[CFP: Workshop on Java Technologies for Real-Time and Embedded Systems]

[Angelo Corsaro]

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                          CALL FOR PAPERS

                      "The First Workshop on
       Java Technologies for Real-Time and Embedded Systems"

             International Federated Conferences (OTM '03) 
                  http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/


                             JTRES 2003
                        November  3-7, 2003 
                       Catania, Sicily, Italy

             http://tao.doc.wustl.edu/~corsaro/JTRES03/


               Proceedings published by Springer LNCS

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Overview
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Over 90 percent of all microprocessors  are now used for real-time and
embedded applications, and the  behavior of many of these applications
is  constrained   by  the  physical  world.   Higher-level programming
languages and middleware    are needed to  robustly and   productively
design, implement, compose, integrate, validate, and enforce real-time
constraints  along   with  conventional  functional   requirements and
reusable components.

Designing real-time and embedded systems that implement their required
capabilities, are dependable  and predictable, and are parsimonious in
their use  of limited computing  resources is  hard; building  them on
time and   within  budget is  even  harder.   Moreover, due  to global
competition for marketshare and  engineering talent, companies are now
also faced with the problem  of developing and delivering new products
in short time frames. It is therefore essential that the production of
real-time embedded systems can take advantage of languages, tools, and
methods that enable higher software productivity.

Ideally, developers  should use a  programming languages  that shields
them from many accidental  complexities,  such as type errors,  memory
management, and steep learning curves.  The Java programming  language
has  become an attractive  choice because of its safety, productivity,
its relatively   low maintenance costs,  and the  availability of well
trained developers.

Although  its  good   software  engineering  characteristics, Java  is
unsuitable for developing real-time  embedded  systems, mainly due  to
under-specification of thread  scheduling and the presence of  garbage
collection. Recently, to address these problems, a number of extension
to Java   have been proposed,  the two  most representative  being the
Experts  Group Real-Time  Specification   (RTSJ)  for  Java  and   the
J-Consortium Real-Time  Core Extension (RTCore).   The intent of these
specifications is   the   development of  real-time   applications  by
providing several additions such  as extending the Java memory  model,
providing stronger semantics in thread scheduling, and so on.


There is an  increasingly growing interest  in Real-Time Java  in both
the research community and the industry, because of its challenges and
its potential impact on    the development of embedded   and real-time
applications.   The  goal of   the   proposed  workshop is  to  gather
researchers  working on  real-time and embedded  Java  to identify the
challenging problem that still need to  be properly solved in order to
assure the  success of the of Real-Time  Java as a  technology, and to
report results and experience gained by researchers.



Submission Requirements
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Participants are expected  to submit a  position paper  or an extended
abstract of at  most  10 pages by   the submission deadline.  Accepted
papers  will be published   along  with the  OMT  2003 Proceedings  on
Springer   Lecture  Notes on   Computer   Science. Papers and extended
abstract     should     be   emailed     to  Angelo      Corsaro    at
address@hidden make  sure that the  subject of the email says
"JTRES03 Submission". The paper  should be in either  PS, PDF or Word,
format.


Topics  of interest to this  workshop include, but are not limited to:


    * Performances, Predictability, Footprint

    * Scheduling Frameworks

    * Feasibility Analysis

    * Industrial Experiences

    * Fundamental developments in the theory and practice of Real-Time
      and Embedded Java

    * Extension to the RTSJ 

    * Extension to the RTCore
    
    * Experience implementing the RTSJ or RTCore

    * Real-Time Java and QoS-Enabled Component Models

    * Tool support for Real-Time and Embedded Java

    * Memory Management Techniques and Garbage Collectors for
      small memory-sized systems

    * Memory Management Techniques and Garbage Collectors for Real-Time
      Systems

    * Off-line Native Compilers and/or Just-in-Time Compiling 
      Techniques for Embedded and Real-Time Systems

    * JVM Implementation Experiences for Embedded and Real-Time Systems

    * Timing analysis techniques

    * Idiom and Patterns for Java based Embedded and Real-Time Systems


Important Dates
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    * Paper Submission:             1 July   2003
    * Notification of Acceptance:  10 August 2003
    * Camera Ready Paper Due:      25 August 2003

Program Co-Chairs
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- Angelo Corsaro  <address@hidden>  Washington University
- Ron K. Cytron   <address@hidden>   Washington University
- Corrado Santoro <address@hidden>   University of Catania



Local Organizing Chair

- Antonella Di Stefano <address@hidden> University of Catania
                                                


Program Committee Members
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* Greg Bollella............Sun Microsystems, USA
* Joe Cross................Loockheed Martin, USA
* Peter Dibble.............TimeSys, USA
* Chris D. Gill............Washington University in St. Louis, USA
* Giuseppe Di Giore........ST Microelectronics, Italy
* Miguel De Miguel.........Universidad Polit_ica de Madrid, Spain
* Marco Fargetta...........University of Catania, Italy
* Marisol Garc_Valls.....Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
* Doug Jensen..............Mitre, USA
* Doug Lea.................State University of New York at Oswego, USA
* Joe Loyall...............BBN Technologies, USA
* M. Teresa Higuera........Universidad Complutense de Madrid
* David Holmes.............DLTech, Australia
* Doug Niehaus.............Kansas University, USA
* Kelvin Nielsen...........New Monics, USA
* Albert Niessner..........JPL NASA, USA
* Agostino Poggi...........University of Parma, Italy
* John Regehr..............University of Uthah, USA
* Marting Rinard...........Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
* David Sharp..............Boeing, USA
* Douglas Schmidt..........Vanderbilt University, USA
* Silvano Vigna............ST Microelectronics, Italy
* Jan Vitek................Purdue University, USA
* Andy Wellings............University of York, UK


-- 
Angelo Corsaro
Department of Computer Science
Washington University
One Brookings Drive, Box 1045
St. Louis, MO 63130
http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~corsaro