HICSS 40 Minitrack: Components for Embedded and Real-time Systems

HICSS 40 Minitrack

Components for Embedded and Real-time Systems

Components for Embedded and Real-time Systems is a minitrack at HICSS-40. Since 1968 the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) has become a respected forum for the substantive interchange of ideas in all areas of information systems and technology. HICSS-40 will be held January 3-6, 2007 at Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort, Waikoloa, Big Island, Hawaii.

HICSS proceedings are published and distributed by the IEEE Computer Society. All HICSS papers are included in the Computer Society's Digital Library and indexed by the Computer Society and the IEEE.

Call For Papers

(text, pdf)

Component-based development is a software engineering paradigm that brings new opportunities and challenges for developing embedded and real-time systems. A component architecture eases software development by providing a more structured software engineering approach. It is also compatible with model-driven development methods enabling related software engineering advances to be applied to the embedded systems domain. Embedded systems, on the other hand, impose considerable resource restrictions and have strict performance and reliability requirements, all of which create challenges in applying component technologies to embedded and real-time systems.

The goal of this minitrack is to bring together researchers and practitioners in component-based software engineering for embedded and real-time systems. The minitrack will cover the latest methods, techniques, and tools for developing embedded and real-time software systems using advanced component models and technologies.

Topics of interest include:

Component architectures and models
Component-based product lines for embedded applications
Non-functional properties, such as timeliness, reliability, safety, performance, fault-tolerance, and power consumption
Evaluation and analysis of non-functional properties and requirements
Real-time issues of component-based software engineering
Analysis methods for temporal predictability and determinism
Testing and debugging of component-based embedded applications
Component-oriented software re-engineering of embedded systems
Design patterns and architectural styles
Modeling and model driven development of components
Component models for security and adaptivity
Case studies and experience reports describing use of component-based software engineering for developing embedded systems

Important Dates

Abstract Submission: May 20, 2006 (abstract submission is still open)
Paper Submission: extended to June 22, 2006
Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2006
Camera-ready : September 15, 2006

Submission

Authors may contact the minitrack co-chairs for expression of interests and content appropriateness at any time. All papers must contain original material, not previously published or submitted for publication.

Formatting guidelines and submission instructions will be found on the HICSS website after April 15th.

Organizing Committee

Ihor Kuz, ihor.kuz@nicta.com.au
Embedded and Real Time Operating System Program, National ICT Australia

Yan Liu, Jenny.Liu@nicta.com.au
Empirical Software Engineering, National ICT Australia

Ian Gorton, Ian.Gorton@nicta.com.au
Empirical Software Engineering, National ICT Australia

Program Committee

Michel R. V. Chaudron (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
Shiping Chen (CSIRO, Australia)
Ivica Crnkovic (Mälardalen University, Sweden)
Jeff Gray (University of Alabama at Birmingham, US)
Rob van Ommering (Philips Research, Netherlands)
Douglas C. Schmidt(Vanderbilt University, US)