Real-Time Middleware and Software Engineering Track

Paper Submission --- ( https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/rtss2005 ) 

Papers deadline: 31 May 2005, 11:59pm New York Time (EST)

Paper will be handled electronically through EDAS. Format: PostScript(ps) or Adobe PDF(pdf) .
Submissions should be limited to 20 double-spaced pages (5,000 words). All figures, appendices, and references must fit within this limit. Papers that deviate significantly from these requirements risk being rejected without review.

Real-Time Middleware and Software Engineering Track

Key Themes:

Real-time and embedded systems are increasingly being networked together to form distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems. We therefore need principled techniques and tools for specifying, programming, composing, integrating, and validating middleware that can satisfy end-to-end quality of service (QoS) requirements of DRE applications. Key research challenges include:

1. Determining how a myriad of real-world physical constraints can be integrated and satisfied simultaneously with multi-dimensional QoS and functional constraints when designing middleware.

2. Elevating the levels of abstraction at which middleware for DRE systems are developed and validated, including model-based software techniques, aspect-oriented programming, and QoS-enabled component models.

3. Examining the current levels of abstraction used in developing DRE middleware with a focus on improving the usefulness of metrics and validation techniques.

4. Increasing the use of formal modeling and analysis techniques in developing DRE systems, and advancing the capabilities of the tools that support those techniques to the point that they can be applied to the design, development, and validation of DRE systems of reasonable scale and complexity.

Topics of Interest:

The Real-Time Middleware and Software Engineering track for RTSS therefore invites papers in areas that are relevant to next-generation DRE middleware, including but not limited to the following topics:

• Real-Time Java support and applications

• DRE middleware, e.g., Real-Time CORBA and Distributed Real-Time Java

• Secure DRE middleware

• Novel middleware-level mechanisms

• Open middleware architectures for resource management

• DRE software component models

• QoS-aware application design and patterns

• DRE system modeling and analysis techniques, tools, and case studies