RTAS Event-based Semantics 2008

The workshop will be held in conjunction with RTAS 2008 14th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium http://www.rtas.org/ part of Cyber-Physical Systems Week (CPSWEEK) http://www.cpsweek.org/ St. Louis MO, April 21-24, 2008

IMPORTANT DATES --- Feb 1, 2008   Deadline for position paper submissions March 1, 2008  Notification April 21, 2008   Workshop in St. Louis, MO

AIMS

The theme of the workshop is Event-based semantics for embedded and critical systems. There is a shift towards openness, distribution and federation for real time, multi-scale, embedded and critical systems. All this still with a need for certification, resulting in a major verification challenge. The notion of Cyber-Physical System (CPS) is adding new dimenions to these challenges. Event-based semantics is a promising approach to support specification and verification of such systems.

The aim of the workshop is to bring together people working on semantics and people from the systems community. The idea is to stimulate discussion and exchange of ideas leading to a better understanding of the rich spectrum of notions of event and how they might be used in the design and development of this new class of systems, as well as to serve as a basis for system analysis and certification.

Possible topics for workshop presentations/discussion include (but are not limited to)

+ How to tie the formal to the practical --  traceability of properties is important + Open verification technology -- what can be done automatically, online/offline + Formally based testing + Theories of event-based systems + Managing distributed knowledge/state + Challenge problems -- example areas -- CPS specific challenges -- Distributed sensor systems -- Scada systems (Electricity grid) -- Self-forming networks -- Secure location discovery

Author instructions:

Page limit: 6 pages 11 or 12 pt. Content: papers describing new approaches, work in progress, and tutorial reviews of relevant technologies are welcome in addition to relevant technial papers. Paper submission is via EasyChair at       http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=webs2008 Login as an author and look for a menu tab "New Submission", click on it. You will see detailed instructions on how to submit.

Steering Committee: Luca de Alfaro Robert Constable (Cornell) Helen Gill (NSF, sponser) Joshua Guttman (Mitre) Edward Lee (U. C. Berkeley) Carolyn Talcott (SRI International, organizer) This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP