                  CALL FOR PAPERS

     The 18th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology
          and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2012)
             Beijing Friendship Hotel
        Beijing, China, April 16-19 2012

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QUICK LINK:
   Web site: http://www.rtas.org

IMPORTANT DATES:
   Submission Deadline:      October 14, 2011 (firm, no extensions)
   Acceptance Notification: December 10, 2011

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RTAS'12, the eighteenth in a series of annual conferences sponsored
by IEEE, will be held in Beijing, China, as part of the Cyber-Physical
Systems Week (CPSWeek) between the 16th and the 19th of April, 2012.
CPS Week 2012 will bring together four leading conferences, the
International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
(IPSN'12), the International Conference on Hybrid Systems (HSCC'12),
the International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS'12),
and RTAS'12.

RTAS 2012 invites papers describing original systems and applications,
case studies, methodologies and applied algorithms that contribute to
the state of practice in the broad field of embedded and open real-time
systems and computing. The scope of RTAS 2012 will consist of four tracks:
Applications, Systems, RTOSs and Tools, Applied Methodologies and
Foundations, Hardware/Software Integration and Co-design, and Wireless
Sensor Networks.

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Track 1: Applications, Systems, RTOSs, and Tools.
Papers submitted to this track are aimed at presenting specific systems
and implementations. They must introduce the application context and
clearly define motivating application examples. Authors must introduce
the related research challenges and illustrate the theoretical foundations
of the methodology adopted in the considered application/tool/RTOS,
with applicability. Papers in this session must include a section on
experimental results with a real implementation of the proposed system
or applicability to an industrial case study or working system.
The experiment/use case discussion must highlight problems/bottlenecks
encountered in the implementation and show the measurements/evaluations
on the prototype.
Simulation-based results are acceptable when the authors motivate
the impossibility of an actual system development.

Track 2: Applied Methodologies and Foundations.
Papers submitted to this track are aimed at basic methodologies and
algorithms that are applicable to real systems to solve specific problems.
Authors must introduce the application context and clearly define motivating
application examples.
The system models and any assumptions used in the derivation of the results
must be applicable to real systems and reflect actual needs. Papers must
also include a section on experimental results, preferably on real case
studies or models of real systems, although the use of synthetic workloads
and models is acceptable if motivated. Papers failing to address applicability
as defined in the previous guidelines are not considered as acceptable.

Track 3: Wireless Sensor Networks.
Real-time communication and computation over sensor networks are enabling
sensing/control/actuator networks across emergency response, critical
infrastructure protection, medical care, intelligent transportation, and
smart manufacturing. Topics of interest for this track include
(but are not limited to): sensor network applications and deployment
experiences; real-time operating systems and middleware for sensor networks;
real-time operation issues in sensor networks; distributed networked sensing;
actuation and control; power and energy management/harvesting; wide-area
sensing services; detection, classification, and estimation; localization
and time synchronization; security and privacy.

Track 4: Hardware-Software Co-design.
This track focuses on design methodologies and tools for hardware/software
integration and co-design of modern embedded systems for real-time
applications.
General topics relevant to this track include, but are not limited to,
architecture description languages and tools, WCET analysis, software
architectures, design space exploration, synthesis and optimization.
Of special interest are SoC design for real-time applications, special
purpose functional units, specialized memory structures, multi-core chips
and communication aspects, FPGA simulation and prototyping, software
simulation
and compilation for novel architectures and applications, as well as power,
timing and predictability analyses.

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SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format.
Submissions can be made through the RTAS'12 web site
(http://www.rtas.org).
The material must be unpublished and not under submission elsewhere.
Submissions should be no more than 10 pages in IEEE two-column, 10pt format.
Papers that do not comply with these restrictions may not be
considered for review.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline:            October 14, 2011 (firm, no extensions)
Acceptance Notification:        December 10, 2011
Conference:                     April 16-19, 2012

ORGANIZERS

General Chairs:
   Hakan Aydin, George Mason Univ., USA
   Yunhao Liu, Tsinghua University, China

Program Chair:
   Marco Di Natale, Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Italy

Track 1: Applications, Systems, RTOS and Tools:
   Rich West, Boston University, USA

Track 2: Applied Methodologies and Foundations:
   Marco Di Natale, Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Italy

Track 3: Wireless Sensor Networks:
   Rahul Mangharam, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Track 4: Hardware/Software Integration and Co-design:
   Jian-Jia Chen, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Ex-Officio:
   Giorgio Buttazzo (IEEE TC-RTS Chair), Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Italy

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