Workshop chair

Tullio Vardanega
Department of Mathematics
University of Padua
Phone: +39 049 827 1359

Important dates (deadlines)

• Paper submission deadline: April 7 11:59 EDT (automatic extension to April 17, same time)

• Notification of acceptance: May 19

• Submission of corrected papers: June 9

• Broadcast of papers to attendees: June 23

• WCET Workshop: July 4
  

• Euromicro Conf. on RTS: July 5 - 7
  

• Final version of papers: Sept. 1

Workshop Website

ECRTS website

Program committee

Steering committee

The Euromicro Technical Committee organizes a number of satellite events attached to its 24th International Real-Time Systems Conference (ECRTS-12). This workshop is the 12th on the series of WCET workshops that started at the 2001 Euromicro conference. The workshop information is disseminated with help from the ADSIG Special Interest Group.

Goals

The workshop brings together academic researchers, technology makers and industry professionals who face the challenges of timing analysis in the development of real-time systems. The workshop adopts a highly interactive format with short, colloquial presentations and ample time for in-depth discussion of research results, new challenges, problems and research directions.

Topics

The growing complexity of modern hardware, the advent of multicore processors, and the intricate organization of long-lived software systems challenge the results achieved by timing analysis techniques, for users and researchers alike.

Design principles for the construction of timing-composable systems at both hardware and software level (compiler, runtime and development method) are sought for timing analysis to respond to the emerging needs.

On this account, the workshop especially solicits contributions that:

• discuss the limits of state-of-the-art timing analysis against aggressive hardware and software organizations, including but not limited to multicore systems, from both the research and the industrial perspectives;
• present research results and research directions in timing analysis, and the system-level hardware and software support for it, that address the challenges ahead.

As part of and in addition to that, the workshop welcomes submissions that address:

• Novel approaches to WCET computation and strategies to reduce the analysis complexity, including time-predictable computer architectures and synergy with compilers
• Advances in tools for WCET analysis
• Capturing flow facts to feed flow analysis for WCET
• Needs and constraints stemming from current and future industrial development process and schedule that timing analysis should best accommodate
• WCET-related analyses of code generated from design models
• Experience with the integration of WCET with schedulability analysis, as well as with the software and system development process
• Methods and benchmarks for WCET analysis evaluation.

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 6 page short paper (PS or PDF) via the workshop submission system. 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 fosters a highly interactive format of short presentations combined with ample time for in-depth discussions. Authors will be asked to produce a final version of their paper that includes the issues covered in the discussions by September 1, 2006. The final papers will be published.

To foster the workshop character, the number of participants will be limited. There will be a small charge for workshop registration. The workshop will be held in Pisa (more details will come later). See the Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems website ECRTS12 for information on the venue, hotel reservations and the city.