OSPERT 2010 Sixth International Workshop on Operating Systems Platforms for Embedded Real-Time Applications Brussels, Belgum, 2010 July 6, 2010 in conjunction with the 22nd Euromicro Intl Conference on Real-Time Systems Brussels, Belgium, July 7-9, 2010 Research on innovative RTOS architectures and services is a hot topic. Developers of Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) are faced with many challenges arising from two opposing needs: extreme optimisation of resource usage (processor, energy, network bandwidth, etc.) and dynamic configuration, flexible scheduling, component-based development and deployment, etc. While real-time systems continue to be used in many small embedded applications, real-time services are being introduced and used in general-purpose operating systems. Notable examples are the various flavours of Linux that provide support to time-sensitive applications. This workshop is intended as a forum for researchers and practitioners of RTOS to discuss the recent advances in RTOS technology and the challenges that lie ahead. Topics include but are not limited to: * Dynamic reconfiguration and upgrading; * Support for component based development; * Scalability, from very small scale embedded systems to full-fledged OSes; * Flexible scheduling; * Quality of Service guarantees; * Real-Time on Linux; * Interaction with reconfigurable hardware; * Support for embedded multiprocessor architectures; * Coordinated management of multiple resources; * Security and fault tolerance for embedded real-time systems; * Power-aware operating systems. The workshop will consist of submitted papers as well as invited presentations about academic state-of-the-art and industrial state-of-practice within the area. Submission of Papers ==================== People who would like to participate in this event are asked to submit a 6-10 page paper (PS or PDF) via the workshop submission system (TBA on the workshop webpage). Upon acceptance, a corrected version of the paper should be prepared and submitted. All papers will be made available to all participants a week before the workshop so that contributions can be examined prior to the workshop. The workshop fosters a highly interactive format of presentations combined with ample time for in-depth discussions. There will be a small charge for workshop registration (more details will be announced later). See the Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems website http:/ecrts10.ecrts.org/ for information on the venue, hotel reservations, and the city of Brussels. Important Dates =============== * Paper submission deadline: April 4 * Notification of acceptance: May 9 * Submission of final papers: June 9 * Broadcast of papers to attendees: June 21 * OSPERT Workshop: June 30 * Euromicro Conf. on RTS: July 7 - 9 Workshop Chairs =============== Stefan M. Petters CISTER, ISEP-IPP, Portugal Peter Zijlstra Red Hat Linux, Netherlands Program Committee David Andrews, University of Arkansas Fayetteville, USA Herrmann Haertig, TU Dresden, Germany Johannes Helander, Microsoft, Germany Neil Audsley, University of York, UK Peter Chubb, NICTA, Australia Robert Kaiser, FH Bingen, Germany Steve Goddard, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html