ISORC 2002
The 5th IEEE International Symposium on Object-oriented Real-time distributed Computing
April 29 – May 1, 2002
Crystal City, VA, USA
Sponsor:  IEEE Computer Society TC on Distributed Processing 
Co-operating sponsors: OMG, IFIP WG 10.4
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SCOPE 

This is the fifth IEEE Computer Society symposium dealing with the rapidly expanding field of object-oriented real-time distributed computing (ORC) technology.  The increased interest in this area means that the symposium has outgrown the capacity of an attendance-limited workshop.  ISORC was created with the goal of becoming an exemplary symposium series characterized by a spirit of openness, where diverse views and new approaches can be freely discussed.  
  
The principal theme of ISORC is the use of the object-oriented computing paradigm - which has prevailed in many non-real-time applications in the past decade - in a wide variety of real-time applications. 
  
Papers pertaining to all aspects of ORC are sought, including but not limited to the following: 
  
Programming and system engineering:  ORC paradigms, object models, languages, RT Corba, RT DCOM/.NET, RT RMI, RT Java, UML, application programming interface (API), specification, design, verification, validation, testing, maintenance, etc.   

Distributed computing and communication infrastructures:  Internet QoS (quality of service), real-time communication, networked computing platforms, protocols, inter-operability, security, fault tolerance, virtual subnets for ORC  

System software:  real-time kernels and operating systems, middleware support for ORC, QoS management, extensibility, synchronization, resource allocation, scheduling  

Applications: embedded systems (automotive, avionics, consumer electronics, building systems, etc), multimedia processing, Web-based applications, real-time object-oriented simulations  

System evaluation: output accuracy, timeliness, dependability, overhead  
  
Papers dealing with other issues that are related to the specification, design, implementation, and evaluation of ORC systems are also welcome.  To promote dialogues between researchers and users of ORC, contributions from industry are particularly welcome.  
  
The Program Committee will use the following guidelines in evaluating the submitted papers and composing the technical program:  

Papers presenting practical techniques, ideas, or evaluations will be favored.  Experience reports or experimental developments are particularly welcome.  Originality will not be interpreted too narrowly. Papers that are based on severely unrealistic assumptions will not be accepted however mathematically or logically sophisticated the discussion may be. 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 

Research Papers 

Papers should describe original work, and be 20 double-spaced pages (6,000 words) or less in length. 

Industry Papers 

Industrial papers and practitioner reports, describing experiences of using object-oriented technology in real-time application or tool development projects, are an integral part of the technical program of ISORC.  A majority of them are expected to be shorter and less formal than research papers.  They should clearly identify, and discuss in detail, the issues that represent the main contribution.  Reports with project metrics supporting their claims are particularly sought, as well as those that show both benefits and drawbacks of the approaches used in the given project.  Short synopses (about 5 double-spaced pages in length) of substantial real-time applications are also invited, and should contain enough information for the program committee to understand the scope of the project and evaluate the novelty of the problem or approach. All accepted submissions will appear in the proceedings. 

DEADLINE 

November 27, 2001 

Symposium Co-Chairs: 

Ray Paul 
US Department of Defense, USA 
Ray.Paul@osd.pentagon.mil 
 
Michel Raynal 
University of Rennes, France 
Michel.Raynal@irisa.fr 
 
Makoto Takizawa 
Tokyo Denki University, Japan 
taki@takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp 

Program Committee Co-Chairs: 

Luiz Bacellar 
United Technologies Research Center, USA 
bacellar@utrc.utc.com 
 
Peter Puschner 
Technical University of Vienna, Austria 
peter@vmars.tuwien.ac.at 
 
Seongsoo Hong 
Seoul National University, Korea 
sshong@redwood.snu.ac.kr