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CALL FOR PAPERS


32nd Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS'20)


July 7-10, 2020 | Modena, Italy | ecrts.org


Submission deadline: February 6, 2020 (23:59 UTC-12)

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ECRTS is the premier European venue for presenting research into the broad area of real-time systems. Along with RTSS and RTAS, ECRTS ranks as one of the top three international conferences on this topic. ECRTS has been at the forefront of recent innovations in the real-time community such as artifact evaluation and open access proceedings.

ECRTS 2020 will be held July 7-10, 2020 in Modena, Italy.

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SCOPE AND TOPICS OF INTEREST

Papers on all aspects of real-time systems are welcome. This covers not only hard real-time systems but also time-sensitive systems in general. Typical applications are found in the classical domains of embedded and cyber-physical systems but also beyond, and include automotive, avionics, telecommunications, healthcare, robotics, space, etc. To be in scope, papers must address some form of timing requirement.

We welcome theoretical and practical contributions (including tools, benchmarks and case studies) to the state of the art in the design, implementation, verification and validation of real-time systems. This includes, but is not limited to:

- scheduling design and analysis
- real-time operating systems, hypervisors and middleware
- memory management and bus contention
- worst-case execution time analysis
- networks and communication protocols
- formal models and analysis techniques for real-time systems
- interplay between real-time and other aspects
(security, safety, control, power/energy/thermal management, etc.)
- mixed-criticality design and assurance
- hardware/software co-design
- programming languages and compilers
- virtualization and timing isolation

This year, we invite specifically papers focusing on improving the resilience of real-time and embedded systems against accidental and malicious faults.

The models, assumptions and application scenarios used in the paper must be properly motivated. Whenever relevant, we strongly encourage authors to present experimental results (preferably based on real data, but synthetic test cases are permitted) and/or to demonstrate applicability of their approach to real systems (examples can be found at ecrts.org/industrialchallenge). We encourage open-source initiatives and computer-assisted proofs in order to increase confidence in practical and theoretical results and to improve their reusability.

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CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS

ECRTS 2020 will feature a number of Satellite Workshops, a session on Industrial Challenges, Work-In-Progress, Journal-to-Conference presentations and extends a special welcome for first-time attendees. ECRTS will also award best and outstanding papers accepted at the conference.

Open access: We believe that a conference serves the research community and the public best when results are accessible to the largest audience without restrictions. All accepted papers will be published again this year under open access in collaboration with LIPIcs (Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics), with no additional costs.

Artifact evaluation: To improve reproducibility of results, authors of accepted papers with a computational component will be invited to submit their code and/or their data to an optional artifact evaluation process.

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LOCAL INFORMATION

Modena is a city of Emilia-Romagna, a region of northern Italy, with a population of 180 thousand people. It's an ancient town but today it is known for its automotive industry and its cuisine. Since the factories of the famous Italian sports car makers Ferrari, De Tomaso, Lamborghini, Pagani, and Maserati are located here and all, except Lamborghini, have headquarters in the city or nearby, the region is also known as the MotorValley of Italy. Its culinary hallmarks range from humble but beloved "gnocco fritto" (fried dough) to the celebrated restaurant Osteria Francescana run by Massimo Bottura, heralded as the best in the world. The most famous products of the city are balsamic vinegar, Parmesan, Lambrusco, Pignoletto, tigelle or handmade pasta as tortellini or tortelloni. The University of Modena, founded in 1175 is the second oldest athenaeum in Italy and one of the oldest universities in the world. Regarding culture, the Cathedral of Modena, the Torre della Ghirlandina and Piazza Grande are a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997, while regarding music, the city gave birth to classical tenor Pavarotti but also to the rocker Vasco Rossi.

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IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: February 6, 2020 (23:59 UTC-12) - firm
Notification: March 26, 2020
Workshops: July 7, 2020
Conference: July 8-10, 2020

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ORGANIZERS

General Chair
Marko Betogna, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy

Local Organization Chair
Micaela Verucchi, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy

Program Chair
Marcus Voelp, SnT, University of Luxembourg

Real-Time Technical Committee Chair
Gerhard Fohler, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany

Program Committee

Benny Akesson, ESI (TNO) / University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Sebastian Altmeyer, University of Augsburg, Germany
Sanjoy Baruah, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Andrea Bastoni, SYSGO GmbH, Germany
Marko Bertogna, UNIMORE, Italy
Timothy Bourke, INRIA Paris, France
Björn Brandenburg, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany
Francisco J. Cazorla, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Johan Eker, Lund University and Ericsson, Swede
Rolf Ernst, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Nathan Fisher, Wayne State University, USA
Gerhard Fohler, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany
Steve Goddard, University of Iowa, USA
Joël Goossens, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Angeliki Kritikakou, University Rennes, France
Adam Lackorzynski, Kernkonzept GmbH and TU Dresden, Germany
George Lima, Federal University of Bahia, Brasil
Martina Maggio, Lund University, Sweden
Geoffrey Nelissen, CISTER, ISEP, Portugal
Ramon Serna Oliver, TTTech, Austria
Claire Pagetti, ONERA/ENSEEIHT, France
Alessandro Vittorio Papadopoulos, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Isabelle Puaut, University of Rennes and INRIA, France
Rodolfo Pellizzoni, University of Waterloo, Canada
Sophie Quinton, INRIA Paris, France
Gordana Rakic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Christine Rochange, University of Toulouse, France
Jean-Luc Scharbarg, University of Toulouse - IRIT - INPT/ENSEEIHT, France
Patrick Meumeu Yomsi, CISTER Research Centre, ISEP, Portugal
Dirk Ziegenbein, Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany