IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS) is the premier conference in the area of real-time systems, presenting innovations in the field with respect to theory and practice. RTSS provides a forum for the presentation of high-quality, original research covering all aspects of real-time systems design, analysis, implementation, evaluation, and experiences. RTSS’12 continues the trend of making RTSS an expansive and inclusive symposium, looking to embrace new and emerging areas of real-time systems research.

RTSS 2012 welcomes submissions in all areas of real-time systems, including but not limited to operating systems, networks, middleware, compilers, tools, modeling, scheduling, QoS support, resource management, testing and debugging, hardware/software co-design, fault tolerance, security, power and thermal management, embedded platforms, and system experimentation and deployment experiences.

In addition to the main real-time track, we will continue the successful format of previous years with three specialized tracks:
* Cyber-physical systems
* Design and Verification
* Wireless Sensor Networks
Although authors will choose which tracks to submit papers to, a paper may be redirected to a more appropriate track. All papers will appear in the main program and proceedings.

Important dates

* May 15, 2012 – FIRM Submission Deadline
* August 1, 2012 – Notification of Acceptance
* September 15, 2012 – Camera-ready Deadline
* December 4, 2012 – Workshops
* December 5 to December 7, 2012 – Symposium

Organizing Committee

* General Chair – Luis Almeida, University of Porto
* Program Chair – Chenyang Lu, Washington University