Call For Papers

The 21st IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium

November 27-30, 2000
Walt Disney World
Orlando, Florida, USA

Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society TC on Real-Time Systems

Scope of the Conference

The purpose of this symposium is to bring together researchers and developers from academia, industry and government to advance the scientific and engineering technologies of real-time computer and communication systems.

Papers on all aspects of real-time systems are sought, including:

operating systems and scheduling,
embedded systems
software engineering,
fault-tolerance,
databases,
programming languages and run-time systems,
middleware systems,
design and analysis tools,
communication networks and protocols,
architectures,
performance modeling,
formal methods,
case studies, and
applications.

Of particular interest are reports describing practical experiences and experimental results based on system building efforts, and real-time issues in applications such as avionics, multimedia, robotics, military C3I systems, automated process control, and manufacturing.

Paper Submission Guidelines

Papers should describe original work, and be 20 double-spaced pages (5,000 words) or less in length. All accepted submissions will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE. The best papers from the conference will be considered for publication in a special issue of a journal (to be decided). The deadline for submission, nominally May 1, has been extended to May 8, 2000. This is a hard deadline.

Paper submissions must be made electronically via the web, in either postscript or PDF format. Hardcopy or e-mailed submissions will not be accepted. To submit a paper please follow the submission guidelines at http://www.cs.unc.edu/rtss2000/submit.html

For additional information contact the program chair:

Professor Kevin Jeffay

Department of Computer Science

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175

Phone: +1 919 962-1938

Email: jeffay@cs.unc.edu Line

Workshop and Exhibition

RTSS 2000 will co-host a workshop on November 27, 2000, directly before the conference. The focus of the workshop will be a topic of interest to researchers and developers of real-time systems. Details on the workshop will be announced later.

RTSS 2000 will also include an industrial exhibition in a centrally located space, for vendors to demonstrate state-of-the-art systems, development tools, and applications, where RTSS attendees can engage in technical discussions with product engineers and developers.

To reserve space for the exhibition, please contact the RTSS 2000 General Chair:

Professor Wei Zhao

Texas A&M University

Department of Computer Science

College Station, TX 77843-3112

Phone: +1 409 845-5098

Email: zhao@cs.tamu.edu Line

Important Dates

May 8, 2000	Deadline for electronic paper submissions (This is a hard deadline. No requests for additional time, please.)
July 25, 2000	Notification of acceptance
September 1, 2000	Final paper due

Conference Organizing Committee

General Chair	Wei Zhao Texas A&M University
Program Chair	Kevin Jeffay University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Finance Chair	Walt Heimerdinger Honeywell Technology Center
Work in Progress Chair	Scott Brandt University of California - Santa Cruz
Publicity Chair	Tarek Abddelzaher Univeristy of Virginia
Ex-Officio (IEEE RTS-TC Chair)	Lui Sha University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Program Committee

Tarek Abdelzaher	University of Virginia
Sanjoy Baruah	University of North Carolina
Azer Bestavros	Boston University
Scott Brandt	University of California - Santa Cruz
Alan Burns	University of York, UK
Giorgio Buttazzo	Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Italy
Rance Cleaveland	SUNY at Stony Brook
Steve Goddard	University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Hans Hansson	Malardalen University, Sweden
Michael Gonzalez Harbour	Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
Jennifer Hou	The Ohio State University
Christof Fetzer	AT&T Labs
Gerhard Fohler	Malardalen University, Sweden
Insup Lee	University of Pennsylvania
Kwei-Jay Lin	University of California - Irvine
Doug Locke	TimeSys Corporation, USA
Sang Lyul Min	Seoul National University, Korea
Mark Moir	University of Pittsburgh
Al Mok	University of Texas at Austin
Daniel Mosse	University of Pittsburgh
Carlos Puchol	Bell Labs
Peter Puschner	Technische Universitdt Wien, Austria
Raj Rajkumar	Carnegie Mellon University
Krithi Ramamritham	University of Massachusetts
Daniela Rosu	IBM T.J.Watson Research Center
Lui Sha	University of Illinois
Kang G. Shin	University of Michigan
John A. Stankovic	University of Virginia
David C. Steere	Oregon Graduate Institute
Neeraj Suri	Chalmers University, Sweden
Kenji Toda	Electrotechnical Lab, Japan
Amin Vahdat	Duke University
Farn Wang	Academia Sinica, Taiwan
David Yau	Purdue University