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                       CALL FOR PAPERS

                     The 5th Workshop on
      Java Technologies for Real-Time and Embedded Systems
                          JTRES 2007

              Institute of Computer Engineering
               Vienna University of Technology

                     26-28 September 2007
                       Vienna, Austria

            http://www.vmars.tuwien.ac.at/jtres2007/

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Overview
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Over 90 percent of all microprocessors are now used for real-time
and embedded applications, and the behavior of many of these
applications is constrained by the physical world. Higher-level
programming languages and middleware are needed to robustly and
productively design, implement, compose, integrate, validate, and
enforce real-time constraints along with conventional functional
requirements and reusable components.

Designing real-time and embedded systems that implement their
required capabilities, are dependable and predictable, and are
parsimonious in their use of limited computing resources is hard;
building them on time and within budget is even harder. Moreover,
due to global competition for marketshare and engineering talent,
companies are now also faced with the problem of developing and
delivering new products in short time frames. Therefore it is
essential that the production of real-time embedded systems can take
advantage of languages, tools, and methods that enable higher
software productivity.

Ideally, developers should use a programming language that shields
them from many accidental complexities, such as type errors, memory
management, and steep learning curves. The Java programming language
has become an attractive choice because of its safety, productivity,
its relatively low maintenance costs, and the availability of well
trained developers.

Although it has good software engineering characteristics, Java is
unsuitable for developing real-time embedded systems, mainly due to
under-specification of thread scheduling and the presence of garbage
collection. Recently, to address these problems, a number of
extensions to Java have been proposed by the Java Community Process
Expert Group for the Real-Time Specification for Java (RTSJ) among
others. The intent of these specifications is the development of
real-time applications by providing several additions such as
extending the Java memory model, providing stronger semantics in
thread scheduling, and so on.

Interest in real-time Java in both the research community and
industry, because of its challenges and its potential impact on the
development of embedded and real-time applications, has recently
increased, significantly. This interest in the industry comes not
only for traditional applications, such as industrial control, but
also for business and financial applications. The goal of the
proposed workshop is to gather researchers working on real-time and
embedded Java to identify the challenging problem that still need to
be properly solved in order to assure the success of the of
real-time Java as a technology, and to report results and experience
gained by researchers.

Submission Requirements
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Participants are expected to submit a position paper of at most 10
pages (ACM Conference Format, i.e. two-columns, 10 point font).
Accepted papers will be published in the The ACM International
Conference Proceedings Series via the ACM Digital Library.

Topics of interest to this workshop include, but are not limited to:

   * New real-time programming paradigms and language features

   * Industrial experience and practitioner reports

   * Real-time design patterns and programming idioms

   * Formal models of real-time computation

   * Extensions to RTSJ

   * Virtual machines and execution environments

   * Memory management and real-time garbage collection

   * Compiler analysis and implementation techniques

   * Distributed real-time Java and Java-based distributed real-time middleware

   * Scheduling frameworks, feasibility analysis, and timing analysis

   * High-integrity and safety critical system support

   * Java-based real-time operating systems and processors

   * Exploiting multi-core systems and Java

   * Transactional memory and Java

Important Dates
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   * Paper Submission (HARD DEADLINE): June 29, 2007
   * Notification of Acceptance:       July 29, 2007
   * Camera Ready Paper Due:           August 20, 2007

Program Chair:
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   Greg Bollella, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Workshop Chair:
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   Martin Schoeberl, TU Vienna

Steering Committee:
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   Angelo Corsaro, SELEX SI
   Greg Bollella, Sun Microsystems
   Peter Dibble, TimeSys
   Doug Lea, State University of New York at Oswego
   Corrado Santoro, University of Catania
   Jan Vitek, Purdue University
   Andy Wellings, University of York

Program Committee:
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   David Bacon, IBM
   Andrew Borg, University of York
   Angelo Corsaro, SELEX SI
   Bertrand Delsart, Sun Microsystems
   Peter Dibble, Timesys
   Daniel Dvorak, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
   Laurent George, Ecole Centrale  Electronique, Paris
   Chris Gill, Washington University
   David Hardin, Rockwell Collins
   Teresa Higuera, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
   Douglas Jensen, Mitre
   Kane Kim, University of California, Irvine
   Doug Lea, SUNY Oswego
   Doug Locke, Locke Consulting, LLC
   Kelvin Nilsen, Aonix
   Federic Parain, Sun Microsystems
   Peter Puschner, TU Vienna
   Raj Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon University
   Corrado Santoro, University of Catania
   Douglas Schmidt, Vanderbilt
   Martin Schoeberl, TU Vienna
   Tullio Vardanega, University of Padua
   Jan Vitek, Purdue University
   Andy Wellings, University of York