====================================================================== 2nd International Workshop on Analysis Tools and Methodologies for Embedded and Real-time Systems (WATERS 2011) http://retis.sssup.it/waters2011 July 5th, 2011, Porto, Portugal In conjunction with ECRTS 2011 ====================================================================== WATERS 2011 - NEWS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The submission deadline has been aligned to the one of the other ECRTS workshops: you have time to submit till April, 25th. Authors of the best papers from WATERS will be invited to submit an extended version of the paper to a special issue of the Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture. WATERS 2011 - CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Research in real-time systems has gone very far from the initial seminal papers back in the 70s. Many algorithms, design methodologies, techniques and tools have been proposed, spanning several application areas, from RTOS to distributed systems, from safety critical to soft real-time systems. However, unlike other research areas (e.g., networking) there are no widely recognised reference tools or methodologies for comparing different research works in the area. In fact, the comparison among results achieved by different research groups becomes non-trivial or impossible due to the lack of common tools or methodologies by means of which the comparison is done. For example, different authors use different algorithms for generating random task sets, different application traces when simulating dynamic real-time systems, different simulation engines when simulating scheduling algorithms. Therefore, research in the field of real-time and embedded systems would greatly benefit from the availability of well-engineered, possibly open tools, simulation frameworks and data sets which may constitute a common metrics for evaluating simulation or experimental results in the area. Also, it would be nice to have a possibly wide set of reusable data sets or behavioural models coming from realistic industrial use-cases over which to evaluate the performance of novel algorithms. Availability of such items would increase the possibility to compare novel techniques in dealing with problems already tackled by others from the multifaceted viewpoints of effectiveness, overhead, performance, applicability, etc. The ambitious goal of the International Workshop on Analysis Tools and Methodologies for Embedded and Real-time Systems is to start creating a common ground and a community to collect methodologies, software tools, best practices, data sets, application models, benchmarks and any other way to improve comparability of results in the current practice of research in real-time and embedded systems. People from industry are welcome to contribute with realistic data or methods coming from their own experience. SCOPE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The workshop seeks original contributions on methods and tools for real-time and embedded systems analysis, simulation, modelling and benchmarking. We look for papers describing well-engineered, highly reusable, possibly open, tools that can be used by other researchers. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Simulation of real-time, distributed and embedded systems * Simulation of multi-core, many-core and massively parallel and distributed systems * Modelling, analysis and simulation of Operating Systems components * Tools and methodologies for real-time analysis * Instrumentation of Operating Systems * Tracing methods and overhead analysis * Power consumption models and experimental data for real-time power-aware systems * Middleware components and mechanisms for distributed infrastructures supporting real-time and QoS-aware Cloud Computing applications * Realistic case studies and reusable data sets * Comparative evaluation of existing algorithms PAPER SUBMISSION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submitted papers should follow the IEEE conference format and should not exceed 6 pages in length. Papers may be submitted in either PDF or Postscript format. The papers will be reviewed by the workshop Program Committee. All accepted papers will be made available to all participants one week before the workshop so that contributions can be examined prior to the event. Instructions on how to submit papers will be available on the workshop website: http://retis.sssup.it/waters2011. The best papers from the workshop will be invited for being submitted in extended form to a special issue of the Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture. The extended papers will undergo a new peer-reviewing process. IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Submission deadline: April, 25th 2011 * Acceptance notification: May, 18th 2011 * Camera-ready due: June, 19th 2011 WORKSHOP CHAIRS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Giuseppe Lipari, Tommaso Cucinotta Real-Time Systems Laboratory Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa (Italy) {g.lipari, t.cucinotta} @ sssup.it