giorgio Buttazzo, University of Pavia, Italy
Marco Caccamo, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
Albert M.K. Cheng, University of Houston, USA
Gerhard Fohler, Malardalen University, Sweden
Steve Goddard, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Hans Hansson, Malardalen University, Sweden
Jennifer Hou, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
Kevin Jeffay, University of North Carolina, USA
Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Yann-Hang Lee, Arizona State University, USA
Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California at Irvine, USA
Giuseppe Lipari, Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Italy
Chenyang Lu, Washington University at St. Louis, USA
Daniel Mosse', University of Pittsburgh, USA
Raj Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Krithi Ramamritham, IIT Bombay, India
John Regehr, University of Utah, USA
Lui Sha, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
Kang Shin, University of Michigan, USA
Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Sang H. Son, University of Virginia, USA
John Stankovic, University of Virginia, USA
Farn Wang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Wei Zhao, Texas A&M University, USA
Real-Time Control (Chair: Karl-Erik Arzen)
Antonio Bicchi, University of Pisa, Italy
Paul Caspi, VERIMAG, France
Anton Cervin, Lund University, Sweden
Alfons Crespo, Universidad Politechnica de Valencia, Spain
Sam Ge, The National University of Singapore, Singapore
Bonnie Heck, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Joseph Hellerstein, IBM Research, USA
Eric Klavins, University of Washington, USA
Michael Lemmon, University of Notre Dame, USA
Jie Liu, PARC, USA
Tariq Samad, Honeywell, USA
Ricardo Sanz, Universidad Politechnica de Madrid, Spain
Lui Sha, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
Martin T=F6rngren, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Embedded Applications (Chair: David Sharp)
David Bruce Cousins, BBN, USA
Peter Dibble, TimeSys, USA
Lou DiPalma, Raytheon, USA
Andy Gokhale, Vanderbilt University, USA
Joe Loyall, BBN, USA
Rick Schantz, BBN, USA
Bran Selic, IBM, USA
Ben Watson, Lockheed Martin, USA
QoS in Open Systems (Chairs: Yongguang Zhang, Srikanth Krishnamurthy)
Nina Bhatti, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA
Andrew Campbell, Columbia University, USA
Vana Kalogeraki, University of California, Riverside, USA
Srinivasan Keshav, University of Waterloo, Canada
Srikanth Krishnamurthy, University of California, Riverside, USA
Jane W.-S. Liu, Microsoft, USA
Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
Jasleen Sahni, University of North Carolina, USA
Frank Siqueira, FU Santa Catarina, Brasil
Dorgham Sisalem, FOKUS, Germany
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Papers should be 10 single-space, double column pages in 10pt font.
For paper Submission and other information, see conference web site:
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/rtas04/
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