Tenth International
Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems

WPDRTS 2002

to be held in conjunction with IPDPS 2002, April 15-16, 2002 Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Workshop Program

General Chair
  Scott Brandt
  University of California
  Santa Cruz, USA
  sbrandt@cse.ucsc.edu

Program Co-Chairs
   Barb Pfarr
   NASA Goddard, USA,
   bpfarr@pop500.gsfc.nasa.gov

  Armin Zimmerman
  Technische Universität
  Berlin
  azi@cs.tu-berlin.de

Steering Committee

Program Committee

Special Session: This year
  there will be a special
  session on autonomous
  hot-spot convergence!
  The problem statement
  is available here.

IPDPS2002 Conference Link

Publicity Chair
   Amy Apon
  University of Arkansas, USA
  aapon@uark.edu

Real-time and embedded systems have rapidly advanced from simple application-specific embedded systems handling periodic updates from sensors to include large distributed heterogeneous systems designed for asynchronous and dynamic operation with high degrees of flexibility, autonomy, quality of service, and reliability.

The International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems is a forum for the presentation and discussion of approaches, research findings, and experiences in the applications of large-scale parallel and distributed real-time systems. Of interest are both the development of relevant technology (e.g.: hardware, middleware, tools) as well as the applications built using such technology.

WPDRTS brings together industry, academia, and government researchers to discuss and exchange ideas in the area of large-scale parallel and distributed real-time and embedded systems and to explore the special needs and issues in applying these technologies to defense and commercial applications.

Topics of Interest:

  • Algorithms and Applications: addressing computing needs of large-scale parallel and distributed real-time and embedded military and commercial applications areas such as signal/image processing, advanced vision/robotic systems, smart-sensor-based systems, industrial automation/optimization, vehicle guidance, command and control, databases.
  • Networking: in-the-large application programming models/API's, partitioning/mapping, system integration, debugging and testing tools.
  • Programming Environments: software design, programming, and parallelization methods/tools for DSP-based, reconfigurable, and mixed-computation-paradigm architectures.
  • Operating Systems and Middleware: distributed middleware services needs (e.g. QoS, object distribution), configurable/optimal OS features needs, scheduling, runtime systems, resource management
  • Architectures: special-purpose processors, packaging, mixed-computation-paradigm architectures, size/weight/power modeling and management.
  • Modeling, Analysis and System Specification: new paradigms, benchmarking, tools and environments, formal methods, object orientation, validation, languages, simulation, high assurance systems
  • Stochastic and Dynamic Real-Time Systems