The designs of high-performance operating systems and adaptive applications must take into account a wide variety of constraints: performance, code size, presence of real-time tasks, maintainability, and possibly scalability. This special issue provides a forum for the presentation of high-quality, original research covering all aspects of Operating systems and Adaptive Applications design, analysis, implementation, evaluation, and case-studies. Solutions might be proposed at different levels of abstractions, making use of an assortment of tools and methodologies. Researchers and practitioners would have a chance to propose new ideas and to compare experimentations. Major topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• Operating systems and adaptive applications practice
• Networking, storage simulation techniques for operating systems
• Distributed operating systems or parallel operating systems
• Embedded operating systems and adaptive applications for mobile computing
• Testing, debugging, profiling, and performance analysis for operating systems
• Special-purpose appliances and applications
• Fault tolerance and robustness for operating systems
• Scheduling and discrete optimization of systems with timing constraints
• Schedulability analysis of real-time applications
• System Security
• Modeling issues and case studies

This special issue of JISE Journal will be devoted to Operating Systems and Adaptive Applications. It is meant primarily to contain papers presented at the OSAA Track of ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2007 and 2008. Nevertheless the special issue is open to submission of papers from other authors.


Prospective authors are invited to submit research contributions representing original, previously unpublished work. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Authors should follow the JISE (http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/page/jise/InstructiontoAuthors.html) manuscript format as described in the Information for the Authors. Five copies of complete double spaced manuscripts and an electronic file using Word, or plain text should be sent to the Guest Editor Dr. Sung Y. Shin, Sung.shin@sdstate.edu, with clear indication that submission is for the Journal of Information Science and Engineering. All manuscripts should include a title page containing the title of the paper, full names and affiliations, complete postal and electronic addresses, phone and fax numbers, an abstract, and allots of keywords. The contacting author should be clearly identified.

Paper Submission Deadline: September 30, 2008

Acceptance Notification: December 31, 2008

Final Manuscript Due: February 28, 2009

Publication Date: September, 2009 (Tentative)

Guest Editors

• Prof. Sung Shin
  EE & Computer Science Department
  South Dakota State University
  Brookings, SD 57007 USA
  Sung.shin@sdstate.edu
  
  
• Prof. Tei-Wei Kuo
  Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
  National Taiwan University
  Taiwan, ROC
  ktw@csie.ntu.edu.tw
  
  
• Prof. Jiman Hong
  Director, Embedded Operating Systems Lab.
  School of Computing
  Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea
  jiman@ssu.ac.kr