CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue of the Journal: Real-Time Systems
on
Control-Theoretical Approaches to Real-Time Computing

Lui Sha
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Urbana-Champaign, IL
U.S.A
Phone: +1 (217) 244-1887
Email: lrs@cs.uiuc.edu
 		Tarek Abdelzaher
Department of Computer Science
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903
U.S.A
Phone: +1 (804) 982-2227
Email: zaher@cs.virginia.edu
Scope:
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:

Important Dates:

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