October 25-29, 2004
Larnaca, Cyprus
Proceedings published by Springer LNCS
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.
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 2003 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
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
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* Dock Allen * Greg Bollella * Joe Cross * Ron Cytron * Peter Dibble * Chris Gill * Giuseppe Di Giore * Miguel De Miguel * Marco Fargetta * Marisol GarcМa-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 PolitИcnica 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 |