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Tarek Abdelzaher received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 1990 and 1994, respectively. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1999 on Quality of Service Adaptation in Real-Time Systems.Hehas been an Assistant Professor at the University ofVirginia, where he founded the Software Predictability Group, until his promotion with tenure in 2005.Heis currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He has authored/coauthored three book chapters and more than 60 refereed publications in leading conferences and journals in several fields including real-time computing, distributed systems, sensor networks, and control. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, the Journal of Real-Time Systems, the International Journal of Embedded Systems and the Ad Hoc Networks Journal, as well as Editor of ACM SIGBED Review. He was Guest Editor for the Journal of Computer Communications and the Journal of Real-Time Systems, and is Co-Editor of IEEE Distributed Systems Online. He served on numerous technical program committees in real-time computing, networking, quality of service, distributed systems, sensor networks, multimedia, and mobile computing, among others. He also held several conference organization positions including Program Chair of RTAS 2004, Sensor NetworksVice Chair of RTSS 2005 and ICDCS 2006, and General Chair of RTAS 2005. Abdelzaher's research interests lie broadly in understanding and controlling the temporal properties of software systems in the face of increasing complexity, distribution, and degree of embedding in an external physical environment. Tarek Abdelzaher is a member of IEEE and ACM.
Giorgio Buttazzo is Full Professor of Computer Engineering at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa. His main research interests include real-time operating systems, dynamic scheduling algorithms, quality of service control, multimedia systems, advanced robotics applications, and neural networks. He graduated in Electronic Engineering at the University of Pisa in 1985, received a Master in Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania in 1987, and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering at the Scuola Superiore Sant' Anna of Pisa in 1991. From 1987 to 1988, he worked on active perception and real-time control at the G.R.A.S.P. Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. From 1991 to 1998, he held a position of Assistant Professor at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa, where he founded and coordinated the RETIS Laboratory on real-time systems. From 1998 to 2005, he held a position of Associate Professor at the University of Pavia, where he taught courses on Real-Time Systems, Computer Architectures, Industrial Informatics, and directed the robotics laboratory of the Computer Science department.
Since 2001, he is leading a research activity on Adaptive Real-Time Systems within the ARTIST Network of Excellence, coordinating 10 European universities. In 2003, he was a co-founder of Evidence s.r.l. (http://www.evidence.eu.com), a spin-off company of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna providing software solutions for real-time embedded systems. Prof. Buttazzo has been Program Chair and General Chair of the major international conferences on real-time systems, including the IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), the Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS), and the ACMConference on Embedded Software (EmSoft). He has authored 6 books on real-time systems and over 200 papers in the field of real-time systems, robotics, and neural networks.
The most significant research results achieved by Prof. Buttazzo concern the development of novel realtime algorithms for the joint scheduling of periodic and aperiodic tasks, and efficient methods for handling overload and overruns in real-time systems. Moreover, he supervised the development of innovative real-time kernels (HARTIK and SHARK) characterized by high predictability, configurability, and modularity. For the importance of results achieved in his research, in 2005 Prof. Buttazzo became Senior Member of IEEE.
Krithi Ramamritham received the Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Utah and then joined the University of Massachusetts. He is currently at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay as the Vijay and Sita Vashee Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Ramamritham's interests span the areas of real-time systems, database systems, and real-time databases systems. He is applying concepts from these areas to solve problems in embedded systems, mobile computing, e-commerce, intelligent internet, and theWeb. He has served on the editorial board of the Real-Time Systems Journal since its inception. His other editorial board contributions include IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Internet Computing, the WWW Journal, the Distributed and Parallel Databases journal, and the VLDB Journal. His conference chairing duties include the IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium - as Program Chair in 1994 and as General Chair in 1995. He has co-authored two IEEE tutorial texts on real-time systems, a text on advances in database transaction processing, and a text on scheduling in real-time systems. Prof. Ramamritham is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the ACM, and a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.
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Stankovic, J.A., Halang, W.A., Man, KF. et al. Editorial. Real-Time Syst 32, 5–7 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11241-006-6900-9
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