December 2025 – RTSS 2025

Congratulations to the winners of RTSS 2025 Best Paper, Best Student Paper, and Best Presentation Awards!

Best Paper Award: Mario Günzel (TU Dortmund University), Federico Aromolo (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna – Pisa), Alessandro Biondi (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna – Pisa), and Jian-Jia Chen (TU Dortmund University) for their paper “Requirement-Based Analysis of Self-Suspending Tasks under EDF”
Best Student Paper Award: Shining Sun (Northeastern University), Chaohai Yu (Northeastern University), Xu Jiang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China), Qingxu Deng (Northeastern University), Nan Guan (City University of Hong Kong) for their paper “WCDFP Analysis for Real-Time Tasks with Stochastic Release Patterns using Chernoff Bound”
Best Presentation Award: Tobias Häberlein (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) for the presentation of the paper “WatwaOS: A Framework for Worst-Case-Aware Tailoring and Whole-System Analysis of Energy-Constrained Real-Time Systems”

We thank all participants for making RTSS 2025 a great success — see you all again at RTSS 2026 in Yokohama!

About RTSS

The IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS) is the premier conference in the field of real-time systems, where researchers and practitioners showcase innovations covering all aspects of time-predictable computing, including theory, design, analysis, implementation, verification, evaluation, and experience. RTSS is an expansive and inclusive event, with RTSS’25, the 46th edition of the event, continuing the tradition of embracing new and emerging areas of real-time systems research.

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Submission Deadline (firm)	May 22, 2025 (anywhere on Earth)
Author Response Period	July 14-17, 2025
Author Notification	July 25, 2025
Camera-Ready Deadline	~~September 26, 2025~~ October 3, 2025
Brief Presentations Track Submission Deadline	October 8, 2025 (anywhere on Earth)
Early-Registration Deadline	~~November 11, 2025~~ November 14, 2025
Conference	December 2–5, 2025