11, Mar, 2014 16:00-17:00 (1 hour)
CISTER, Porto, Portugal
Homepage: http://www.cs.unc.edu/cms/our-people/faculty/sanjoy-k.-baruah

ABSTRACT:
In the context of computer systems, scheduling theory seeks to ensure the efficient utilization of computing resources in order to optimize specified system-wide objectives. In this presentation we will examine how scheduling theory is dealing with the recent trend in embedded systems towards implementing functionalities of different levels of importance (or criticalities) upon a shared platform. We will explore the factors that motivated this trend towards mixed-criticality systems, discuss how these systems pose new challenges to real-time scheduling theory, and describe how real-time scheduling theory is responding to these challenges by devising new models and methods for the design and analysis of such systems.

SHORT BIO: Sanjoy Baruah is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1993. His research and teaching interests are in scheduling theory, real-time and safety-critical system design, and resource-allocation and sharing in distributed computing environments.