RTSOPS is a venue dedicated to exchanging ideas and fostering the discussion of open problems in real-time systems. The seminar comprises short presentation sessions to encourage intensive discussion, new collaborations, and cooperation within the real-time systems community.

Submission Guidelines

For this year, we solicit two types of submissions:

1. New open problems.
2. Solutions and updates to open problems from previous years either appeared at RTSOPS or elsewhere in the real-time community.

Submissions must include only a paper abstract; a PDF explaining the open problem in more detail is optional. Submitted abstracts should provide an original aspect on not yet solved problems, like describing a new problem, a new way to look at existing problems, a new solution idea, a relevant special case, or a process report on open problems discussed in previous years. The complete Call for Abstracts can be found here. As a new feature, RTSOPS will each year highlight a specific topic in a dedicated session. This year, we especially welcome talks related to end-to-end analysis and optimization of task chains in real-time systems.

Important dates

Abstract submissions (see Call for Abstracts) should be made electronically, in PDF format (up to 2 pages plus references (optional), see Submission Instructions for details – abstracts only are also welcome), via the paper submission page for RTSOPS 2026.

Contact

Please contact Mario Guenzel (mario.guenzel@tu-dortmund.de) and Daniel Casini (daniel.casini@santannapisa.it) in case of questions.