Call for Papers

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5th Intl WORKSHOP ON WORST-CASE EXECUTION TIME (WCET) ANALYSIS
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          Palma de Mallorca, Spain, July 5, 2005

                 in conjunction with the

      17th Euromicro Intl Conference on Real-Time Systems.
        Palma de Mallorca, Spain, July 6 - 8, 2005
      http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/rts/ECRTS05/index.php


The Euromicro Technical Committee organizes a number of satellite
events attached to its 17th International Real-Time Systems
Conference. This workshop is the fifth 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 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: 

- Different approaches at computing WCET
- Flow analysis for WCET 
- Low-level timing analysis, modelling and analysis of processor features
- Calculation methods for WCET 
- Strategies to reduce the complexity of WCET analysis
- Integration of WCET and schedulability analysis 
- Performance estimation of distributed and communication-centric systems
- Evaluation and case studies 
- Tools for timing analysis 
- Design for Timing Predictability
- Integration of WCET analysis into the development process

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

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:
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People who would like to participate in this event are asked to submit
a 4 page short paper to the workshop chair (wilhelm@cs.uni-sb.de).
Upon acceptance, a corrected version of the paper should 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 15 minute presentations followed
by a 20 minute discussion per-session. Authors will be asked to 
produce a final version of their paper that includes the issues
covered in the discussions by September 1, 2005. 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 in Palma de Mallorca
(more details will come later). 
See the Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems website
http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/rts/ECRTS05/index.php
for information on the venue, hotel reservations and Palma.

IMPORTANT DATES:
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- Submission of papers: April 17 
- Notification of acceptance: May 23
- Submission of corrected papers: June 12
- Broadcast of papers to attendees: June 28
- WCET Workshop: July 5
- Euromicro Conf. on RTS: July 6 - 8
- Final version of papers: Sept. 1

WORKSHOP CHAIR:
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Reinhard Wilhelm
Informatik
Saarland University
D-66123 Saarbruecken
Germany

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
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Andreas Ermedahl (Univ. Mälardalen, Sweden)
Tulika Mitra (National University of Singapore)
Isabelle Puaut (INSA/IRISA, France)
Lothar Thiele (ETZ Zuerich, Switzerland)
David Whalley (Florida State University, USA)
Reinhard Wilhelm (Saarland University, Germany)

STEERING COMMITTEE:
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Guillem Bernat, University of York. England UK
Jan Gustafsson, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Peter Puschner, Technical University of Vienna, Austria