Call for Papers

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   3rd Intl WORKSHOP ON WORST-CASE EXECUTION TIME (WCET) ANALYSIS
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             Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal
                          July 1, 2003
                http://www.idt.mdh.se/~jgn/WCET2003

                     in conjunction with the

       15th Euromicro Intl Conference on Real-Time Systems
             Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal
                        July 2-4, 2002
                 http://www.hurray.isep.ipp.pt/ecrts03

The Euromicro Technical Committee organizes a number of satellite events attached 
to its 15th International Real-Time Systems Conference. This workshop is the third 
on the series of WCET workshops that started at the 2001 Euromicro conference. 

The goal of the workshop is to bring together people from academia, tool vendors 
and users in industry and that are interested in all aspects of timing analysis 
for real-time systems. The workshop will provide a relaxed forum to present and 
discuss new ideas, new research directions and to review current trends in this 
area. The workshop will be based on short presentations that should encourage 
discussion by the attendees.

The topics of the workshop include any issue related to timing analysis, in particular: 

*	Flow analysis for WCET 
*	Low-level timing analysis 
*	Calculation methods for WCET 
*	Timing analysis through measurement 
*	Modelling and analysis of processor features 
*	Probabilistic analysis techniques 
*	Integration of WCET and schedulability analysis 
*	Evaluation and case studies 
*	Tools for timing analysis 
*	Industry experience reports 

Statements which are innovative, controversial or that present new approaches are specially sought.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: People who would like to participate in this event are asked 
to submit a pdf or postcript version of a 2 page extended abstract to the workshop 
chairman (jan.gustafsson@mdh.se). 

The papers will be reviewed by an internal committee. Upon acceptance, a final paper 
of maximum 4 pages should be then 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 sessions will involve 5-10 minute presentations followed by a 20-25 
minute discussion. Authors will be asked to produce a final version of their paper 
that includes the issues covered in the discussions by Aug 1, 2003. The final papers 
will be published. 

To foster the workshop character the number of participants will be limited to 30. 
There will be a small charge for workshop registration. The workshop will be held at 
the Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal, July 1, 2003. See the Euromicro 
Conference on Real-Time Systems website for information on the venue, hotel 
reservations and Porto. 

Important dates (deadlines):
- Submission of extended abstracts: April 11
- Notification of acceptance: April 25
- Final submission of papers: June 1
- Broadcast of final papers: June 12
- WCET Workshop: July 1
- Euromicro Conf. on RTS: July 2-4
- Final version of the paper: Aug 1

Workshop Website
http://www.idt.mdh.se/~jgn/WCET2003 

Euromicro Conf. on RTS website
http://www.hurray.isep.ipp.pt/ecrts03 

Workshop Chairman: Jan Gustafsson 

Steering committee:

Guillem Bernat
Real-Time Systems Research Group
Dep. of Computer Science
University of York. England UK
Tel: +44 (10904) 432772
bernat@cs.york.ac.uk

Peter Puschner
Institut fur Technische Informatik
Technical University of Vienna
Austria
peter@vmars.tuwien.ac.at