Analyzing and Managing Timeliness and Importance in Dynamic Systems, from Sensors to CEO 2014

Key Topics

• Use of deadlines in peoples` personal and professional lives
• Latency and system state as the essence of distributed systems
• Basic time/utility functions
• Predictability as a continuum, and determinism as the most predictable end-point on the continuum
• Scheduling vs. dispatching
• Mapping and priorities binary unit-valued deadlines into priorities
• Deadlines in scheduling theory; earliness, tardiness, lateness
• Misunderstandings of deadlines by the real-time computing research and practitioner communities
• Scheduling and dispatching optimality criteria
• Deadline syntax vs. deadline semantics
• Scheduling complexity and unsolvable problems, necessitating heuristics
• Scheduling theory algorithms for deadline-constrained activities
• Utility accrual as the optimality criterion for time/utility functions

Who should Attend

• Staff and Management Responsible for Planning and Scheduling time-constrained activities
• Programmers, and Managers of system or Software Development Organizations
• Software Engineers
• System Engineers