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    Call for Papers

    38th EUROMICRO Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 26)

    July 7-10, 2026 | Lund, Sweden | www.ecrts.org

 

    Submission deadline: February 26, 2026 (23:59AoE)

    Submission website: https://ecrts26.hotcrp.com/

 

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New for 2026: Track on Tools, Implementations, and Practical Experience

ECRTS welcomes contributions on all aspects of timing requirements in computer systems, covering hard real-time systems as well as broader time-sensitive systems. ECRTS 2026 introduces a dedicated track for contributions that focus on:

●     Implementations of real-time or time-sensitive systems

●     Tools supporting analysis, validation, scheduling, code generation, or system design

●     Practical experience reports, industrial case studies, and lessons learned

●     Reproducible insights drawn from deploying or evaluating real-time systems in realistic environments

Submissions to this track are expected to make a clear contribution either through tooling, implementation insights, reproducibility, or practical applicability. Papers will undergo the same rigorous double-blind review process as regular papers and will be published in the LIPIcs proceedings.

Alongside the new track, the Foundations & Theory track will continue welcoming contributions advancing the theory, methodology, and formal analysis of real-time and time-sensitive systems.

Full details are available at https://www.ecrts.org/call-for-papers/.

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IMPORTANT DATES (All Deadlines are AoE)

●     Submission Deadline: Thursday, February 26, 2026

●     Notification of Acceptance: Monday, April 20, 2026

●     Camera-ready Deadline: Tuesday, May 5, 2026

●     Conference: July 7–10, 2026

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    SCOPE AND TOPICS OF INTEREST

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Papers on all aspects of timing requirements in computer systems are welcome. Systems of interest include not only hard real-time systems but also time-sensitive systems in general (e.g., systems with soft requirements expressed in terms of tail latency, latency SLAs, QoS expectations, etc.). Typical applications are found not only in classical embedded and cyber-physical systems, but also increasingly in cloud or edge computing contexts and often stem from domains such as automotive, avionics, telecommunications, healthcare, robotics, and space systems, among others.

 

To be in scope, papers must address some form of timing requirement, broadly construed. Prospective first-time authors are encouraged to familiarize themselves with works accepted in past editions of the conference, which are publicly available at  drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/conference/ECRTS

 

NEW FOR 2026: TWO TRACKS

 

ECRTS welcomes both 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:

1. Foundations & Theory track: This track welcomes contributions advancing the theory, methodology, and formal analysis of real-time and time-sensitive systems.

2. Practical Systems & Tools track: This track highlights tools, implementations, and real-world experience, including tools supporting analysis, scheduling, or design of time-sensitive systems, implementations and prototypes, industrial case studies and lessons learned from real deployments.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

-all elements of time-sensitive  SOFTWARE SYSTEMS, including operating systems, hypervisors, middlewares and frameworks, programming languages and compilers, runtime environments, networks and communication protocols, etc.;

-COMPUTER HARDWARE design and hardware/software integration for embedded systems, including time-predictable hardware architecture, GPU and accelerators, FPGA prototyping, SoC design, novel memory architectures, hardware/software co-design, etc.;

-REAL-TIME NETWORKS: including wired and wireless sensor and actuator networks, Time-Sensitive Networks (TSN), industrial IoT, Software Defined Network (SDN), 5G, end-to-end latency analysis, etc.;

-REAL-TIME APPLICATIONS, including modeling, design, simulation, testing, debugging, and evaluation in domains such as automotive, avionics, control systems, industrial automation, robotics, space, railways telecommunications, multimedia, etc.;

-foundational SCHEDULING and PREDICTABILITY questions, including schedulability analysis, algorithm design, synchronization protocols, computational complexity, temporal isolation, probabilistic guarantees, multi-core scheduling, resource co-scheduling, etc.;

-static and dynamic techniques for RESOURCE DEMAND ESTIMATION, including stochastic and classic worst-case execution time (WCET) analysis, analyses to bound memory and bandwidth needs, and methods for determining the energy, power, or thermal footprint of real-time applications, etc.;

-MACHINE LEARNING techniques in safety-critical systems, including explainable AI, the application of machine learning to the design and optimization of real-time systems, methods for real-time AI computing, etc.;

-FORMAL METHODS for the verification and validation of real-time systems, including model checking, computer-assisted proofs, and runtime monitoring systems, etc.;

-SECURITY aspects of real-time systems, including techniques to strengthen security guarantees, concerns that affect the operation of safety-critical systems, privacy-enhancing techniques, methodologies to protect the temporal envelope of critical software against malicious threats, etc.;

-the interplay of timing predictability and other NON-FUNCTIONAL QUALITIES such as reliability, quality of control, energy/power consumption, environmental impact, testability, scalability, etc.

The above list of topics is intended only as a coarse summary of recent proceedings and should not be understood as an exclusive list of interests. On the contrary, papers breaking new ground, departing from established subfields, or challenging the status quo are most welcome and highly encouraged.

 

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    OPEN ACCESS

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The ECRTS organizers and community strongly believe that a conference best serves the research community and the public when results are accessible to the largest audience without restrictions. In line with this belief, all accepted papers will be published again this year as open-access proceedings in collaboration with LIPIcs (Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics). Once published, the proceedings of ECRTS 2026 will be publicly accessible at drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/conference/ECRTS where the previous proceedings since 2017 are available.

 

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    PAPER SUBMISSION

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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.

ECRTS papers follow the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics paper template. You can download the LIPIcs template and see the typesetting instructions here: https://submission.dagstuhl.de/series/details/5#author

To submit a paper to ECRTS, please carefully review and follow the submission instructions and guidelines: https://www.ecrts.org/submission-instructions/

 

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    DOUBLE-BLIND PEER REVIEWING

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In the interest of maximizing fairness and the meritocratic nature of the evaluation process, ECRTS will follow a double-blind peer reviewing process. Authors will submit blinded manuscripts (that do not reveal author identity or affiliation), and reviewers will not be made aware of author identities.

See the double-blind submission policy for more details: https://www.ecrts.org/double-blind-submission/

 

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    ARTIFACT EVALUATION

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To improve the results' reproducibility and encourage reuse, authors of accepted papers with a computational component will be invited to submit their code and/or their data to an optional artifact evaluation process: https://www.ecrts.org/artifact-evaluation/

 

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