Eleventh International
Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems

WPDRTS 2003

to be held in conjunction with IPDPS 2003, April 22-24, 2003 Nice, France

Keynote address:
Inter-Vehicle Real-Time Communication and Networking, Dr. Ralf G. Herrtwich, Director Telematics Research, DaimlerChrysler.

Real-time FLight Software Systems of Today and Tomorrow, Ken Rehm, NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Flight Software Branch.

Mission Critical Applications Enabled by Distributed Real-Time Systems,Dave Martinez, MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

Invited Tutorial:
Design and analysis of real-time software, the state of present, the state of future, Roosmalen, O.S. van, Eindhoven University of Technology

Challenge Problem:
"System Certification for Real-time Systems that Employ Dynamic Resource Management," provided by Michael Masters, Chief Scientist of the High Performance Distributed Computing Program of the US Navy. A special session will be devoted to discussing the problem and the proposed solutions. An award will be given for the best solution.

Invited Paper Session:
Real-Time and Embedded Systems: Beyond Current Assumptions

Steering Committee Co-Chairs
  David Andrews
  University of Kansas, USA
  dandrews@ittc.ukans.edu

  Lonnie R.Welch
  Ohio University, USA

General Co-Chairs
  Barb Pfarr
  NASA Goddard, USA
  bpfarr@pop500.gsfc.nasa.gov

  Armin Zimmerman
  Technische Universität Berlin

Program Co-Chairs
  Klaus Ecker
  Institut für Informatik
  TU Clausthal, Germany

  Eui-Nam Huh
  Sahmyook University
  Seoul, Korea
  huh@syu.ac.kr

  G. Manimaran
  Iowa State University, USA

Steering Committee

Program Committee

Publicity Chair
  Carl Bruggeman
  Ohio University
  USA
  bruggema@ohio.edu


WPDRTS Advanced Program Available HERE, ( doc, pdf, txt )


Real-time and embedded systems have rapidly advanced from simple application-specific embedded systems handling periodic updates from sensors to include large distributed heterogeneous systems designed for asynchronous and dynamic operation with high degrees of flexibility, autonomy, quality of service, reliability, and security.

The International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems is a forum for the presentation and discussion of approaches, research findings, and experiences in the domain of large-scale parallel and distributed real-time systems. Of interest are both the research and development of relevant technologies as well as the applications built using such technologies.

WPDRTS brings together industry, academia, and government researchers to discuss and exchange ideas in the area of large-scale parallel and distributed real-time and embedded systems and to explore the special needs and issues in applying these technologies to mission critical and commercial applications.

Topics of Interest:

  • Resource Management: Value-based, Feedback-based, and Power-aware scheduling, Combined scheduling of hard and soft real-time tasks, Dynanmic real-time systems, Real-time protocols, Real-time servers, Fault-tolerance and Security in real-time systems.

  • Operating Systems and Middleware: Run-time systems, Middleware architecures, Real-Time Linux, Real-Time CORBA, Real-time Database.

  • Programming Environments: Software design, Parallelization methods/tools for DSP-based, reconfigurable, and mixed-computation-paradigm architectures, Real-Time Java.

  • Algorithms and Applications: Signal/image processing, Vision/robotic systems, Sensor Web, Industrial automation, Vehicle guidance, Command and control.

  • Architectures: Special-purpose processors, mixed-computation-paradigm, size/weight/power modeling and management.

  • Specification, Modeling, and Analysis: Formal methods, Stochastic and dynamic real-time systems, Object orientation, Benchmarking, Tools and environments.

  • Networking and Communications: Instrumentation, allocation control mechanisms, and performance analysis.
The workshop proceedings will be published through IEEE CS press, and selected papers will be published in The Journal of Systems and Software.

Important dates:

  • Manuscripts due: November 8, 2002
  • Acceptance notification: January 7, 2003
  • Final Manuscripts due: January 20, 2003
   Call for Papers (doc, pdf, txt)