(!Updated) Post-Proceedings

Sponsored by:           The IEEE Technical Committee on Distributed Processing In cooperation with:            -  IFIP WG 10.4 on Dependable Computing                                       -  OMG

THEME

This workshop, which is the tenth in the highly successful WORDS series, continues its theme in integrating three computer system engineering technologies (CSETs): Object-oriented CSET, Real-time CSET, and Dependable CSET.  Recognizing that full integration of the three CSETs in cost-effective forms is years away, contributions that present significant advances in integrating any two of the three mentioned technology fields are invited.  Sharing of useful lessons learned in advanced industrial applications such as multimedia manipulations, embedded computing system applications, and safety-critical applications that include such integrations, is greatly welcome.   The workshop is intended to be a forum for exchange of newly recognized research issues, advanced promising formulations, and research progress reports among researchers and technologists with significant research experiences.  The work presented may be of a conceptual, theoretical, innovative design, or experimental nature, and should represent technological or scientific advances.  The workshop will have a limited number of participants, around 50, of whom about half will be invited participants. 

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics, as they relate to any two of three CSET's (object-oriented CSET, real-time CSET, and dependable CSET), are of interest to the Workshop.  Some example topics are:

• Requirement specification for real-time dependable systems
• Integration of time into formal object models
• Tools for structuring real-time objects
• OS and middleware support for OO applications subject to real-time or dependability requirements
• API and language aspects
• Application of agent technology to dependable systems
• Quality of service including timeliness, fault tolerance, security, etc.
• System resource allocation for real-time or dependable objects
• Testing and evaluation of temporal and dependability properties including development of benchmarks
• Techniques for timing analysis of dependable or object-oriented systems
• Database architectures for real-time or dependable services
• Object-oriented real-time simulations
• Standards development activities (RT Java, RT CORBA, Fault-tolerant CORBA, RT UML, etc.)
• Object technologies and transaction models for mobile computing
• Multimedia and network-aware applications over programmable network infrastructures
• Embedded computing applications structured as networks of real-time or dependable objects
• Automated control systems and safety critical applications

This year we also wish to have a special track of sessions on the Trustworthy Web Services, which is a blend of object-oriented, real-time, dependable CSETs and the Web-based Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).  These sessions will cover the following issues:

• Trustworthy computing over the Internet
• Specification, design, and implementation of service-oriented architecture
• Testing and reliability modeling of Web services
• Test case generation using formal methods and model checking
• Application of service-oriented architecture and Web services
• Infrastructure supporting service-oriented architecture and Web services

PAPER SUBMISSIONS

Position papers are solicited from potential participants of this workshop.  Papers must be written in English and printed using at least 11-point type and 1-1/2 line spacing.

(1) Papers presenting research results, of 5-15 pages in length, including figures.

(2) Papers presenting position statements, of 3-5 pages in length, from potential participants, who prefer to serve as panelists or commentators.

Authors are requested to submit an electronic version (PDF or PostScript) of their manuscripts, along with a one-paragraph biography of the author who will be presenting the paper if accepted, before October 15, 2004 to the following address:

Chris Gill, Washington University, USA,  cdgill@cs.wustl.edu

NOTE: If a paper is co-authored by a university faculty member and a student, the paper must be presented by the faculty member. This is in keeping with the long-standing tradition of WORDS as a forum for spirited technical exchanges between today's leading researchers in object-oriented real-time dependable computing.

Authors will be notified of the program committee decision by November 3rd. The revised copy for inclusion in the preliminary proceedings (not to be treated as an official publication but rather as a collection of working papers) to be distributed at the workshop will be due November 30th.  The presenting author or co-author must register for the workshop by that time.  The final camera-ready copy for WORDS2005 proceedings will be due February 28th, 2005 (which is after the workshop) and it will be published by IEEE.

IMPORTANT DATES:

• October 31, 2004            Deadline for submission of manuscripts 
• December 20, 2004         Deadline for workshop registration by presenting authors or co-authors and submission of revised manuscripts of  accepted paper  
• February 2 - 4, 2005       Workshop
• February 28, 2005           Final camera-ready papers for inclusion in the official proceedings

HONORARY CHAIR

Stephen Yau, Arizona State University , USA

WORKSHOP GENERAL CO-CHAIRS

Wei-Tek Tsai, Arizona State University , USA

Jean-Pierre Banatre, IRISA, France,

Tohru Kikuno, Osaka University , Japan

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Chris Gill, Washington University , USA

Neeraj Suri, Tech. Univ. of  Darmstadt , Germany

Young-Sik Hong, Dong-Guk University , Korea

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Roberto Baldoni, Univ. of  Rome (Italy) 

Farokh Bastani, Univ. of  Texas at Dallas (USA) 

Andrea Bondavalli, Univ. of  Florence (Italy)

Yinong Chen, Arizona State Univ. (USA) 

Miguel A. de Miguel (Spain) 

Jean-Charles Fabre, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse (France)

Joni Fraga, UFSC, Florinapolis (Brazil) 

Doo-Hyun Kim, Konkuk Univ. (Korea) 

Insup Lee, Univ. of  Penn (USA) 

Andreas Polze, Univ. of Potsdam (Germany) 

Peter Puschner, Tech. Univ. of  Vienna (Austria) 

Franz Rammig, Univ. of  Paderborn (Germany) 

Michel Raynal, Univ. of  Renne & IRISA (France) 

Alexander Romanovsky, Univ. of  Newcastle (UK) 

Stefano Russo, Univ. Of  Napoli (Italy) 

Mukesh Singhal, Univ. of  Kentucky (USA) 

Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki Univ. (Japan)

Jie Xu, Univ. of Leeds (UK)

ADVISORY AND PUBLICITY COMMITTEE

Uwe Brinkshulte, Univ. of  Karlsruhe (Germany) 

We-Duke Cho, CUCN (Korea)

Arif Ghafoor, Purdue Univ. (USA) 

Wolfgang Halang, Fernuniv. (Germany) 

Doug Jensen, Mitre Corp. (USA) 

Joeg Kaiser, Univ. of  Ulm (Germany) 

Moon-Hae Kim, Konkuk Univ. (Korea) 

Bernd J. Kraemer, FernUniv. (Germany)

Michael Melliar-Smith, UCSB (USA) 

Louise Moser, UCSB (USA) 

Tatsuo Nakajima, Waseda Univ. (Japan) 

Edgar Nett, Univ. of  Magdeburg (Germany) 

Ray Paul, OSD / DoD (USA) 

Felix Ramos, CINVESTAV-GDL, Guadalajara (Mexico)

Andre Schiper, EPFL (Swiss)

TREASURER

Zhibin Cao (Arizona State University)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Yinong Chen (Chair) , Arizona State University, words05@asu.edu
Zhibin Cao, Arizona State University
Ning Liao, Arizona State University
Jingjing Xu, Arizona State University
Xinyu Zhou, Arizona State University

STEERING COMMITTEE

Kane Kim
University of California, Irvine, USA (Chair)

Hermann Kopetz
Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria