The 15th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time
Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA 2009)

August 24 to 26, 2009
Beijing, China

Embedded software has become a necessity in almost every aspect
of the daily lives of individuals and organizations, from
self-contained applications to those embedded in various devices
and services (mobile phones, vital sign sensors, medication
dispensers, home appliances, engine ignition systems, etc). A
large proportion of these systems are mission/life critical and
performance sensitive.

The 15th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time
Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA 2009) will bring
together researchers and developers from academia and industry
for advancing the technology of embedded and real-time systems,
and ubiquitous computing applications. The conference has the
following goals: to investigate advances in embedded and
real-time systems and ubiquitous computing applications; to
promote interaction among the areas of embedded computing,
real-time computing and ubiquitous computing; to evaluate the
maturity and directions of embedded and real-time system and
ubiquitous computing technology. RTCSA 2009 invites submissions
of papers presenting a high quality original research and
development for the conference tracks: (1) Real-time Systems,
(2) Ubiquitous Computing, and (3) Embedded Systems.

This year, RTCSA 2009 will be co-located with UCS 2009 and
be held at Beijing. Similar to earlier RTCSA conference, there
will be three days parallel tracks program, satellite
workshops/tutorials, and panel discussion.

Scopes:

Following the tradition of RTCSA, the conference has three
tracks: embedded systems, real-time systems, and ubiquitous
computing.

The interested topics include:

Embedded Systems Track:
- Software design and debugging for heterogeneous multi-core
embedded platform
- Multi-thread programming for multi-core embedded platform
- System integration/collaboration for systems of embedded systems
- Operating systems and scheduling
- System-on-chip design
- HW/SW co-design
- Power/thermal-aware design issues
- Embedded multimedia applications
- Embedded system design practices
- Networks-on-chip design
- Embedded system architecture
- Design optimization (memory, performance etc.)

Real-Time Systems Track:
- Real-time operating systems
- Real-time scheduling
- Timing analysis
- Databases
- Programming languages and run-time systems
- Middleware systems
- Design and analysis tools
- Communication networks and protocols
- Case studies and applications
- Media processing and transmissions
- Real-time aspects of Wireless sensor networks
- Energy aware real-time methods

Ubiquitous Computing Track:
- Real-time issues in ubiquitous computing
- Infrastructure for ubiquitous computing
- Location-dependent and context-aware computing
- Portable devices and wearable computers
- Passive, active and smart tags
- Software architecture for ubiquitous computing
- Human computer interaction
- Security and privacy
- Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks

Paper Submissions:

The perspective authors should submit their papers on RTCSA 2009
paper submission site: http://www.rtcsa.org

Important Dates:

Paper Submission: March 31, 2009
Acceptance Notification: May 15, 2009
Camera Ready Submission: June 15, 2009

Organizing Committee:

Steering Committee:
Joseph K. Ng, Hong Kong Baptist University, China (Chair)
Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Seongsoo Hong Seoul National University, Korea
Tatsuo Nakajima, Waseda University, Japan
Jorgen Hansson, CMU, USA
Sang H. Son, University of Virginia, USA

General Co-Chairs:
Aloysius K. Mok, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Yuanchun Shi, Tsinghua University, China

Program Co-Chairs:
Zili Shao(Embedded Systems Track),Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., China
Iain Bate, (Real-Time System Track), University of York, UK
Fahim Kawsar(Ubiquitous Track), Waseda University, Japan

Publicity Co-Chairs:
Masatyki Iwai, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
Marc Langheinrich, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Gang PAN, Zhejiang University, China