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

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

Wednesday, January 27, 1999

3:00 - 3:15 pm Opening Remarks
Louise Moser, University of California, Santa Barbara, Workshop Chair
Bhavani Thuraisingham, The MITRE Corporation, Program Chair

Paper Session 1: 3:15 pm - 5:45 pm
Session Chair: Priya Narasimhan
Real-Time CORBA

Optimization Techniques for Replicating CORBA Objects
X. DeFago, P. Felber and A. Schiper
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Measuring OS Support for Real-Time CORBA ORBs
D. Levine, D. Schmidt and S. Flores-Gaitan
Washington University, St. Louis, USA

A Real-Time, Fault Tolerant CORBA Implementation: A Case Study
D. Locke and T. North
Lockheed Martin Corp., NY, USA

Two CORBA Services Enabling TMO Network Programming
K. Kim , E. Shokri, and B. Zhang
University of California, Irvine, USA

RapidSched: Static Scheduling and Analysis for Real-Time CORBA
V. Fay Wolfe, R. Johnston, P. Kortmann and B. Watson
University of Rhode Island, USA

Reception: 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Thursday, January 28, 1999

8:30 am - 9:15 am
Invited Talk: Real-Time Extensions to the Java Platform A Progress Report

William Foote
Sun Microsystems, Mountain View, California, USA

Paper Session 2: 9:15 am - 10:30 am
Session Chair: Michel Raynal
Real-Time Object-oriented Modeling and Analysis

Dynamic Modeling of Replicated Objects for Dependable Real-Time Distributed Object Systems
V. Kalogeraki, L. Moser and P. Melliar-Smith
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Use Case Modeling for Real-Time Application
D. Zhang
RELTEC Communications Inc., USA

An MVC-based Analysis of Object-oriented System Prototyping for Banking Related GUI Applications
S. Uehara, O. Mizuno, Y. Itou and T. Kikuno
Osaka University, Japan

10:30 am - 10:45 am Break

Paper Session 3: 10:45 am - 12:15 pm
Session Chair: Bran Selic
Real-Time Distributed Objects and Frameworks

Naming Service in the Distributed Object Environment for Adlets
H. Gharib, P. Chen and S. Chang
University of Pittsburgh, USA

The Society of Distributed Objects
E. Nielsen
Sprint LDD, USA

Persistent Enterprise Components: Improving the Availability and Dependability of Legacy Systems
E. Hughes
The MITRE Corporation, USA

Object Replication Support for Building Distributed Object-oriented Collaborative Systems
G. Wu and A. Prakash
University of Michigan, USA

12:15 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch

Paper Session 4: 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Session Chair: Kane Kim
Real-Time Performance and Applications

Distributed Data Parallelisms: Specified in Descartes and Programmed in SequenceL and Java
D. Cooke, University of Texas at El Paso
J. Urban, University of Arizona, USA

Complementary Processing and Its Impact on Software Performance
M. Ceruti, SPAWAR Systems , and R. Trout and T. Lee
Complementary Systems Inc., San Diego, USA

Building Adaptable Real-Time Command and Control Systems Using CORBA
S. Wohlever, R. Freedman, V. Fay Wolfe and J. Maurer
The MITRE Corporation, USA

An Efficient Methodology for Constructing and Managing a 3-D World
T. Wang and P. C-Y Sheu
University of California at Irvine, USA

System Engineering Encapsulation of Reliability Techniques
Y. Lin and S. Battacharya
Arizona State University, USA

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Break

Paper Session 5: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Session Chair: Joerg Kaiser
Testing, Failure Detection and Availability of Object-based Systems

Testing of Dynamic Aspects of Objects
S. Wong, T.S. Dillon, A. Hanish and E. Chang
Dept of Computer Science & Computer Engineering
La Trobe University, Australia

On the Availability of k-Coteries in Networks with Unreliable Nodes and Links
E. Choi, T. Tsuchiya and T. Kikuno
Osaka University, Japan

Probabilistic Analysis of a Group Failure Detection Protocol
R. Bollo, J. Narzul, M. Raynal and F. Tronel
IRISA, Campus de Beaulieu, France

Dependability of On-Line Optimization Techniques in Real-Time Applications
B. Hamidzadeh, University of British Columbia, Canada
S. Shakhar, University of Minnesota, USA

Dinner/Banquet 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Friday, January 29, 1999

8:30 am - 9:15 am
Invited Talk: Quality of Service: A Model for Information

Tom Lawrence
Air Force Laboratory at Rome, New York, USA

Paper Session 6: 9:15 am - 10:45 am
Session Chair: Douglas Locke
Real-Time Scheduling and Algorithms

On-line Prediction of Execution Times -- A Basis for Adaptive Scheduling
M. Gergeleit, E. Nett and J. Fitzner
GMD, Research Division SET-RS, Germany

A 2-Phase N-Modular Redundancy Algorithm
Hitesh Kapoor and I-Ling Yen
University of Texas at Dallas, USA

A Rate-based Message Scheduling Paradigm
H. Tyan and J. Hou, Ohio State University, USA

Using Transition Systems to Formalize a Pattern for Time Dependable Applications
E. Haeusler and M. da Fontoura
Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

10:45 am - 11:00 am Break

11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Panel Discussion:
OORTDS Challenges and Opportunities from Industry Viewpoints

Chair: Doug Jensen, The MITRE Corporation, USA
Panelists:
D. Locke, Lockheed Martin, USA
Rob Rennie, Object Automation, USA
Jay Bayne, Johnson Controls, USA
T. Wheeler, The MITRE Corporation, USA

12:15 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch

Paper Session 7: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Session Chair: Odd Pettersen
Object-oriented Robotics, Automation and Mobile Systems

Object-oriented Robotics
M. Nelson
University of Texas - Pan American, USA

Task Graphs for Mobile Code - An Introduction to ITGS
A. Silberman, New Jersey Institute of Technology
A. Stoyen, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA

Proposal of an Integrated Object-oriented Environment for the Design of Supervisory Software for Real-Time Industrial Automation Systems
L. Becker, W. Pardi Jr. and C. Pereira
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

An Object-oriented Approach to Containing Mobile and Active Codes in Large-Scale Networks
S. Yau and A. Prasad
Arizona State University, USA

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Workshop Discussion: Future Directions for Object-oriented Dependable Real-Time Systems

Moderator: Bhavani Thuraisingham
The MITRE Corporation, USA

3:30 pm - 3:40 pm
Closing Remarks

Louise Moser
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Alternate Papers: Real-Time Multimedia

Digital Multimedia Information Broadcasting System Based on ADSL
B. Liu, Q. Gan and P. Wang
Tsinghau University, China

A Distributed Multimedia Application Framework
Y. Wang, C. Chung and H. Keh
Tamkang University, Taiwan