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Welcome to the 15th International Real-Time Systems Open Problems Seminar (RTSOPS 2026)
Fig 1. The RTSOPS “logo”, as envisioned by the AI “maestro” DALL-E. However, the response time from the first prompt to the current version (which also needed quite some manual work) defies all common sense for the systems and theories we want to address in this seminar, and most likely for life in general.
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.
For this year, we solicit two types of submissions:
- New open problems.
- 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.
RTSOPS 2026 Industrial Open Problem
As part of its 2026 focus on end-to-end analysis and optimization of task chains, RTSOPS will feature the Industrial Open Problem “A Tale of Two Challenges,” presented by Silviu S. Craciunas (TrustMotion / NXP).
The presentation builds on an openly available benchmark derived from a real automotive ADAS controller. It provides an anonymised statistical fingerprint, a generator, and 500 synthetic task-set instances that preserve key characteristics of industrial cause-effect chains and multi-processor platforms.
Further details are available in the RTSOPS 2026 workshop programme.
Important dates
| Submission deadline | |
| Workshop acceptance notification | June 2nd, 2026 |
| Seminar day | July 7th, 2026 (Tuesday) |
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.