We apologize for multiple receipts. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eighth Real-Time Linux Workshop October 12-15, 2006 Lanzhou University - SISE Tianshui South Road 222 Lanzhou, Gansu 730000 P.R.China General Following the meetings of developers and users at the previous 7 successful real-time Linux workshops held in Vienna, Orlando, Milano, Boston, and Valencia, Singapore, Lille, the Real-Time Linux Workshop for 2006 will come back to Asia again, to be held at the School for Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, in Lanzhou China. Embedded and real-time Linux is rapidly gaining traction in the Asia Pacific region. Embedded systems in both automation/control and entertainment moving to 32/64bit systems, opening the door for the use of full featured OS like GNU/Linux on COTS based systems. With real-time capabilities being a common demand for embedded systems the soft and hard real-time variants are an important extension to the versatile GNU/Linux GPOS. Authors are invited to submit original work dealing with general topics related to real-time Linux research, experiments and case studies, as well as issues of integration of real-time and embedded Linux. A special focus will be on industrial case studies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Modifications and variants of the GNU/Linux operating system extending its real-time capabilities, * Contributions to real-time Linux variants, drivers and extensions, * User-mode real-time concepts, implementation and experience, * Real-time Linux applications, in academia, research and industry, * Work in progress reports, covering recent developments, * Educational material on real-time Linux, * Tools for embedding Linux or real-time Linux and embedded real-time Linux applications, * RTOS core concepts, RT-safe synchronization mechanisms, * RT-safe interaction of RT and non RT components, * IPC mechanisms in RTOS, * Analysis and Benchmarking methods and results of real-time GNU/Linux variants, * Debugging techniques and tools, both for code and temporal debugging of core RTOS components, drivers and real-time applications, * Real-time related extensions to development environments. Further information: EN: http://www.realtimelinuxfoundation.org/events/rtlws-2006/ws.html CN: http://dslab.lzu.edu.cn/rtlws8/index.html Awarded papers The Programme Committee will award a best paper in the category Real- Time Systems Theory. This best paper will be invited for publication to the Real-Time Systems Journal, RTSJ. The Programme Committee will award a best paper in the category Real- Time Systems Application. This best paper will be invited for publication to the Dr Dobbs Journal. Moreover, the publication of the other papers in a special issue of Dr Dobbs Journal is in discussion. Abstract submission In order register an abstract, please go to: http://www.realtimelinuxfoundation.org/rtlf/register-abstract.html Venue Lanzhou University Information Building, School of Information Science and Engineering, Laznhou University, http://www.lzu.edu.cn/. Registration In order to participate to the workshop, please register on the registration page at: http://www.realtimelinuxfoundation.org/rtlf/register-participant.html Accommodation Please refer to the Lanzhou hotel page for accomodation at http://dslab.lzu.edu.cn/rtlws8/hotels/hotels.htm Travel information For travel information and directions how to get to Lanzhou from an international airport in China please refer to: http://www.realtimelinuxfoundation.org/events/rtlws-2006/ Important dates August 28: Abstract submission September 15: Notification of acceptance September 29: Final paper Pannel Participants: o Roberto Bucher - Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland, RTAI/ADEOS/RTAI-Lab. o Alfons Crespo Lorente - University of Valenica, Spain,Departament d'Informtica de Sistemes i Computadors, XtratuM. o Herman Haertig - Technical University Dresden, Germany,Institute for System Architecture, L4/Fiasco/L4Linux. o Nicholas Mc Guire - Lanzhou University, P.R. China, Distributed and Embedded Systems Lab, RTLinux/GPL. o Douglas Niehaus - University of Kansas, USA, Information and Telecommunication Technology Center, RT-preempt. Organization committee: * Prof. Li LIAN (Co-Chair), (SISE, Lanzhou University, CHINA) * Xiaoping ZHANG, LZU, CHINA * Jiming WANG, PKU, CHINA * Zhibing LI, ECNU, China * Prof. Nicholas MCGUIRE (Co-Chair), Real Time Linux Foundation (RTLF) * Dr. Peter WURMSDOBLER, Real Time Linux Foundation (RTLF) * Dr. Qingguo ZHOU, (Distributed and Embedded Systems Lab, Lanzhou University, CHINA) Program committee: * Prof. Li Xing (Co-Chair), (Tsinghua University, CHINA) * Dr. Zhang Yunquan, (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Science, CHINA) * Dr. Chen Yu, (Tsinghua University, CHINA) * Dr. Chen Maoke, (Tsinghua University, CHINA) * Dr. Yu Guanghui, (Dalian University of Techonolgy, CHINA) * Prof. Dr. Paolo Mantegazza, (Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aerospaziale, ITALY) * Prof. Dr. Bernhard Zagar, (Johannes Kepler Universitt Linz, AUSTRIA) * Prof. Dr. Hermann Hrtig, (Technische Universitt Dresden, Fakultt Informatik, GERMANY) * Prof. Tei-Wei Kuo, (National Taiwan University, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering,TAIWAN) * Anthony Skjellum, (Mississippi State University, USA) * Ing. Pavel Pisa, (Czech Technical University, CZECH REPUBLIC) * Prof. Alfons Crespo, (Universidad Politcnica de Valencia, SPAIN) * Dr. Qingguo Zhou, (Lanzhou University, CHINA) * PhD. Jaesoon Choi, (National Cancer Center, KOREA) * Prof. Douglas Niehaus, (Kansas University, USA) * Dr. Michael Hohmuth, (Technische Universitt Dresden, GERMANY) * Prof. Thambipillai Srikanthan, (Nanyang Technological University, SINGAPORE) * Zhengting He, (University of Texas, USA) * Martin Terbuc, (Universitz of Maribor, SLOVENIA) * Yoshinori Sato, (the H8/300 project, JAPAN) * Yuqing Lan, (China Standard SoftwareCo.,LTD, CHINA) * Dr. Peter Wurmsdobler, (Real Time Linux Foundation, USA) * Prof. Nicholas Mc Guire (Co-Chair), (Lanzhou University, CHINA) Workshop organizers: * School for Information Science and Engineering (SISE) , Lanzhou University , CHINA * IBM China, Xi'an Branch , China * Haag Embedded Systems, Austira Peter Wurmsdobler <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Nicholas Mc Guire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxx> Zhou Qingguo <zhouqg@xxxxxxxxxx> - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html