Call for Papers JOINT WORKSHOP ON PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED REAL-TIME SYSTEMS Fifth International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems (WPDRTS) and Third Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Systems (OORTS) April 1 - 3, 1997, Geneva, Switzerland Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that demonstrate original unpublished research pertaining to real-time systems that have parallel and/or distributed architectures. Of interest are experimental and commercial systems, their scientific and commercial applications, and theoretical foundations. Topics of interest include: -ARCHITECTURE -MULTIMEDIA -BENCHMARKING -NEW PARADIGMS -COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEMS -OBJECT ORIENTATION -COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING -SIGNAL AND IMAGE PROCESSING -DATABASES -SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES -EMBEDDED SYSTEMS -SYSTEMS ENGINEERING -FAULT TOLERANCE -TOOLS AND ENVIRONMENTS -FORMAL METHODS -VALIDATION AND SIMULATION -INSTRUMENTATION -VISUALIZATION -LANGUAGES (REAL-TIME) To submit a research paper, send to the appropriate Program Chair four hard copies of your complete manuscript (not to exceed 10 pages). Manuscripts must be received by December 1, 1996. Notification of review decisions will be mailed by Dec. 20, 1996. Camera-ready papers are due January 24, 1997. GENERAL CHAIRS: Dieter K. Hammer, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands Lonnie R. Welch, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA PROGRAM CHAIRS: Guenter Hommel (Chair for Europe and Africa) Computer Science Department Berlin University of Technology Franklinstr. 28/29 D-10587 Berlin,Germany Phone: +49 30.314.73110 Fax: +49 30.314.21116 Internet: hommel@cs.tu-berlin.de Tadashi Ae (Chair for Asia and Oceania) Electrical Engineering Faculty of Engineering Hiroshima University 1-4-1 Kagamiyama Higashi-Hiroshima, 739 Japan Internet: ae@aial.hiroshima-u.ac.jp Norman R. Howes (Chair for the Americas) Institute for Defense Analyses 1801 N. Beauregard Street Alexandria, VA 22311, USA Phone: +1 703.845.6660 Fax: +1 703.845.6788 Internet: howes@ida.org ADVISORY COMMITTEE: Harry Crisp, NSWCDD, USA Li Guan, Australia Robert D. Harrison, NSWCDD, USA Yoshiaki Kakuda, Osaka University, Japan Wook Hyun Kwon, Seoul National University, Korea Harold Lawson, Lawson AB, Sweden AL Mok, University of Texas at Austin, USA Jose L. Munoz, ARPA, USA Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA Heonshik Shin, Seoul National University, Korea Kang G. Shin, University of Michigan, USA Behrooz Shirazi, University of Texas at Arlington, USA John A. Stankovic, University of Massachusetts, USA Mario Tokoro, Keio University, Japan Hideyuki Tokuda, Japan Stephanie White, Northrop/Grumman, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Bruno Achauer, University of Linz, Austria Jorge Amador-Monteverdi, Euro. Space Tech. Eng. Ctr, The Netherlands Gul Agha, University of Illinois, USA Mehmet Aksit, Twente University of Technology, The Netherlands David Andrews, University of Arkansas, USA Mary A. Austin, United Technologies, USA Maarten Boasson, Hollands Signaalapparaten B.V., The Netherlands Flaviu Cristian, University of California, USA John Drummond, NRaD, USA Klaus Ecker, University of Clausthal, Germany Richard Games, MITRE, USA D. F. Garcia Nocetti, Univ. Nacional Autonoma, Mexico Martin Gergeleit, GMD, Germany Andy Goforth, NASA Ames Research Center, USA Jan Gustafsson, University of Malardalen, Sweden Wolfgang Halang, University of Hagen, Germany Constance Heitmeyer, Naval Research Laboratory, USA Farnam Jahanian, University of Michigan, USA Mathai Joseph, University of Warwick, UK Joerg Kaiser, University of Ulm, Germany Yoshiaki Kakuda, Osaka University, Japan Christian Kelling (Pubilicity Chair),Berlin Univ. of Tech., Germany Gerard Le Lann, INRIA, France Bruce Lewis, Army MICOM, USA Miroslaw Malek, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany David Marlow, NSWCDD, USA Richard Metzger, Rome Laboratory, USA Tatsuo Nakajima, JAIST, Japan Hidenori Nakazato, Oki Electric, Japan Edgar Nett, GMD, Germany Binoy Ravindran (Publications Chair), Univ. of Texas at Arlington, USA Onno van Roosmalen, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands Diane Rover, Michigan State University, USA Helmut Rzehak, Univ. of the Federal Armed Forces, Germany Antonio L. Samuel, (Publicity Chair) NSWCDD, USA Bo Sanden, George Mason University, USA Karsten Schwan, Georgia Inst. of Technology, USA Bran Selic, ObjecTime, Inc., USA Seiichi Takegaki, Mitsubishi Electric, Japan Kenji Toda, ETL, Japan C. M. Woodside, Carleton University, Canada Tomohiro Yoneda, TIT, Japan IMPORTANT INFORMATION Manuscripts Due : December 1, 1996 Notification of Review Decision : December 20, 1996 Camera Ready Version Due : January 24, 1997 URL: http : http://cuiwww.unige.ch/~ipps97/ The Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems (WPDRTS) is held in conjunction with the 11th IEEE International Parallel Processing Symposium (IPPS). IPPS is sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing and is held in cooperation with ACM SIGARCH. WPDRTS is held in cooperation with the IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing, the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time, and the IEEE Technical Committee on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems. The workshop is sponsored by the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD), U.S Army MICOM, and Hollands Signaalapparaten B.V.