[comp.software-eng] Real Time Systems Symposium program and registration info

mok@cs.utexas.edu (Al Mok) (10/28/89)

The Tenth Real Time Systems Symposium will be held at the Loews Santa Monica
Beach Hotel, Santa Monica, California, December 5-7, 1989. Registration
information follows the preliminary program below, and can also be found
on pp. 101 of the September 1989 issue of IEEE Computer.

-- Professor Al Mok, Conference Chair (mok@cs.utexas.edu, 512-471-9542)


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          Preliminary Program of the 10th Real Time Systems Symposium

   December 5

    7:30 -  8:45 Registration
    8:45 -  9:00 Welcome
    9:00 - 10:00 Session 1 - Resource Scheduling and Allocation I

            Minimizing Mean Flow Time with Error Constraint
                Joseph Leung, Tommy W. Tam, C.S. Wong, Gilbert H. Young
            Fast Algorithms for Scheduling Imprecise Computations with Timing
                       Constraints
                Wei-Kuan Shih, Jane W. S. Liu, Jen-Yao Chung

   10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
   10:30 - 12:00 Session 2 - Language Issues

            Events: A Structuring Mechanism for a Real-Time Runtime System
                Marc Donner, David Jameson, William Moran, Jr.
            An Experiment in the Deterministic Scheduling of Ada Tasks
                Edward W. Giering III, Ted Baker
            A Distributed Real-Time Language and Its Operational Semantics
                Padmanabhan Krishnan, Richard Volz

   12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
   13:00 - 15:00 Session 3 - Distributed Processing I

            Nearly Poisson Traffic in Real-Time Networks
                Dave Craig, C. M. Woodside
            Scheduling Parallelizable Jobs on Multiprocessors
                Kwei-Jay Lin, Ching-Chin Han
            Communication Shared Resources: A Model for Distributed Real-Time
                       Systems
                Insup Lee, Richard Gerber
            Token-Ring Adapter-Chipset Architectural Considerations for
                       Real-Time Systems
                Thomas E. Marchok, Jay K. Strosnider, Hideyuki Tokuda

   15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
   15:30 - 17:00 Session 4 - Reasoning About Time I

            Real-time Temporal Logic Decision Procedures
                Jonathan Ostroff
            A Framework for Reasoning About Time and Reliability
                Hans Hansson, Bengt Jonsson
            A Transformational Method for Verifying Safety Properties in
                       Real-Time Systems
                Armen Gabrielian, Matthew K. Franklin


   December 6

    8:20 -  8:30 Announcements
    8:30 - 10:00 Session 5 - Fault Tolerance and Transactions

            Transient Overloads in Fault-Tolerant Real-Time Systems
                Philip M. Thambidurai, Kishor S. Trivedi
            Algorithm-Based Fault Tolerance for Signal Processing Applications
                       on a Hypercube Multiprocessor
                Prithviraj Banerjee, Vijay Balasubramanian
            Experimental Evaluation of Real-Time Transaction Processing
                John A. Stankovic, Jiandong Huang, Don Towsley,
                Krithi Ramamritham

   10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
   10:30 - 12:00 Session 6 - Resource Scheduling and Allocation II

            Performance Analysis of FCFS and Improved FCFS Scheduling
                       Algorithms for Dynamic Real-Time Computer Systems
                Wei Zhao, John A. Stankovic
            The Rate Monotonic Scheduling Algorithm: Exact Characterization
                       and Average Case Behavior
                John P. Lehoczky, Lui Sha, Ye Ding
            Application of Real-Time Monitoring to Scheduling Tasks with
                       Random Execution Times
                Dieter Haban, Kang G. Shin

   12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
   13:30 - 14:30 Session 7 - Real-Time Software Architecture I

            SPARTA: Signal Processor Architecture for High-Performance
                       Real-Time Applications
                Jehuda Ish-Shalom, Peter Kazanzides
            Object-Oriented Design of Real-Time Software
                Prabha Gopinath, Thomas Bihari, Karsten Schwan

   14:30 - 15:00 Coffee Break
   15:00 - 17:00 Session 8 Case Studies and Architecture Issues

            A Framework for Specification and Design of Software for Advanced
                       Sensor Systems
                Alice H. Muntz, Ellis Horowitz
            A Distributed Fault Tolerant Architecture for Nuclear Reactor
                       Control and Safety Functions
                Myron Hecht, Jeffry Agron, Sara Hochhauser
            A Fault-Tolerant Microcomputer for Advance Control: Architecture
                       and Performability Analysis
                Calin Sandovici, Cristian Constantinescu
            SMART (Strategic Memory Allocation for Real-Time) Cache Design
                David B. Kirk


   December 7

    8:20 -  8:30 Announcements
    8:30 - 10:00 Session 9 - Real-Time Software Architecture II

            A Decomposition Approach to Non-Preemptive Scheduling in Hard
                       Real-Time Systems
                Xiaoping Yuan, Ashok K. Agrawala
            From Synchronous Intensional Programming to Efficient
                       Implementation
                Bernard Le Goff, Thierry Gautier
            A Tasking Model for Reactive Systems
                Vered Gafni

   10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
   10:30 - 12:00 Session 10 - Resource Scheduling and Allocation III

            Time Bounds for Real-Time Process Control in the Presence of
                       Timing Uncertainty
                Higit Attiya, Nancy A. Lynch
            Greed in Resource Scheduling
                Donald W. Gillies, Jane W. S.Liu
            Analysis of a Synchronization and Scheduling Discipline for
                       Real-Time Tasks with Preemption Constraints
                Kevin Jeffay

   12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
   13:30 - 14:30 Session 11 - Reasoning About Time II

            Formal Analysis of Real-Time Equational Rule-Based Systems
                Al Mok
            Verifying Properties of Systems with Variable Timing Constraints
                Farnam Jahanian

   14:30 - 15:00 Coffee Break
   15:00 - 17:00 Session 12 - Distributed Processing II

            A New Probabilistic Algorithm for Clock Synchronization
                K. Arvind
            Real-Time File Performance of a Completely Decentralized Adaptive
                       File System
                Horst F. Wedde, Dorota Baran, Gookhal Kang, Bo-Kyung Kim
            Priority Inversions in Real-Time Communication
                Hideyuki Tokuda, Clifford W. Mercer, Yutaka Ishikawa,
                Thomas E. Marchok
            Some Properties of Double-Ring Networks with Real-Time Constraints
                Adriano Valenzano, P. Montuschi, L. Ciminiera

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Registration information:

   Registration Fees     Advanced (before 11/18/89)        Late
    IEEE Member               $180                         $235
    Non-member                $225                         $290
    Full-time Student         $70                          $90

   Mail registration form to:  Tenth RTSS
                               c/o Linda Buss
                               Honeywell Systems and Research Center
                               MN65-2100
                               3660 Technology Drive
                               Minneapolis, MN 55418-1006
                               (612)782-7332

   Make check payable to IEEE Tenth RTSS and include the following.


   Name: _________________________________________________

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 For hotel reservation, contact:   Loew's Santa Monica Beach Hotel
                                   1700 Ocean Avenue
                                   Santa Monica, CA 90401
                                   (213)458-6700

                                   Be sure to request conference rate of $98.

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