The Ptolemy project (http://ptolemy.org) studies modeling, simulation,
and design of concurrent, real-time, embedded systems. The focus is on
assembly of concurrent components.

The Ptolemy Miniconference is an opportunity for research
collaborators and Ptolemy users and extenders from industry, academia,
and government to get together, present their work to the Ptolemy
community, and hear about related research and results. It is
typically held every two years.

This year, we have again asked the Kepler community to give
presentations and posters. Kepler (http://www.kepler-project.org) is a
cross-project collaboration to develop open source tools for
Scientific Workflows and is currently based on the Ptolemy II system
for heterogeneous concurrent modeling nd design.

In addition, the miniconference will act as an annual meeting for the
Center for Hybrid and Embedded Software Systems
(CHESS, http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu)

We will hold a Ptolemy Ptutorial for Java programmers on April 15, 2009.

Cyber-Physical Systems Week (http://www.cpsweek.org) is being held in
San Francisco earlier in the week.

At Miniconferences in the past we have had presentations and
posters from organizations worldwide, plus members of the Ptolemy
project describing current research at Berkeley.

Topics of interest for this year include:
* Applications of Ptolemy II or Kepler
* Model-based design techniques
* Concurrency models
* Applications of concurrency to multicore and distributed
computing
* Code generation for embedded systems
* Model engineering methods
* Models of computation
* Workflow infrastructure
* Model transformation
* Model verification
* Semantics of models
* Performance evaluations
* Comparisons of model-based design tools
* Integration of multiple design tools
* Static analysis of models
* Provenance tracking techniques
* Data visualization and data management
* Visual syntaxes for models

If you have suggestions for posters and presentations, please send an
abstract to
ptconf09 at ptolemy dot eecs dot berkeley dot edu
by January 9, 2009