Subcommittee on  Real-Time Systems in Industrial & Factory Automation   Chair: Christer Norstrom, Mardalen University, Sweden Scope: Real-time systems design and analysis, Real-time scheduling, Real time systems testing & debugging, Real-time operating-systems, Real-time communication, Execution time analysis, Response-time analysis, End-to-end timing analysis, Real-time Ethernet, Industrial issues, Applications.

Dr. Christer Norström is a Professor in software and systems engineering at Mälardalen University, Sweden. He is currently working as Dean at Mälardalen University. He was also a department chairman for the Department of Computer Engineering, Mälardalen University. Previously, he was working as manager for future technology at ABB Automation Technology Products/ Robotics. He is also one of the founding members of the department. He has also worked as a consultant, in particular for the automotive industry. His research interests are design of real-time systems, factory communication, reliability and safety methods, software engineering, and architectures for real-time systems. He is interested in technology transfer from academia to industry, which resulted in a number of  several successful transfers to the automotive industry. Dr. Norström received a Ph.D from Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm in 1997, became Docent at KTH in 2001, and professor at Mälardalen University 2002. In year 2001 he was awarded best teacher at Mälardalen University.   Contact email address: c.norstrom@iestcfa.org