Objective and Scope
The Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems (WPDRTS) brings
together researchers from different communities in order to fill a number
of gaps. This is vital since it is becoming more and more evident that no
single discipline or method can solve all the problems related to
computer-based real-time applications. Parallel and distributed systems
that are not real-time have many things in common with those that are, such
as formal specification and design of concurrent aspects, communication and
synchronization, exploitation of concurrency, and simulation. However,
there are also considerable differences, such as the focus on maximal
average performance for non-real-time concurrent systems and the focus on
predictability and obeying the deadlines for concurrent real-time systems.
Real-time systems frequently employ parallel and distributed computer
platforms in order to meet timing constraints and to achieve
fault-tolerance and availability. In order to come to a usable solution,
the issues of concurrency and dependability must be considered
simultaneously. However, it is often the case that researchers focus on
problems relevant to concurrent processing while overlooking timeliness.
Similarly, real-time computing research efforts are often focused on
producing techniques that apply only to single-processor systems. Thus, WPDRTS covers many important research areas, which are
bound together by the common focus on parallel and distributed
processing in real-time.
Steering Committee
David Andrews (Chair), University of Arkansas, USA,
dla@engr.uark.edu
Dieter K. Hammer, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands,
hammer@win.tue.nl
E. Douglas Jensen, The MITRE Corporation, USA,
jensen@real-time.org
Guenter Hommel, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany,
hommel@cs.tu-berlin.de
Kinji Mori, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan,
mori@cs.titech.ac.jp
Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA,
prasanna@ganges.usc.edu
Behrooz A. Shirazi, University of Texas-Arlington, USA,
shirazi@cse.uta.edu
Lonnie R. Welch, Ohio University, USA,
welch@ohio.edu
General Chair
Kenji Toda, Electrotechnical Laboratory, Japan
(Email)
toda@etl.go.jp
Program Chairs
Maarten Boasson
(Chair for Europe and Africa)
Department of Computer Science
University of Amsterdam
Kruislaan 403
1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
(Email)
boasson@wins.uva.nl
(Voice) +31 20 525 7510
(Fax) +31 20 525 7490
Yoshiaki Kakuda
(Chair for Asia and Oceania)
Faculty of Information Science
Hiroshima City University
(Email)
kakuda@ce.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp
(Voice) +81 82 830 1696
(Fax) +81 82 830 1792
Sang Hyuk Son
(Chair for the Americas)
Department of Computer Science
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22901
(Email)
son@cs.virginia.edu
(Voice) (804) 982-2205
(Fax) (804) 982-2214
Program Committee
Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Virginia, USA
Giorgio Buttazzo, University of Pavia, Italy
Max Geerling, Chess IT, Haarlem, The Netherlands
Jorgen Hansson, University of Skovde, Sweden
Kenji Ishida, Hiroshima City University, Japan
Michael B. Jones, Microsoft Research, USA
Tei-Wei Kuo, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Victor Lee, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Jane Liu, University of Illinois, USA
Doug Locke, Lockheed Martin, USA
G. Manimaran, Iowa State University, USA
Tim Martin, Compaq Computer Corporation, USA
Sang Lyul Min, Seoul National University, Korea
Al Mok, U Texas at Austin, USA
C. Siva Ram Murthy, IIT Madras, India
Hidenori Nakazato, OKI, Japan
Joseph Kee-Yin Ng, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Isabelle Puaut, INSA/IRISA, France
Ragunathan Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Franklin Reynolds, Nokia Research Center, USA
Wilhelm Rossak, FSU Jena, Informatik, Germany
Shiro Sakata, NEC, Japan
Manas Saksena, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Lui Sha, University of Illinois, USA
Kang Shin, University of Michigan, USA
Hiroaki Takada, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan
Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California at Irvine, USA
Wei Zhao, Texas A&M University, USA
Publicity Chair
Amy Apon,
University of Arkansas, USA
Send comments or suggestions to
aapon@comp.uark.edu. Last updated March 3, 2000.