CFP: Special Issue of the Real-Time Systems Journal

["K. Pawlikowski" <krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz>]

Dear Colleagues

This CFP is sent on multiple mailing lists. I sincerely apologize if you
receive multiple copies. The Journal of Real-Time Systems is announcing
a
special issue on Control-Theoretical Approaches to Real-Time Computing.
The CFP is attached. 

Sincerely,
Tarek Abdelzaher and Lui Sha
Guest Editors

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                       C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S

             Special Issue of the Journal: Real-Time Systems 
                                   on
         Control-Theoretical Approaches to Real-Time Computing
  
   	     >>>> Submission Deadline: Jan 15th, 2001 <<<<
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	Postscript and PDF versions of the CFP are available at:
	        http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~zaher/rtsj
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Lui Sha                                 Tarek Abdelzaher
Department of Computer Science          Department of Computer Science
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   Univ. of Virginia
Urbana-Champaign, IL 61801              Charlottesville, VA 22903
U.S.A.                                  U.S.A.
Phone: +1 (217) 244-1887                Phone: +1 (804) 982-2227
Email: lrs@cs.uiuc.edu                  Email: zaher@cs.virginia.edu
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Scope:
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Real-time applications have evolved over the past decades from closed
embedded systems to environments that are open, unpredictable, and
with considerable uncertainty in workload and resource requirements.
The great challenge posed by these new applications to the research
community is how to achieve predictable system performance and temporal
behavior in the presence of such uncertainty and without precise
knowledge
of worst-case load patterns. Feedback control ideas have been used 
successfully in practice from Internet congestion control to multi-media
applications.

The use of feedback control in computer systems is gaining momentum
as a promising foundation to control the uncertainty in large and
complex
real-time systems. This special issue seeks papers describing
significant research contributions in dealing with unpredictability
while providing real-time guarantees. In particular, we encourage
papers that successfully apply elements of control theory to real-time
computing systems operating in dynamic uncertain environments. Areas
of interest include, but are not limited to:

        - Feedback architectures for adaptive real-time computing
        - Theory for performance guarantees under uncertainty
        - Integrated resource management and feedback control
        - Control-theoretical models of dynamic real-time systems
        - Application of control theory for controlling timing behavior
        - Optimal, robust, or adaptive feedback control in real-time
systems
        - Fault-tolerant real-time performance control 
        - Experiences and lessons learned in uncertain real-time
computing
        - Case studies with real applications

Important Dates:
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         Paper Submission Deadline:      January 15, 2001
         Feedback to Authors:            April 15, 2001
         Final Manuscript:               May 15, 2001
         Publication:                    Fall, 2001

Paper Submission Guidelines
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Authors are encouraged to submit high quality, original works which have
not appeared, nor are under consideration, in other journals. Papers
which have previously appeared in conference proceedings or are
concurrently submitted to a conference will also be considered, and
this  
should be so indicated at the time of submission. Papers should be no 
longer than 40 double-spaced pages. More information on paper format 
and LaTeX templates are available at the Journal home
page, http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/0922-6443

Paper submissions must be made electronically, either in postscript or
PDF
format by e-mail to either zaher@cs.virginia.edu or lrs@cs.uiuc.edu.
To members of COSC/Management/Maths research group on stochastic simulation, 
and anybody else interested in research in this area

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		Associate Professor  Krzysztof Pawlikowski

	Department of Computer Science,  University of Canterbury
 			Christchurch, New Zealand
		
ph.  +(64) 3 3642 987 ext.7772  email:   krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz 
fax. +(64) 3 3642 569      URL:     http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~krys

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