C A L L F O R P A P E R S on Quality of Service in Open Systems

A New Track for: IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium RTAS 2004

Le Royal Meridien, King Edward, Toronto, Canada, May 25-28th Submission Deadline: January 12th, 2004 Web site: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/rtas04 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Area Co-Chairs: Yongguang Zhang, HRL Labs, USA Srikanth Krishnamurthy, University of California, Riverside ------------------------------------------------------------------ The best papers of RTAS 2004 will be published in an upcoming special issue of the Journal of Real-Time Systems. ------------------------------------------------------------------

As of 2004, RTAS will include a new track on quality of service in open environments such as the Internet and mobile computing, to augment its previous focus on QoS in embedded systems. As such, RTAS strives to become the first IEEE symposium to consider the broad spectrum of QoS issues spanning the range from closed embedded systems to Internet applications and distributed and wireless computing. The QoS in Open Systems track is intended to become a premiere publication venue for the QoS community, as well as for researchers who address QoS and performance management issues in contexts such as networking, peer-to-peer, distributed systems, sensor networks, mobile and ubiquitous computing, ad hoc wireless networks, and WWW applications, among others.

Papers submitted to this track should address or extend the broad spectrum of performance assurance problems, QoS constraints, and quality metrics in open systems. Topics include but are not limited to interoperability of open QoS-aware application components, performance guarantees under uncertainty, combining/trading-off quality with other dimensions such as dependability, mobility, and security, QoS-aware communication, including Internet and Web-based applications, QoS in wireless and mobile computing, ad hoc networks, sensor networks, peer-to-peer computing, novel quality and peformance metrics, user studies, and user-perceived QoS.

For paper Submission and other information, see conference web site: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/rtas04/

------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates:

Submission Deadline: Monday, January 12, 2004 Acceptance Decisions: Monday, March 1st, 2004 Final Manuscript: Friday, March 19th, 2004 Conference: May 25 - May 28, 2004

------------------------------------------------------------------ Organizing Committee:

General Chairs: Greg Bollella, Sun Microsystems Doug Schmidt, Vanderbilt University

Program Chairs: Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Virginia David Sharp, Boeing, St. Louis

Area Chairs for QoS in Open Systems: Yongguang Zhang, HRL Labs, Srikanth Krishnamurthy, University of California, Riverside

Finance Chair: Wei Zhao, Texas A&M.

Ex-Officio (IEEE RTS-TC Chair): Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania.

Local Arrangements Chair: H.-Arno Jacobsen, University of Toronto, Canada.

Publicity Chairs: Luis Almeida, University of Aveiro, Portugal. Anton Cervin, Lund, Sweden. Chenyang Lu, Washington University.

Area Program Committee: Nina Bhatti, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA Andrew Campbell, Columbia University, USA Vana Kalogeraki, University of California, Riverside, USA Srinivasan Keshav, University of Waterloo, Canada Srikanth Krishnamurthy, University of California, Riverside, USA Jane W.-S. Liu, Microsoft, USA Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA Jasleen Sahni, University of North Carolina, USA Frank Siqueira, FU Santa Catarina, Brasil Dorgham Sisalem, FOKUS, Germany Yongguang Zhang, HRL Labs ------------------------------------------------------------------

Tarek F. Abdelzaher and David Sharp, Program Co-Chairs.