Subcommittee on  Real-Time Fault Tlerant Systems in Industrial & Factory Automation   Chairs:   Nicolas Navet, INRIA, Nancy, France Thomas Nolte, Mälardalen University, Sweden Scope: Real-time systems design, Real-time scheduling and resource management, Real-time systems testing and debugging, Software engineering for real-time systems, Real-time operating-systems, Real-time middlewares and communication networks, Worst-case execution time analysis, Response time analysis, Timing constraints, Formal methods for real-time systems, Fault-tolerant systems, Fault-tolerant computing.

Nicolas Navet is a researcher at INRIA (Nancy, France) since 2000. Before joining the INRIA, he was with Gemplus Research Labs working on operating systems for smartcards. His research interests include real-time scheduling, the design  of communication protocols for real-time and fault-tolerant data transmission,  and dependability evaluation when transient faults may occur (e.g., EMI). Since a few years, he has been also involved in Artificial Intelligence and joined the AI-ECON Research Center in Taiwan (http://www.aiecon.org) in November 2005 where he spent one year as visiting researcher.  Since 1996, he has worked on numerous projects and contracts with automotive manufacturers and suppliers. He is the founder of RealTime-at-Work (http://www.realtimeatwork.com), a company dedicated to provide services and software tools that help real-time system designers optimize the hardware resource utilization and verify that dependability constraints are met. He is author or co-author of 70+ refereed publications and received the CAN in Automation International Users and Manufacturers Group research award in 1997 as well as 5 other distinctions (e.g., best papers awards).  He was the chairman of RTS’2005 and ETR’2005, program Co-Chair of IFIP EUC’2007, IEEE SIES’2007, IEEE SIES'2008, general Co-Chair of RTNS’2007, track Co-Chair  at IEEE ETFA’2006, WiP Co-Chair of IEEE WFCS'2008 and Publicity Co-Chair at IEEE RTCSA'2008. He is currently member of the editorial board of the Journal of Embedded Computing and has served in 3 other journal boards. He was editor of four books, guest editor of two journal special issues and has served in the program committee of 45+ conferences and workshops. Since September 2004, he is vice-team leader of the INRIA TRIO group (Real-Time and Interoperability).   Nicolas NAVET has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Berlin (Germany)  and a PhD in Computer Science from the Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine (France). More information on his work can be found at url http://www.loria.fr/~nnavet. Contact email address: n.navet@iestcfa.org   Thomas Nolte received his B.Eng., M.Sc., Licentiate, and Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from the Department of Computer Science and Electronics at Mälardalen University (MDH), Sweden, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2006 respectively. Currently, Thomas holds a position as the Project Leader of the PROGRESS Centre for Predictable Embedded Software Systems at Mälardalen Real-Time Research Centre (MRTC), at MDH. Moreover, he is working as a Researcher in the Real-Time Systems Design group, active in the HISCORE project supported by the Swedish Research Council (VR), several PROGRESS projects and the SAVE++ project, supported by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF). Thomas history at MDH includes being the Leader of the Systems Design Laboratory (~30 persons) at the Department of Computer Science and Electronics (September 2006–August 2007), Member of the Graduate Education Committee of the Faculty Board for Natural Sciences and Engineering (since October 2004), Ph.D. Student Ombudsman for all Ph.D. students at MDH (July 2003–June 2005), Chair of the Ph.D. Student Council (July 2003–June 2005), and Thesis Coordinator (Bachelor and Master Theses) at the Department of Computer Science and Electronics (October 2002–June 2006). In the research community, Thomas has been active as general co-chair for RTiS’07, program co-chair for the real-time and (networked) embedded systems track at ETFA’08, program co-chair of WIP at WFCS’08, program committee member at RTSS’08, RTCSA’07, WFCS’08, ETFA’06’07, SIES’07’08, RTiS’07, APRES’08, and WIP at RTAS’06. He has been a technical reviewer of numerous conferences and journals. During first half of 2002, Thomas was a Visiting Researcher at University of California, Irvine (UCI), USA, supported by ARTES and LM Ericsson’s Research Foundation, and during autumn 2004, as well as between February and August 2006, he was a Visiting Researcher at University of Catania, Italy, supported by MRTC and ARTIST2 respectively. Contact email address: t.nolte@iestcfa.org