Final Program

Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems 2005 (WPDRTS05)

April 4th and 5th, 2005, Denver, Colorado
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Monday, April 4, 2005

8:15 - 8:30  Welcome and Opening Remarks by Workshop Program Chairs

8:30 - 9:30  WPDRTS 2004 Keynote Speech

  • "Real-Time Sensor Networks: Paradigms, Challenges, and Open Issues", Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Virginia (PDF)

9:30 - 9:55  Coffee Break

9:55 - 12:00  General Paper Session I: Modeling and Analysis

Session Chair: David Andrews

  • "Over-approximate Model of Multitasking Application Based on Timed Automata Using Only One Clock" - Libor Waszniowski, Zdenek Hanzalek
  • "A Maintenance-Oriented Fault Model for the DECOS Integrated Diagnostic Architecture" - Philipp Peti, Roman Obermaisser, Astrit Ademaj, Hermann Kopetz (PDF)
  • "Compatibility between shared variable valuations in timed automaton network model-checking" - Jianhua Zhao, Xiuyi Zhou, Xuandong Li, Guoliang Zheng (PPT)
  • "The Design of the OpenSTARS Adaptive Analyzer for Real-Time Distributed Systems" - Kevin Bryan, Tiegeng Ren, Jiangyin Zhang, Lisa DiPippo, Victor Fay-Wolfe
  • "Preemptive Behavior Analysis and Improvement of Priority Scheduling Algorithms" - XiaoYing Wang (PPT)

12:00 - 1:00  Lunch

1:00 - 3:10  Invited Paper Session:   "Scheduling and Resource Management in Dynamic, Distributed Real-time Systems" . Organized by Frank Drews, Ohio University

  • "The Quality of Service Satisfiability Thesis: Resource and Performance Prediction for Multi-processor Systems and Random Schedules" - Alan D. Parks
  • "Dynamic Resource Management Algorithm for a Distributed Real-time System" - Charles Cavanaugh
  • "A Predictive, Decentralized Load Balancing Approach" - Dazhang Gu, Lin Yang, Lonnie R. Welch
  • "A Quality-of-Service Architecture for Future Grid Computing Applications" - Lars-Olof Burchard, Felix Heine, Matthias Hovestadt, Odej Kao, Axel Keller and Barry Linnert
  • "Adaptive Resource Management in Peer-to-Peer Middleware. - T. Repantis, F. Chen, V. Kalogeraki

 

3:10 - 3:45  Coffee Break

3:45 - 5:45  General Paper Session II: Real-Time Networking and Communications

Session Chair: Dazhang Gu

  • "A Practical Packet Reordering Mechanism with Flow Granularity for Parallelism Exploiting in Network Processors" - Beibei Wu,Yang Xu, Hongbin Lu, Bin Liu (PPT)
  • "A Fibre-Optic AWG-based Real-Time Network and its Applicability to High-Performance Embedded Computing - Annette Böhm, Magnus Jonsson, Kristina Kunert, Hoai Hoang
  • "Virtual Gateways in the DECOS Integrated Architecture" - Roman Obermaisser, Philipp Peti, Hermann Kopetz (PDF)
  • "RETINA: REal-TIme Network Analyzer" - Haifeng Zhu, Jeffery Hansen, John P. Lehoczky, Ragunathan Rajkumar
  • "Dynamic QoS-Aware Coalition Formation" - Luis Nogueira, Luis Pinho (PDF)

 

Tuesday April 5, 2005

10:00 - 11:00  Keynote Speech

  • "Middleware: Where Did It Come From, Where Is It Going? A Personal Perspective (or We've Come A Long Way, but there's Plenty More To Do)" Richard Schantz, BBN Technologies

11:00 - 12:00  Challenge Problem Session: "Detection and Reaction to Unplanned Operational Events in Large Scale Distributed Real-Time Embedded Systems" - Organized by Paul R. Work, Raytheon

  •   "Detection and Reaction to Unplanned Operational Events in Large Scale Distributed Real-Time Embedded Systems", Jianming Ye, Joe Loyall, Rick Schantz and Gary Duzan
  •   "Versatile, Proactive Dependability Approach to Handling Unanticipated Events in Distributed Systems", Priya Narasimhan, Raj Rajkumar, Gautam Thaker and Patrick Lardieri
  •   "An Event Processing Language (EPL) for Building Sense and Respond Applications", Elli Albek, Eric Bax, Greg Billock, Mani Chandy and Ian Swett

12:00 - 1:30  Lunch

1:30 - 3:30  General Paper Session III:   Quality of Service, Allocation and Management

Session Chair: Charles Cavanaugh

  •  "Code-size Minimization in Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems Resource Management" - Sanjoy Baruah, Nathan Fisher
  • "Decentralized and Continuous Consistency Management in Distributed Real-Time Databases with Multiple Writers of Replicated Data" -  Sanny Gustavsson, Sten Andler (PDF)
  • "End-to-End Quality of Service Management for Distributed Real-time Embedded Applications" - Prakash Manghwani, Joseph Loyall, Praveen Sharma, Matthew Gillen, Jianming Ye
  • "Task Reweighting on Multiprocessors: Efficiency versus Accuracy " - Aaron Block, Jim Anderson
  • "Stable Allocations in Distributed Real-time Systems with Multiple Environmental Parameters and Replicable Applications" - H. Zhao, D. Gu, L. Welch, F. Drews

3:30 - 4:00  Coffee Break

4:00 - 5:40  Invited Paper Session:  "Formal Methods for Real-Time Systems" . Organized by Zdenek Hanzalek, Czech Technical University

  • "Towards Quantitative Analysis of Real-Time UML using Stochastic Petri Nets" -Jan Trowitzsch, A. Zimmermann, G. Hommel
  • "Production Scheduling by Reachability Analysis -- A Case Study" - Gerd Behrmann, Ed Brinksma, Martijn Hendriks, Angelika Mader
  • "Control of temporal constraints based on dioid algebra Control of temporal constraints based on dioid algebra for timed event graphs" - Said Amari, Isabelle Demongodin, Jean Jacques Loiseau
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  • "Strict Priority versus Weighted Fair Queueing in Switched Ethernet networks for time-critical applications" - Jean-Philippe Georges, Thierry Divoux, Eric Rondeau

5:40 - 5:45  Closing Remarks

 Lisa DiPippo, mailto:dipippo@cs.uri.edu