The 2nd Workshop on Java Technologies for Real-Time and Embedded Systems

 

International Federated Conferences (OTM '04)
 

 October  25-29, 2004 

Larnaca, Cyprus

 

Proceedings published by Springer LNCS

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Motivation

Over 90 percent of all microprocessors are now used for real-time and embedded applications, and the behavior of many of these applications is constrained by the physical world. Higher-level programming languages and middleware are needed to robustly and productively design, implement, compose, integrate, validate, and enforce real-time constraints along with conventional functional requirements and reusable components.

Designing real-time and embedded systems that implement their required capabilities, are dependable and predictable, and are parsimonious in their use of limited computing resources is hard; building them on time and within budget is even harder. Moreover, due to global competition for marketshare and engineering talent, companies are now also faced with the problem of developing and delivering new products in short time frames. It is therefore essential that the production of real-time embedded systems can take advantage of languages, tools, and methods that enable higher software productivity.

Ideally, developers should use a programming languages that shields them from many accidental complexities, such as type errors, memory management, and steep learning curves. The Java programming language has become an attractive choice because of its safety, productivity, its relatively low maintenance costs, and the availability of well trained developers.

Although its good software engineering characteristics, Java is unsuitable for developing real-time embedded systems, mainly due to under-specification of thread scheduling and the presence of garbage collection. Recently, to address these problems, a number of extension to Java have been proposed, the two most representative being the Experts Group Real-Time Specification (RTSJ) for Java and  the J-Consortium Real-Time Core Extension (RTCore). The intent of these specifications  is the development of real-time applications by providing several additions such as extending the Java memory model, providing stronger semantics in thread scheduling, and so on.

 

Goal

 

There is an increasingly growing interest in Real-Time Java in both the research community and the industry, because of its challenges and its potential impact on the development of embedded and real-time applications. Building on the success of the previous edition of this workshop, our goal is to gather researchers working on real-time and embedded Java to identify the challenging problem that still need to be properly solved in order to assure the success of the of Real-Time Java as a technology, and to report results and experience gained by researchers.

 

Submission Requirements

Participants are expected to submit a position paper or an extended abstract of at most 10 pages. Accepted papers will be published along with the OMT 2004 Proceedings on Springer Lecture Notes on Computer Science. Topics of interest to this workshop include, but are not limited to:

 

  • Performances, Predictability, Footprint

  • Scheduling Frameworks

  • Feasibility Analysis

  • Industrial Experiences

  • Fundamental developments in the theory and practice of Real-Time and Embedded Java

  • Extension to the RTSJ 

  • Extension to RTCore

  • Experience implementing the RTSJ or RTCore 

  • Real-Time Java and QoS-Enabled Component Models

  • Tool support for Real-Time and Embedded Java

  • Memory Management Techniques and Garbage Collectors for small memory-sized systems

  • Memory Management Techniques and Garbage Collectors for Real-Time Systems

  • Distributed Real-Time Java

  • Off-line Native Compilers and/or Just-in-Time Compiling Techniques for
    Embedded and Real-Time Systems

  • JVM Implementation Experiences for Embedded and Real-Time Systems

  • Timing analysis techniques

  • Idiom and Patterns for Java based Embedded and Real-Time Systems

Important Dates

  • Paper Submission:                11 July 2004

  • Notification of Acceptance:  4 August 2004

  • Camera Ready Paper Due:     20 August 2004

 

Program Co-Chairs

 

Angelo Corsaro...........Washington University, USA

Corrado Santoro..........University of Catania, Italy

 

 

Program Committee Members

 

* Dock Allen

* Greg Bollella

* Joe Cross

* Ron Cytron

* Peter Dibble

* Chris Gill

* Giuseppe Di Giore

* Miguel De Miguel

* Marco Fargetta

* Marisol Garc�-Valls

* Doug Jensen

* Doug Lea

* Doug Locke

* Joe Loyall

* M. Teresa Higuera

* David Holmes

* Kelvin Nielsen

* Agostino Poggi

* John Regehr

* Martin Rinard

* Douglas Schmidt

* Jan Vitek

* Andy Wellings

Mitre, USA

Sun Microsystems, USA

DARPA, USA

Washington University, USA

TimeSys, USA

Washington University, USA

ST Microelectronics, Italy

Universidad Polit�nica de Madrid, Spain

University of Catania, Italy

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Spain

Mitre, USA

State University of New York at Oswego, USA

Locke Consulting LLC, USA

BBN Technologies, USA

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

DLTech, Australia

New Monics, USA

University of Parma, Italy

University of Utah, USA

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Vanderbilt University, USA

Purdue University, USA

University of York, UK

 

 

 

 

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