Fourth International Workshop on
Object-oriented Real-time Dependable Systems (WORDS'99)

January 27-29, 1999
Radisson Hotel
Santa Barbara, California, USA

Sponsored by:
IEEE Computer Society
TC on Distributed Processing

THEME

This workshop, which is the fourth 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 these three technology fields are invited. Industrial applications such as multimedia interactive services that include such integrations are also encouraged. The workshop is intended to be a forum for exchange of newly recognized research issues, advanced promising formulations, and research progress reports. These may be of a conceptual, theoretical, innovative design or experimental nature, and should represent technological or scientific advances. The workshop will have a limited number of participants, around 50, of whom about half will be invited participants. A selection of appropriate papers will be recommended for journal or magazine publication.

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 specification
Integration of time into formal object models
Tools for structuring real-time objects
OS support for object-oriented systems with real-time or dependability requirements
Quality of Service for real-time and fault-tolerant systems
Application of agent technology to dependable systems
System resource allocation for real-time or dependable objects
Testing and evaluation of temporal and dependability properties
Database architectures for real-time or dependable services
Multimedia and network applications
Object-oriented, real-time simulations

CONFERENCE RESERVATIONS

IEEE Members $350.00
Non-Members $400.00
Full-Time Student Members $200.00

Please make out your checks to WORDS'99 and send them to:

Professor Douglas Schmidt
Department of Computer Science
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Washington University
Bryan Hall, Room 503
Campus Box 1045
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4899

HOTEL RESERVATIONS

Radisson Hotel
1111 East Cabrillo Boulevard
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
Telephone: (805) 963-0744
Fax: (805) 962-5555

Wednesday, January 27, 1999 and Thursday, January 29, 1999: Single/Double $109

Friday, January 29, 1999 and Saturday, January 30, 1999: Single/Double $149

Oceanside surcharge: \$40.00, Extra person charge: $20.00

The \$109.00 rate will apply at least three days prior to the meeting dates \\ based on availability to those attending the workshop.

For hotel reservations, telephone (800) 643-1994 or (805) 963-0744 and reference IEEE Computer Society WORDS'99

Deadline for hotel reservations: Wednesday, January 6, 1999, 5pm Pacific Standard Time

TRANSPORTATION

Directions to the Radisson by Car:

From Los Angeles Airport:

Take Century Boulevard to 405 North, about 2 miles.
Exit in second lane from right.
Take 405 North to 101 North, signed to Ventura, about 10 miles.
Exit in second lane from right.
Take 101 North through Ventura to Santa Barbara, about 75 miles.
Exit at Milpas Street. At the lights at the bottom of the ramp, turn left onto Milpas Street under the freeway towards the ocean.
At the beach, after about a half mile, turn left onto Cabrillo.
Then first left and first right, and the Radisson is on the right.

From Santa Barbara Airport:

Turn to right out of the airport towards the ocean, about 1 mile.
Pass under bridge and take 217 South to 101 South, about 2 miles.
Take 101 South through Santa Barbara to Milpas Street, 8 miles.
Exit at Milpas Street. At the lights at the bottom of the ramp, turn right onto Milpas Street towards the ocean.
At the beach, after about a half mile, turn left onto Cabrillo.
Then first left and first right, and the Radisson is on the right.

The cost of a cab, single occupancy, from Santa Barbara airport to the Radisson Hotel, should be about $23 to $24.


General Chair: Prof. Louise Moser Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA Phone: 805-893-4897 Fax: 805-893-3262 Email: moser@ece.ucsb.edu Program Chair: Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham The MITRE Corporation Bedford, MA, USA Phone: 781-271-8873 Fax: 781-271-2780 Email: thura@mitre.org Treasurer: Prof. Doug Schmidt Washington University, St. Louis Local Arrangements Chair: Prof. Michael Melliar-Smith University of California, Santa Barbara Publicity Chair: Prof. Phillip C-Y Sheu University of California, Irvine Steering Committee Kane Kim, UC-Irvine, USA (Chair) Hermann Kopetz, Technische U. Wien, Austria	Program Committee S. K. Chang, U. of Pittsburgh, USA Tharam Dillon, La Trobe U., Australia Arif Ghafoor, Purdue U., USA Michel Gien, Chorus Systems, France P. Gopinath, Honeywell, USA Tohru Kikuno, Osaka U., Japan Moon H. Kim, Konkuk U., Korea Hermann Kopetz, Technische U. Wien, Austria Thomas Lawrence, Air Force Lab, USA Insup Lee, U. of Pennsylvania, USA K. J. Lin, UC-Irvine, USA Kinji Mori, Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan Cuong Nguyen, NSWC, USA Raymond Paul, DoD, USA Carlos Pereira, UFRGS, Brazil Krithi Ramamritham, U. of Mass., USA O. S. van Roosmalen, E.U.T., Netherlands Eltefaat Shokri, SoHaR, USA Richard Soley, OMG, USA Alex Stoyenko, NJIT, USA Chittur Subbaraman, Microsoft, USA Anand Tripathi, NSF, USA Jeffrey Tsai, U. of Illinois-Chicago, USA W. T. Tsai, U. of Minnesota, USA Susan Urban, Arizona State U., USA Lonnie Welch, U. of Texas at Arlington, USA Doug Wells, OSF, USA Thomas Wheeler, MITRE, USA I-Ling Yen, U. of Texas, Dallas, USA

General Chair:: Prof. Louise Moser
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
Phone: 805-893-4897
Fax: 805-893-3262
Email: moser@ece.ucsb.edu

Program Chair:: Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham
The MITRE Corporation
Bedford, MA, USA
Phone: 781-271-8873
Fax: 781-271-2780
Email: thura@mitre.org

Treasurer:: Prof. Doug Schmidt
Washington University, St. Louis

Local Arrangements Chair:: Prof. Michael Melliar-Smith
University of California, Santa Barbara

Publicity Chair:: Prof. Phillip C-Y Sheu
University of California, Irvine

Steering Committee: Kane Kim, UC-Irvine, USA (Chair)
Hermann Kopetz, Technische U. Wien, Austria

Program Committee: S. K. Chang, U. of Pittsburgh, USA
Tharam Dillon, La Trobe U., Australia
Arif Ghafoor, Purdue U., USA
Michel Gien, Chorus Systems, France
P. Gopinath, Honeywell, USA
Tohru Kikuno, Osaka U., Japan
Moon H. Kim, Konkuk U., Korea
Hermann Kopetz, Technische U. Wien, Austria
Thomas Lawrence, Air Force Lab, USA
Insup Lee, U. of Pennsylvania, USA
K. J. Lin, UC-Irvine, USA
Kinji Mori, Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan
Cuong Nguyen, NSWC, USA
Raymond Paul, DoD, USA
Carlos Pereira, UFRGS, Brazil
Krithi Ramamritham, U. of Mass., USA
O. S. van Roosmalen, E.U.T., Netherlands
Eltefaat Shokri, SoHaR, USA
Richard Soley, OMG, USA
Alex Stoyenko, NJIT, USA
Chittur Subbaraman, Microsoft, USA
Anand Tripathi, NSF, USA
Jeffrey Tsai, U. of Illinois-Chicago, USA
W. T. Tsai, U. of Minnesota, USA
Susan Urban, Arizona State U., USA
Lonnie Welch, U. of Texas at Arlington, USA
Doug Wells, OSF, USA
Thomas Wheeler, MITRE, USA
I-Ling Yen, U. of Texas, Dallas, USA

Fourth International Workshop on Object-oriented Real-time Dependable Systems (WORDS'99)

January 27-29, 1999 Radisson Hotel Santa Barbara, California, USA

Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society TC on Distributed Processing

Fourth International Workshop on
Object-oriented Real-time Dependable Systems (WORDS'99)

January 27-29, 1999
Radisson Hotel
Santa Barbara, California, USA

Sponsored by:
IEEE Computer Society
TC on Distributed Processing