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RTAS 2004 seeks
papers describing significant contributions to the broad field of embedded
and open
real-time computing, control, and communication, that cover timing or
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 or QoS
constraints. Submitted papers should be at most 10 two-column single-space
pages in 10pt font.
As of this year, the scope of RTAS is broadly broken into
the following major
thrusts:
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Real-time Infrastructure and Development:
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 feedback control.
Real-time control: New this year is an explicit track on the role of
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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Embedded Applications:
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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QoS in Open Systems:
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 or quality 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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Organizing Committee:
General Chairs:
Greg Bollella, Sun Microsystems, USA,
Doug Schmidt, Venderbilt University.
Program Chairs:
Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Virginia, David Sharp, Boeing, St. Louis.
Finance Chair: Wei Zhao, Texas A&M.
Local Arrangements Chair: H. - Arno Jacobsen,
University of Toronto, Canada.
Ex-Officio (IEEE RTS-TC Chair): Insup Lee,
University of Pennsylvania.
Publicity Chairs:
Luis Almeida, University of Aveiro, Portugal.
Anton Cervin, Lund, Sweden.
Chenyang Lu, Washington University.
Area Chairs:
Real-Time Infrastructure: Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Virginia.
Real-Time Control: Karl-Erik Arzen, Lund, Sweden.
Embedded Applications: David Sharp, Boeing.
QoS in Open Systems: Yongguang Zhang, HRL Labs,
Srikanth Krishnamurthy, University of California, Riverside.
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Birds of a Feather Session!