From: rich@cs.umd.edu (Richard Gerber) Newsgroups: comp.parallel Subject: RTSS98 Registration/Hotel Deadline NOW - Final Announcement Date: 12 Nov 1998 05:17:37 GMT Organization: University of Maryland Approved: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu Message-Id: <72dr1h$fuf$1@encore.ece.cmu.edu> Originator: bigrigg@ece.cmu.edu ======================================================================= THE 19TH IEEE REAL-TIME SYSTEMS SYMPOSIUM (RTSS'98) Madrid, Spain December 2-4, 1998 Sponsors: - The IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems - The Technical Univerity of Madrid. ======================================================================= The Time is NOW: * Hotel Regsitration: 7 November 98 * Early Registration: 15 November 98 Editor's Note: If you received multiple notices throughout this year, thanks for your forbearance in putting up with them. This is the last one you'll receive. See you in Madrid! Contents: * Conference Overview and Technical Program. * Advance Registration and Hotel Information. * Program for PLRTI - IEEE Workshop on Programming Languages for Real-Time Industrial Applications * Call For Demos: The RTSS Industrial Exhibition. ======================================================================= RTSS '98 - OVERVIEW AND PROGRAM: RTSS '98 will bring together a wide body of researchers and developers, to advance the science and practice of real-time computing. The RTSS program includes many aspects of real-time and embedded systems, including modeling and design methods, operating systems, scheduling algorithms, databases, file systems, networks and communications, programming languages, formal methods, architecture, middleware and APIs, instrumentation, fault tolerance, software engineering, performance analysis, embedded systems,signal processing, multimedia applications, process control, tool support - and a lot more. In 1998, RTSS received a record number of submitted papers. There were 182 papers in all, 80 more than last year, 50 more than any RTSS ever held. Of these, 45 were chosen to appear on the program, which follows below. _______________________________________________________________________ DECEMBER 1, 1998 _______________________________________________________________________ PLRTI: IEEE Workshop on Programming Languages for Real-Time Industrial Applications. See below for details on the details on the workshop. _______________________________________________________________________ DECEMBER 2, 1998 _______________________________________________________________________ 09.30: Session 1 - Keynote Talk #1 Speaker: DAVID MARTINEZ, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Title: Future Challenges in the Development of Real-Time High Performance Embedded Systems 11.30: Session 2 - Systems and Scheduling I INTEGRATING MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS IN HARD REAL-TIME SYSTEMS. Luca Abeni and Giorgio Buttazzo ISOCHRONOUS SCHEDULING AND ITS APPLICATION TO TRAFFIC CONTROL. Masaaki Iwasaki, Tadashi Takeuchi, Masahiko Nakahara and Takahiro Nakano SCHEDULABILITY ANALYSIS FOR TASKS WITH STATIC AND DYNAMIC OFFSETS. J.C. Palencia Gutierrez M. Gonzalez Harbour 13.00: Lunch 14.30: Session 3.A - Databases and Filesystems DEADLINE-MODIFICATION-SCAN WITH MAXIMUM-SCANNABLE-GROUPS FOR MULTIMEDIA REAL-TIME DISK SCHEDULING Ray-I Chang Wei-Kuan Shih Ruei-Chuan Chang USING SEPARATE ALGORITHMS TO PROCESS READ-ONLY TRANSACTIONS IN REAL-TIME SYSTEMS Kwok-Wa Lam, Sang H. Son, Victor C. S. Lee and Sheung-Lun Hung MAINTAINING TEMPORAL COHERENCY OF VIRTUAL WAREHOUSES Raghav Srinivasan, Chao Liang and Krithi Ramamritham 14.30: Session 3.B - Systems Design and Development I SPECIFICATION AND MODELING OF DYNAMIC, DISTRIBUTED REAL-TIME SYSTEMS Lonnie R. Welch, Binoy Ravindran, Behrooz A. Shirazi and Carl Bruggeman DETAILED DESIGN OF AVIONICS CONTROL SOFTWARE Ulf Nilsson, Siwert Streiffert, Anders Torne SCHEDULABILITY ANALYSIS FOR AUTOMATED IMPLEMENTATIONS OF REAL-TIME OBJECT-ORIENTED MODELS M. Saksena, A. Ptak, P. Freedman, and P. Rodziewicz 16.30: Session 4.A - Scheduling and Analysis I A BETTER POLYNOMIAL-TIME SCHEDULABILITY TEST FOR REAL-TIME MULTIFRAME TASKS Ching-Chih Han A GENERAL MODEL FOR RECURRING REAL-TIME TASKS Sanjoy Baruah STATISTICAL RATE MONOTONIC SCHEDULING Alia K. Atlas Azer Bestavros 16.30: Session 4.B - Timing Analysis and Compiler Techniques TESTING THE RESULTS OF STATIC WORST-CASE EXECUTION-TIME ANALYSIS Peter Puschner and Roman Nossal COMBINING ABSTRACT INTERPRETATION AND ILP FOR MICROARCHITECTURE MODELLING AND PROGRAM PATH ANALYSIS Henrik Theiling and Christian Ferdinand COMPILER OPTIMIZATIONS FOR REAL TIME EXECUTION OF LOOPS ON LIMITED MEMORY EMBEDDED SYSTEMS Sundaram Anantharaman and Santosh Pande 18.00: Work-In-Progress Session I IEEE Real-Time Technical Committee Meeting 21.00: Conference Banquet Location: Club de Campo Villa de Madrid Busses leave from Palace Hotel at 20.30 _______________________________________________________________________ DECEMBER 3, 1998 _______________________________________________________________________ 09.30: Session 5 - Keynote Talk #2 Speaker: BRAN SELIC, ObtecTime Ltd. Title: Animated Structures: Real-Time, Objects and the UML 11.30: Session 6 - Systems and Scheduling II THE TIME-TRIGGERED MODEL OF COMPUTATION Hermann Kopetz SYNTHESIS TECHNIQUES FOR LOW-POWER HARD REAL-TIME SYSTEMS ON VARIABLE VOLTAGE PROCESSOR Inki Hong, Gang Qu, Miodrag Potkonjak, and Mani B. Srivastava TASK PERIOD SELECTION AND SCHEDULABILITY IN REAL-TIME SYSTEMS Danbing Seto, John P. Lehoczky, and Lui Sha 13.00: Lunch 14.30: Session 7.A - Testing, Verification and Analysis I AUTOMATIC TESTING OF REACTIVE SYSTEMS Pascal Raymond, Xavier Nicollin, Nicolas Halbwachs, Daniel Weber ANALYZING NON-DETERMINISTIC REAL-TIME SYSTEMS WITH (MAX,+) ALGEBRA Guillaume P. Brat and Vijay K. Garg TIMED TEST CASES GENERATION BASED ON STATE CHARACTERISATION TECHNIQUE. A. En-Nouaary, R. Dssouli, F. Khendek and A. Elqortobi 14.30: Session 7.B - Operating Systems and Services GENERAL DATA STREAMING Frank W. Miller, Pete Keleher, and Satish K. Tripathi DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A REAL-TIME ATM-BASED PROTOCOL SERVER Martin Borriss and Hermann Haertig PROPORTIONAL SHARE SCHEDULING OF OPERATING SYSTEM SERVICES FOR REAL-TIME APPLICATIONS Kevin Jeffay, F. Donelson Smith, Arun Moorthy, James Anderson 16.30: Session 8.A - Testing, Verification and Analysis II MEMBERSHIP QUESTIONS FOR TIMED AND HYBRID AUTOMATA R.Alur and R.P.Kurshan and M.Viswanathan ON CHECKING TIMED AUTOMATA FOR LINEAR DURATION INVARIANTS Victor Adrian Braberman and Dang Van Hung SCHEDULABILITY ANALYSIS OF ACYCLIC PROCESSES Michael J. Meyer and Howard Wong-Toi 16.30: Session 8.B - Quality of Serivice Issues ELASTIC TASK MODEL FOR ADAPTIVE RATE CONTROL Giorgio Buttazzo, Giuseppe Lipari, Luca Abeni PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS FOR QOS-BASED RESOURCE ALLOCATION Chen Lee, Raj Rajkumar, John Lehoczky and Dan Siewiorek A DYNAMIC QUALITY OF SERVICE MIDDLEWARE AGENT FOR MEDIATING APPLICATION RESOURCE USAGE Scott Brandt, Gary Nutt, Toby Berk, James Mankovich 18.00: Work-In-Progress Session II Exhibitor Presentations _______________________________________________________________________ DECEMBER 4, 1998 _______________________________________________________________________ 09.30: Session 9 - Keynote Talk #3 Speaker: TED BAKER, Florida State University Title: From Posix Threads to Ada to Java: A brief history of runtime development for some real-time programming languages 11.30: Session 10 - Operating Systems and Runtimes TECHNIQUES FOR SOFTWARE THREAD INTEGRATION IN REAL-TIME EMBEDDED SYSTEMS Alexander G. Dean and John Paul Shen A WORST CASE TIMING ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE FOR MULTIPLE-ISSUE MACHINES Sung-Soo Lim, Jung Hee Han, Jihong Kim, Sang Lyul Min EFFICIENT OBJECT SHARING IN QUANTUM-BASED REAL-TIME SYSTEMS James H. Anderson, Rohit Jain, and Kevin Jeffay 13.00: Lunch 14.30: Session 11.A - Systems Design and Development Tools II A DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK FOR ULTRA-DEPENDABLE AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS BASED ON A TIME-TRIGGERED ARCHITECTURE Bernd Hedenetz INTEGRATED DESIGN TOOLS FOR HARD REAL-TIME SYSTEMS Carlos Puchol and Aloysius K. Mok PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT USING LOW PERTURBATION AND HIGH PRECISION HARDWARE ASSISTS Alan Mink, Wayne Salamon, Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth, and Ramu Arunachalam 14.30: Session 11.B - Scheduling and Analysis II REAL-TIME SCHEDULING IN A GENERIC FAULT-TOLERANT ARCHITECTURE A.J. Wellings, Lj. Beus-Dukic & D. Powell IMPROVED RESPONSE TIME ANALYSIS CALCULATIONS Mikael Sjodin and Hans Hansson SYMBOLIC SCHEDULABILITY ANALYSIS OF REAL-TIME SYSTEMS Hee-Hwan Kwak, Jin-Young Choi, Insup Lee, Anna Philippou, and Oleg Sokolsky 16.30: Session 12.A - Dependability & Fault Tolerance FAULT-TOLERANT CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION IN CAN Luis Rodrigues and Mario Guimaraes and Jose Rufino USING LIGHT-WEIGHT GROUPS TO HANDLE TIMING FAILURES IN QUASI-SYNCHRONOUS SYSTEMS Carlos Almeida and Paulo Verissimo DEPENDABLE ONLINE SYSTEM UPGRADE USING ANALYTICALLY REDUNDANT CONTROLLERS Lui Sha 16.30: Session 12.B - Communications and Networks STATISTICAL DELAY GUARANTEE OF VIRTUAL CLOCK Pawan Goyal and Harrick M. Vin REALIZING SERVICES FOR GUARANTEED-QOS COMMUNICATION ON A MICROKERNEL OPERATING SYSTEM Ashish Mehra, Anees Shaikh, Tarek Abdelzaher, Zhiqun Wang, and Kang G. Shin SCHEDULING COMMUNICATION NETWORKS CARRYING REAL-TIME TRAFFIC John P. Lehoczky ________________________________________________________________ INVITED TALKS ________________________________________________________________ Speaker: DAVID MARTINEZ, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Title: Future Challenges in the Development of Real-Time High Performance Embedded Systems ABSTRACT -------- The next advances in phased-array radars will be in the implementation of adaptive signal processing algorithms. As the need for battlefield superiority increases, many of the present military platforms will undergo major upgrades to commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) computing technology. Supercomputers will play a very important role in these upgrades, due to the cost-to-performance ratio advantage provided by COTS parallel processors (relative to custom-built solutions), and also because they allow downloading different types of sensor array processing algorithms to the same platform. Sensor array processing demands very high computation throughput in real-time. The typical computation throughput requirements range from 100 to 1000 billion operations per second (GOPS). Radars process data through several compute-intensive operations, such as digital filtering, Fourier transforms, adaptive matrix inversion, and matrix multiplication over multiple sensor data channels. This throughput can theoretically be achieved by concatenating large numbers of processors in pipelines; however, the problem is complicated, due to the system's latency requirements. Parallel computers, organized with a number of low-cost, off-the-shelf microprocessors, offer a very attractive solution. However, there are a number of challenges in reaching the high computation rates demanded by the application. One important challenge is the ability to break up the problem into enough degrees of parallelism (DOP) such that the processing tasks can be performed concurrently. The mapping of the algorithm and data onto the parallel processor is a very demanding and laborious task with today's processors. Another important issue is to engineer the system to do a total exchange of data, within a short latency, and across a wide bandwidth. This all-to-all communication is particularly important for sensor array processing, because the sequence of operations must be performed on multiple dimensions of the input sensor data independently, and then combined to form an image. Therefore, a large bisection bandwidth, balanced with the total computational power of the machine, is needed to reach the requisite performance. In this talk we describe the application of supercomputing systems to the very challenging problem of real-time sensor array processing. We discuss the computing technology areas that present the most challenge to today's high performance processors. We also share our experiences in prototyping a class of real-time embedded systems. PROFILE ------- DAVID MARTINEZ received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from New Mexico State University in 1976. He received an M.S. and E.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from MIT, jointly with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1979. Mr. Martinez completed an MBA degree from the Southern Methodist University in 1986, and worked at the Atlantic Richfield Co. in seismic signal processing from 1979 to 1988. During this time, Mr. Martinez worked on algorithm development and technology field demonstrations. While at Atlantic Richfield Co., he received the ARCO Special Achievement Award for the conception, management, and implementation of a multidisciplinary project. He holds three U.S. patents relating to seismic signal processing hardware. He has worked at MIT Lincoln Laboratory since 1988. His areas of interest are in VLSI signal processing and high performance parallel processing systems. He has been responsible for managing the development of several complex real-time signal processor systems. In 1994-1995, he served as co-chairman on a national study to define the next generation real-time signal processor requirements for future surveillance enhancements to the Navy and Air Force airborne early warning systems. He was also the chairman for the second annual workshop on high performance embedded computing, held at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in September, 1998. Mr. Martinez is the Group Leader of the Digital Radar Technology Group concentrating on signal processing and high performance embedded processor systems. He also served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. _________________________________________ Speaker: BRAN SELIC, ObjecTime Ltd. Title: Animated Structures: Real-Time, Objects, and the UML ABSTRACT -------- A real-time system is one that continuously responds to events originating in the physical world. This persistent quality implies that the structural aspects of real-time systems are, at the very least, as important as their dynamic characteristics. This is the primary reason why the object paradigm, with its emphasis on creating structures of collaborating parts, is particularly suitable for real-time applications. Despite this obvious affinity, the object paradigm is penetrating into the real-time domain more slowly than in other disciplines. This can be traced to the fact that early object-oriented programming languages mostly neglected issues that are crucial to real-time developers, such as concurrency, efficiency and responsiveness. However, the new generation of object technologies is actively addressing such issues. We review the state of the art of these technologies - most notably the emerging Unified Modeling Language (UML) standard - and show how they are evolving to meet the needs of real-time developers. In fact, they present an outstanding opportunity to embark on a program that will consolidate the current body of real-time techniques into a common framework and that will provide a platform for the yet more complex real-time systems of the future. PROFILE ------- BRAN SELIC is the Vice President of Advanced Technology at ObjecTime Limited. He has over 25 years of experience in constructing large-scale real-time systems in a number of different disciplines including telecommunications, aerospace, and robotics. He is the principal author of the popular book, "Real-Time Object-Oriented Modeling" that describes how the object paradigm can be used effectively in real-time applications. Most recently, he has been active in the specification of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) standard for object-oriented analysis and design. _________________________________________ Speaker: TED BAKER, Florida State University Title: From POSIX Threads to Ada to Java: A brief history of runtime development for some real-time programming languages ABSTRACT -------- A hidden but critical part of any real-time application is its runtime environment. If the application is coded in a high level language, the runtime environment includes a runtime system to support the programming language. That is likely to be layered over a real-time kernel, or even a full operating system. Over the past twenty years, there have been increasing governmental and market pressures for these layers to use off-the-shelf components and standard interfaces. The goal has been to enable the more rapid development of real-time applications, with a higher degree of platform independence. These pressures achieved visible results in the Ada language, the POSIX real-time operating system interfaces, and most recently the proposals for a real-time Java standard. In the roles of standards writers, implementors and users, the members of the POSIX Ada Real-Time project at the Florida State University have explored the problem of making these standard application program interfaces work for real-time systems. This has included implementation of the POSIX real-time extensions, and implementations of Ada runtime systems over both the POSIX and Java virtual machine interfaces. We have found that the degree to which the promises of these standards are kept depends very much on the ability of the real-time application developer to design within the paradigms supported by the standards, and on the quality of the implementations of the standards. PROFILE ------- TED BAKER holds a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University. His published work spans a wide range of topics, from recursive function theory to real-time operating systems and programming languages. In these latter areas, he and his group at FSU produced one of the first validated Ada cross-compilers for embedded systems. In 1991 he participated on the Ada9X Mapping-Revision Team, as Domain expert for Real-Time and Systems Programming. Dr. Baker drafted key sections of the Ada 95 reference manual on real-time and systems programming, which have since been adopted as international standards for Ada95. His practical work in this area was realized via his FSU team's multi-tasking runtime system for the Gnu NYU Ada 95 Translator (GNAT). This is believed to have been the first validated implementation of Ada 95 tasking for non-embedded systems, and is perhaps the most widely used Ada implementation today. Based on the POSIX threads API, the runtime system has been successfully ported to number of different execution environments, most recently the Java Virtual Machine. Dr. Baker is also well known for key foundational results in real-time systems, including the Stack Resource Protocol, Agenda-Based scheduling, the Deadline Sporadic Server, and many others. Currently, Dr. Baker's group is developing validation tests for POSIX real-time Ada bindings, with funds provided by the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency. He is also participating in a group studying real-time extensions for the Java language, and is porting the GNAT Ada runtime to a ``bare machine'' implementation, based on an Ada rewrite of Real-Time Linux. Dr. Baker also has been active in software standards related to all types of real-time systems, including the Ada95 language standard, and several POSIX standards. He serves as chair for Language Bindings on the IEEE Portable Applications Standards Committee, and is involved in the POSIX and Ada working groups of both the ISO and IEC. ======================================================================= IEEE PLRTIA: RTSS '98 is co-hosting the IEEE Workshop on Programming Languages for Real-Time Industrial Applications, to take place on December 1 - the day preceding the conference. Several topics to be covered at the workshop are: developments in real-time and embedded flavors of Java; implementing real-time virtual machines for Java; Java vs. Ada 95 real-time profiles; support for distributed applications using real-time Java, Ada, and MPI; getting real-time functionality in Java chips; developments in real-time POSIX - ongoing and in the future. Schedule for IEEE PLRTIA ------------------------ 9.00-10.45 Pearl*: A Language for Industrial Automation and Safety Related Systems A.H. Frigeri and C.E. Pereira Using ESTEREL for Avionics Software Development: Motivation, Experiments and Works in Progress Olivier Hainque, Laurent Pautet, Yann Le Biannic and Eric Nassor Combining Special Purpose and General Purpose Languages in Real-Time Programming C. Andre, A. Ressouche and J.-M. Tanzi ALERT: A Language for Expressing Real-Time Constraints Luigi Palopoli and Giorgio Buttazzo To Ada or Not To Ada: Adaing Vs. Javaing in Real-Time Systems Luis Miguel Pinho and Francisco Vasques 10.45-11.15 Coffee 11.15-1.00 Asynchronous Java Exception Handling in a Real-time Context Kelvin Nilsen, Simanta Mitra, Sairam Sankaranarayanan and Venkatesh Thanuvan Protected Objects in Java Hans Henrik Lovengreen, Jens Christian Schwarzer and Thomas Andersen Garbage Collection Algorithms for Java in Embedded Systems Alexandre Petit-Bianco and Tom Tromey Elimination of Memory Allocation in Hard Real-Time Java Applications David Pruett and Sadegh Davari Controlling Run-time Compilation Timothy Harris 1.00-2.30 Lunch 2.30-4.00 JTRON: A Hybrid Architecture of the Java Runtime Environment and a Real-time OS Yukikazu Nakamoto and Hiroaki Takada Java Virtual Machine and Java OS for Smartcards Borislav Roussev Towards a Resource-safe Java for Service Guarantees in Uncooperative Environments Philippe Bernadat, Dan Lambright and Franco Travostino Using Java to Build Reliability and Security on top of UDP in a Bandwidth-Constrained Soft Real-Time Network Brian N. Marquette, John Wilson, Marcus Hanau and Sadegh Davari 4.00-4.30 Coffee 4.30-6.30 Panel and general discussion Consensus-based Requirements for Real-Time JaVa Standardization Lisa Carnahan, chair Greg Bollella Franco Gasperoni David Hardin Kelvin Nilsen For more information, please consult the PLRTIA '98 home page: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~mueller/plrtia98 ======================================================================= INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION AND DEMOS: RTSS '98 will include an industrial exhibition in a centrally located space, for vendors to demonstrate state-of-the-art systems, development tools and applications; where RTSS attendees can engage in technical discussions with product engineers and developers; and where company representatives meet (and recruit) young researchers specializing in real-time and embedded systems. To reserve space for the exhibition, contact the RTSS '98 Industrial Chair, Dr. Gerhard Fohler (mailto:gerhard.fohler@mdh.se), or check the RTSS '98 Industrial Exhibition Home Page: http://www.idt.mdh.se/personal/gfr/rtss98-exhibit.html ======================================================================= WORK-IN-PROGRESS SESSIONS: As in previous years, RTSS '98 will have a special Work-In-Progress (WIP) track, featuring short presentations on new work in real-time systems and applications. The purpose of this session is to provide researchers with an opportunity to discuss new and evolving ideas, and gather feedback from the real-time community at large. For details, see the RTSS '98 WIP Page at: http://www.cse.unl.edu/rtss98wip ===================================================================== GISTRATION FOR RTSS '98: Register today, and save a lot of money! Registration for RTSS '98 includes admission to the symposium, admissions to the exhibition, a copy of symposium proceedings, complimentary lunch every day, 2 coffee-breaks per day, and a gala banquet on Wednesday night. Students are welcome to attend all functions. Registration for PLRTIA '98 includes admission to the workshop, pre-prints of the symposium proceedings, lunch, and 2 coffee-breaks. To register for RTSS, see the RTSS Registrataion Page http://http://www.cs.umd.edu/~rich/rtss98/register.html Or alternatively, just use following form. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Instructions: Register by email, by FAX or by post; payment can be made with a major credit card, check, or money order, payable in US dollars to "RTSS '98." For FAX or electronic registration, payment should be made using a major credit card. Please be sure to include the name on the credit card, the number of the credit card, the card type, and its expiration date (as appears on the card). If you're using the email registration form, we will need to get your signature at the conference site. Advance fees apply to registrations made before 15 November, 1998, and are After 15 November, registration can be accepted on-site only, is payable by check, major credit card, or cash. Written requests for refunds must be postmarked no later than 15 November, 1998. Refunds are subject to a US $50 processing fee. All no-show registration will be billed in full. Please fill in all the fields, and then send the form to the RTSS Registration Chair, Linda Buss at the coordinates listed below: First Name: ______________________________________________________ Last Name: ______________________________________________________ Affiliation: ______________________________________________________ Address: ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ City: ______________________________________________________ State/Provice: ____________________ Country: __________________ Zip/Code: ____________________ Email: __________________ Phone: ____________________ Fax: __________________ IEEE Number: ____________________ Vegetarian? __________________ RTSS '98 REGISTRATION By 15 November After 15 November IEEE Member $425 $520 Non-Member $535 $650 Full-Time Student $220 $270 PLRTIA'98 REGISTRATION By 15 November After 15 November IEEE Member $130 $165 Non-Member $165 $200 Full-Time Student $130 $165 Extra Banquet Tickets _____ @ $70.00 ea = $ ________ Extra Proceedings _____ @ $40.00 ea = $ ________ Total: Add up your above charges, and enter the total due below, payable in US dollars. The total fee below is the amount you will be charged on your credit card, if one is used. Enter the card type, number, expiration date, and your name as it appears on the card. Payment can me made with Visa, MasterCard, Discover, Amex, DinersClub, Check or Money Order. Total Due: US $ __________ Payment Method: _________ Card Number: ________________ Exp Date (MM/YY): __________ Name on card: ______________________________________________ Signature: ______________________________________________ Email, FAX or mail your form to Linda Buss, the RTSS Registration chair, at the following coordinates: Linda Buss E3774 550th Ave Menomonie, WI 54751 USA FAX: +1.715.232.6244, +1.715.235.2258 TEL: +1.715.235.0487 Email: mailto:ljbuss@win.bright.net ======================================================================= CONFERENCE LOCALE AND HOTEL INFORMATION: Events for RTSS '98 will be held at several locations in Madrid's Museum District, all within a block of each each other. Keynote talks and single-track sessions will be held in the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), located at 6 Duque de Medinaceli. Other events will be hosted at the Palace Hotel and the Hotel Villa Real; these include coffee breaks, exhibits, parallel track sessions, and conference luncheons. The registration desk will be set up at the Palace Hotel. Please check the registration desk when you arrive, and pick up a final conference schedule. Three hotels have been selected for RTSS, all of which are a few blocks from the famed Museo del Prado. ___________________________________________________________ The Palace Hotel Address: Plaza de las Cortes, 7 28014 Madrid fax: +34-91-360-8100 tel. +34-91-360-8000 Single and double rooms are 28.000 and 33.000 ptas, respectively, plus 7% VAT. Breakfast is included. ___________________________________________________________ Hotel Villa Real Plaza de las Cortes, 10 28014 Madrid fax: +34-91-420-2547 tel. +34-91-420-3767 Single and double rooms are 18,500 and 21,000 ptas, respectively, plus 7% VAT. Breakfast is included. ___________________________________________________________ Hotel Reina Victoria Plaza de Santa Ana, 14 28014 Madrid tel. +34-91-523-5215 fax: +34-91-522-0307 Single and double rooms are 14,500 and 16,050 ptas, respectively, plus 7% VAT. Breakfast is included. ___________________________________________________________ Please phone or FAX you your reservation directly to the hotel of your choice, and make sure you mention "IEEE RTSS'98" for the conference rate. A block of rooms has been reserved until November 7th, 1997. After this date, room reservations will be accepted on a space available basis. For attendees who plan on staying for longer periods, we suggest either taking advantage of the IEEE conference rate, or obtaining other discounted rates offered by the hotel or a travel agent. ======================================================================= CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION: General Chair: Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California, Irvine Program Chair: Richard Gerber, University of Maryland Finance Chair: Walt Heimerdinger, Honeywell Technology Center Local Arrangements Chair: Angel Alvarez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Industrial Chair: Gerhard Fohler, Malardalen University Work-In-Progresss Chair: Steve Goddard, University of Nebraska Registration Chair: Linda Buss Local Treasurer: Juan A. de la Puente, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Publicity Co-Chairs: Alejandro Alonso, Universidad Politicnica de Madrid (Europe) Chao-Ju Jennifer Hou, Ohio State University (Americas) Joseph Ng, Hong Kong Baptist University (Asia/Pacific) European Chair: Alan Burns, University of York Ex-Officio: (RTS-TC Chair) Doug Locke, Lockheed Martin Corporation ======================================================================= PROGRAM COMMITTEE James Anderson (University of North Carolina) Azer Bestavros (Boston University) Sanjoy Baruah (University of Vermont) Giorgio Buttazzo (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna) Gerhard Fohler (Malardalen University) Michael Gonzalez Harbour (Universidad Cantabria) Jeffrey Hollingsworth (University of Maryland) Seongsoo Hong (Seoul National University) Farnam Jahanian (University of Michigan) Kevin Jeffay (University of North Carolina) Hermann Kopetz (Vienna University of Technology) Kim G. Larsen (Aalborg University) Insup Lee (University of Pennsylvania) Jane W.S. Liu (University of Illinois) Keith Marzullo (University of California at San Diego) Sang Lyul Min (Seoul National University) Al Mok (University of Texas at Austin) Ragunathan Rajkumar (Carnegie Mellon University) Jennifer Rexford (AT&T Research) Manas Saksena (Concordia University) Bran Selic (ObjectTime, Ltd.) Andy Wellings (University of York) David Wilner (Wind River Systems) Sergio Yovine (CNRS/VERIMAG) Hui Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University) ======================================================================= FOR MORE INFORMATION: For more information on RTSS, see the conference home page http://www.cs.umd.edu/~rich/rtss98 or contact the Program Chair: Richard Gerber Department of Computer Science University of Maryland Email: mailto:rich@cs.umd.edu URL: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~rich ======================================================================= -- Articles to bigrigg+parallel@cs.cmu.edu (Admin: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu) Archive: http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/internet/usenet/comp.parallel