The 3rd Workshop on Java Technologies for Real-time and Embedded Systems

OOPSLA 2005

17 October 2005
San Diego, California, USA

Over 90 percent of all microprocessors are now used for real-time and embedded applications, and the behavior of many of these applications is constrained by the physical world. Designing real-time and embedded systems that implement their required capabilities, are dependable and predictable, and are parsimonious in their use of limited computing resources is hard; building them on time and within budget is even harder. It is therefore essential that the production of real-time embedded systems can take advantage of languages, tools, and methods that enable higher software productivity.

Ideally, developers should use a programming language that shields them from many complexities, such as type errors, memory management and that allow them to express the desired application structure in a convenient way -- such as supporting periodic tasks or sporadic events in the language. The Java programming language has become an attractive choice because of advantages such as safety, productivity, low maintenance costs, and availability of well trained developers. But, to meet real-time constraints, issues such as under-specification of thread scheduling and predictability of the runtime system must be addressed. A number of real-time extensions to Java have been proposed, the main two being the Real-Time Specification for Java (RTSJ) and the J-Consortium Real-Time Core Extension (RTCore). The intent of these specifications is to ease the development of real-time applications by providing several additions such as extending the memory management model, providing stronger semantics in thread scheduling, and so on.

There is an increasingly growing interest in Real-Time object technologies in both the research community and the industry. The goal of the workshop is to gather researchers working on real-time and embedded Java, and related languages, to identify the challenging problems that still need to be properly solved, and to report on research results and practical experience. The topics of interest are not limited to particular variants of real-time Java, we are looking for novel ideas and techniques in the following research areas:

• New real-time programming paradigms and language features
• Industrial experience and practitioner reports
• Real-time design patterns and programming idioms
• Formal models of real-time computation
• Extensions to RTSJ and RTCore
• Virtual machines and execution environments
• Memory management and Real-time Garbage collection
• Compiler analysis and implementation techniques
• Distributed real-time Java
• Scheduling frameworks, feasibility analysis, and timing analysis

Submissions due: August 22, 2005
Notification: September 19, 2005

Papers must be submitted by email to jv@cs.purdue.edu in Postscript or PDF format. Hard copies of all research presentations and position papers will be distributed at the meeting. The conference web page will make available all slides from presentations given by the attendees, but the conference web page will not host papers. This is to ensure that the workshop is correctly understood to be an informal workshop, and that presentation of research at the workshop is not considered a barrier to republication of that research in conferences. Papers should be clearly labeled as either:

1. Research papers: These papers present new results which have not appeared and are not under submission elsewhere. These papers should not exceed 10 pages in ACM double column format.
2. Position/Experience papers: Short papers (<5 pages in ACM format) which present current research or experience using real-time Java. Please notify the organizers if a position paper is currently being considered for publication.