RTAS 2015

21st IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium

RTAS'15, the 21st in a series of annual conferences sponsored by the IEEE, will be held in Seattle, Washington, as part of the Cyber-Physical Systems Week (CPSWeek) in April, 2015. CPS Week 2015 will bring together leading conferences, including the International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN'15), the International Conference on Hybrid Systems (HSCC'15), the International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS'15), the International Conference on High Confidence Networked Systems (HiCoNS'15) and RTAS'15.

RTAS'15 invites papers describing original systems and applications, case studies, methodologies and applied algorithms that contribute to the state of practice in the broad field of embedded and open real-time systems and computing. The scope of RTAS'15 will consist of three tracks: (1) Applications, RTOSs and Run-Time Software and Tools, (2) Applied Methodologies and Foundations, and (3) Embedded Systems Design for Real-Time Applications.

Track 1: Applications, RTOSs & Run-Time Software and Tools.

This track focuses on run-time software (e.g., RTOSs, middleware and system utilities) and application case studies. Papers submitted to this track should focus on specific systems and implementations. They must introduce the application context and clearly define motivating application examples. Authors must introduce the related research challenges and illustrate the theoretical foundations of the methodology adopted in the considered application/tool/RTOS, with applicability. Papers in this track must include a section on experimental results with a real implementation of the proposed system or applicability to an industrial case study or working system. The experiment/use case discussion must highlight problems/bottlenecks encountered in the implementation and show the measurements/evaluations on the prototype. Simulation-based results are acceptable when the authors motivate the impossibility of an actual system development.

Track 2: Applied Methodologies and Foundations.

Papers submitted to this track are aimed at basic methodologies and algorithms that are applicable to real systems to solve specific problems. Authors must introduce the application context and clearly define motivating application examples. The system models and any assumptions used in the derivation of the results must be applicable to real systems and reflect actual needs. Papers must also include a section on experimental results, preferably on real case studies or models of real systems, although the use of synthetic workloads and models is acceptable if motivated. Papers failing to address applicability as defined in the previous guidelines are not considered as acceptable.

Track 3: Embedded Systems Design for Real-Time Applications.

This track focuses on hardware/software design and integration methodologies and design-time tools for modern embedded systems for real-time applications. General topics relevant to this track include, but are not limited to, architecture description languages and tools, WCET analysis, software architectures, design space exploration, synthesis and optimization. Of special interest are SoC design for real-time applications, special purpose functional units, specialized memory structures, multi-core chips and communication aspects, FPGA simulation and prototyping, software simulation and compilation for novel architectures and applications, as well as tools for (say) power, timing and predictability analyses. Submissions not considering real-time requirements will not be considered.

Organizers

GENERAL CHAIR
Richard West, Boston University, USA

PROGRAM CHAIR
James Anderson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Track 1: Applications, RTOSs & Run-Time Software and Tools:
Track Chair: Bjorn Brandenburg, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany

Luca Abeni University of Trento, Italy
Neil Audsley University of York, UK
Hakan Aydin George Mason University, USA
Andrea Bastoni SYSGO AG, Germany
David Broman KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and University of California, Berkeley, USA
Marco Caccamo University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Alfons Crespo Universitat Politecnia de Valencia (UPV), Spain
Rolf Ernst Technische Universitat Braunschweig, Germany
Chris Gill Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Gernot Heiser NICTA / UNSW, Australia
Seongsoo Hong Seoul National University, South Korea
Insup Lee University of Pennsylvania, USA
Mauro Marinoni Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Italy
Claire Pagetti Office national d'etudes et de recherches aerospatiales (ONERA), France
KyoungSoo Park Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea
Gabriel Parmer The George Washington University, USA
Rodolfo Pellizzoni University of Waterloo, Canada
Jan Reineke Saarland University, Germany
Christine Rochange University of Toulouse, France
Anthony Rowe Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Harvey Tuch VMware, USA
Marcus Volp Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany

Track 2: Applied Methodologies and Foundations:
Track Chair: James Anderson, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Tarek Abdelzaher University of Illinois, USA
Bjorn Andersson Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Marko Bertogna University of Modena, Italy
Enrico Bini Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Reinder J. Bril Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Liliana Cucu-Grosjean INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, France
Robert Davis University of York, U.K.
Marco Di Natale Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Arvind Easwaran Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Nathan Fisher Wayne State University
Laurent George INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, France
Steve Goddard University of Nebraska
Cong Liu University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Sibin Mohan University of Illinois
Al Mok University of Texas at Austin, USA
Daniel Mosse University of Pittsburgh
Vincent Nelis Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal
Shahriar Nirjon HP Research, USA
Miroslav Pajic Duke University, USA
Pascal Richard University of Poitiers, France
Zili Shao The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Mikael Sjodin Malardalen University, Sweden
Frank Slomka Ulm University, Germany
Eduardo Tovar Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal
Tullio Vardanega University of Padua, Italy
Qixin Wang The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Dakai Zhu University of Texas at San Antonio

Track 3: Embedded Systems Design for Real-Time Applications:
Track Chair: Tulika Mitra, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Marco Bekooji University of Twente, Netherlands
Jian-Jia Chen Technical University of Dortmund, Germany
Petru Eles Linkoping University, Sweden
Kees Goossens Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Nan Guan Northeastern University, China
Joerg Henkel Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Chang-Gun Lee Seoul National University, South Korea
Haohan Li The MathWorks, USA
Yun (Eric) Liang Peking University, China
Claire Maiza Verimag, France
Hiren Patel University of Waterloo, Canada
Linh Thi Xuan Phan University of Pennsylvania, USA
Isabelle Puaut IRISA, Universite Rennes I, France
Parthasarathi Roop University of Auckland, New Zealand
Wang Yi Uppsala University, Sweden

INDUSTRIAL SESSION CHAIR
Chris Gill, Washington University in St. Louis, USA

WORK-IN-PROGRESS CHAIR
Aravind Easwaran, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

WEBMASTER
Harini Ramaprasad, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA