Software standards for real-time, embedded and enterprise-scale
time-critical systems must support stringent resource, reliability, and
timing requirements. The challenge is particularly acute for middleware
standards, which must cope with performance and reliability variations
of the underlying infrastructure. The Object Management Group (OMG)
provides widely-used standards in this field, including the Data
Distribution Service (DDS) for the predictable distribution of real-time
data with minimal overhead, Common Object Request Broker Architecture
(CORBA) middleware supporting real-time scheduling and constrained
resources, and the Unified Modelling Language (UML), with its facilities
for real-time analysis and design. Design tools implementing OMG's Model
Driven Architecture (MDA) generate real-time code from models.

The goal of the workshop is to identify the state of the art and
disseminate current best practice in real-time and embedded distributed
object computing, for the benefit of standards users, researchers and
implementers. The workshop Programme Committee is seeking proposals for
presentations of experience reports, evaluations, case studies or
research papers relevant to:

Real-time systems
Enterprise-scale Time-Critical Systems
Embedded systems
Systems Engineering
Fault-tolerant systems
High-Integrity & secure systems
Mission- and Safety-critical systems
Robotics
Software-defined radio systems
Design tools for real-time distributed systems
Information Assurance for embedded systems
Complex Event Processing and Event-Driven Architectures
Pervasive & Mobile systems

Technologies relevant to this workshop include (but aren't limited to):

Real-time middleware, including real-time CORBA
Data Distribution Service (DDS)
Real-time databases
Real-time Java, High-integrity Real-time Java
Real-time operating systems, including Real-time Linux
Middleware for embedded and resource-constrained systems
Middleware for Multi-Core Systems
QoS-enabled Middleware
Architecture Frameworks, including MODAF, DoDAF and TOGAF
Modelling notations, including SysML, UML and the UML profile for MARTE
Model-Driven approaches, including MDA
Generating real-time code from models
Design methods, including Agile methods
Model analysis methods
Model transformations
Component platforms, including CCM and lightweight CCM
Novel transport mechanisms
High-level real-time programming models
Service-oriented architectures (SOA)
Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) architecture
System-on-a-Chip (SoC)

Panels
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Proposals for panel sessions in any of the above areas are also welcomed.

Tutorials
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Proposals are welcomed for half-day or full-day tutorials on established
techniques and standards in any of the areas touched on in this call.