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  |                   20th IFAC/IFIP Workshop on                   |
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  |                     REAL TIME PROGRAMMING                      |
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  |  Location:  Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, November 6-10, 1995 |
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  |             FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS             |
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Chairs:  P.A. Laplante
         Chair
         Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science
         Fairleigh Dickinson University
         Madison, NJ 07940 USA
         Tel.: (201) 593-8680
         Fax: (201) 593-8886
         E-mail laplante@fdu.edu

         W.A. Halang
         FernUniversitaet, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
         D-58084 Hagen, Germany
         Tel.:   +49-2331-987-372
         Fax:    +49-2331-987-375
         E-mail: wolfgang.halang@fernuni-hagen.de


PROGRAM COMMITTEE (IPC)

          L. Motus, EE            A. Stoyenko, USA
          J. de la Puente, E      M. Rodd, UK
          M. Hinchey, UK          G. Suski, USA
          B. Furht, USA           B. McMillin, USA
          K. Man, HK              S. Bologna, I
          J. Skubich, F

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

          B. Furht
          A. Stoyenko
          B. McMillin


SCOPE
The workshop will consist of formal presentations, discussions and
informal meetings covering recent advances and current issues in
theory, applications, and technology of real-time programming. It
is to promote interaction among researchers and practitioners and
to evaluate the maturity of new directions in real-time software.
The conference is being held in conjunction with the first
International Conference on Complex Computer System (ICECCS), which is
sponsored by the IEEE TSC on Complex Computer Systems.

The topics to be covered at the workshop include, but are not restricted to:
 * Advances in real-time programming languages
 * Requirements engineering methods for real-time systems
 * Software design methods for predictable behaviour
 * Real-time scheduling and resource management
 * Real-time operating systems
 * Real-time communication architectures, incl. MAP and Fieldbus
 * Verification and validation, esp. of timing properties
 * Dependability issues
 * Industrial applications and experience
 * Evaluation of current real-time systems
 * Real-time (control) systems coping with challenging time constraints

EXTENDED ABSTRACTS
The submission of extended abstracts (800 -- 1200 words) is invited.
They should address the topics outlined above and focus on insights and
lessons gained from recent research and practical experience. Position
papers describing new ideas, promising approaches, and work in progress
are considered particularly appropriate. The abstracts should outline
the contribution that the author intends to make at the Workshop. The
submitted texts are to be sent by electronic mail in the form of plain
ASCII files, i.e., without any mark-up. If e-mail is not available,
plain ASCII files may be mailed on MS-DOS diskettes.


FULL-LENGTH PAPERS
Full papers will be prepared according to the instructions
(using a certain LaTeX style and electronic submission) that will
be sent to the authors together with the notification of acceptance.
Accepted papers must be presented in person at the Workshop.

PROCEEDINGS
Proceedings will be available at the conference.

PARTICIPATION
Attendance will be limited to approx. 60 active workers in the field.
Participants are requested to register in advance not later than
July 15, 1995.


IMPORTANT DATES
  Extended abstracts due by ..................... February 15, 1995
  Notification of acceptance .................... March 15, 1995
  Registration .................................. April 15, 1995
  Full papers due by ............................ July 15, 1995
  Workshop ...................................... November 6-10, 1995


COPYRIGHT CONDITIONS:

The material submitted for presentation at an IFAC workshop must be
original, not published or being considered elsewhere.  All papers
accepted for presentation will appear in the Preprints of the meeting
and will be distributed to the participants.  Papers duly presented will
be archived and offered for sale, in the form of Postprint volumes, by
Elsevier Science Ltd., Oxford, UK.  The papers which have been presented
will be further screened for possible publication in the IFAC journals
Automatica and Control Engineering Practice, or in other, IFAC
affiliated journals.  The abstracts of all papers presented will also
appear in Control Engineering Practice.
Copyright of material presented at an IFAC meeting is held by IFAC.
Authors will be sent a copyright transfer form.  Automatica, Control
Engineering Practice and, after these, IFAC affiliated journals have
priority access to all contributions presented.  However, if the author
is not contacted by an editor of these journals, within three months
after the meeting, the author is free to re-submit the material for
publication elsewhere.  In this case, the paper must carry a reference
to the IFAC meeting where it was originally presented.


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