OSPERT 2008
Fourth International Workshop on Operating Systems Platforms for Embedded Real-Time Applications

Workshop Chair

Jim Anderson
Department of Computer Science
The University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175
USA
e-mail: anderson@cs.unc.edu
Phone: +1 919-962-1757
Fax: +1 919-962-1799

Important Dates

• Paper submission deadline: Apr 16 Apr 23, 11:59 PM PDT
• Notification of acceptance: May 15
• Submission of final papers: June 10
• Broadcast of papers to attendees: June 17
• OSPERT Workshop: July 1
• Euromicro Conf. on RTS: July 2 - 4
• Final version of papers: Sept 1

Workshop Website

http://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/meetings/ospert08/OSPERT.html

ECRTS Website

Program Committee

Research on innovative RTOS architectures and services is a hot topic. Developers of Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) are faced with many challenges arising from two opposing needs: extreme optimization of resource usage (processor, energy, network bandwidth, etc.) and dynamic configuration, flexible scheduling, component-based development and deployment, etc. While real-time systems continue to be used in many small embedded applications, real-time services are being introduced and used in general- purpose operating systems. Notable examples are the various flavors of Linux that provide support to time-sensitive applications.

This workshop is intended as a forum for researchers and practitioners of RTOS to discuss the recent advances in RTOS technology and the challenges that lie ahead.

Topics include but are not limited to:

• Dynamic reconfiguration and upgrading;
• Support for component based development;
• Scalability, from very small scale embedded systems to full-fledged OSes;
• Flexible scheduling;
• Quality of Service guarantees;
• Real-Time on Linux;
• Interaction with reconfigurable hardware;
• Support for embedded multiprocessor architectures;
• Coordinated management of multiple resources;
• Security and fault tolerance for embedded real-time systems;
• Power-aware operating systems.

The workshop will consist of submitted papers as well as invited presentations about academic state-of-the-art and industrial state-of-practice within the area.

Submission of Papers

People who would like to participate in this event are asked to submit a 6-10 page paper (PS or PDF) via the workshop submission system. Upon acceptance, a corrected version of the paper should be prepared and submitted. All papers will be made available to all participants a week before the workshop so that contributions can be examined prior to the workshop.

The workshop fosters a highly interactive format of presentations combined with ample time for in-depth discussions. Authors have the opportunity to submit a final version of their paper that includes issues raised at the workshop. The final papers will be published in a workshop proceedings, as a University of North Carolina technical report.

To foster the workshop character, the number of participants may be limited. There will be a small charge for workshop registration (more details will be announced later). See the Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems website http://dce.felk.cvut.cz/ecrts08/ for information on the venue, hotel reservations, and the city of Prague.