16th Real Time Linux Workshop Call for Papers October 12 to 13, 2014 CCD Congress Center Dusseldorf Collocated with LinuxCon Europe Dusseldorf Germany Following the meetings of academics, developers and users of real-time and embedded Linux at the previous 15 Real Time Linux Workshops held world-wide (Vienna, Orlando, Milano, Boston, Valencia, Singapore, Lille, Lanzhou, Linz, Guadalajara, Dresden, Nairobi, Prague, Chapel Hill and Lugano) - the 2014 Real Time Linux Workshop will come to the CCD Congress Center in Dusseldorf, Germany. It will be collocated with LinuxCon Europe and held from October 12 to October 13, 2014. Call for papers Authors from regulatory bodies, academics, industry as well as the user-community are invited to submit original work dealing with general topics related to Open Source and Free Software based real-time systems research, experiments and case studies, as well as issues of integration of open-source real-time and embedded OS. A special focus will be on industrial case studies and safety related systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Modifications and variants of the GNU/Linux operating system and extending its real-time capabilities, - Contributions to real-time Linux variants, drivers and extensions, - Tools for the verification and validation of real-time properties, - User-mode real-time concepts, implementation and experience, - Real-time Linux applications, in academia, research and industry, - Safety related FLOSS systems, - Safety related systems using FLOSS components, - FLOSS Tools used to analyze, verify or validate safety properties, - Work in progress reports, covering recent developments, - Educational material on real-time Linux, - RTOS core concepts, RT-safe synchronization mechanisms, - RT-safe IPC mechanisms for RT and non RT components, - Analysis and benchmarking methods and results of real-time GNU/Linux variants, - Debugging techniques and tools, both for code and temporal debugging of core RTOS components, drivers and real-time applications, - Real-time related extensions to development environments Abstract submission If you wish to present a paper at the workshop, please submit an abstract using the submission page at: https://www.osadl.org/RTLWS16-Abstract.submission-form.0.html. Final paper to be included into the RTLWS16 Proceedings Upon acceptance of an abstract by the RTLWS16 Program Committee, the author will be invited to submit a full paper in a form defined by https://www.osadl.org/paper.tgz. A detailed description of the editing and formatting process will be provided along with the notification email. Registration Since RTLWS16 will be collocated with LinuxCon Europe, registration will be handled by the Linux Foundation. Please use: https://www.regonline.com/rtlinuxworkshop for registration. We gratefully acknowledge this support offered by the Linux Foundation. Important dates July 27, 2014 - Abstract submission deadline August 22, 2014 - Notification of acceptance September 19, 2014 - Submission of final paper October 12-13, 2014 - Workshop Program committee * Alexey Khoroshilov, ISPRAS, Russia * Andreas Platschek, TU-Wien, Austria * Bernhard Nölte, IQSE TueV SueD Rail, Germany * Carsten Emde, OSADL, Germany * Georg Schiesser, OpenTech EDV Research, Austria * Gerhard Fohler, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany * Matthias Auchmann, A&R TECH, Austria * Michal Sojka, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic * Nicholas Mc Guire, OpenTech EDV Research, Austria * Paolo Mantegazza, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Peter Okech, University of Nairobi, Kenya * Philippe Gerum, Xenomai, France * Robert Schwebel, Pengutronix, Germany * Roberto Bucher, SUPSI, Switzerland * Thomas Gleixner, Linutronix, Germany * Tilmann Ochs, BMW Car-IT, Germany * Zhou Qingguo, DSLab, Lanzhou University, China Workshop organizers - Linux Foundation - LinuxCon Europe - Open Source Automation Development Lab (OSADL) Carsten Emde Nicholas Mc Guire Andreas Platschek