Workshop on Constraint-Aware Embedded Software

At the 24th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium
December 2, 2003

Cancun, Mexico

Please click here for the CAES Workshop Program

The importance of design constraints on embedded systems has long been recognized, but techniques that effectively manage several constraints at once and in an integrated fashion are still lacking at the software level.  There is a need for effective solutions that can balance many constraints at once, including memory, storage, performance, power, and timeliness from within embedded software.  This workshop solicits papers that report new results on the unique challenges faced by managing multiple constraints at the software layer.  The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Application-level management of system resources and constraints,
• Operating system policies for holistically managing multiple resources simultaneously,
• Approaches to increasing application and system software synergy to meet the challenges of multiple constraints,
• Compiler techniques that make effective trade-offs of one constraint for another,
• Tools and design environments for exploring the interplay of different constraints,
• Real experiences with balancing constraints in embedded software

Accepted papers will be published in a digest of papers to be distributed at the workshop. Electronic submission of papers is required.

Please submit your papers by clicking here. The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2003.

Papers should be at most 6 pages in 10-point type and two columns. Papers must be formatted in US Letter page size (8.5 x 11.0"). Adobe PDF is preferred for submission; however, Postscript is acceptable. Papers must be viewable with Adobe Acrobat 3.0 or Ghostscript. Please be sure that all necessary fonts are embedded in the PDF or postscript file.

Important Dates

• October 31: Papers due
• November 10: Author notification
• November 24: Final papers due
• December 2: CAES Workshop at RTSS in Cancun

Paper Submission Website

http://www.rtss.org/CAES2003/submit.html

Workshop Co-Chairs
Bruce Childers (childers@cs.pitt.edu), Univ. of Pittsburgh
Daniel Mosse (mosse@cs.pitt.edu), Univ. of Pittsburgh

Program Committee

Pedro Mejia Alvarez, CINVESTAV-IPN
Hakan Aydin, George Mason University
Mahmut Kandemir, Penn State University
Gokhan Memik, Northwestern University
Frank Mueller, North Carolina State University
Walid Najjar, University of California at Riverside
Priya Narasimhan, Carnegie Mellon University
Alex Nicolau, University of California at Irvine