Call for Papers
                 (Extended Deadline, April, 15)

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   4th Intl WORKSHOP ON WORST-CASE EXECUTION TIME (WCET) ANALYSIS
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             Catania, Sicily, Italy, June 29, 2004
		          http://www.irisa.fr/wcet2004

                     in conjunction with the

          16th Euromicro Intl Conference on Real-Time Systems.
            Catania, Sicily, Italy, June 30 - July 2, 2004 
                  http://www.diit.unict.it/ecrts2004

The Euromicro Technical Committee organizes a number of satellite
events attached to its 16th International Real-Time Systems
Conference. This workshop is the fourth on the series of WCET workshops
that started at the 2001 Euromicro conference.

The goal of the workshop is to bring together people from academia,
tool vendors and users in industry and that are interested in all
aspects of timing analysis for real-time systems. The workshop will
provide a relaxed forum to present and discuss new ideas, new research
directions and to review current trends in this area. The workshop
will be based on short presentations that should encourage discussion
by the attendees.

The topics of the workshop include any issue related to timing
analysis, in particular: 

- Flow analysis for WCET 
- Low-level timing analysis, modelling and
  analysis of processor features
- Calculation methods for WCET 
- Strategies to reduce the complexity of WCET analysis
- Timing analysis through measurement 
- Probabilistic analysis techniques 
- Integration of WCET and schedulability analysis 
- Evaluation and case studies 
- Tools for timing analysis 
- Current practice in industry
- Integration of WCET analysis in development process

Statements which are innovative, controversial or that present new
approaches are specially sought.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:
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People who would like to participate in this event are asked to submit
a 4 page short paper to the workshop chair (puaut@irisa.fr).
Upon acceptance, a corrected version of the paper should be prepared and
submitted. All papers will be made available to all participants a
week before the workshop so that contributions can be examined prior
to the workshop.

The workshop sessions will involve 5-10 minute presentations followed
by a 20-25 minute discussion per-session. Authors will be asked to 
produce a final version of their paper that includes the issues
covered in the discussions by September 1, 2004. The final papers 
will be published.

To foster the workshop character the number of participants will be
limited to 30. There will be a small charge for workshop
registration. The workshop will be held in Catania (more details will
come later). See the Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems website
for information on the venue, hotel reservations and Catania.

IMPORTANT DATES:
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- Submission of papers: April 11 (extended to april, 15, strict deadline)
- Notification of acceptance: May 10
- Submission of corrected papers: June 1
- Broadcast of papers to attendees: June 14
- WCET Workshop: June 29
- Euromicro Conf. on RTS: June 30-July 2
- Final version of papers: Sept. 1

WORKSHOP CHAIR:
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Isabelle Puaut
IRISA
Campus universitaire de Beaulieu
35042 Rennes Cédex
France
e-mail: puaut@irisa.fr
Tel: +33 2 99 84 73 10

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
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Andreas Ermedahl (Univ. Mälardalen, Sweden)
Raimund Kirner (TU Vienna, Austria)
Stefan Petters (Univ. York, UK)
Isabelle Puaut (INSA/IRISA, France)
David Whalley (Florida State University, USA)
Reinhard Wilhelm (Saarland University, Germany)

STEERING COMMITTEE:
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Guillem Bernat, University of York. England UK
Jan Gustafsson, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Peter Puschner, Technical University of Vienna, Austria