WATERS 2011 - WATERS 2011 - 2nd International Workshop on Analysis Tools and Methodologies for Embedded and Real-time Systems

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Deadline: April 10, 2011 | Date: July 05, 2011

Venue/Country: Porto, Portugal

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Call For Papers - CFP

2nd International Workshop on Analysis Tools and Methodologies for

Embedded and Real-time Systems (WATERS 2011)

http://retis.sssup.it/waters2011

July 5th, 2011, Porto, Portugal

In conjunction with ECRTS 2011

WATERS 2011 - CALL FOR PAPERS

Research in real-time systems has gone very far from the initial

seminal papers back in the 70s. Many algorithms, design methodologies,

techniques and tools have been proposed, spanning several application

areas, from RTOS to distributed systems, from safety critical to soft

real-time systems. However, unlike other research areas (e.g.,

networking) there are no widely recognised reference tools or

methodologies for comparing different research works in the area.

In fact, the comparison among results achieved by different research

groups becomes non-trivial or impossible due to the lack of common

tools or methodologies by means of which the comparison is done. For

example, different authors use different algorithms for generating

random task sets, different application traces when simulating dynamic

real-time systems, different simulation engines when simulating

scheduling algorithms. Therefore, research in the field of real-time

and embedded systems would greatly benefit from the availability of

well-engineered, possibly open tools, simulation frameworks and data

sets which may constitute a common metrics for evaluating simulation

or experimental results in the area. Also, it would be nice to have a

possibly wide set of reusable data sets or behavioural models coming

from realistic industrial use-cases over which to evaluate the

performance of novel algorithms. Availability of such items would

increase the possibility to compare novel techniques in dealing with

problems already tackled by others from the multifaceted viewpoints of

effectiveness, overhead, performance, applicability, etc.

The ambitious goal of the International Workshop on Analysis Tools and

Methodologies for Embedded and Real-time Systems is to start creating

a common ground and a community to collect methodologies, software

tools, best practices, data sets, application models, benchmarks and

any other way to improve comparability of results in the current

practice of research in real-time and embedded systems. People from

industry are welcome to contribute with realistic data or methods

coming from their own experience.

SCOPE

The workshop seeks original contributions on methods and tools for

real-time and embedded systems analysis, simulation, modelling and

benchmarking. We look for papers describing well-engineered, highly

reusable, possibly open, tools that can be used by other researchers.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Simulation of real-time, distributed and embedded systems

* Simulation of multi-core, many-core and massively parallel and

distributed systems

* Modelling, analysis and simulation of Operating Systems components

* Tools and methodologies for real-time analysis

* Instrumentation of Operating Systems

* Tracing methods and overhead analysis

* Power consumption models and experimental data for real-time

power-aware systems

* Middleware components and mechanisms for distributed infrastructures

supporting real-time and QoS-aware Cloud Computing applications

* Realistic case studies and reusable data sets

* Comparative evaluation of existing algorithms

PAPER SUBMISSION

Submitted papers should follow the IEEE conference format and should

not exceed 6 pages in length. Papers may be submitted in either PDF or

Postscript format. The papers will be reviewed by the workshop

Program Committee. All accepted papers will be made available to all

participants one week before the workshop so that contributions can be

examined prior to the event. Instructions on how to submit papers will

be available on the workshop website: http://retis.sssup.it/waters2011.

IMPORTANT DATES

* Submission deadline: April, 10th 2011

* Acceptance notification: May, 8th 2011

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Giuseppe Lipari, Tommaso Cucinotta

Real-Time Systems Laboratory

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa (Italy)

{g.lipari, t.cucinotta} sssup.it