Subject: Call For Paper: RTAS 2000

From: Sarit Mukherjee <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 18:42:34 -0400 (EDT)

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       Sixth IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium

                           Washington D.C., USA 
                              May 31-June 2, 2000
  Sponsored by The IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Real-Time
                                  Systems

Objectives and Scope
 
The IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium brings together
real-time system developers and researchers from academia, industry and
government to present the latest advances in real-time systems research,
and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions
adopted.  An exciting program that fosters discussions and technical
exchanges is planned, including tutorials, panel discussions, full-paper
presentations and work-in-progress sessions. Full-length papers,
work-in-progress abstracts and tutorial proposals on various aspects of
real-time computing and communication are sought, including QoS issues
in computation and networking, systems integration, scheduling, operating
systems, middleware, software engineering, dependability, databases,
programming languages, system development tools, performance modeling, and
various applications like multimedia, telecommunication and embedded
systems. Of particular interest are papers detailing experiments,
implementations, and experiences in application domains including, but not
limited to, the following:
 
Intelligent highway systems 
Robotics and automation 
Avionics 
Digital libraries
Information appliances and home networks
Internet applications and e-commerce
Multimedia systems and video on demand
Object-oriented design techniques 
Process control 
Testbeds and measurements
Wireless applications 
 
The highest-quality student paper will be selected for a Best student
paper award. To be considered for this award, the work in the paper 
must be conducted mainly by a student or students, the first author 
should be a student, and the student must present the paper at 
RTAS00.  The best papers presented at the Symposium will be forwarded 
to the IEEE Transactions for
fast-track publication (most likely in the IEEE/ACM Transactions on
Networking, IEEE
Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, and Real-Time
Systems Journal.)
 
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Submission Guidelines
 
Manuscripts to be considered as full papers should be limited to 20
double-spaced pages. Work-in-progress abstracts to be considered for an
"Ongoing Work" session should be limited to 6 double-spaced pages.
Paper submissions should reach the program chair by December 10, 1999. Both
hard-copy and electronic submissions will be accepted (electronic
submission is preferred) as explained below. Any paper submitted to the
Symposium must not have been published in or submitted elsewhere.

Electronic Manuscript Submission:
The preferred format for electronic submission is PDF suitable for Acrobat
Reader. Postscript with US Letter size pages will also be accepted.  
Details on web submission guidelines is posted at 
 
http://rtas.eng.ohio-state.edu/paper_submission.html
 
Hard-copy Manuscript Submission:
If electronic submission is not possible, then six copies of each
full-paper manuscript or work-in-progress abstracts should be mailed to
the program chair
 
        Prof. Jennifer C. Hou
        Department of Electrical Eng.     Email: [email-masked]
        The Ohio State University         Phone: 614-292-7290
        2015 Neil Ave                     Fax:   614-292-7596
        Columbus, OH 43210-1272

In addition, a 150-word abstract (in ASCII) must be e-mailed to the
Program Chair at by December 10, 1999.

Tutorial Proposals Submission:
Proposals for half-day tutorials in technically appealing areas of the
Symposium are also solicited. Tutorial proposals should be submitted to
the tutorial chair, Dr. Sandra R. Thuel, by December 17, 1999.
 
Inquiries and Questions:
For more information about the Symposium, send e-mail to the General Chair
Kang G. Shin at [email-masked]. For questions regarding conference
submissions, send e-mail to the Program Committee Chair Jennifer C. Hou at
[email-masked]. The Web page for the conference can be
accessed at http://rtas.eng.ohio-state.edu/.
 
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Important Dates

    December 10, 1999 -> Deadline for full-length manuscript submission
    December 17, 1999 -> Deadline for tutorial proposal submission
    February 28, 2000 -> Notification of acceptance of papers and tutorials
    March    10, 2000 -> Deadline for WIP abstract submission
    April     7, 2000 -> Deadline for camera-ready of accepted manuscripts
    May      30, 2000 -> Tutorials 
    May 31 --June 2, 2000 -> RTAS'00, Washington D.C.

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Organizing Committee

General Chair
   * Kang G. Shin, University of Michigan

Program Committee Chair
   * Jennifer C. Hou, Ohio State University

Finance Chair
   * Kwei-Jay Lin, Univ. of California, Irvine

Tutorial Chair
   * Sandra R. Thuel, Lucent Bell Labs Research

Work-In-Progress Paper Chair
   * Parmesh Ramanathan, University of Wisconsin, Madison
 
Publicity Co-Chairs
   * Sarit Mukherjee, Panasonic Technologies, Inc.
   * Steven C. Hsueh, National Chung Cheng Univ., Taiwan

Local Arrangements Chair
   * David Stewart, University of Maryland, College Park

Program Committee Members

   * Vaduvur Bharghavan, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
   * Jon Crowcroft, University College London
   * Rene Cruz, University of California at San Diego
   * J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, University of California at Santa Cruz
   * Mario Gerla, UCLA
   * Roch Guerin, Univ. of Pennsylvania
   * Marty Humphrey, Univ. of Virginia
   * Michael Jones, Microsoft Research
   * Kevin Jeffay, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
   * Tei-Wei Kuo, National Chung-Cheng Univ., Taiwan
   * T.V. Lakshman, Lucent Bell Labs Research
   * Insup Lee, Univ. of Pennsylvania
   * K.-J. Lin, Univ. of California at Irvine
   * Jane Liu, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
   * Ashish Mehra, IBM T.J. Watson Research
   * Sarit Mukherjee, Panasonic Research Labs
   * Joseph Ng, Hong Kong Baptist Univ.
   * Kihong Park, Purdue University
   * Sanjoy Paul, Lucent Bell Labs Research
   * Raj Rajcumar, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
   * Parmesh Ramanathan, Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison
   * Sandra R. Thuel, Lucent Bell Labs Research
   * Jennifer Rexford, AT&T Research
   * Debanjan Saha, Lucent Bell Labs Research
   * Lui Sha, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
   * Hyun-Sik Shin, Seoul National Univ.
   * Douglas Schmidt, WUSL
   * Jack Stankovic, Univ. of Virginia
   * Mori Takegaki, Mitsubishi Electric Corp.
   * Rose Tsang, Sandia National Laboratories
   * Farn Wang, Acad. Sinica, Taiwan
   * Andy Wellings, Univ. of York, UK
   * Wei Zhao, Texas A&M Univ.
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                       http://rtas.eng.ohio-state.edu/