Eighth Real-Time Linux Workshop
October 12-15, 2006
Lanzhou University – SISE
Tianshui South Road 222
Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
P.R.China
General Following the meetings of developers and users at the previous 7 
 successful real-time Linux workshops held in Vienna, Orlando, Milano, 
 Boston, and Valencia, Singapore, Lille, the Real-Time Linux Workshop 
 for 2006 will come back to Asia again, to be held at the School for 
 Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, in Lanzhou 
 China. 
Embedded and real-time Linux is rapidly gaining traction in the Asia 
 Pacific region. Embedded systems in both automation/control and 
 entertainment moving to 32/64bit systems, opening the door for the use 
 of full featured OS like GNU/Linux on COTS based systems. With 
 real-time capabilities being a common demand for embedded systems the 
 soft and hard real-time variants are an important extension to the 
 versatile GNU/Linux GPOS. 
Authors are invited to submit original work dealing with general 
 topics related to real-time Linux research, experiments and case 
 studies, as well as issues of integration of real-time and embedded 
 Linux. A special focus will be on industrial case studies. Topics of 
 interest include, but are not limited to: 
* Modifications and variants of the GNU/Linux operating system 
 extending its real-time capabilities, 
 * Contributions to real-time Linux variants, drivers and extensions, 
 * User-mode real-time concepts, implementation and experience, 
 * Real-time Linux applications, in academia, research and industry, 
 * Work in progress reports, covering recent developments, 
 * Educational material on real-time Linux, 
 * Tools for embedding Linux or real-time Linux and embedded 
 real-time Linux applications, 
 * RTOS core concepts, RT-safe synchronization mechanisms, 
 * RT-safe interaction of RT and non RT components, 
 * IPC mechanisms in RTOS, 
 * Analysis and Benchmarking methods and results of 
 real-time GNU/Linux variants, 
 * Debugging techniques and tools, both for code and temporal 
 debugging of core RTOS components, drivers and real-time 
 applications, 
 * Real-time related extensions to development environments. 
Further information: 
EN: http://www.realtimelinuxfoundation.org/events/rtlws-2006/ws.html 
CN: http://dslab.lzu.edu.cn/rtlws8/index.html 
Awarded papers 
The Programme Committee will award a best paper in the category Real- 
Time Systems Theory. This best paper will be invited for publication 
to the Real-Time Systems Journal, RTSJ. 
The Programme Committee will award a best paper in the category Real- 
Time Systems Application. This best paper will be invited for publication 
to the Dr Dobbs Journal. Moreover, the publication of the other papers in 
a special issue of Dr Dobbs Journal is in discussion. 
Abstract submission 
In order register an abstract, please go to: 
http://www.realtimelinuxfoundation.org/rtlf/register-abstract.html 
Venue 
Lanzhou University Information Building, School of Information Science 
and Engineering, Laznhou University, http://www.lzu.edu.cn/. 
Registration 
In order to participate to the workshop, please register on the 
registration page at: 
http://www.realtimelinuxfoundation.org/rtlf/register-participant.html 
Accommodation 
Please refer to the Lanzhou hotel page for accomodation at 
http://dslab.lzu.edu.cn/rtlws8/hotels/hotels.htm 
Travel information 
For travel information and directions how to get to Lanzhou from an 
international airport in China please refer to: 
http://www.realtimelinuxfoundation.org/events/rtlws-2006/ 
Important dates 
August 28: Abstract submission 
September 15: Notification of acceptance 
September 29: Final paper 
Pannel Participants: 
o Roberto Bucher - Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera 
 Italiana, Switzerland, RTAI/ADEOS/RTAI-Lab. 
o Alfons Crespo Lorente - University of Valenica, Spain,Departament 
 d'Informtica de Sistemes i Computadors, XtratuM. 
o Herman Haertig - Technical University Dresden, Germany,Institute for 
 System Architecture, L4/Fiasco/L4Linux. 
o Nicholas Mc Guire - Lanzhou University, P.R. China, Distributed and 
 Embedded Systems Lab, RTLinux/GPL. 
o Douglas Niehaus - University of Kansas, USA, Information and 
 Telecommunication Technology Center, RT-preempt. 
Organization committee: 
* Prof. Li LIAN (Co-Chair), (SISE, Lanzhou University, CHINA) 
 * Xiaoping ZHANG, LZU, CHINA 
 * Jiming WANG, PKU, CHINA 
 * Zhibing LI, ECNU, China 
 * Prof. Nicholas MCGUIRE (Co-Chair), Real Time Linux Foundation 
 (RTLF) 
 * Dr. Peter WURMSDOBLER, Real Time Linux Foundation (RTLF) 
 * Dr. Qingguo ZHOU, (Distributed and Embedded Systems Lab, Lanzhou 
 University, CHINA) 
Program committee: 
* Prof. Li Xing (Co-Chair), (Tsinghua University, CHINA) 
 * Dr. Zhang Yunquan, (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of 
 Science, CHINA) 
 * Dr. Chen Yu, (Tsinghua University, CHINA) 
 * Dr. Chen Maoke, (Tsinghua University, CHINA) 
 * Dr. Yu Guanghui, (Dalian University of Techonolgy, CHINA) 
 * Prof. Dr. Paolo Mantegazza, (Dipartimento di Ingegneria 
 Aerospaziale, ITALY) 
 * Prof. Dr. Bernhard Zagar, (Johannes Kepler Universitt Linz, 
 AUSTRIA) 
 * Prof. Dr. Hermann Hrtig, (Technische Universitt Dresden, 
 Fakultt Informatik, GERMANY) 
 * Prof. Tei-Wei Kuo, (National Taiwan University, Department of 
 Computer Science and Information Engineering,TAIWAN) 
 * Anthony Skjellum, (Mississippi State University, USA) 
 * Ing. Pavel Pisa, (Czech Technical University, CZECH REPUBLIC) 
 * Prof. Alfons Crespo, (Universidad Politcnica de Valencia, SPAIN) 
 * Dr. Qingguo Zhou, (Lanzhou University, CHINA) 
 * PhD. Jaesoon Choi, (National Cancer Center, KOREA) 
 * Prof. Douglas Niehaus, (Kansas University, USA) 
 * Dr. Michael Hohmuth, (Technische Universitt Dresden, GERMANY) 
 * Prof. Thambipillai Srikanthan, (Nanyang Technological University, 
 SINGAPORE) 
 * Zhengting He, (University of Texas, USA) 
 * Martin Terbuc, (Universitz of Maribor, SLOVENIA) 
 * Yoshinori Sato, (the H8/300 project, JAPAN) 
 * Yuqing Lan, (China Standard SoftwareCo.,LTD, CHINA) 
 * Dr. Peter Wurmsdobler, (Real Time Linux Foundation, USA) 
 * Prof. Nicholas Mc Guire (Co-Chair), (Lanzhou University, CHINA) 
Workshop organizers: 
* School for Information Science and Engineering (SISE) , Lanzhou 
 University , CHINA 
 * IBM China, Xi'an Branch , China 
 * Haag Embedded Systems, Austira 
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Nicholas Mc Guire <> 
Zhou Qingguo <>
