[I-RIM ML] ECRTS 2026: Second Call for Papers - Start Preparing your Submissions!
Daniel Casini
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Mon Jan 12 16:38:49 CET 2026
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Call for Papers
38th EUROMICRO Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 26)
July 7-10, 2026 | Lund, Sweden | www.ecrts.org
Submission deadline: February 26, 2026 (23:59AoE)
Submission website: https://es.sonicurlprotection-fra.com/click?PV=2&MSGID=202601121547030211639&URLID=28&ESV=10.0.28.7941&IV=41C7C2ED1239427B7B5C07464BE893CF&TT=1768232825366&ESN=%2F%2B9cUaiJay2EXRU5QS5s%2FkVhU0SnnzzdjK6MBZqvomk%3D&KV=1536961729280&B64_ENCODED_URL=aHR0cHM6Ly9lY3J0czI2LmhvdGNycC5jb20v&HK=81E27DF02DC225A2C0BC212A7A453DAB157B49EB9A15A1599725B3A4394349C3
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ECRTS is the premier European venue in the area of real-time systems and,
alongside RTSS and RTAS, ranks as one of the top three international
conferences on this topic. ECRTS has a rich history, with the first edition
held in 1989 and this year’s edition being the 38th run of this annual
event. As in previous editions, ECRTS attracts researchers from both
academia and industry whose work tackles foundational and practical
challenges at the intersection of real-time scheduling, time-critical
systems, real-time operating systems, hardware/software co-design, security
in time-sensitive systems, real-time networking, AI and machine learning
methods for real-time systems, and more.
ECRTS 2026 will be held as a physical conference on July 7-10, 2026 in
Lund, Sweden
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IMPORTANT DATES (All Deadlines are AoE)
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Submission Deadline: Thursday, February 26, 2026
Notification of Acceptance: Monday, April 20, 2026
Camera-ready Deadline: Tuesday, May 05, 2026
Conference: July 7--10, 2026
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SCOPE AND TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Papers on all aspects of timing requirements in computer systems are
welcome. Systems of interest include not only hard real-time systems but
also time-sensitive systems in general (e.g., systems with soft
requirements expressed in terms of tail latency, latency SLAs, QoS
expectations, etc.). Typical applications are found not only in classical
embedded and cyber-physical systems, but also increasingly in cloud or edge
computing contexts and often stem from domains such as automotive,
avionics, telecommunications, healthcare, robotics, and space systems,
among others.
To be in scope, papers must address some form of timing requirement,
broadly construed. Prospective first-time authors are encouraged to
familiarize themselves with works accepted in past editions of the
conference, which are publicly available at
drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/conference/ECRTS
*NEW FOR 2026: TWO TRACKS*
ECRTS welcomes both theoretical and practical contributions (including
tools, benchmarks, and case studies) to the state of the art in the design,
implementation, verification, and validation of time-sensitive systems:
*1. Foundations & Theory track:* This track welcomes contributions
advancing the theory, methodology, and formal analysis of real-time and
time-sensitive systems.
*2. Practical Systems & Tools track:* This track highlights tools,
implementations, and real-world experience, including tools supporting
analysis, scheduling, or design of time-sensitive systems, implementations
and prototypes, industrial case studies and lessons learned from real
deployments.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- all elements of time-sensitive SOFTWARE SYSTEMS, including operating
systems, hypervisors, middlewares and frameworks, programming languages and
compilers, runtime environments, networks and communication protocols, etc.;
- COMPUTER HARDWARE design and hardware/software integration for embedded
systems, including time-predictable hardware architecture, GPU and
accelerators, FPGA prototyping, SoC design, novel memory architectures,
hardware/software co-design, etc.;
- REAL-TIME NETWORKS: including wired and wireless sensor and actuator
networks, Time-Sensitive Networks (TSN), industrial IoT, Software Defined
Network (SDN), 5G, end-to-end latency analysis, etc.;
- REAL-TIME APPLICATIONS, including modeling, design, simulation, testing,
debugging, and evaluation in domains such as automotive, avionics, control
systems, industrial automation, robotics, space, railways
telecommunications, multimedia, etc.;
- foundational SCHEDULING and PREDICTABILITY questions, including
schedulability analysis, algorithm design, synchronization protocols,
computational complexity, temporal isolation, probabilistic guarantees,
multi-core scheduling, resource co-scheduling, etc.;
- static and dynamic techniques for RESOURCE DEMAND ESTIMATION, including
stochastic and classic worst-case execution time (WCET) analysis, analyses
to bound memory and bandwidth needs, and methods for determining the
energy, power, or thermal footprint of real-time applications, etc.;
- MACHINE LEARNING techniques in safety-critical systems, including
explainable AI, the application of machine learning to the design and
optimization of real-time systems, methods for real-time AI computing, etc.;
- FORMAL METHODS for the verification and validation of real-time systems,
including model checking, computer-assisted proofs, and runtime monitoring
systems, etc.;
- SECURITY aspects of real-time systems, including techniques to strengthen
security guarantees, concerns that affect the operation of safety-critical
systems, privacy-enhancing techniques, methodologies to protect the
temporal envelope of critical software against malicious threats, etc.;
- the interplay of timing predictability and other NON-FUNCTIONAL QUALITIES
such as reliability, quality of control, energy/power consumption,
environmental impact, testability, scalability, etc.
The above list of topics is intended only as a coarse summary of recent
proceedings and should not be understood as an exclusive list of interests.
On the contrary, papers breaking new ground, departing from established
subfields, or challenging the status quo are most welcome and highly
encouraged.
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OPEN ACCESS
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The ECRTS organizers and community strongly believe that a conference best
serves the research community and the public when results are accessible to
the largest audience without restrictions. In line with this belief, all
accepted papers will be published again this year as open-access
proceedings in collaboration with LIPIcs (Leibniz International Proceedings
in Informatics). Once published, the proceedings of ECRTS 2026 will be
publicly accessible at drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/conference/ECRTS where
the previous proceedings since 2017 are available.
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PAPER SUBMISSION
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Submitted manuscripts are limited to 20 pages of technical content,
excluding the bibliography. Every accepted paper must be presented by one
of the authors at the conference.
ECRTS papers follow the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics
paper template. You can download the LIPIcs template and see the
typesetting instructions here:
https://es.sonicurlprotection-fra.com/click?PV=2&MSGID=202601121547030211639&URLID=27&ESV=10.0.28.7941&IV=EAC2CA3A358A267F60F3250CAF444F38&TT=1768232825366&ESN=GZ5Mn2Y%2BKt6PAtMf0V2mO4LQddCweNzBqhfwD21ZReM%3D&KV=1536961729280&B64_ENCODED_URL=aHR0cHM6Ly9zdWJtaXNzaW9uLmRhZ3N0dWhsLmRlL3Nlcmllcy9kZXRhaWxzLzUjYXV0aG9y&HK=EE894EB7C037C8CF1CCDF501FA511885022D26D5339E0AD33C7500C8B62EA44E
To submit a paper to ECRTS, please carefully review and follow the
submission instructions and guidelines:
https://es.sonicurlprotection-fra.com/click?PV=2&MSGID=202601121547030211639&URLID=26&ESV=10.0.28.7941&IV=731DF3A1387C3D3A0C6D184CDAC09158&TT=1768232825366&ESN=w6fTEYSZj8%2BZrZJrkuQ%2B1jPzVjWEE0uF4iLKlpCZMGY%3D&KV=1536961729280&B64_ENCODED_URL=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZWNydHMub3JnL3N1Ym1pc3Npb24taW5zdHJ1Y3Rpb25zLw&HK=60AA4E19D1B71A07A69316A50466CB864849BDE0CA8FFEBF73DBC5BF84FB3B1C
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DOUBLE-BLIND PEER REVIEWING
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In the interest of maximizing fairness and the meritocratic nature of the
evaluation process, ECRTS will follow a double-blind peer reviewing
process. Authors will submit blinded manuscripts (that do not reveal author
identity or affiliation), and reviewers will not be made aware of author
identities.
See the double-blind submission policy for more details:
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ARTIFACT EVALUATION
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To improve the results' reproducibility and encourage reuse, 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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