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RTAS 2007 seeks papers describing significant
contributions both to state of the art and state of the practice in
the broad field of embedded and open real-time systems and
computing. The scope of RTAS 2007 consists of the traditional core
area of real-time and embedded systems infrastructure and theory, as
well as three additional areas of special emphasis: embedded
applications; development, verification, and debug tools for
real-time and embedded systems; and embedded systems
hardware/software interaction/co-design. Each of these four areas is
described in more detail below. |
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CORE AREA: Real-time and Embedded Systems
This thrust continues from
previous years with focus on embedded and real-time systems. Papers
should describe significant contributions to infrastructure, system
support, or theoretic foundations for real-time or embedded
computing. Topics include all of those associated with real-time or
embedded computing platforms and techniques, such as ad-hoc networks
of embedded computers; real-time resource management; real-time
operating systems; real-time communications; embedded system
security; programming languages and software engineering for
real-time or embedded systems; distributed real-time
information/databases; middleware for real-time or embedded systems;
support for QoS; novel kernel-level mechanisms; energy-aware
real-time systems; real-time system modeling and analysis; formal
methods; scheduling; control theoretic models; and performance
feedback control.
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AREA B: Development, Verification, and Debug
Tools for Real-Time and Embedded Systems
This track solicits papers that attack problems in
creating reliable, scalable, and efficient real-time and embedded
systems. Building these systems requires development platforms and
tools to automate tasks that human developers find difficult, such
as meeting non-functional requirements, integrating components,
finding bugs, taking advantage of platform-specific optimizations,
and ensuring that low level code corresponds to high-level models
and requirements. Design and implementation bugs should be detected
as early as possible, and non-functional requirements such as
resource limits should be explicit and declarative. Topics of
interest for this track include, but are not limited to the
following: model-driven tools and techniques; compiler support for
real-time and embedded systems; model-checkers, static analyzers,
and other bug-finding tools; industrial experience with modeling and
analysis; integrating components from multiple sources. |
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AREA A: Real-Time and Embedded Applications/Benchmarks
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,
telecommunications, 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. Papers on efforts to establish a set of
standard real-time benchmarks are specifically sought, composed
of or derived from real applications as well as synthetic
benchmarks with representative algorithms. Experience papers are
also especially encouraged, which may be less formal than
traditional research papers, as well as proposals for panels to
offer a broader view of industrial activity on a particular
subject.
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AREA C: Embedded Systems Hardware/Software
Interaction/Co-Design
This track focuses on strategic techniques,
tools and methodologies in hardware/software interaction and
co-design applicable to modern electronic embedded systems.
These embedded systems are increasingly complex, both in their
applications and in their architectures. General topics relevant
for this track will include a combination of micro-architecture
and software aspects of embedded systems relevant for real-time
computing. They include, but are not limited to, architecture
description languages and tools, WCET analysis, software
architectures, design space explorations synthesis, and design
processes. Of special interest are SoC design, special-purpose
function units, specialized memory structures, multi-core chips,
FPGA simulations, compilation for novel architectural aspects,
software simulations of hardware components as well as static
and dynamic power, timing and predictability challenges in such
settings.
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Conference Committee: |
General Chairs: |
Steve Goddard, University of Nebraska,
Steve Liu, Texas A&M
University. |
Program Chairs: |
Frank Mueller, North Carolina State
University, Scott Brandt, University of California,
Santa Cruz. |
Work-in-Progress Chair: |
Chenyang Lu, Washington University |
Web Chair: |
Dakai Zhu, University of Texas at San
Antonio. |
Finance Chair: |
Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania |
Publicity Chair: |
Shengquan Wang, University of Michigan at Dearborn, Raju
Rangaswami, Florida International University |
Ex-Officio: |
Wei Zhao (IEEE TC-RTS Chair), Texas A&M University. |
Area Chairs: |
Area A: Richard West, Boston University;
Area B: Marco Di Natale, Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Pisa, Italy;
Area C: Neil Audsley, Universtiy of York, U.K. |
Last Updated:
Saturday, September 09, 2006 |
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