This workshop is held in continuation of the first successful workshop on Dependable Embedded Systems in Florence. Today, nearly every processor is deployed as integral part of a daily life artefact. Wireless, and low power technology opens the possibility to instrument our physical world creating smart environments in which  mobile embedded components cooperate. More and more, networks of such embedded components perform critical control functions in the automotive field and industrial automation. These topics we want to address in our one-day workshop on Dependable Embedded Systems. 

In this workshop we wish to bring together researchers and practitioners to share research results, practical experiences and advances in (or impediments to) the application of embedded systems for dependable systems. We encourage participation by professionals with diverse backgrounds who can contribute to advancing the technology and reflecting the latest trends and who can foster discussing the implications.  

We solicit position papers, research contributions and experience reports addressing topics that include (but are not limited to): application architecture, design and validation, distributed real-time communication, certification and approval, real-time, security, and applications such as automotive, medical, process control, and telecommunication.  Topics of particular interest include:

·         Self-configuring distributed embedded systems
·         QoS assurance in networks of autonomous components
·         Dependability in wireless sensor networks
·         Protocols and middleware for mobile systems
·         Reliable and adaptive infrastructures for ambient intelligence
·         Security of safety-critical nodes with connectivity to open networks
·         Low-power embedded systems
·         Dependable embedded applications

Call for papers (PDF, TXT).

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Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts, position papers, or research contributions from 2 to 5 pages in length. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. It is expected that at least one author of an accepted contribution will attend the workshop in order to present the work.

The authors are requested to send their contributions to  lbecker@das.ufsc.br  no later than August, 16, 2004, as PDF or PS file. A compilation of contributions will be distributed at the SRDS conference.

Final version should follows the IEEE format (formatting guidelines), and should not exceed 6 pages.

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Submission:       August, 23, 2004 (extended)
Notification:      September, 20, 2004 (extended)
Camera ready:    October 1st, 2004

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Workshop Committees

Co-Chairs

Leandro Buss Becker (UFSC, Brazil)
Jörg Kaiser (University of Ulm, Germany)

Program Committee

Carlos Eduardo Pereira (UFRGS, Brazil)
Edgar Nett (University of Magdeburg, Germany)
José Alberto Fonseca (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
Kane Kim (UCI, USA)
Luiz Bacellar (UTRC, USA)
Paulo Verissimo (University of Lisbn, Portugal)
Phil Koopman (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat (University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)

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Registration

Authors should register in the workshop until Oct 1st. For registration please use the SRDS registration url: http://143.54.83.4/sdsr2004/public/default.php?en.
Hotel reservations can be performed at http://www.srds2004.ufsc.br/reserva_hotel.html.  

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Program

Event Channels, an Integration Concept for Predictable Interaction in Embedded Heterogeneous Networks 

Invited talk: TMO-structured Fault-Tolerant Real-Time Object-Oriented Distributed Computing:  Issues and Candidate Solutions 

Marco A. Wehrmeister, Carlos Pereira, UFRGS, Brazil; and Leandro B. Becker, UFSC, Brazi

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