Honorary Chairs C.L. Liu, National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan D.T. Lee, Academia Sinica, Taiwan General Chairs Janming Ho, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Jennifer C. Hou, Ohio State Univ., USA Program Chairs Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan Daniel Mosse, University of Pittsburgh, USA Finance Chairs Wei Zhao, Texas A&M Univ., USA Pangfeng Liu, Nat'l ChungCheng U., Taiwan Industrial Chairs Ruei-Chuan Chang, Nat'l Chiao Tung U, Taiwan Shu-Chin Shu Chen, Acer Mobile Networks, Taiwan Work-in-Progress Paper Chair Albert Cheng, Univ. of Houston, USA Local Arrangement Chairs Jing Chen, Nat'l Cheng-Kung U., Taiwan LihChyun Shu, Chang Jung U., Taiwan Shin-Mu Tseng, Nat'l Cheng-Kung U., Taiwan Publicity Co-Chairs Cheng Chang, CSIST, Taiwan Manas Saksena, TimeSys, USA Eduardo Tovar, Inst Politecnico Porto, Portugal Registration Coordinator Chih-wen Hsueh, Nat'l ChungCheng U, Taiwan Ex-Officio (IEEE RTS-TC Chair) Alan Burns, Univ. of York, UK International Advisory Committee C.C. Chang, CCU, Taiwan K.J. Lin, UCI, USA F.C. Lin, III, Taiwan C.L. Liu, CSIST, Taiwan J. Liu, Microsoft, USA A. Mok, UT, USA (Chair) C.T. Shih, ITRI, Taiwan H. Shin, SNL, Korea K. Shin, U. Michigan, USA Y.K. Su, NSC, Taiwan J. Stankovic, U. VA, USA L. Sha, UIUC, USA H. Tokuda, Keio U, Japan W. Zhao, TAMU, USA Program Committee Tarek Abdelzaher, USA Hakan Aydin, USA Ted Baker, USA Sanjoy Baruah, USA Azer Bestavros, USA Giorgio Buttazzo,Italy Rebecca Callison,USA Albert Cheng, USA Hans Hansson, Sweden Jayant Haritsa, India Farnam Jahanian, USA Kevin Jeffay, USA Mike Jones, USA Kam-yiu Lam, HK Insup Lee, USA Victor Lee, HK Doug Locke, USA Jane Liu,USA Orlando Loques, Brasil Ibrahim Matta,USA Rami Melhem, USA Sang Lyul Min, Korea Al K. Mok, USA Sarit Mukharjee, USA Joseph K-Y Ng, HK Carlos Puchol, USA Raj Rajkumar,USA Krithi Ramamritham,USA Manas Saksena, USA Lui Sha, USA Wei-Kuan Shih, Taiwan Sang H. Son, USA John A. Stankovic, USA Karsten Schwan, USA Sandra Thuel, USA Kenji Toda, Japan Eduardo Tovar, Portugal Steve Vestal, USA Farn Wang, Taiwan Tai-Chung Wang,Taiwan Lonnie Welch, USA Richard West, USA David Whalley, USA Victor Fay Wolfe,USA Fu-Ching Wang, Taiwan Steve J.H. Yang,Taiwan

Scope of the Conference RTAS'2001 seeks papers describing significant contributions to the broad field of real-time computing and communication, ranging from QoS issues in computation and networking, systems integration, scheduling, operating systems, middleware, software engineering, dependability, databases, programming languages, system development tools, performance modeling, and various applications like multimedia, telecommunication and embedded systems. Of particular interest are papers detailing experiments, implementations, and experiences in application domains that present significant temporal constraints, including, but not limited to: advanced transportation systems (air, land, and water), automated manufacturing, internet QoS, Video on Demand, network middleware and QoS, multimedia computing (including real-time file systems and stock market applications), object-oriented design techniques, power> management and process control, testbeds and measurements, wireless and robotics applications. Paper Submission Guidelines Manuscripts to be considered as full papers should be original work limited to 20 double-spaced pages (approximately 5000 words). Work-in-progress (WIP) abstracts to be considered for an "Ongoing Work" session should be limited to 5 double-spaced pages. Camera-ready papers will be limited to 10 pages (2 pages for WIP). Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Any paper submitted to the Symposium must not have been published in or submitted to other technical conferences/journals. The preferred format for electronic submission is PDF suitable for Acrobat Reader. Postscript> with US Letter size pages will also be accepted. Follow the instructions in the submission webpage to electronically submit the manuscript. For more information about the Symposium, send e-mail to the General Chairs Janming Ho at hoho@iis.sinica.edu.tw or Jennifer C. Hou at jhou@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu. For questions regarding conference submissions, send e-mail to either Program Committee Chair as listed below. The RTAS'01 webpage is at http://rtas.cs.pitt.edu with a mirror site at http://rtas.iis.sinica.edu.tw. Professor Tei-Wei Kuo Professor Daniel Mosse Dept of Comp Sci & Info Engr Department of Computer Science National Taiwan University The University of Pittsburgh Taipei, Taiwan 106, ROC Pittsburgh, PA 15206, USA Phone/Fax:+886 2 2362 5336/8167 +1 412 624 8923/8854 rtas@csie.ntu.edu.tw rtas@cs.pitt.edu Blind Reviews: To support the blind review process, submitted papers must not contain affiliations, author information, or acknowledgements. References to papers or projects should not lead the reviewers to the authors' identities. Papers departing from blind review and formatting guidelines will be not be reviewed. Tutorials RTAS'01 will host several half-day/one-day tutorials on May 29, 2001, directly before the symposium. Proposals for tutorials in technical areas of the symposium are solicited, and should be submitted by December 17, 2000 to either Program Committee Chair. Important Dates December 11, 2000 -- Deadline for paper submissions December 17, 2000 -- Deadline for tutorial proposals March 5, 2001-- Notification of acceptance March 1, 2001 -- Deadline for WIP paper submissions March 26, 2001 -- Camera ready paper due May 29, 2001 -- Tutorials May 31 --June 2, 2000 -- RTAS'2001, Taipei, Taiwan ROC.