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                      CALL FOR CONTRIBUTION - OSPERT 2024
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                          The 18th Annual Workshop on
        Operating Systems Platforms for Embedded Real-Time Applications
                                 (OSPERT 2024)

                                 July 9, 2024
                                 Lille, France

                          in conjunction with ECRTS 2024

                     https://www.ecrts.org/workshops/ospert24/

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OSPERT is a forum for researchers and engineers working on (and with)
Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOSs) to present recent advances in RTOS
technology, to promote new and existing initiatives and projects, and to
identify and discuss the challenges that lie ahead. The workshop, now in
its 18th year, provides the RTOS community with an opportunity to
meet and exchange ideas, network, and discuss future directions.

OSPERT strives for an inclusive and diverse program and solicits a
range of varied contributions. To this end, the following types of
submissions are sought:

1. proposals for stand-alone presentations (including talks on open
   problems, demos & tutorials, calls to action, etc.);
2. proposals for reports on empirical experiments (including replication
   studies, preliminary experiments preceding a full conference
   submission, and negative experience reports discussing failed
   approaches); and
3. technical papers (short papers and full workshop papers).

See https://www.ecrts.org/workshops/ospert24/contribution-formats/ for
a detailed description of the different contribution formats.

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IMPORTANT DATES

    Submission Deadline:            May 9, 2024
    Author Notification:            June 6, 2024
    Camera-ready due:               June 27, 2024
    Workshop:                       July 9, 2024
    ECRTS Conference:               July 9-12, 2024

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SCOPE AND TOPICS OF INTEREST

OSPERT is open to all topics related to providing a reliable and
efficient operating environment for real-time and embedded applications.

Developers of embedded RTOSs are faced with many challenges arising from
two opposite needs: on the one hand, there is a need for extreme resource
usage optimization (processor cycles, energy, network bandwidth, etc.),
and on the other hand, there are also increasing demands in terms of
scalability, flexibility, isolation, adaptivity, reconfigurability,
predictability, serviceability, and certifiability, to name a few.
Further, while special-purpose RTOSs continue to be used for many
embedded applications, real-time services are also increasingly
introduced and used in general-purpose operating systems and market
pressures continue to blur the lines between the two formerly distinct
classes of operating systems. Notable examples are the various flavors
of real-time Linux that support time-sensitive applications, the
emergence of commercial and open-source real-time hypervisors, as well
as the growth in features and scope of embedded OS and middleware
specifications such as AUTOSAR.

OSPERT is dedicated to the advances in RTOS technology required to
address these trends. As such, areas of interest include, but are not
limited to, the following topics:

- Case studies and experience reports
- Consolidation of real-time and best-effort work on embedded platforms
- Certification and verification of RTOSs and middleware
- Coordinated management of multiple resources
- Dynamic reconfiguration and upgrading
- Empirical comparisons and evaluations of RTOSs
- Flexible processor, memory, and I/O scheduling
- Interaction with reconfigurable hardware
- Operating system standards (e.g., AUTOSAR, ARINC, POSIX, etc.)
- Power and energy management
- Quality of Service guarantees
- Real-time Linux variants
- Real-time virtualization and hypervisors
- RTOSs for manycore platforms
- Scalability, from very small-scale embedded systems to full-fledged RTOSs
- Security and fault tolerance for embedded real-time systems
- Support for multiprocessor, accelerator-/FPGA-enabled, architectures
- Support for component-based development

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SUBMISSION FORMATS

- Full workshop papers: up to six A4 pages, standard IEEE formatting.

- Short WiP papers: up to three A4 pages, standard IEEE formatting.

- Presentation proposals: abstract, 500 words

Visit https://www.ecrts.org/workshops/ospert24/ for further details.

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CO-LOCATED WITH ECRTS 2024

OSPERT is a satellite workshop of the 36th Euromicro Conference
on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2024), the premier European venue
for presenting research in the broad area of real-time systems.
Along with RTSS and RTAS, ECRTS ranks as one of the three top
international conferences on real-time systems.

See https://www.ecrts.org/ for further information on ECRTS 2024.

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PROGRAM CHAIRS

    Alex Zuepke, Technical University of Munich
    Kuan-Hsun Chen, University of Twente

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    Catherine Nemitz, Davidson College
    Christian Dietrich, Technical University of Hamburg
    Daniel Casini, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
    Gedare Bloom, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
    Junjie Shi, Technical University of Dortmund
    Marine Sauze-Kadar, CEA-Leti
    Mohamed Hassan, McMaster University
    Takuya Azumi, Saitama University