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                          Call for Papers

   The 17th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium

                             RTAS'11
                        April 11 - 14, 2011
                         Chicago, IL, USA

                        http://www.rtas.org/

                 Paper submission site is now open!

          Submission Deadline: October 8, 2010 (Hard deadline)
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The IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium
(RTAS) is a highly selective forum for presentation and discussion of
original research papers, covering all aspects of real-time and
embedded computing theory and practice.  RTAS'11, the seventeenth in a
series of annual conferences sponsored by IEEE, will be held in
Chicago, IL, USA, as part of the Cyber-Physical Systems Week (CPS
Week), April 11-14, 2011.  CPS Week 2011 will bring together five
leading conferences, namely the International Conference on
Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN'11), the International
Conference on Hybrid Systems (HSCC'11), the International Conference
on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS'11), the Conference on Languages,
Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES'11), and RTAS'11.

RTAS 2011 invites papers describing original contributions both to
the state of art and the state of practice in the broad field of
embedded and open real-time systems and computing.  The scope of RTAS
2011 will consist of the traditional core area of real-time and
embedded systems infrastructure and theory, as well as two additional
areas of special emphasis (specialized tracks): Hardware/Software
Integration and Co-design, Wireless Sensor Networks.

Core Area: Real-Time and Embedded Systems.

This thrust continues from previous years with a focus on embedded and
real-time systems. Papers should describe original contributions to
infrastructure, system support, or theoretical foundations for
real-time or embedded computing.  Submissions focusing on system
design, implementation, and performance evaluation, as well as
industrial experience papers, are encouraged.  Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to: networks of embedded computers;
real-time communication; real-time resource management and scheduling;
operating system and middleware support for real-time or embedded
systems; energy and temperature management; QoS management; multimedia
embedded systems; security, dependability and reliability for
real-time embedded systems; real-time system modeling and analysis;
composability; control theoretical approaches and performance feedback
control; formal methods, WCET analysis; software engineering and
programming methodologies for real-time embedded systems; distributed
real-time information and database systems.

Area A: Hardware/Software Integration and Co-Design.

This track focuses on design methodologies and tools for
hardware/software integration and co-design of modern embedded systems
for real-time applications. Such systems are increasingly complex and
heterogeneous, both in terms of architectures and applications they
need to support, so new approaches aimed at their efficient design and
optimization are in great demand. General topics relevant to this
track include various architecture- and software-related issues of
embedded systems design which include, but are not limited to,
architecture description languages and tools, WCET analysis, software
architectures, design space exploration, synthesis and
optimization. Of special interest are SoC design for real-time
applications, special purpose functional units, specialized memory
structures, multi-core chips and communication aspects, FPGA
simulation and prototyping, software simulation and compilation for
novel architectures and applications, as well as power, timing and
predictability analyses.

Area B: Wireless Sensor Networks.

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) has emerged as a new information
paradigm for distributed real-time and embedded systems. Example
applications include environment monitoring, emergency response,
critical infrastructure protection, medical care, intelligent
transportation, and smart manufacturing. The WSN track aims at
fostering interaction and collaboration of researchers and exchanging
new ideas in various aspects of sensor network research. The WSN track
of RTAS is open to submissions addressing any major aspect of sensor
networks. Submissions concerning real-time and embedded issues are
encouraged, but not required. Authors are invited to submit original
works that demonstrate current research on various aspects of wireless
sensor network systems.  Topics of interest include (but are not
limited to): sensor network applications and deployment experiences;
sensor network architectures and protocols; programming abstractions;
operating systems and middleware for sensor networks; real-time
operation issues in sensor networks; distributed networked sensing;
actuation and control; power and energy management/harvesting;
wide-area sensing services; detection, classification, and estimation;
localization and time synchronization; security and privacy.


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

All papers must be submitted electronically in pdf format. Submissions
can be made through the RTAS'11 web site (http://www.rtas.org).  The
material must be unpublished and not under submission elsewhere.
Submissions should be no more than 10 pages in IEEE two-column, 10pt
format. Papers that do not comply with these restrictions may not be
considered for review.

A special Work in Progress (WiP) session will be organized and
announced later. This session will be for the presentation of on-going
and recent work.


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline: October 8, 2010, 23:59 PST  (HARD deadline)
Acceptance Decisions: December 17, 2010
Camera-Ready Paper Due: January 21, 2011

Please note: The submission deadline is hard as per IEEE TC-RTS
policy; it will not be extended under any circumstances.


ORGANIZERS

General Chair: Marco Caccamo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
USA

Program Chair: Hakan Aydin, George Mason University, USA

Special  Track Chairs: Hardware/Software Integration and Co-design
   X. Sharon Hu, University of Notre Dame, USA

Wireless Sensor Networks
   Eduardo Tovar,  CISTER/ISEP, Portugal

Work-in-Progress Chair: Jian-Jia Chen, KIT, Germany

Finance Chair: Christopher Gill, Washington University in St. Louis, USA

Web Chair:
Dakai Zhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

Ex-Officio: Raj Rajkumar (IEEE TC-RTS Chair), Carnegie Mellon University,
USA

(For more details, please visit http://www.rtas.org)







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