CALL FOR PAPERS 
            17th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium
	              December 4-6, 1996
		      Washington. DC USA

Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society TC on Real-Time systems 

SCOPE:
The purpose of this symposium is to bring together researches and developers
from  academia, industry and government to advance the science and technolo-
gy of real-time computing. Papers on all aspects of real-time computing are 
sought, including operating and scheduling, fault-tolerance, databases, pro-
gramming languages, tools, communication networks, architectures, performance
modeling, formal methods, case studies, and applications. Of particular in-
terest are reports describing practical experiences and experimental results
based on system building efforts, and real-time issues in applications such
as avionics, multimedia, robotics, automated process control and manufactur-
ing.

SUBMISSIONS:
Paper should describe original work, and be 20 double-spaced pages (5,000 
words) or less in length. Synopses (5 double-spaced pages or less in length) 
of real-time applications, experimental results, and practical experiences in
the design and development of real-time systems are also invited. The synopses
should contain enough information for the program committee to understand the 
scope of the project and evaluate the novelty of the problem or approach. All 
accepted submissions will appear in the proceedings, and the Best Paper will
be awarded at the symposium.  Please send an electronic version (postscript 
file) or 5 copies of the manuscript to the program chair. A single cover paper 
should be included which contains: paper title, full name, affiliations, 
complete address, phone and fax numbers, and email addresses of the authors,
as well as upto 150 words abstract. In addition, a text file containing the
title and abstract should be emailed to the program chair.

	Professor Sang H. Son
	Department of Computer Science
	University of Virginia
	Charlottesville, Va 22903
	email: son@cs.virginia.edu
	phone: (804)982-2205

IMPORTANT DATES
 	Deadline for papers/Synopses			May 1,1996
	Acceptance Letters			      July 25,1996
	Camera-Ready Papers			 September 15,1996
	Symposium				December 4-6, 1996

WORKSHOP and EXHIBITION:
Workshop on Resource Allocation Problems in Multimedia Systems is being 
organized to be held immediately before the symposium, December 3. For more 
information about the workshop, contact Kevin Jeffay (jeffay@cs.unc.edu). In 
addition, an exhibition of hardware and software products for real-time 
systems will be held in conjunction with the symposium. For the exhibition, 
contact Doug Locke (locke@lfs.loral.com).

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General Chairs:
	Alan Burns UK.
	Yann-Hang Lee, USA.

Program Chair:
	Sang H. Son, USA.

Treasure:
	Walt Heimerdinger, USA.

Publicity Chair:
	Steve Liu, USA.

Industrial Chair:
	Doug Locke, USA.

Local Arrangements Chair:
	Richard Gerber, USA.

Ex-Officio:
	Al Mok, USA.

Program Committee:
	Azer Bestavros, USA.
	Richard Gerber, USA.
	Ching-Chih Han, USA.
	Hans Hansson, Sweden.
	Jennifer Hou, USA.
	Farnam Jahanian, USA.
	Mathai Joseph, UK.
	Dilip Kandlur, USA.
	Hermann Kopetz, Austria.
	Insup Lee, USA.
	John Lehoczky, USA.
	Jorg Liebeherr, USA.
	Kwei-Jay Lin, USA.
	Jane Liu, USA.
	Doug Locke,USA.
	Keith Marzullo, USA.
	Raj Rajkumar, USA.
	Karsten Schwan, USA.
	Alan Shaw, USA.
	Heonshik Shin, Korea.
	Kang Shin, USA.
	Jack Stankovic, USA.
	Kenji Toda, Japan.
	Farn Wang, Taiwan.
	Vic Wolfe, USA.
	Hui Zhang, USA.
  
     RTSS'96  WWW page at http://cs-www.bu.edu/pub/ieee-rts/rtss96/