Call for Papers: 37th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS’25)

ECRTS 2025 will be held in Brussels, Belgium, from July 8–11, 2025. The conference will be held physically with streaming possibilities for remote participation.

About ECRTS

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. It has been at the forefront of recent innovations such as artifact evaluation, open access proceedings, industry challenges, and real-time pitches.

Scope and Topics of Interest

Papers on all aspects of timing requirements in computer systems are welcome. This includes hard real-time systems, time-sensitive systems (e.g., systems with soft requirements expressed in terms of tail latency, latency SLAs, QoS expectations), and typical applications in embedded and cyber-physical systems, cloud or edge computing, from domains such as automotive, avionics, telecommunications, healthcare, robotics, and space systems.

ECRTS welcomes 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. Papers on industrial case studies and the application of real-time technology to real systems are particularly encouraged.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Time-sensitive SOFTWARE SYSTEMS: operating systems, hypervisors, middleware, frameworks, programming languages, compilers, runtime environments, networks, communication protocols.
• COMPUTER HARDWARE: design and hardware/software integration for embedded systems, time-predictable hardware architecture, GPU and accelerators, FPGA prototyping, SoC design, novel memory architectures, hardware/software co-design.
• REAL-TIME NETWORKS: wired and wireless sensor and actuator networks, Time-Sensitive Networks (TSN), industrial IoT, Software Defined Network (SDN), 5G, end-to-end latency analysis.
• REAL-TIME APPLICATIONS: modeling, design, simulation, testing, debugging, and evaluation in automotive, avionics, control systems, industrial automation, robotics, space, railways, telecommunications, multimedia.
• Foundational SCHEDULING and PREDICTABILITY: schedulability analysis, algorithm design, synchronization protocols, computational complexity, temporal isolation, probabilistic guarantees, multi-core scheduling, resource co-scheduling.
• RESOURCE DEMAND ESTIMATION: stochastic and classic worst-case execution time (WCET) analysis, analyses to bound memory and bandwidth needs, methods for determining energy, power, or thermal footprint.
• MACHINE LEARNING: techniques in safety-critical systems, explainable AI, application of machine learning to real-time systems, methods for real-time AI computing.
• FORMAL METHODS: verification and validation of real-time systems, model checking, computer-assisted proofs, runtime monitoring systems.
• SECURITY aspects: techniques to strengthen security guarantees, concerns affecting safety-critical systems, privacy-enhancing techniques, protecting the temporal envelope against threats.
• Timing predictability and other NON-FUNCTIONAL QUALITIES: reliability, quality of control, energy/power consumption, environmental impact, testability, scalability.

Paper Submission

• 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.
• Submission website: https://ecrts25.hotcrp.com/
• Template: LIPIcs template available at https://submission.dagstuhl.de/series/details/5#author
• Follow the submission instructions and guidelines.

Double-Blind Peer Reviewing

ECRTS will follow a double-blind peer reviewing process. Authors will submit blinded manuscripts, and reviewers will not be made aware of author identities. For more details, see the double-blind submission policy.

Shadow Peer Review Process

Authors can opt-in for a Shadow TPC option to train future reviewers. Reviews from the Shadow TPC will not impact the final decision. Learn more about the Shadow TPC evaluation process.

Artifact Evaluation

Authors of accepted papers with a computational component are invited to submit their code and/or data for an optional artifact evaluation process to improve reproducibility and encourage reuse.

Open Access

All accepted papers will be published as open-access proceedings in collaboration with LIPIcs (Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics) and will be accessible at drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/conference/ECRTS.

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: February 28, 2025 (Firm)
• Notification: April 21, 2025
• Camera-ready deadline: May 16, 2025
• Early registration deadline: June 13, 2025
• Conference: July 8 - 11, 2025

Registration

• Registration page: https://www.ecrts.org/registration/

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