Call for Papers
Special issue on Java Technologies for Real-Time and Embedded Systems
Embedded applications include mission-critical and safety-critical systems in which critical human infrastructures and even human life is sometimes at stake. Therefore it is essential that the production of real-time embedded systems take advantage of languages, tools, and methods that enable higher software productivity. Ideally, developers should use a programming language that shields them from many accidental complexities, such as type errors, memory management, and steep learning curves. The Java programming language has become an attractive choice because of its safety, productivity, relatively low maintenance costs, and the availability of well trained developers.
Although it has good software engineering characteristics, Java has often been deemed unsuitable for developing real-time embedded systems, mainly due to under-specification of thread scheduling and the presence of garbage collection. Recently, to address these problems, some significant advances have been made in real-time garbage collection algorithms and a number of extensions to Java have been introduced by such efforts as the Java Community Process Expert Group for the Real-Time Specification for Java (RTSJ). The intent of these specifications is the development of real-time applications by extending the Java memory. The rapid progress in processor and sensor technology combined with the expanding diversity of applications fields is placing enormous demands on the facilities that an embedded operating system must provide.
Topics of interest include:
- Innovative real-time operating system architectures for embedded systems
- Open components for embedded real-time applications
- Innovative tecniques in: scheduling, memory management, quality of service, communications, energy management, fault tolerance
- Multiprocessor embedded system support
- Hypervisor systems
- Hardware support for operating systems
- Security
- Real-time communication systems
- Power aware operating systems
- Open real-time Linux-based systems
- Case studies of open embedded real-time operating system developments
- Embedded application design
A selected number of top papers from JTRES08 are invited by the guest editor for review. Authors of these papers are asked to extend their work for a TECS journal publication, which is then subjected to rigorous review process. Besides submissions from JTRES08 any other high quality submissions that fits the topics of the special issues are welcome. Authors should submit their journal version at Manuscript Central adhering to the formatting instructions on the TECS Web page and indicate that you are submitting to the Special Issue on on Java Technologies for Real-Time and Embedded Systems.
Timetable:
| Submission deadline: | November 19, 2008 |
| Review results: | approx. March 1, 2009 |
| Final copy deadline: | tba |
Guest Editors:
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Dr. M. Teresa Higuera-Toledano, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
E-mail - Dr. Doug Locke, Locke Consulting LLC, USA
- Dr. Angelo Corsaro, Prismtech, Italy