WORDS 2003
January 15-17, 2003
Mexico

Call for Papers

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THEME

This workshop, which is the eighth in the highly successful WORDS series, continues its theme in integrating three computer system engineering technologies (CSETs): Object-oriented CSET, Real-time CSET, and Dependable CSET. For inclusion in the workshop program, contributions that present significant advances in integrating any two of these three technology fields are invited. Industrial applications such as multimedia interactive services that include such integrations are also encouraged. The workshop is intended to be a forum for exchange of newly recognized research issues, advanced promising formulations, and research progress reports. These may be of a conceptual, theoretical, innovative design or experimental nature, and should represent technological or scientific advances. The workshop will have a limited number of participants, around 50, of whom about half will be invited participants.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics, as they relate to at least two of the three CSET's (object-oriented CSET, real-time CSET, and dependable CSET) are of interest to the Workshop. Some example topics are:

• Object-oriented real-time system requirement specification
• Integration of time into formal object models
• Tools for structuring real-time objects
• OS support for object-oriented systems with real-time or dependability requirements
• Quality of Service for real-time and fault-tolerant systems
• Application of agent technology to dependable systems
• System resource allocation for real-time or dependable objects
• Testing and evaluation of temporal and dependability properties
• Database architectures for real-time or dependable services
• Multimedia and network-aware applications over programmable network infrastructures
• Techniques for timing analysis of dependable or object-oriented systems
• Object-oriented real-time simulations
• Developing benchmarks for real-time dependable systems
• Dependable real-time information retrieval
• Real-time dependable middleware (Real-time CORBA, Fault-tolerant Java RMI, etc.)
• Object technologies and transaction models for mobile computing

PAPER SUBMISSIONS

Position papers are solicited from potential participants of this workshop. Papers must be written in English and printed using at least 11-point type and 1-1/2 line spacing, and can be one of two possible types:

• Papers presenting research results, of 5-15 pages in length, including figures
• Papers presenting position statements, of 3-5 pages in length, from potential participants, who prefer to serve as panelists or commentators.

Authors are requested to submit an electronic version (PostScript or PDF) of their manuscripts before August 25, 2002 to the following address: words-2003@alpha.ece.ucsb.edu

Authors will be notified of the program committee decision by September 12, 2002. The revised copy for inclusion in the preliminary proceedings (not to be treated as an official publication but rather as a collection of working papers) to be distributed at the workshop will be due November 10, 2002. The final camera-ready copy for WORDS 2002 proceedings will be due 3 weeks after the workshop and it will be published by the IEEE.

IMPORTANT DATES:

• August 25, 2002 : Deadline for submission of manuscripts
• September 12, 2002 : Notification of acceptance
• November 10, 2002 : Deadline for revised manuscripts of accepted papers

NOTE: If a paper is co-authored by a university faculty member and a student, the paper must be presented by the faculty member. This is in keeping with the long-standing tradition of WORDS as a forum for spirited technical exchanges between today's leading researchers in object-oriented real-time dependable computing.