WATERS 2011 - WATERS 2011 - 2nd International Workshop on Analysis Tools and Methodologies for Embedded and Real-time Systems

2nd International Workshop on Analysis Tools and Methodologies for

Embedded and Real-time Systems (WATERS 2011)

http://retis.sssup.it/waters2011

July 5th, 2011, Porto, Portugal

In conjunction with ECRTS 2011


WATERS 2011 - CALL FOR PAPERS

Research in real-time systems has gone very far from the initial
seminal papers back in the 70s. Many algorithms, design methodologies,
techniques and tools have been proposed, spanning several application
areas, from RTOS to distributed systems, from safety critical to soft
real-time systems. However, unlike other research areas (e.g.,
networking) there are no widely recognised reference tools or
methodologies for comparing different research works in the area.

In fact, the comparison among results achieved by different research
groups becomes non-trivial or impossible due to the lack of common
tools or methodologies by means of which the comparison is done. For
example, different authors use different algorithms for generating
random task sets, different application traces when simulating dynamic
real-time systems, different simulation engines when simulating
scheduling algorithms. Therefore, research in the field of real-time
and embedded systems would greatly benefit from the availability of
well-engineered, possibly open tools, simulation frameworks and data
sets which may constitute a common metrics for evaluating simulation
or experimental results in the area. Also, it would be nice to have a
possibly wide set of reusable data sets or behavioural models coming
from realistic industrial use-cases over which to evaluate the
performance of novel algorithms. Availability of such items would
increase the possibility to compare novel techniques in dealing with
problems already tackled by others from the multifaceted viewpoints of
effectiveness, overhead, performance, applicability, etc.

The ambitious goal of the International Workshop on Analysis Tools and
Methodologies for Embedded and Real-time Systems is to start creating
a common ground and a community to collect methodologies, software
tools, best practices, data sets, application models, benchmarks and
any other way to improve comparability of results in the current
practice of research in real-time and embedded systems. People from
industry are welcome to contribute with realistic data or methods
coming from their own experience.

SCOPE

The workshop seeks original contributions on methods and tools for
real-time and embedded systems analysis, simulation, modelling and
benchmarking. We look for papers describing well-engineered, highly
reusable, possibly open, tools that can be used by other researchers.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Simulation of real-time, distributed and embedded systems

* Simulation of multi-core, many-core and massively parallel and

distributed systems

* Modelling, analysis and simulation of Operating Systems components

* Tools and methodologies for real-time analysis

* Instrumentation of Operating Systems

* Tracing methods and overhead analysis

* Power consumption models and experimental data for real-time

power-aware systems

* Middleware components and mechanisms for distributed infrastructures

supporting real-time and QoS-aware Cloud Computing applications

* Realistic case studies and reusable data sets

* Comparative evaluation of existing algorithms

PAPER SUBMISSION

Submitted papers should follow the IEEE conference format and should
not exceed 6 pages in length. Papers may be submitted in either PDF or
Postscript format. The papers will be reviewed by the workshop
Program Committee. All accepted papers will be made available to all
participants one week before the workshop so that contributions can be
examined prior to the event. Instructions on how to submit papers will
be available on the workshop website: http://retis.sssup.it/waters2011.

IMPORTANT DATES


* Submission deadline: April, 10th 2011

* Acceptance notification: May, 8th 2011

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Giuseppe Lipari, Tommaso Cucinotta
Real-Time Systems Laboratory
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa (Italy)
{g.lipari, t.cucinotta} -AT- sssup.it