Home (RTSOPS 2026) | Program | Call for Abstracts | Organizers | Submission Instructions |
| Submission deadline | May 14th, 2026 (Thursday) |
| Workshop acceptance notification | June 6th, 2026 (Thursday) |
| Seminar day | July 7th, 2026 (Tuesday) |
The 15th International Real-Time Systems Open Problems Seminar (RTSOPS 2026) 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. RTSOPS focuses on practical aspects of real-time systems design, analysis, and open theoretical problems. We particularly encourage researchers working in industry or collaborating with industrial partners to share their challenges and open problems with us.
Abstracts may be submitted describing well-known but as yet unsolved problems. However, all abstracts should contain some element of original work that has not been published before; for example, a new problem, a new way of looking at an existing problem, new intuition or ideas on how a problem might be solved, possible frameworks for solutions, or overviews of special cases that may be useful in solving a problem.
Of course, the authors of open problem submissions from previous years’ RTSOPS are invited to submit short status reports on progress made towards a solution to their open problem. These abstracts should include a brief statement of the open problem and a description of the technical advances toward a solution.
Authors of accepted abstracts are expected to give a brief presentation/pitch of their open problem and be prepared to interact with the audience in the discussions afterward.
RTSOPS 2026 invites extended abstracts of open problems in areas such as, but not limited to:
- Single-core, multi-core, and many-core scheduling and resource management
- New models and analysis techniques for real-time systems
- Timing analysis for heterogeneous platforms with hardware acceleration
- Time-constrained cyber-physical systems
- Issues in applying real-time models and analysis to industrial applications
- Interactions between WCET (worst-case execution time) analysis and scheduling
- Use of Machine Learning and AI in real-time systems and scheduling theory
- Use of real-time scheduling theory for Machine Learning and AI problems
- Interdisciplinary problems, e.g., real-time + security
- Explainability of real-time systems
- Spaceflight real-time scheduling problems
- Energy-aware scheduling
- … and many more, feel free to be creative