@INPROCEEDINGS{andersoj:jtres06,
  key = {andersoj:jtres06},
  author = {Jonathan S. Anderson and E. Douglas Jensen},
  title  = {The Distributed Real-Time Specification for {J}ava: A Status Report},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Java Technologies for Real-time and Embedded Systems (JTRES 2006)},
  publisher = {},
  year      = {2006},
  url       = {http://andersoj.org/papers/drtsj-jtres06-final.pdf},
  pages     = {UNKNOWN},
  month     = {October},
  note      = {Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM)
Paris, France, 11-13 October 2006},
  abstract = {The Distributed Real-Time Specification for Java (DRTSJ)
  is underdevelopment within Sun's Java Community Process (JCP) as
  Java Specification Request 50 (JSR-50), lead by the MITRE
  Corporation. We present the engineering considerations and design
  decisions settled by the Expert Group, the current and proposed form
  of the Reference Implementation, and a summary of open issues. In
  particular, we present an approach to integrating the distributable
  threads programming model with the Real-Time Specification for Java
  and discuss the ramifications for composing distributed, real-time
  systems in Java.  The Expert Group plans to release an initial Early
  Draft Review (EDR) for previewing the distributable threads
  abstraction in the coming months, which we describe in detail. Along
  with that EDR, we will make available a demonstration application
  from Virginia Tech, and a DRTSJ-compatible RTSJ VM from Apogee.}
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{andersoj:srds06,
  key = {andersoj:srds06},
  author = {Edward Curley and Jonathan S. Anderson and Binoy Ravindran and E. Douglas Jensen},
  title  = {Recovering from Distributable Thread Failures with Assured Timeliness in Real-Time Distributed Systems},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 25th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS'06)},
  publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
  year      = {2006},
  url       = {http://www.real-time.ece.vt.edu/srds06.pdf},
  isbn      = {0-7695-2677-2},
  issn      = {1060-9857},
  pages     = {267-276},
  month     = {October},
  abstract = {We consider the problem of recovering from failures of
  distributable threads with assured timeliness.  When a node hosting
  a portion of a distributable thread fails, it causes
  orphans---i.e., thread segments that are disconnected from
  the thread's root. We consider a termination model for recovering
  from such failures, where the orphans must be detected and aborted,
  and failure-exception notification must be delivered to the
  farthest, contiguous surviving thread segment for resuming thread
  execution.  We present a real-time scheduling algorithm called
  AUA, and a distributable thread integrity protocol called
  TPTR. We show that AUA and TPTR bound the orphan cleanup
  and recovery time, thereby bounding thread starvation durations, and
  maximize the total thread accrued timeliness utility. We implement
  AUA and TPTR in a real-time middleware that supports
  distributable threads. Our experimental studies with the
  implementation validate the algorithm/protocol's time-bounded
  recovery property and confirm their effectiveness.},
  keywords = { distributable thread, thread maintenance and recovery,
  time/utility function, utility accrual scheduling}
}

@MISC{andersoj:srds06-slides,
  key = {andersoj:srds06-slides},
  author = {Jonathan S. Anderson and Edward Curley 
            and Binoy Ravindran and E. Douglas Jensen},
  title  = {Real-time Recovery from Distributable Thread Failures},
  year      = {2006},
  url       = {http://andersoj.org/papers/realtime-dt-integrity-srds06.pdf},
  month     = {October},
  note      = {Foils for Jonathan's SRDS 2006 Presentation}
}

@MISC{andersoj:awinn-final-slides,
  key = {andersoj:awinn-final-slides},
  author = {Jonathan S. Anderson and Binoy Ravindran},
  title  = {{AWINN} Task 2.2 Demonstration: Coastal Air Defense Scenario},
  year      = {2006},
  url       = {http://andersoj.org/papers/20060814-awinn-demo-v8.pdf},
  month     = {August},
  note      = {Foils for our final AWINN Demo Presentation}
}

@ARTICLE{andersoj:toc06,
  author = { Umut Balli and Haisang Wu and Binoy Ravindran and
             Jonathan Anderson and E. Douglas Jensen},
  title = { Utility Accrual Real-Time Scheduling Under Variable Cost Functions},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Computers (To Appear)},
  year = { 2006},
  url  = { http://andersoj.org/papers/toc05-vcf.pdf},
  abstract = {We present a utility accrual real-time scheduling
    algorithm called CIC-VCUA, for tasks whose execution times are
    functions of their starting times (and potentially other
    factors). We model such variable execution times using
    variable cost functions (or VCFs). The algorithm considers
    application activities that are subject to time/utility function
    time constraints, execution times described using VCFs, and mutual
    exclusion constraints on concurrent sharing of non-CPU resources. We
    consider the two-fold scheduling objective of (1) assure that the
  maximum interval between any two consecutive, successful completions
  of job instances in an activity must not exceed the
  activity period (an application-specific objective), and (2)
  maximizing the system's total accrued utility, while satisfying
  mutual exclusion resource constraints. Since the scheduling problem
  is intractable, CIC-VCUA is a polynomial-time heuristic
  algorithm. The algorithm statically computes worst-case task sojourn
  times, dynamically selects tasks for execution based on their
  potential utility density, and completes tasks at specific times. We
  establish that CIC-VCUA achieves optimal timeliness during
  under-loads, and tightly upper bounds inter- and intra-task
  completion times. Our simulation experiments confirm the algorithm's
  effectiveness and superiority. },
  keywords = {variable-cost functions, time/utility functions, utility
    accrual scheduling, real-time scheduling, overload scheduling,
    dynamic scheduling, resource management, mutual exclusion}

}