17th Real Time Linux Workshop
                              Call for Papers
                          October 21 to 22, 2015
                      Virtual Vehicle Research Center
                       Graz University of Technology
                    Inffeldgasse 18, 8010 Graz, Austria


Following the meetings of academics, developers and users of real-time
and embedded Linux at the previous 16 Real Time Linux Workshops held
world-wide (Vienna, Orlando, Milano, Boston, Valencia, Singapore, Lille,
Lanzhou, Linz, Guadalajara, Dresden, Nairobi, Prague, Chapel Hill,
Lugano and Düsseldorf) - the 2015 Real Time Linux Workshop will come to
the Virtual Vehicle Research Center in Graz, Austria. It will be held
from October 21 to October 22, 2015. We gratefully acknowledge the
offering of Virtual Vehicle to host and co-organize this year's RTLWS in
Graz.


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,
- Legal aspects with regard to using Open Source in the industry,
- IoT (Internet of Troubles)


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/RTLWS17-Abstract.submission-form.0.html


Final paper

Upon acceptance of an abstract by the RTLWS17 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. The full paper will be included in the RTLWS17 proceedings.


Important dates

August 2, 2015 - Abstract submission deadline
August 30, 2015 - Notification of acceptance
September 27, 2015 - Submission of final paper
October 21-22, 2015 - Workshop


Program committee

Alexey Khoroshilov, ISPRAS, Russia
Andrea Leitner, Virtual Vehicle, Austria
Andreas Platschek, TU Wien, Austria 
Carsten Emde, OSADL, Germany
Daniel Watzenig, Virtual Vehicle, Austria
Georg Schiesser, OpenTech EDV Research, Austria
Joseph Wenninger, TU Wien, Austria
Julia Lawall, Inria, France
Michael Haberler, machinekit.io, Austria
Nicholas Mc Guire, OpenTech EDV Research, Austria
Paolo Mantegazza, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Paul McKenney, IBM Linux Technology Center, USA
Roberto Bucher, SUPSI, Switzerland
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior, Linutronix, Germany
Shawn Choo, Weslab, Singapur
Tilmann Ochs, BMW Car-IT, Germany
Zhou Qingguo, DSLab, Lanzhou University, China


Workshop organizers

Open Source Automation Development Lab (OSADL), Heidelberg, Germany
Virtual Vehicle Research Center, Graz, Austria

Carsten Emde
Nicholas Mc Guire
Andreas Platschek