Research Projects

• PARTS: Power Management for Real-Time Systems. University of Pittsburgh (Research funded by DARPA / ITO Power-Aware Computing and Communication (PACC) program.)  2000-2004.
• FORTS: Fault Tolerant Real-Time Systems. University of Pittsburgh (DARPA / ITO embeddable systems program. )  1999-2002
• 1998- . Integration of Adaptive Fault Tolerance and Scheduling in Real-Time Systems. In Collaboration with Dr. Daniel Mosse, University of Pittsburgh. 
• 1999-2001. Red de Informatica-CONACyT (Mexico). "Infrastructure Project" 
• 1998-2000 . CINVESTAV-Mexico. Real-Time Scheduling for Process Control Systems. Young Researchers Grant. CINVESTAV-IPN. 
• Diseño de Sistemas Operativos de Tiempo Real con Manejo de Energia. Proyecto SEP-CONACyT 2003-2005: No. 42151.
• Development of Risk Assesment Models and Methods for Networked Information Systems. Proyecto NSF-CONACyT No. 2003-C03-42449.

Publications

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Citations to our work (July. 17. 2006)

Journal Papers and Book Chapters

1. “Adaptive Scheduling Server for Power-Aware Real-Time Tasks” , Mejia-Alvarez P., Levner E., Mosse D, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems. May. 2004.
2. "Power Aware Scheduling for Periodic Real-Time Tasks",   Aydin, H. Melhem R., Mosse, D., Mejia-Alvarez P. IEEE Transactions  on Computers, May 2004.
3. "An Incremental Server for Scheduling  Overloaded Real-Time Systems" , Mejia-Alvarez, P., Melhem R., Mosse, D., Aydin H. IEEE Transactions  on Computers, October 2003.
4. An Integrated Heuristic Approach to Power-Aware Real-Time Scheduling", Mejia-Alvarez. P. Levner E., Mosse D.  Workshop on Power-Aware Computer Systems. PACS 02. Feb, 2002. Springer Verlag's Lecture Notes on  Computer Science Series (LNCS 2325)
5. Scheduling Fault Recovery Operations in Real-Time Systems. Pedro Mejia. Computación y Sistemas, Revista del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México Septiembre 2002.
6. "Optimal Reward-Based Scheduling for Periodic Real-Time Tasks" , Aydin, H., Melhem R., Mosse, D., Mejia-Alvarez P. IEEE Transactions on Computers. February 2001.
7. "Tolerancia a Fallos en Sistemas de Tiempo Real."  Novatica Journal, Spain. September 1997. pp 37-451997.

Proceedings: Refereed Conferences

8. Abnormal Events Handling for Dependable Embedded Systems, Luis E. Leyva-del-Foyo, Pedro Mejia-Alvarez, and Dionisio de Niz, , IEEE Sixth Mexican International Conference on Computer Science (ENC 2006). San Luis Potosi, Mexico, Septiembre 2006.
9. Interrupt Management for Real Time Kernels over conventional PC Hardware, Luis E. Leyva-del-Foyo, Pedro Mejia-Alvarez, and Dionisio de Niz, , IEEE Sixth Mexican International Conference on Computer Science (ENC 2006). San Luis Potosi, Mexico, Septiembre 2006.
10. Predictable Interrupt Scheduling with Low Overhead for Real Time Kernels, Luis E. Leyva-del-Foyo¹, Pedro Mejia-Alvarez, and Dionisio de Niz, The 12th IEEE International Conference on
    Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA 2006) , Sydney, Australia, 16-18 Aug. 2006.
11. Predictable Interrupt Management for Real Time Kernels over conventional PC Hardware, Luis E. Leyva-del-Foyo, Pedro Mejia-Alvarez, and Dionisio de Niz, 12th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2006) , April 4 - April 7, 2006, San Jose, California , USA.
12. Aligning Exception Handling with Design-by-Contract in Embedded Real-Time Systems Development, Luis E. Leyva-del-Foyo, Pedro Mejia-Alvarez, and Dionisio de Niz, European Conference on Object Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2005), Workshop Exception Handling in Object Oriented Systems. July 25, 2005, Glasgow, UK.
13. Leticia Davila Nicanor, Pedro Mejia Alvarez, Reliability Evaluation of Web-Based Software Applications, IEEE Fifth Mexican International Conference on Computer Science (ENC 2005). Pueba, Mexico, 26-30 de Septiembre 2005.
14. Alberto Soria-Lopez, Pedro Mejia-Alvarez, Julio Cornejo, Feedback Scheduling of Power-Aware Soft Real-Time Tasks, IEEE Fifth Mexican International Conference on Computer Science (ENC 2005). Puebla, Mexico, 26-30 de Septiembre 2005.
15. Custom Interrupt Management for Real-Time and Embedded System Kernels, L. E. Leyva del Foyo, P. Mejia-Alvarez, Embedded Real-Time Systems Implementation (ERTSI 2004) Workshop, in conjunction with the 25th IEEE International Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS04) , December 5-8, 2004 Lisbon, Portugal.
16. Reliability Improvement of Web-Based Applications. Leticia Davila-Nicanor, Pedro Mejia-Alvarez, IEEE Fourth International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC 2004), Braunschweig, Germany, Sept. 8-10, 2004
17. "Analysis of Real-Time Multiprocessors Scheduling Algorithms" ,Omar U. Pereira Zapata, Mejia-Alvarez, P. Proceedings of the Real Time Systems Symposium. Dec. 2003. Cancun Q.Roo, Mexico.
18. Evaluacion de la Calidad del Software en Sistemas de Informacion en Internet. Leticia Davila, Pedro Mejia-Alvarez. Congreso de Ingenieria Electrica CIE 2003, CINVESTAV-IPN. Septiembre 2003.
19. Kernel de Tiempo Real para Control de Procesos. Oscar Miranda, Pedro Mejia-Alvarez. Congreso de Ingenieria Electrica, CIE 2003, CINVESTAV-IPN. Septiembre 2003.
20. "Scheduling Power-Aware Real-Time Tasks with Precedence Constraints" Mejia-Alvarez, P., Silva-Lopez H. Proceedings of the Real Time Systems Symposium. Dec. 2002. Austin, TX. USA.
21. Power-Optimized Scheduling Server for  Real-Time Tasks, Mejia-Alvarez, P., Levner. E, Mosse D. Proceedings of the 8th Real-Time and Embedded Technology and  Applications Symposium. San Jose, CA, September 2002.
22. "Dynamic and Aggressive Scheduling  Techniques for Power-Aware  Real-Time Systems". Aydin, H,  Melhem R., Mosse, D., Mejia-Alvarez P.   Proceedings of the Real Time Systems Symposium.Dec. 2001.London U.K
23. "Determining Optimal Processor Speeds for Periodic Real-Time Tasks with Different Power Characteristics", Aydin, H, Melhem R., Mosse, D., Mejia-Alvarez P.   Proceedings of the 13th Euromicro  Conference on Real-Time Systems, Technical University of Delft, Delft, The Netherlands,  June 13th - 15th, 2001 
24. "An Incremental Approach to Scheduling during Overloads in Real-Time Systems", Mejia-Alvarez, P.,  Melhem R., Mosse, D. Proceedings of the Real Time Systems Symposium. Orlando Florida. Dec. 2000.
25. "Scheduling Optional Computations in Fault-Tolerant Real-Time Systems." , Mejia-Alvarez P,  Aydin, H., Mosse, D., Melhem R. Proceedings of the Real Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA). Korea Dec. 2000. 
26. "Optimal Reward-Based Scheduling of Periodic Real-Time Tasks" Aydin, H., Melhem R., Mosse, D., Mejia-Alvarez P. Proceeding of the Real Time Systems Symposium. Dec. 1999. Phoenix, Arizona.
27. "Responsivenees Approach for Fault Recovery Operations in Real Time Systems."  Mejia, Pedro. Mosse Daniel. Real Time Technology and Applications Symposium. June 1999. Vancouver Canada.
28. "Achieving Predictability and Responsiveness of Fault Recovery Operations in Real-Time Systems." Mejia, Pedro, Juan A. De la Puente.    Proceedings of the Real-Time Systems Symposium (WIP); San Francisco CA. December 1997.
29. "Real-Time Control Specialization Course: A program for the Master and Doctorate in Computer Science".
    Mejia. Pedro. B. Ferro.  Real Time Systems Education. IEEE Computer Society Press. Dec.1997. 
30. "Planificacion de Tareas de Tiempo Real Tolerantes a Fallos".  Mejia-Pedro.  Primer Encuentro de Computacion ENC 97 (First National Conference in Computing). Sept, 1997. 
31. "Towards the Creation of the CIC's Real Time Systems Laboratory".  Mejia. Pedro. B. Ferro.  Real Time Systems Education. IEEE Computer Society Press. July 1996. pp 63-72.
32. "A Neural Control of Power Factor Preregulators",  D.S.L. Simonetti, G. Bevilaqua, P. Mejia, J. Uceda,  Proceedings of the IECON (Industrial Electronics Conference); Hawaii. USA. 1994. 
33. "QRS Detection Using Characteristic-feature analysis using a Neural Network Approach."  G. Bevilaqua, P. Mejia, R, Ruiz, Proceedings of the World Congress on Medical  Informatics and Biomedical Engineering. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1994.
34. "SOPCO-86. An Embedded Real-Time Operating System", 
    Mejia Pedro,  IV Congreso Latinoamericano de Control Automatico, Nov. 1990, Puebla, Mexico. 
35. "Desarrollo de una Computadora Multiprocesadores y sus Herramientas de Desarrollo para Equipos de Adquisicion de Datos". G. Gutierrez, O. Gonzalez, D. Morales, V. Zarate, A. Hidalgo, E. Tenorio, F. Gonzalez, O. Huerta, P. Mejia. Summer Power Meeting of the IEEE. July, 1990. Acapulco Gro. Mexico.

Technical Reports

36. Comparative Analysis of Real-Time Scheduling Algorithms on One Processor under Rate Monotonic, Omar U. Pereira Zapata, Pedro Mej¶³a Alvarez, Luis E. Leyva del Foyo, Report No. CINVESTAV-CS-RTG-01. CINVESTAV-IPN, Sección de Computación.
37. EDF and RM Multiprocessor Scheduling Algorithms: Survey and Performance Evaluation, Omar U. Pereira Zapata, Pedro Mejia Alvarez, Report No. CINVESTAV-CS-RTG-02. CINVESTAV-IPN, Sección de Computación.