by 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 Technical Committee on
Real-Time Systems
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Advance Program And Call For Participation
http://rtas99.cs.uri.edu
**** Early Registration Deadline -- May 7 ****
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Symposium Highlights
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Along with a diverse program of technical papers, this year's RTAS
includes
several venues that highlight the state-of-the-art of real-time
applications and research.
Workshop: The symposium is kicked-off with a Workshop on QoS Support
for
Real-Time Internet Applications coordinated by Azer Bestavros. This
workshop will bring together researchers interested in the design and
implementation of novel protocols and architectures to support the
requirements of applications that are subject to QoS constraints.
Tutorials: The symposium includes four tutorials on Real-Time Java by
Greg
Bollella and Kelvin Nielsen, Real-Time Analysis Tools by Peter Kortman
and
Ragunathan Rajkumar, Real-Time CORBA by Jon Curry and Real-Time
Communication by Wei Zhao.
Work-in-Progress Sessions: There will be two WIP sessions throughout
the
symposium. These sessions will provide researchers with an opportunity
to
discuss their evolving ideas and gather feedback from the real-time
community at large. See
http://www.cs.concordia.ca/~faculty/manas/rtas99wip/
for information regarding submission of papers.
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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, technical paper
presentations and work-in-progress sessions on various aspects of
real-time
computing and communication, ranging from multimedia applications, case
studies, systems integration, application requirements, scheduling,
operating systems, software engineering, dependability, databases,
programming languages, system development tools, communications,
performance modeling and formal techniques.
The technical program for RTAS'99 is organized into nine sessions,
covering
various aspects of real-time systems technology and applications: namely
Scheduling, Languages and Timing Constraints, Databases and Operating
Systems, Real-Time Windows NT, Real-Time Middleware, Real-Time
Communication, Quality ofService, and Experiences and Case Studies. In
addition to these eigth technical sessions, this year's RTAS program
features four tutorials on Real-Time Java, on Real-Time CORBA, on
Real-Time
Communication, and on Real-Time Analysis Tools. This year's RTAS will
also
include special Work-In-Progress (WIP) sessions. These sessions will
feature a number of short technical presentations to elicit the
community's
feedback on and interest in on-going research projects and system
building
efforts.
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Workshop on QoS Support for Real-Time Internet Applications
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(accepting submissions until April 16)
The Internet is increasingly being used to support a wide range of
applications that are subject to QoS constraints for proper operation.
This
1-day workshop preceding the RTAS'99 aims at bringing together
researchers
interested in the design and implementation of novel protocols and
architectures to support the requirements of such applications in the
context of the existing ubiquitous infrastructure of the Internet (i.e.
HTTP, TCP/IP, UDP, MBone, etc.)
For more information about paper submission, please visit the Workshop
web
site at http://www.cs.bu.edu/pub/rtaw99/.
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Tutorials (see http://rtas99.cs.uri.edu for more details about
tutorials)
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Real-Time Java by Greg Bollella and Kelvin Nielsen
Wed. June 2, 13:30-15:30
Real-Time Analysis Tools by Peter Kortman and Ragunathan Rajkumar
Wed. June 2, 18:15-19:30
Real-Time CORBA by Jon Curry
Thur. June 3, 13:30-15:30
Real-Time Communication by Wei Zhao
Fri. June 4, 10:30-12:00
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Work-in-Progress Sessions
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(accepting submissions until April 15)
RTAS'99 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 from the real-time community at large.
Submissions on all aspects of real-time computing, applications, and
systems are sought for this work-in-progress session. Of particular
interest are papers exploring promising new ideas and approaches.
There will be two RTAS'99 WIP sessions held on the first two days of the
conference. These sessions will consist of 10-minute presentations of
all
accepted submissions. Also, accepted submissions will be included in a
special RTAS'99 WIP proceedings that will be distributed to all RTAS'99
conference participants, and will be available electronically from the
IEEE-CS TC-RTS Home Page on the WWW.
For information on submitting papers to the session, please visit the
WIP
web site at http://www.cs.concordia.ca/~faculty/manas/rtas99wip/.
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Technical Program
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Tuesday June 1, 1999
* 08:00-17:00 / IEEE Workshop on QoS Support for Real-Time Internet
Applications
* 17:00-19:00 / Symposium Registration and Informal Reception
Wednesday June 2, 1999
* 07:30-08:15 / Registration
* 08:15-08:30 / Opening Remarks
o Azer Bestavros (General Chair) and Victor Fay Wolfe (Program
Chair)
* 08:30-10:00 / Session I: Scheduling
o "Responsiveness Approach for Scheduling Fault Recovery
Operations
in Real-Time Systems", Pedro Mejia-Alvarez and Daniel Mosse.
o "Adaptive Scheduling: Overloading Scheduling for Mission
Critical Systems", Paul Richardson and Susanta Sarkar.
o "Scalable Scheduling Support for Loss and Delay Constrained
Media
Streams", Richard West, Karsten Schwan and Christian
Poellabauer.
* 10:00-10:30 / Morning Break
* 10:30-12:00 / Session II: Case Studies I
o "A Dynamic Real-Time Benchmark for Assessment of QoS and
Resource
Management Technology", Lonnie R. Welch and Behrooz A.
Shirazi.
o "Static Properties of Commercial Embedded Real-Time Programs,
and
Their Implication for Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis",
Jakob
Engblom.
o "Implementation of a Transient-Fault-Tolerance Scheme on DEOS
- A
Technology Transfer from and Academic System to an
Industrial",
Libin Dong, Rami Melhem, Daniel Mosse, Sunondo Ghosh, Walt
Heimerdinger, Aaron Larson.
* 12:00-13:30 / Lunch
* 13:30-15:30 / Tutorial: Real-Time Java
* 15:30-16:00 / Afternoon Break
* 16:00-17:30 / Session III: Languages and Timing Constraints
o "Implementation of JEM - A Java Composite Event Package",
Guangtian Liu and Aloysius K. Mok.
o "Tighter Timing Predictions by Automatic Detection and
Exploitation of Value-Dependent Constraints", Christopher
Healy
and David Whalley.
o "Timing Constraint Remapping to Avoid Time Discontinuities in
Distributed Real-Time Systems", Minsoo Ryu, Jungkeun Park and
Seongsoo Hong.
* 17:30-18:15 / Work-in-Progress Session I
* 18:15-21:00 / RTAS'99 Reception and Dinner
* 18:15-19:30 / Tutorial and Demonstration: Real-Time Analysis
Tools:
Thursday June 3, 1999
* 08:00-8:30 / Breakfast
* 8:30-10:00 / Session IV: Databases and Operating Systems
o "MIRROR: A State-Conscious Concurrency Control Protocol for
Replicated Real-Time Databases", Ming Xiong, Krithi
Ramamritham,
Jayant Haritsa and John Stankovic.
o "Portable RK: A Portable Resource Kernel for Guaranteed and
Enforced Timing Behavior", Shuichi Oikawa and Ragunathan
Rajkumar.
o "Experiences Using RT-Linux to Implement a Controller for a
High
Speed Magnetic Bearing System", Marty Humphrey, Edgar Hilton
and
Paul Allaire.
* 10:00-10:30 / Morning Break
* 10:30-12:00 / SessionV: Real-Time Windows NT
o Invited Paper - MicroSoft (TBA).
o "Using Windows NT in Real-Time Systems", Allan Baril.
o "Comparing Real-Time Performance of Windows NT to an NT
Real-Time
Extension", Kevin M. Obenland, John Kowalik, Tiffany Frazier
and
Jin S. Kim..
* 12:00-13:30 / Lunch
* 13:30-15:30 / Tutorial: Real-Time CORBA
* 15:30-16:00 / Afternoon Break
* 16:00-17:30 / Session VI: Real-Time Middleware
o "The Design and Performance of RIO", Fred Kuhns, Douglas C.
Schmidt, David L. Levine and Rajeev Bector.
o "User Level Scheduling of Communicating Real-Time Tasks", Chia
Shen, Oscar Gonzalez, Krithi Ramamritham and Ichiro Mizunuma.
o "An End-to-End QoS Management Architecture", Mallikarjun
Shankar,
Miguel DeMiguel, Jane W.S. Liu.
* 17:30-18:30 / Work-in-Progress Session II
* 18:30-19:00 / Semi-Annual IEEE-CS RTS Technical Committee Meeting:
Chair Doug Locke, Lockheed Martin Corporation.
Friday June 4, 1999
* 08:00-08:30 / Breakfast
* 08:30-10:00 / Tutorial: Real-Time Communication
* 10:00-10:30 / Morning Break
* 10:30-12:00 / Session VII: Real-Time Communication
o "Statistical Real-Time Communication Over Ethernet for
Manufacturing Automation Systems", Seok-Kyu Kweon, Kang G.
Shin
and Qin Zheng.
o "Analyzing Multimedia Traffic in Real-Time ATM Networks",
Mikael
Sjodin and Hans Hansson.
o "QDMR: An Efficient QoS Dependent Multicast Routing
Algorithm",
Liang Guo and Ibrahim Matta.
* 12:00-13:30 / Lunch
* 13:30-15:00 / Session VIII: Case Studies II
o "A Event Channel-Based Embedded Software Architecture for
Developing Telemetric and Teleoperation Systems on the WWW",
Jae-Chul Moon, Myung-Jin Lee and Soon-Ju Kang.
o "General Purpose Architecture for Real-Time Feedback Control
in
Nuclear Fusion Experiments", A. Luchetta and G. Manduchi.
o "A Summary of Communication Middleware Requirements for
Advanced
Shipboard Computing Systems", Mark Swick, James White and
Michael Masters.
o "Timing Analysis of the X-38 Space Station Crew Return Vehicle
Avionics", Lorraine E. P. Rice and Albert M. K. Cheng.
* 15:00-15:30 / Afternoon Break
* 15:30-16:30 / Session IX: Quality of Service
o "Adaptive QoS and Resource Management Using a Posteriori
Workload
Characterizations", Lonnie R. Welch, Paul V. Werme, Larry A.
Fontenot, Michael W. Masters, Behrooz A Shirazi, Binoy
Ravindran
and D. Wayne Mills.
o "On Quality of Service Optimization With Discrete QoS
Options",
Chen Lee.
* 16:30-16:40 / Closing Remarks
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Hotel Information
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The Conference 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.sheratonwallcentre.com.
The hotel guarantees the following rates for rooms:
* CND$195 for single/double rooms (equivalent to approximately US$127
based on today's exchange rate).
* To get this rate mention "IEEE RTAS'99"
* The rooms are guaranteed if reserved before May 7th.
Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel
1088 Burrard Street
Vancouver, British Columbia V6Z 2R9,
Canada
Tel: (604) 331-1000
Fax: (604) 893-7200
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Conference/Workshop Registration
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RTAS'99
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USA
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Non-Members $490 $585
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of
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advisor's name and signature at the time of registration.
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no
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credit card. Please make checks or money orders payable, in U.S.
dollars,
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Organizing Committee
General Chair
o Azer Bestavros, Boston University
Program Committee Chair
o Victor Fay Wolfe, University of Rhode Island
Publicity Chair
o Lisa Cingiser DiPippo, University of Rhode Island
Tutorials Coordinator
o Neeraj Suri, Boston University
Program Committee Members
o Alia Atlas , BBN Technologies USA
o Neil Audsley, University of York, England
o Hanene Ben-Abdallah, FSEG, Univ. de Sfax, Tunisia
o Lisa Cingiser DiPippo, University of Rhode Island, USA
o Steve Goddard, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
o Michael Gonzalez Harbour, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
o Jorgen Hansson, University of Skovde, Sweden
o Marty Humphrey, University of VirginiaUSA
o Farnam Jahanian, University of Michigan, USA
o E. Douglas Jensen, MITRE Corporation, USA
o Russell Johnston, US Navy SPAWAR SYSCEN San Diego, USA
o Michael B. Jones, Microsoft Research, USA
o Peter Kortman, Tri-Pacific Software, USA
o Tei-Wei Kuo, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
o Jane Liu,University Of Illinois USA
o Douglass Locke, Lockheed Martin Corporation, USA
o Peter H. Mills, Applied Research Associates, Inc., USA
o Daniel Mosse', University of Pittsburgh, USA
o Susan Nagy, EMC Corp., USA
o Raj Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
o Manas Saksena,Concordia University, Canada
o Douglas C. Schmidt, Washington University, USA
o Anoop Singhal, AT&T Labs, USA
o Jack Stankovic, University of Virginia, USA
o Wei Zhao, Texas A&M University, USA
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