************ CALL FOR PAPERS ***************** Extended Submission Deadline: November 8, 2004 The Thirteenth International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems (WPDRTS 2005) ==================================================================================== April 4 and 5, In conjunction with IPDPS 2005 Omni Interlocken Hotel, Denver, Colorado The International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems is a forum for the presentation and discussion of approaches, research findings, and experiences in the domain of large-scale parallel and distributed real-time systems. Both research and development of relevant technologies are of interest, as well as the applications built using such technologies. Special Session: Formal Methods for Real-Time Systems ----------------------------------------------------- The aim of this Special Session is to bring together researchers, designers and developers interested in formal methods used to support analysis and design of time critical applications. The session is focused on: - Advances in theory of timed DES (Timed Automata, Timed Petri Nets, ) - Scheduling and discrete optimization of systems with timing constraints - Schedulability analysis of RT applications (RMA, Response Time Analysis) - Modeling issues and case studies - Other topics related to formalisms with deadline constraints Manuscripts for the special session of up to 15 pages should be submitted to the workshop site and to hanzalek@fel.cvut.cz by November 1, 2004. Challenge Problem Session: -------------------------- This special session will revolve around the problem of "Detection and Reaction to Unplanned Operational Events". The session will be devoted to discussing the problem and proposed solutions. An award will be given for the best solution. Please see the workshop web site (www.cs.uri.edu/~cingiser/wpdrts05) for details on submitting to this session. General Paper Sessions: ----------------------- These sessions will present high-quality papers submitted to the workshop and selected by the program committee for presentation and publication at WPDRTS. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: -------------------------------------------------- * Resource Management * Operating Systems and Middleware * Programming Environments * Algorithms and Applications * Architectures * Specification, Modeling, and Analysis * Networking and Communications Paper Submission: ------------------ Papers are not to exceed 15 pages (11 pt. font). Please number each page. Include an abstract and 5-6 keywords for the technical areas most relevant to your paper. The workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE CS press and selected papers will be published in a respected research journal (TBA). Steering Committee Co-Chairs: ----------------------------- David Andrews, University of Kansas, USA Lonnie R. Welch, Ohio University, USA General Co-Chairs: ------------------ Chris Gill, Washington University in St. Louis, USA Priya Narasimhan, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA Program Chairs: --------------- Lisa DiPippo, Univ. of Rhode Island, USA Vana Kalogeraki, Univ.of California, Riverside, USA Steering Committee: ------------------- Scott Brandt, Univ of California at Santa Cruz, USA Alan Burns, The University of York, UK Guenter Hommel, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Doug Locke, Timesys Corporation, USA Barbara Pfarr, NASA Goddard, USA Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA Behrooz Shirazi, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Kenji Toda, Electrotechnical Laboratories, Japan Wei Zhao, Texas A&M University, USA Wayne Wolf, Princeton University, USA Armin Zimmerman, Technische Universität, Berlin, Germany Program Committee: ------------------- Hakan Aydin, George Mason University Sanjoy Baruah, University of North Carolina Victor Fay-Wolfe, University of Rhode Island Helen Gill, National Science Foundation Andy Gokhale, Vanderbilt University Zdenek Hanzalek, Czech Technical University Kane Kim, Univ. of California, Irvine Trudy Morgan, SPAWAR Systems Center Daniel Mosse, University of Pittsburgh Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Linkoping University Douglas Niehaus, University of Kansas Peter Puschner, TU Vienna Sang Son, University of Virginia Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary Nalini Venkatasubramanian, Univ. of California, Irvine Richard West, Boston University Paul R. Work, Raytheon Publicity Chairs: ----------------- Prithviraj Dasgupta (N. America), Univ. of Nebraska, USA Daeyoung Kim (Asia), Information and Communications University, Korea Jorgen Hansson (Europe), Linkoping University, Sweden For further information contact: dipippo@cs.uri.edu vana@cs.ucr.edu IMPORTANT DEADLINES Manuscripts due: November 8, 2004 Acceptance notification: December 17, 2004 Camera ready copies due: January 14, 2005 Workshop: April 4-5, 2005 Submissions will be handled via the workshop web site http://www.cs.uri.edu/~cingiser/wpdrts05