Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems

20th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 08)

Zdeněk Hanzálek — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:50:10 GMT

Welcome to the 20^th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 08)

Czech Technical University in Prague,

Faculty of Electrical Engineering,

Department of Control Engineering,

July 2-4, 2008, Prague, Czech Republic

The Euromicro Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems is proud to announce its 20^th conference on Real-Time Systems. The conference has very strong roots within the Real-Time Laboratories and research groups in both Academia and Industry throughout Europe and across the world.

This year will be the 20th anniversary edition which will include a number of technical and social events to commemorate the successfull development of the conference.

The 19th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems conference (ECRTS 07) was held in Pisa, Italy.

The ECRTS08 is held at the Department of Control Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague.

The 21st Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems conference (ECRTS 09) will be held at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, July 1-3, 2009.

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Organizers

Zdeněk Hanzálek — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:38:30 GMT

Organizers

General Chair

Zdenek Hanzalek, Department of Control Eng., Faculty of Electrical Eng., Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

Program Chair

Alan Burns, University of York, U.K.

Real-Time Technical Committee Chair

Gerhard Fohler, Kaiserslautern University of Technology, Germany

Workshop Chairs

Raimund Kirner - Chair of the 8th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time (WCET) Analysis

Anis Koubaa - Chair of the 7th International Workshop on Real-Time Networks (RTN)

Jim Anderson - Chair of the 4th International Workshop on Operating Systems Platforms for Embedded Real-Time Applications (OSPERT)

Work-In-Progress Session Chair

Marco Caccamo

Local Organisation Chair

Zdenek Hanzalek, Department of Control Eng., Faculty of Electrical Eng., Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

Program Committee

Tarek Abdelzaher, Luis Almeida, James H. Anderson, Neil Audsley, Karl-Erik Arzen, Theodore P. Baker, Sanjoy Baruah, Luca Benini, Scott Brandt, Reinder J. Bril, Georgio Buttazzo, Samarjit Chakraborty, Maryline Chetto, Jean-Dominique Decotignie, Rolf Ernst, Gerhard Fohler, Steve Goddard, Jan Gustafsson, Michael González Harbour, Hermann Härtig, Tei-Wei Kuo, George Lima, Giuseppe Lipari, Julio Medina, Frank Muller, Stefan Petters, Michale Pont, Isabelle Puaut, Peter Puschner, Krithi Ramamritham, Pascal Richard, Rodrigo Santos, Eduardo Tovar, Tullio Vardanega, Rich West

Organisation Committee

Department of Control Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague

Michal Kutil, Monika Hubnerova, Helena Dolezilkova, Jan Kelbel, Michal Sojka, Petr Jurcik, Jiri Trdlicka, Ondrej Spinka, Martin Molnar

Keynote Speakers

Michal Kutil — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:02:00 GMT

Keynote Speakers

Grand Challenges for Real-Time Systems

Thomas A. Henzinger

We summarize some current trends in embedded systems design and point out some of their characteristics, such as the chasm between analytical and computational models, and the gap between safety-critical and best-effort engineering practices. We call for a coherent scientific foundation for embedded systems design, and we discuss a few key demands on such a foundation: to provide support for building predictable and robust systems, to encompass several manifestations of heterogeneity, and to achieve constructivity and compositionality in design. We suggest how
predictability can be formalized as a form of determinism, and robustness, as a form of continuity. We believe that the development of a satisfactory Embedded Systems Design Science provides a timely challenge and opportunity for reinvigorating Computer Science. This talk is based on joint work with Joseph Sifakis.

Thomas A. Henzinger is Professor of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, and Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He holds a Dipl.-Ing. degree in Computer Science from Kepler University in Linz, Austria, an M.S. degree in Computer and Information Sciences from the University of Delaware, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Stanford University (1991). He was Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University (1992-95), Assistant Professor (1996-97), Associate Professor (1997-98), and Professor (1998-2005) of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He was also Director at the Max-Planck Institute for Computer Science in Saarbruecken, Germany (1999). His research focuses on modern systems theory, especially models, algorithms, and tools for the design and verification of software, hardware, and embedded systems. His HyTech tool was the first model checker for mixed discrete-continuous systems. He is an ISI highly cited researcher, a member of Academia Europaea, a member of the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), a Fellow of the ACM, and a Fellow of the IEEE.

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Program

Zdeněk Hanzálek — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:34:08 GMT

Program

Day 1 (2^nd of July 2008)

9:00 - Welcome

9:15 - 10:45 Multiprocessor Systems
Chair Scott Brandt

SCHEDULABILITY ANALYSIS OF SPORADIC TASKS WITH MULTIPLE CRITICALITY
SPECIFICATIONS
Sanjoy Baruah and Steve Vestal

WORK-CONSERVING OPTIMAL REAL-TIME SCHEDULING ON MULTIPROCESSORS
Kenji Funaoka, Shinpei Kato and Nobuyuki Yamasaki

AN ADAPTIVE FRAMEWORK FOR MULTIPROCESSOR REAL-TIME SYSTEMS
Aaron Block, Bjoern Brandenburg, James Anderson and Stephen Quint

10:45 - 11:15 Break

11:15 - 12:45 Component Methods
Chair Tullio Vardanega

REAL-TIME DIVISIBLE LOAD SCHEDULING WITH ADVANCE RESERVATIONS
Anwar Mamat, Ying Lu, Jitender Deogun and Steve Goddard

A SCHEDULABILITY ANALYSIS OF DEFERRABLE SCHEDULING USING PATTERNS
Song Han, Deji Chen, Ming Xiong and Aloysius Mok

PREDICTING THE BEHAVIOR OF A HIGHLY CONFIGURABLE COMPONENT BASED
REAL-TIME SYSTEM
Scott Hissam, Gabriel Moreno, Daniel Plakosh, Isak Savo and Marcin Stelmarczyk

12:45 - 2:00 Lunch

2:00 - 3:00 Keynote Speaker
Chair Alan Burns
Tom Henzinger - Grand Challenges for Real-Time Systems

3:00 - 3:30 Break

3:30-5:30 Embedded Systems
Chair Neil Audsley

TEMPORAL ANALYSIS FOR ADAPTING CONCURRENT APPLICATIONS TO EMBEDDED
SYSTEMS
Sibin Mohan and Johannes Helander

EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF TASK PRE-EMPTION ON DEPENDABILITY IN
TIME-TRIGGERED EMBEDDED SYSTEMS: A PILOT STUDY
Michael Short, Michael Pont and Jianzhong Fang

OVERHEAD-AWARE SYSTEM-LEVEL JOINT ENERGY AND PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION
FOR STREAMING APPLICATIONS ON MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEMS-ON-CHIP
Hui Liu, Zili Shao and Meng Wang

TRANSIENT OVERCLOCKING FOR APERIODIC TASK EXECUTION IN HARD REAL-TIME
SYSTEMS
Youngwoo Ahn and Riccardo Bettati

Day 2 (3^rd of July 2008)

9:00 - 10:30 Adaptive Systems
Chair Frank Meuller

DYNAMIC RECONFIGURATION FOR ADAPTIVE MULTIVERSION REAL-TIME SYSTEMS
George Lima, Eduardo Camponogara and Ana Carolina Ferreira

ORTEGA: AN EFFICIENT AND FLEXIBLE SOFTWARE FAULT TOLERANCE ARCHITECTURE
FOR REAL-TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS
Xue Liu, Hui Ding, Kihwal Lee, Qixin Wang and Lui Sha

FITTING SCHEDULABILITY ANALYSIS THEORY INTO MODEL-DRIVEN ENGINEERING
Matteo Bordin, Marco Panunzio and Tullio Vardanega

10:30 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 12:30 Scheduling Analysis
Chair Luis Almeida

GLOBAL EDF SCHEDULABILITY ANALYSIS OF ARBITRARY SPORADIC TASK SYSTEMS
Sanjoy Baruah and Theodore Baker

RESPONSE TIME ANALYSIS OF ASYNCHRONOUS PERIODIC AND SPORADIC TASKS
SCHEDULED BY A FIXED-PRIORITY PREEMPTIVE ALGORITHM
Manuel Coutinho, José Rufino and Carlos Almeida

PERIOD AND DEADLINE SELECTION FOR SCHEDULABILITY IN REAL-TIME SYSTEMS
Thidapat Chantem, Xiaofeng Wang, M:D: Lemmon and X: Sharon Hu

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch

2:00 - 3:30 Work in Progress Session (WiP)

Chair: Marco Caccamo

3:30 - 4:00 WiP Poster session + Break

4:00 - 6:00 Hiearchical Systems
Chair Peter Puschner

HIERARCHICAL SCHEDULING FRAMEWORK FOR VIRTUAL CLUSTERING OF
MULTIPROCESSORS
Insik Shin, Arvind Easwaran and Insup Lee

A HIERARCHICAL MULTIPROCESSOR BANDWIDTH RESERVATION SCHEME WITH TIMING
GUARANTEES
Hennadiy Leontyev and James Anderson

CONSTRUCTION AND DECONSTRUCTION OF HIERARCHICAL EVENT STREAMS WITH
MULTIPLE HIERARCHICAL LAYERS
Jonas Rox and Rolf Ernst

ADVANCED HIERARCHICAL EVENT-STREAM MODEL
Karsten Albers, Frank Bodmann and Frank Slomka

Day 3 (4^th of July 2008)

9:00 - 10:30 Distributed Systems
Chair Hermann Hartig

A PRACTICAL SCHEDULABILITY ANALYSIS FOR GENERALIZED SPORADIC TASKS IN
DISTRIBUTED REAL-TIME SYSTEMS
Yuanfang Zhang, Donald Krecker, Christopher Gill, Chenyang Lu and Gautam Thaker

TRANSFORMING DISTRIBUTED ACYCLIC SYSTEMS INTO EQUIVALENT UNIPROCESSORS
UNDER PREEMPTIVE AND NON-PREEMPTIVE SCHEDULING
Praveen Jayachandran and Tarek Abdelzaher

SPORADIC MULTIPROCESSOR SCHEDULING WITH FEW PREEMPTIONS
Björn Andersson and Konstantinos Bletsas

10:30 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 12:30 Memory Issues
Chair Rolf Ernst

REAL-TIME ANALYSIS FOR MEMORY ACCESS IN MEDIA PROCESSING SOCS - A
PRACTICAL APPROACH
Liesbeth Steffens, Manvi Agarwal and Pieter van der Wolf

PREDICTABLE CODE AND DATA PAGING FOR REAL TIME SYSTEMS
Damien HARDY and Isabelle PUAUT

BOUNDING SHARED-STACK USAGE IN SYSTEMS WITH OFFSETS AND PRECEDENCES
Markus Bohlin, Kaj Hänninen, Jukka Mäki-Turja, Jan Carlson and Mikael Nolin

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30 - 3:00 Implementation Models
Chair Ted Baker

BACKLOG ESTIMATION AND MANAGEMENT FOR REAL-TIME DATA SERVICES
Kyoung-Don Kang, Jisu Oh and Yan Zhou

CACHE-AWARE REAL-TIME SCHEDULING ON MULTICORE PLATFORMS: HEURISTICS AND
A CASE STUDY
John Calandrino and James Anderson

A GRAVITATIONAL TASK MODEL FOR TARGET SENSITIVE REAL-TIME APPLICATIONS
Raphael Guerra and Gerhard Fohler

1:30 - 3:30 Break

3:30 - 5:00 WCET Analysis
Chair Stefan Petters

WCET-DRIVEN CACHE-BASED PROCEDURE POSITIONING OPTIMIZATIONS
Paul Lokuciejewski, Heiko Falk and Peter Marwedel

EVALUATION OF AUTOMATIC FLOW ANALYSIS FOR WCET CALCULATION ON
INDUSTRIAL REAL-TIME SYSTEM CODE
Dani Barkah, Andreas Ermedahl, Jan Gustafsson, Björn Lisper and Christer Sandberg

IMPROVING THE FIRST-MISS COMPUTATION IN SET-ASSOCIATIVE INSTRUCTION
CACHES
Clément BALLABRIGA and Hugues CASSE

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Work in progress

Marco Caccamo — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:11:04 GMT

Work in Progress Session

IMPORTANT DATES:

WiP session Submission Deadline:	~~April 19~~, 2008 April 25 (extended!)
Acceptance Notification:	May 20, 2008
Camera-ready papers:	June 1, 2008
ECRTS'08 conference:	July 2-4, 2008

LIST OF ACCEPTED PAPERS:

(papers will be presented in this order at the WiP Session)

1. Towards exploiting the preservation strategy of sporadic servers
    R.J. Bril, P.J.L. Cuijpers

2. Utilizing Solid State Disk for Aggressive Processor Power Saving
    Techniques in Real-Time Applications
    S.W. Chung, J.S. Lee, D.Y. Kim

3. Dynamic Configuration of Web Server Clusters with QoS Control
    L. Bertini, J.C.B. Leite, D. Mosse’

4. A Service-Oriented Programming Model for Real Time WSANS
    E. Cañete, M. Díaz, L. Llopis, B. Rubio

5. Relaxing Event Densities by Lower Bounds on Event Streams
    S. Kollmann, K. Albers, F. Slomka

6. Towards a Practical WCET Analysis Approach Based on Testing
    T. Lundqvist, P. Sandin

7. CAMA: Cache-Aware Memory Allocation for WCET Analysis
    J. Herter, J. Reineke, R. Wilhelm

8. On the complexity of optimal priority assignment for periodic tasks
    upon identical processors
    L. Cucu

9. A Unified HW/SW Operating System for Partially Runtime Reconfigurable
    FPGA based Computer Systems
    Q. Deng, Y. Zhang, N. Guan, Z. Gu

10. Energy-Aware Task Partitioning and Processing Unit Allocation for
    Periodic Real-Time Tasks on Systems with Heterogeneous Processing Units
    J. Chen, A. Schranzhofer, L. Thiele

11. Using Fixed Priority Scheduling with Deferred Preemption to Exploit
    Fluctuating Network Bandwidth
    M. Holenderski, R.J. Bril, J.J. Lukkien

12. Estimation of Self-Healing Timing Characteristics for
    Real-Time Systems under Transient Faults
    S. Frenkel

13. Proportional Cache-fair Scheduling for Multi-core Systems
    A. Suksompong, D. Isovic

14. Competitive Reward-Based Scheduling for Real-Time Tasks
    N. Fisher, D. Grosu

15. Real-Time Triangulation Based on Measurements from Mobile
    ADS–B Aircraft
    D. Uhlig, N. Kiyavash, N. Neogi

16. Towards Server-based Switched Ethernet for Real-Time Communications
    R. Marau, L. Almeida, P. Pedreiras, T. Nolte

17. ITEM - Implementation of Integrated TDMA and E-ASAP Module
    I. Singh, J. Trdlicka, Z. Hanzalek

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Contributions to a special Work-In-Progress (WIP) session of ECRTS'08 are sought. The ECRTS'08 WIP session will be devoted to the presentation of new and on-going projects in real-time systems research and applications. We are especially interested in new and creative ideas and approaches. Contributors to the WIP session will be asked to give a short presentation of their work and prepare a poster for the WIP discussion forum that will be held after the presentations. Accepted submissions will be included in a special ECRTS'08 WIP proceedings that will be distributed to all ECRTS'08 conference participants and available electronically from the Web.

The primary purpose of this session is to provide researchers an opportunity to discuss their evolving ideas and gather feedback thereon from the real-time community at large. Submissions dealing with all aspects of real-time issues are welcome. These include, but are not limited to:

A/V streaming with RT constraints
Power-aware RT-computing
Real-time systems middleware
Adaptive systems theory and practice
Real-time sensor/actuator networks
Real-time mobile computing
Real-time wireless communications
Automotive electronics
WCET Analysis
Case-studies

Home entertainment networks
Embedded operating systems
Software engineering
Real-time databases
RT programming languages
Scheduling theory
Hardware/software co-design
Medical electronics
Multimedia and games
Reconfigurable embedded systems

Submissions to ECRTS'08 WIP should describe original on-going work and must be limited to a maximum of four pages in the standard IEEE two column format (single spaced, font 10pt; see here). To submit a WIP paper please e-mail a postscript or PDF file as an attachment to the ECRTS'08 Work-in-Progress Chair, Marco Caccamo.

Please write "ECRTS WIP SUBMISSION" (in upper-case letters) in the subject line of your e-mail.

Program Committee Members

Xue Liu, McGill University, Canada

Chang-Gun Lee, Seoul National University, Korea

Lucia Lo Bello, University of Catania, Italy

Sebastian Fischmeister, University of Waterloo, Canada

Enrico Bini, Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Italy

Sathish Gopalakrishnan, University of British Columbia, Canada

Shelby Funk, University of Georgia, USA

Nathan W. Fisher, Wayne State University, USA

Work-in-Progress Chair

Marco Caccamo

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Computer Science
201 N. Goodwin
Urbana, IL 61801, USA

Email: mcaccamo@cs.uiuc.edu
Phone: (+1) 217-244-0528
Fax: (+1) 217-244-6500

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Venue

Zdeněk Hanzálek — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:06:00 GMT

Venue

Conference Location

Lecture hall K1 - Zengerova
Building E
Department of Control Engineering
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Czech Technical University in Prague
Karlovo namesti 13 (Charles square)
Prague 2

Will you arrive by plane?

Arrive at Prague airport Ruzyne
At the Prague airport get on the bus number 119 (direction to Dejvicka subway station - see Figure 1).
The bus terminates at the Dejvicka station. Change bus to the subway there.
Get on the train and go to the Mustek subway station. You should change line A to line B there.
At the B line choose the direction Zlicin.
Take off the train at Karlovo namesti.
There are two exits from the station; follow the arrows to Karlovo namesti.
Take a look at images bellow

Figure 1: Transport from airport to Karlovo namesti

Figure 2: Subways in Prague

Will you arrive by Car?

We recommend you to choose a route planner e.g. http://www.mappy.com/

Prague traffic time-tables.

Choose the http://www.dpp.cz/idos web site
In the upper right corner choose the English version of the web page
Input From type „letiste“
Destination To type „karlovo namesti“, press Search
Time table will be listed

An example of time table

Station	Arr.Time	Dep.Time
Ruzyne Airport		20:17
Dejvicka	20:36	20:41
Mustek – A	20:48
Mustek – B		20:54
Karlovo namesti	20:56

Map of Prague

Karlovo namesti on a map
You can zoom and move the map by mouse

Exact location.

Finding the CTU campus at Karlovo namesti 13 (Charles square) is easy. Karlovo namesti is a square or better a large rectangular park (see Figure 3). Travel by metro (line B) to the station Karlovo namesti. There are two exits from this station. Take the exit closer to the city center. Exits are directed to Karlovo namesti (the second exit leads to Palackeho namesti, when you appear less than 100 meters from Vltava river then you are on the wrong side).

Figure 3: Karlovo namesti surrounding

The entrance to the campus is in a yellowish Renaissance Revival building from 1860 on the corner of Karlovo namesti and Resslova street. You will appear in the underpass after leaving the metro area. One of the underpass exits leads to the corner of the CTU building. The direction is roughly diagonally left from metro exit. If there is a bakery shop on your right hand side in the underpass then it is the correct exit. Go stright at the end of the staircase.

You entered the building A of the CTU campus (see Figure 4). The conference is in the building E, yard of the campus. Follow black arrows for Electrical Engineering. When you feel the arrows lead you through a cellar then you are on the right track, be patient it will get better. When you come to the yard you are supposed to traverse it approximately diagonally left going in between not a very nice two buildings from World War I time, be patient it will get better. The building E is straight ahead of you.

Figure 4: CTU campus at Karlovo namesti

When presenting please bring your presentation in pdf or ppt format.

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Satellite Workshops

Zdeněk Hanzálek — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:49:24 GMT

Satellite Workshops

Prague, July 1, 2008

8th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time (WCET) Analysis

7th International Workshop on Real-Time Networks (RTN)

4th International Workshop on Operating Systems Platforms for Embedded Real-Time Applications (OSPERT)

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Hotels

Zdeněk Hanzálek — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:09:40 GMT

Hotels

Book on line at www.infinitumtravel.cz/ecrts - starts the 1st of April.

Infinitum Travel is the agency dealing with hotel bookings. We have arranged convention accommodations for you at discount prices in many beautiful hotels in Prague center. Please address any queries to Infinitum Travel not to the ECRTS organizers.

Hotel Coordinator

INFINITUM TRAVEL s.r.o.

Dlazdena 4

110 00 Prague 1

Czech Republic

Tel: +420 224 213 136

Fax: +420 222 244 544

Email: ecrts@infinitumtravel.cz

Web: www.infinitumtravel.cz/ecrts

Infinitum Travel would be pleased to arrange accommodations. Bookings should be made on the online Booking Form on the Infinitum Travel website www.infinitumtravel.cz/ecrts - starts the 1st of April.

A variety of hotels of various categories is available. All hotels are located within the Prague center area, many of them within walking distance from the conference venue. Please book early to ensure the best choice of hotels.

List of Hotels

HOTEL	Single room	Double room
PRESIDENT *****	130,- EUR	145,- EUR
ADRIA****	99,- EUR	120,- EUR
METROPOL****	95,- EUR	100,- EUR
CHRISTIE****	75,- EUR	90,- EUR
MOVENPICK****	75,- EUR	80,- EUR
IBIS WENCESLAS SQUARE***	75,- EUR	90,- EUR
PRAGUE CENTRE PLAZA***	70,- EUR	80,- EUR
PÁV***	67,- EUR	80,- EUR

All rates quoted are per room per night including breakfast and 9% VAT. Extras are to be paid directly at the hotel reception desk before departure.

HOTEL PRESIDENT*****

Address: Prague 1, Nam. Curieovych 100

Description: Five-star hotel offering first-class hospitality and services. Located in the heart of historical center, close to Jewish Quarter and Old Town Square with a splendid view of Prague Castle.

Location: 10 minutes by tram to the conference venue.

Website: www.hotelpresident.cz

HOTEL ADRIA ****

Address: Prague 1, Vaclavske namesti 26

Description: Classic 4-star hotel, modern equipment and services, located right on the famous Wenceslas Square. Unique atmosphere of a building from the 14th century.

Location: Walking distance (5 minutes) to the conference venue

Website: www.hoteladria.cz

HOTEL METROPOL****

Address: Prague 1, Narodni 33

Description: New 4-star design hotel in the historical centre of Prague, close to Wenceslas and Old Town Squares. Modern elegant rooms.

Location: Walking distance (5 minutes) to the conference venue

Website: www.hotelmetropol.cz

HOTEL CHRISTIE****

Address: Prague 1, Vladislavova 20

Description: New opening in May 2008. Modern hotel in a historical building in a quiet area of New Town. Central location, walking distance to Old Town Square, Wenceslas Square.

Location: Only 3 minutes walk to conference venue

Website: www.hotelchristie.cz

HOTEL MOVENPICK****

Address: Prague 5, Mozartova 261/1

Description: Modern hotel located in the city centre in the modern area of And?l, right next to the new business and shopping complex with leisure and relaxation center.

Location: 10 minutes by underground or by tram to conference venue

Website: www.moevenpick.cz

HOTEL IBIS WENCESLAS SQUARE***

Address: Prague 2, Katerinska 36

Description: Modern, clean and comfortable hotel in the city center, 5 minutes walk from Wenceslas Square.

Location: 5 minutes walk to the conference venue

Website: www.ibishotel.com

HOTEL PRAGUE CENTRE PLAZA***

Address: Prague 2, Fugnerovo namesti 1

Description: Modern hotel in the city center, close to Wenceslas Square (10 minutes walk). Newly opened sauna, whirlpool and salt cave.

Location: 10 minutes walk to the conference venue

Website: www.praguecentreplaza.cz

HOTEL PÁV***

Address: Prague 1, Kremencova 13

Description: Modern hotel ideally situated in the heart of historical Prague, just a few steps away from most of Prague´s historical monuments. The well-known brewery U Fleku is in the neighborhood of the hotel. The hotel is a member of Small Charming Hotels group.

Location: Only 3 minutes walk to the conference venue

Website: www.hotel-pav.cz

If you do not want to book with Infinitum Travel, please see the following links:

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Tutorial

Zdeněk Hanzálek — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:29:18 GMT

Tutorial

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Related Events

Zdeněk Hanzálek — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:27:32 GMT

WTR 08 - 10th Brazilian Workshop on Real-time Systems, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 26, 2008

14th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications SymposiumSt. Louis, MO, United States
April 22 - April 24, 2008

14th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA 2008), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, August 2008

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News

Zdeněk Hanzálek — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:26:54 GMT

News

/7.1.2008/ Submission deadline was extended to Tuesday 15th January 2008 midnight (UK time)

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Important Dates

Zdeněk Hanzálek — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:26:14 GMT

Important Dates

Submission of full papers:	~~11 January 2008~~ Tuesday 15th January 2008 midnight (UK time)
Notification of acceptance:	March 24, 2008
Camera-ready paper due:	April 16, 2008
Conference:	July 2-4, 2008

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Call for papers

Zdeněk Hanzálek — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:24:42 GMT

20th EUROMICRO CONFERENCE ON REAL-TIME SYSTEMS (ECRTS 08)

July 2-4, 2008
Prague, Czech Republic

Organised by the Euromicro Technical Committee on Real-time Systems
Conference web site: http://ecrts08.ecrts.org

CALL FOR PAPERS
A printable version of the CFP (PDF).

GENERAL CHAIR
Zdenek Hanzalek
Czech Technical University in Prague
Czech Republic
hanzalek@fel.cvut.cz

PROGRAM CHAIR
Alan Burns
University of York
United Kingdom
burns@cs.york.ac.uk

REAL-TIME TECHNICAL COMMITTEE CHAIR
Gerhard Fohler
Kaiserslautern University of Technology
Germany
fohler@eit.uni-kl.de

IMPORTANT DATES:

11 January 2008
Submission of full papers

24 March 2008
Notification of acceptance

16 April 2008
Camera-ready paper due

1 July 2008
Satellite workshops

THEME AND TOPICS OF INTEREST
The twentieth EUROMICRO Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS'08) is a forum aimed at covering state-of-the-art research and development in real-time computing. Papers on all aspects of real-time systems are welcome. These include, but are not limited to:

APPLICATIONS: consumer electronics; multimedia and entertainment; process control; avionics, aerospace; automotive; telecommunications.

INFRASTRUCTURE AND HARDWARE: communication networks; embedded devices; hardware/software co-design; power-aware and other resource-constrained techniques; systems on chip; time engines and time synchronization; wireless sensor networks.

SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES: compiler support; component-based approaches; middleware and distribution technologies; programming languages and operating systems.

SYSTEM DESIGN AND ANALYSIS: modelling and formal methods; probabilistic analysis for RT systems; quality of service support; reliability, security and survivability in RT systems; scheduling and schedulability analysis; worst-case execution time (timing) analysis; validation techniques.

This year we want to continue encouraging the submission of papers on industrial case studies, application of real-time technology on realistic systems, worst-case execution time analysis and measurement, and real-time operating systems implementations. An Advisory Board of representatives from industries will be appointed to evaluate papers with respect to industrial or strategic impact.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Full papers must be submitted electronically through our web form in pdf format (see "submission page" in http://ecrts08.ecrts.org). The material must be unpublished and not under submission elsewhere. The paper must be in the same format as in the final published proceedings (10 pages maximum, 2 columns, 10 pt). Papers exceeding the maximum length will not be reviewed. See the submission page for more details.

CONFERENCE HIGHLIGTHS
TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS. In recognition of this being the 20th year of this conference a number of special events will be organised. This will include keynote presentations, historical reflections and visions of the future!

WORK-IN-PROGRESS SESSION. Pursuing a successful tradition in the ECRTS series, a special Work in Progress (WiP) session will be organised. This session is mainly intended for presentation of on-going and recent work.

SATELLITE WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS. A set of Satellite Workshops will be organized. They are in most cases the continuation of already successful series of workshops, focusing on hot topics.

A separate call for papers will be issued later for both WiP and satellite workshops. Please visit the conference website later for further information.

AWARDS. In this year's event, besides the Best Paper Award, a selection of best papers will be invited for a Special Issue of an international journal.

LOCAL INFORMATION: The ECRTS 08 Conference will be held in Prague that is the historical, cultural and industrial center of the Czech Republic. The centre of Prague is compact and intimate, making sightseeing a real pleasure. During a walk through the city, you will be met with a huge number of architectural treasures, representative of Prague's rich and varied history. There are Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and Classicist buildings, as well as various neo-historic styles and Art Nouveau.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Tarek Abdelzaher, Luis Almeida, James H. Anderson, Neil Audsley, Karl-Erik Arzen, Theodore P. Baker, Sanjoy Baruah, Luca Benini, Scott Brandt, Reinder J. Bril, Georgio Buttazzo, Samarjit Chakraborty, Maryline Chetto, Jean-Dominique Decotignie, Rolf Ernst, Gerhard Fohler, Steve Goddard, Jan Gustafsson, Michael González Harbour, Hermann Härtig, Tei-Wei Kuo, George Lima, Giuseppe Lipari, Julio Medina, Frank Muller, Stefan Petters, Michale Pont, Isabelle Puaut, Peter Puschner, Krithi Ramamritham, Pascal Richard, Rodrigo Santos, Eduardo Tovar, Tullio Vardanega, Rich West

About the Conference

Zdeněk Hanzálek — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:23:41 GMT

About the Conference

The 20th EUROMICRO Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS'08) is a forum aimed at covering state-of-the-art research and development in real-time computing. Papers on all aspects of real-time systems are welcome. These include, but are not limited to:

APPLICATIONS: consumer electronics; multimedia and entertainment; process control; avionics, aerospace; automotive; telecommunications.

INFRASTRUCTURE AND HARDWARE: communication networks; embedded devices; hardware/software co-design; power-aware and other resource-constrained techniques; systems on chip; time engines and time synchronization; wireless sensor networks.

SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES: compiler support; component-based approaches; middleware and distribution technologies; programming languages operating systems.

SYSTEM DESIGN AND ANALYSIS: modelling and formal methods; probabilistic analysis for RT systems; quality of service support; reliability, security and survivability in RT systems; scheduling and schedulability analysis; worst-case execution time analysis; validation techniques.

Conference highlights

Keynote speakers
Satellite Workshops
Tutorial
Best paper awards
Work-in-Progress Session

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Local Information

Zdeněk Hanzálek — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:21:31 GMT

Local Information

The ECRTS 08 Conference will be held in Prague that is the historical, cultural and industrial center of the Czech Republic. The centre of Prague is compact and intimate, making sightseeing a real pleasure. During a walk through the city, you will be met with a huge number of architectural treasures, representative of Prague's rich and varied history. There are Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and Classicist buildings, as well as various neo-historic styles and Art Nouveau.

Prague is widely regarded to be one of the world's most beautiful capitals. It is a magical mixture of bridges, cathedrals, gold-tipped towers and church domes making it a truly unforgettable destination.
Amongst the treasures to be discovered are Prague Castle and Charles Bridge. There are 15 large bridges which span the Vltava river, with Charles Bridge being the most spectacular. Built in 1357 it bears the name if its founder, the Emperor Charles IV and connects the Old Town with Prague Castle. Today it is home to artists and street performers and offers one of the most breathtaking and photographed views of Prague Castle .

The city is also surprisingly green, with small wooded islands dotting the Vltava river, and gardens and parks filling the surrounding hills. It is also a modern European city, full of energy and atmosphere, which boosts excellent music and art venues, as well as plenty of excellent shopping opportunities.

Prague really does have something to offer everyone and this charming city should not be missed.
For further information about Prague and Czech Republic, please visit:
http://www.czechtourism.com
http://www.czechsite.com/
http://www.prague.com/
http://hotels.source.cz/guidetoprague/
http://www.prague.cz
http://www.pis.cz/en

Some photos from Prague:

http://www.fotopraha.com/foto-praha-galerie-vsechny-1.html

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Submission page

Alan Burns — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:31:07 GMT

Submission page

Full papers must be submitted electronically through our web form in pdf or ps format. The material must be unpublished and not under submission elsewhere. The paper must be in the same format as in the final published proceedings (10 pages maximum, 2 columns, 10 pt). Papers significantly exceeding the maximum length will not be reviewed.

Page for submissions: https://www.softconf.com/starts/ecrts08/submit.html

Alan Burns
PC Chair

Technical Committee

Gerhard Fohler — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:59:32 GMT

Technical Committee

Further information about previous ECRTS conferences and workshop can be found at www.ecrts.org.

to address ECRTS of year 20NN use http://ecrtsNN.ecrts.org
e.g., ecrts07.ecrts.org

Suggestions for Authors

Zdeněk Hanzálek — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:49:46 GMT

Suggestions for Authors

This document lists a set of suggestions for writing papers that are likely to be appreciated by the reviewers of this conference. The motivation for this document is that many times good papers fail to be appreciated (and hence accepted) for "misunderstandings" between reviewers and authors. We hope that this document will help improving the average quality of the submitted papers.

Some rule is mandatory (i.e., the page limit) and if the authors do not comply the paper will not even be considered for review. Other points are just suggestions for organizing and stucturing the paper. If the authors prefer to organize their paper in a different way, as long as the paper is appreciated, it is likely be accepted anyway.

This document is in the form of a FAQ. You can use it as a checklist and go through it while writing your paper and before the submission. Remember that you can re-submit updated versions of the paper until the deadline. So, if you realize there is something wrong just you clicked on the "submit" button, you may still update the submitted paper until the final deadline.

Summary

Is there a page limit? What is the format for submissions?
My paper does not fit within the page limit. Can I leave proofs and other details out in a appendix?
How do I convince the reviewers that my approach is actually a good approach?
How do I convince the reviewers that my work is actually new?
How important is to check the paper for english?
How important are system model and assumptions?
Is it mandatory to have experimental evaluations in the paper?
My paper does not contain new theorems, nor new schedulability theory. Is it appropriate to ECRTS?

Page Limits

Is there a page limit? Is there a specific format for submissions?

The paper must be in the same format as in the final published proceedings, i.e. 10 pt, two columns, 10 pages maximum. Guidelines for formatting you paper can be found here. For your convenience, you can also download a document containing this instruction in PDF format; and a zip archive containing the style files to be used with Latex. Papers exceeding the page limit will not be considered for review.

My paper does not fit within the page limit. Can I leave proofs and other details out in a appendix?

The general idea is that the submitted version of your paper must contain the same amount of information that, in case of acceptance, will go in the final proceedings. Therefore, if you have additional material that you want to make available to the reviewers, but that will not go into the final proceedings, then you must:

Write a technical report, that can be of any length and any format, containing the additional material;
Make the tech report available on your web page or in a web site of your institution;
When you submit the paper, you must submit also the tech report, so that we can make it available to the reviewers (this is to enforce anonymity of the reviewers).

Notice that the additional material in the technical report will not be published in the proceedings. Therefore, you are completely free to submit it to some journal or conference.
As a final note, remember that the reviewer must evaluate your paper and not the technical report. If the reviewer thinks the paper contains insufficient material to be published, then the paper might be rejected, regardless of the contents of the technical report.

Originality

How do I convince the reviewers that my approach is actually a good approach?

The paper must be grounded on solid scientific basis. If your paper contains theoretical work, you should present mathematical proofs of correctness. If the paper contains new algorithms, techniques and methodologies that improve on existing state-of-the art (or even regarding a completely new field), you may consider adding an "Experimental Evaluation" section or a "Simulation" section.

How do I convince the reviewers that my work is actually new?

A good idea is to add a short paragraph titled "Contributions of this paper", in which you briefly summarizes the innovative technical contributions of the paper. Also, make sure you make a good comparative analysis with the state of the art.

Please, remember that double submissions are unacceptable because they could compromise the requirement for originality of the paper, and effectively duplicate the costly process of paper review. Check that your paper has enough new work with respect to other papers you published or submitted to other conference/journals.

Presentation

How important is ensure quality of language?

Very important. The main goal of a paper is to make other people understand the technical aspect of the proposed research work. If the paper is not properly written in english, the reviewer may not able to understand the merits of the paper. Therefore, it is more likely your paper will get a low score also on the technical aspects (and not only on the presentation).
Take some time to review the presentation aspects (and possibly ask some expert). The submitted paper must already be correct. The final paper is not the place to make the English corrections.

How important are system model and assumptions?

Very important. Once again, keep in mind that the reviewer (which could be not very expert in your specific domain) has to understand the technical content of the paper. Therefore, spend a paragraph or a subsection or even a section to present the system model, to describe accurately notation and nomenclature, and to discuss the assumption and limitations on your model.

Evaluation

Is it mandatory to have experimental evaluations in the paper?

No, although in many cases it is strongly suggested. If you are going to add an "Experimental evaluation section", make sure you do it properly. The basic idea is that a reader of your paper should be able to reproduce your experiments and obtain the same results. Hence, it is not sufficient to just put a figure with a one line comment. Instead, make sure to describe the experimental setup, the way random generated data has been generated, etc. In case you are reporting statistical data, make sure you specify the confidence you obtained on the data (confidence intervals, variance, or else).
Finally, there is a clear distinction between Experimental Evaluation and Simulation. The first is done on a real-system under a controller set of scenarios; the second is done on a simulated system. Please, use the proper terms when describing your evaluation.

My paper does not contain new theorems, nor new schedulability theory. Is it appropriate to ECRTS?

We particularly encourage submission of papers on industrial case studies, application of real-time technology on realistic systems, real-time operating systems implementations. This is because we believe that our community needs to validate the proposed assumptions and methodologies on realistic applications.
How will we evaluate these papers? The questions the reviewer will be asked to answer are: "did you learn something from the paper?", "is this paper useful to the real-time system community?" where the term "community" includes people from academic institutions and from industry. Therefore, it is important the paper contributes to the community by presenting interesting, non trivial and novel results (not necessarily theoretical). Typical examples:

a case study of applying real-time techniques in the design and implementation of a realistic application) that reports problems and solutions to practical problems that were not directly addressed by the theory;
an implementation of one (or more) scheduling algorithms on a operating system, showing the impact of hardware mechanisms on the performance of the algorithms and system overhead;
a study (simulative or experimental) on the impact of current and future hardware architectures on applications and operating system mechanisms;
a study of the application of formal methods to realistic applications: limits of the model, performance of the methodology, difficulty of applying methodology for non-experts, etc.

Of course, there are many examples of this kind, and we cannot be exhaustive in listing all the possibilities. So, if your paper does not fit any of the above examples, it may still be appropriate for ECRTS.

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Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems

20th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 08)

Welcome to the 20th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 08)

Czech Technical University in Prague,

Faculty of Electrical Engineering,

Department of Control Engineering,

July 2-4, 2008, Prague, Czech Republic

Organizers

Organizers

General Chair

Program Chair

Real-Time Technical Committee Chair

Workshop Chairs

Work-In-Progress Session Chair

Local Organisation Chair

Program Committee

Organisation Committee

Department of Control Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague

Keynote Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Grand Challenges for Real-Time Systems

Video

Program

Program

2:00 - 3:30 Work in Progress Session (WiP)

Chair: Marco Caccamo

3:30 - 4:00 WiP Poster session + Break

Work in progress

Work in Progress Session

IMPORTANT DATES:

Program Committee Members

Work-in-Progress Chair

Venue

Venue

Conference Location

Will you arrive by plane?

Will you arrive by Car?

Prague traffic time-tables.

Map of Prague

Exact location.

Satellite Workshops

Satellite Workshops

Prague, July 1, 2008

8th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time (WCET) Analysis

7th International Workshop on Real-Time Networks (RTN)

4th International Workshop on Operating Systems Platforms for Embedded Real-Time Applications (OSPERT)

Hotels

Hotels

Tutorial

Tutorial

Related Events

News

News

Important Dates

Important Dates

Call for papers

About the Conference

About the Conference

Conference highlights

Local Information

Local Information

Submission page

Submission page

Technical Committee

Technical Committee

Suggestions for Authors

Suggestions for Authors

Summary

Page Limits

Originality

Presentation

Evaluation

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Welcome to the 20^th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 08)