17th EUROMICRO CONFERENCE ON REAL-TIME SYSTEMS

              http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/rts/ECRTS05/

            Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
                         July 6-8, 2005

Organised by the Euromicro Technical Committee on Real-time Systems

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CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline for Submission: 13 December 2004
EXTENDED to 20 December 2004
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THEME AND TOPICS OF INTEREST
The seventeenth EUROMICRO Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS’05) 
is a forum aimed at covering state-of-the-art research and development 
in real-time computing. Papers on all aspects of real-time systems are 
welcome. These include, but are not limited to:

APPLICATIONS: consumer electronics; multimedia and entertainment; 
process control; avionics, aerospace; automotive; telecommunications.

INFRASTRUCTURE AND HARDWARE: communication networks; embedded devices; 
hardware/software co-design; power-aware and other resource-constrained 
techniques; systems on chip; time engines and time synchronization; 
wireless sensor networks.

SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES: compiler support; component-based approaches; 
middleware and distribution technologies; programming languages 
operating systems.

SYSTEM DESIGN AND ANALYSIS: modelling and formal methods; probabilistic 
analysis for RT systems; quality of service support; reliability, 
security and survivability in RT systems; scheduling and schedulability 
analysis; worst-case execution time analysis; validation techniques.

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SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Full papers must be submitted electronically through our web form in 
a pdf format. The material must be unpublished and not under submission 
elsewhere. The paper should not exceed 5000 words and 20 pages in 
double-line spacing format.

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CONFERENCE HIGHLIGTHS
Pursuing a successful tradition in the ECRTS series, a special Work 
in Progress (WiP) session will be organised. This session is mainly 
intended for presentation of on-going and recent work. Additionally, 
a set of Satellite Workshops focusing on hot topics will be organised. 
These include the continuation of the already successful real-time 
networks (RTN) and worst-case execution time (WCET) workshops, the 
fourth and fifth editions, respectively. A separate call for papers 
will be issued later for both WiP and satellite workshops. Please visit 
the website at http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/rts/ECRTS05/ later for further 
information. The main conference will include three Keynote Sessions, 
one per day, which will be announced well in advance to the event. 
In this year’s edition, besides the Best Paper Award, a selection of 
best papers will be invited for a Special Issue of a journal (more 
precise information to be made available later on).

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IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of full papers: December 13, 2004
Notification of acceptance: March 18, 2005
Camera-ready paper due: April 15, 2005

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LOCAL INFORMATION
Palma de Mallorca is the capital of the Balearic Islands. A group 
of on the east coast of Spain. Palma has a population of around 
360.000 people and is famous for its historical importance in the 
Mediterranean sea and its tourism. 
The conference will be hosted at the Gran Hotel in the heart of Palma. 
The Gran Hotel is a modernist building designed by the architect 
Lluís Domènech i Montaner and completed in 1903. It is currently the 
headquarters of Fundació “La caixa”  and hosts one of the finest art 
collections in Palma.
Sont San Joan is Mallorca’s International Airport located 5 Km from 
Palma city center. It is very well connected to all major European 
cities, and actually one of the busiest airports in Europe. The weather 
in Palma in July is generally sunny and warm.

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ORGANISERS

GENERAL CHAIR
Guillem Bernat,University of York, York, United Kingdom
bernat@cs.york.ac.uk

PROGRAM CHAIR
Eduardo Tovar, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal
emt@dei.isep.ipp.pt 

LOCAL ORGANISERS
Julián Proenza, University of Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
julian.proenza@uib.es
G. Rodríguez-Navas, Uni. of Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
guillermo.rodriguez-navas@uib.es 

REAL-TIME TECHNICAL COMMITTEE CHAIR
Gerhard Fohler, Malardalen University, Vasteras, Sweden
gerhard.fohler@mdh.se

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Luís Almeida (Portugal)
Alejandro Alonso (Spain)
Pedro Mejia Alvarez (Mexico)
Karl-Erik Arzen (Sweden)
Sanjoy Baruah (USA)
Alan Burns (UK)
Giorgio Buttazzo (Italy)
António Casimiro (Portugal)
Marco Caccamo (USA)
Samarjit Chakraborty (Singapore)
Jean-Dominique Decotignie (Switzerland)
Petru Eles (Sweden)
Gerhard Fohler (Sweden)
Steve Goddard (USA)
Hermann Haertig (Germany)
Zdenek Hanzalek (Czech Republic)
Michael Gonzalez Harbour (Spain)
Jorg Kaiser (Germany)
Julius Leite (Brazil)
Giuseppe Lipari (Italy)
Lucia Lo Bello (Italy)
Kristina Lundquist (USA)
Daniel Mosse (USA)
Frank Mueller (USA)
Luís Miguel Pinho (Portugal)
Isabelle Puaut (France)
Peter Puschner (Austria)
Kriti Ramamritham (India)
Sang Son (USA)
Tullio Vardanega (Italy)
Farn Wang (Taiwan)
Richard West (USA)
Sergio Yovine (France)