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WORDS 97

Third International Workshop on Object-oriented Real-time Dependable Systems

February 6-7, 1997 Balboa Bay Club Newport Beach, California, U.S.A. Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society TC on Distributed Processing

THEME

This workshop, which is the third in the highly successful WORDS series, continues its theme in integrating three computer system engineering technologies (CSETs): Object- oriented CSET, Real-time CSET, and Dependable CSET. For inclusion in the workshop program, contributions that present significant advances in integrating any two of the three component technology fields are invited. Industrial applications such as multimedia interactive services that facilitate such integrations are also encouraged to be addressed. The workshop is intended to be a forum for substantial exchange of newly recognized research issues, advanced promising formulations and research progress reports which may be of conceptual, theoretical, innovative design, or experimental nature, and represent technological or scientific advances. The workshop will have a limited number of participants, probably not exceeding 50, of whom about a half will be invited participants. A selection of appropriate papers will be recommended for publication in a special issue of IJSKE (the International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering) and another magazine.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics, as they relate to at least two of the three CSET's (object-oriented CSET, real-time CSET, and dependable CSET) are of interest to the Workshop. Some example topics are: - Object-oriented real-time system requirement and specification - Integration of time into formal object models - Tools for structuring active and/or real-time objects - OS support for object-oriented systems with real-time or dependability requirements - System resource allocation for real-time or dependable objects - Testing and evaluation of temporal and dependability properties - Database architecture for real-time or highly dependable services - Multimedia and network applications - Object-oriented, real-time simulations - Interoperability - Experience on automobile, avionics, industrial and medical applications Other related issues that are important to the design and implementation of object- oriented real-time dependable systems are all welcome.

PAPER SUBMISSIONS

Position papers are solicited from potential participants of this workshop. Papers must be written in English and printed using at least 11-point type and 1-1/2 line spacing. (1) Papers from potential participants who are interested in detailed presentation of research results of 3-15 page length in manuscript, including figures. (2) Potential participants who prefer to serve as panelists or commentators may submit position papers of 1 - 3 page length. Authors are requested to submit five hard copies of their manuscript, and also email the abstract and the full addresses of the author(s), before October 20, 1996 to: Prof. Phillip C-Y Sheu Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California Irvine, CA 92697, USA +1-714-824-2660 +1-714-824-2321 (fax) sheu@ece.uci.edu Authors will be notified of the program committee decision by November 20, 1996. The revised copy for inclusion in the preliminary proceedings (not to be treated as an official publication but rather a collection of working papers) to be distributed at the workshop will be due December 15, 1996. The final camera-ready copy for the IEEE Workshop Proceedings will be due 3 weeks after the workshop. We expect that the proceedings will be printed by April 30, 1997. Proposal for Panel Sessions are also solicited.

WORKSHOP GENERAL CO-CHAIRS

Thomas Lawrence USAF ROME Laboratory U.S.A. lawrence@cliff.cs.rl.af.mil Edgar Nett GMD Germany nett@gmd.de

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Richard Soley OMG U.S.A. soley@omg.org Phillip C-Y Sheu University of California, Irvine U.S.A. sheu@ece.uci.edu

CO-TREASURERS

Luiz Bacellar, UTRC, USA Kane Kim, University of California, Irvine, USA

LOCAL-ARRANGEMENTS CO-CHAIRS

Eltefaat Shokri, SoHaR, USA Taehyung Wang, University of California, Irvine, USA

PUBLICITY COMMITTEE

Dock Allen, Computing Devices International, USA Farokh Bastani, University of Houston, USA Arif Ghafoor, Purdue University, USA Dieter Hammer, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Tohru Kikuno, Osaka University, Japan K.J. Lin, University of California, Irvine, USA Cuong Nguyen, NSWC, USA Raymond Paul, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, USA (Chair) Alex Stoyenko, NJIT, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

S.K. Chang, University of Pittsburgh, USA Tharam Dillon, La Trobe University, Australia Michel Gien, Chorus Systems, France P. Gopinath, Honeywell, USA Moon H. Kim, Konkuk University, Korea Hermann Kopetz, Technische Universitat Wien, Austria Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania, USA Kinji Mori, Hitachi SDL, Japan Carlos Pereira, UFRGS, Brazil Krithi Ramamritham, University of Massachusetts, USA O.S. van Roosmalen, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Bhavani Thuraisingham, MITRE Corporation, USA Anand Tripathi, NSF, USA Jeffrey Tsai, University of Illinois-Chicago, USA W.T. Tsai, University of Minnesota, USA Joseph Urban, Arizona State University, USA Lonnie Welch, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Doug Wells, OSF, USA I-Ling Yen, Michigan State University, USA

STEERING COMMITTEE

Kane Kim, University of California, Irvine (Chair) Hermann Kopetz, Technische Universitat Wien, Austria