Call for papers

We invite contributions focused on time-centric reactive software and supporting technologies.

Topics

Contributions may overlap with any of the following areas:

  • Automotive systems
  • Compiler construction
  • Computer architecture
  • Cyber-physical systems
  • Digital twins
  • Dataflow models
  • Discrete-event systems
  • Distributed systems
  • Design automation
  • Embedded systems
  • Formal verification
  • Industrial automation
  • Programming languages
  • Model-based Design
  • Modeling languages
  • Middleware
  • Networking
  • Operating systems
  • Real-time systems
  • Simulation
  • System-level design
  • Time-predictable hardware

More background about this workshop and its motivation can be found here.

Submissions

TCRS ‘24 will work with IEEE Embedded Systems Letters (ESL) for paper submissions, reviews, and publication. Submissions meeting IEEE ESL requirements will be published in the special issue of TCRS in IEEE ESL. All submissions must be written in English. Only original papers that have not been submitted or published in other conferences or journals will be considered.

Submission Guidelines

Papers submitted to TCRS ‘24 must follow the IEEE ESL Paper Submission Instructions. Submitted manuscripts must be four pages or fewer, including all figures, tables, and references. Submissions exceeding this length will be returned without review. Papers should use 7.875 in x 10.75 in (20 cm x 27.30 cm) trim size and the IEEE transactions two-column format in 10-pt. font. The review process is blind (not double-blind); please do not submit anonymized manuscripts.

Submission Site

Please submit your paper at the Manuscript Central Submission Site. Click on “Author,” create a new manuscript, and select “Type” as “SI:TCRS24”.

Conflicts of Interest Requirements

In addition to the manuscript, the authors are required to submit a Cover Letter indicating the Conflicts of Interest (COIs) with the program committee members through Manuscript Central. The authors can submit the cover letter during the Submission Step 6: Details & Comments, using a textbox under Write Cover Letter. Even if the authors do not have any COIs, they are still required to submit a cover letter confirming that they have no COIs.

Acceptance Tiers

At least one of the authors for each paper must fully register and present the accepted paper at the workshop. TCRS ‘24 will have two tiers of final acceptance.

  1. Present-only acceptance.
  2. Present-and-publish acceptance.

The Present-only tier acceptance will be given to the submissions that meet the TCRS workshop quality requirements. The Present-and-publish tier acceptance will be given to the submissions that are accepted for presentation at the TCRS workshop and considered for publication in the IEEE ELS journal.

All papers with any of these two tiers of acceptance will be presented at the workshop and distributed as proceedings of the workshop. However, only the papers with the Present-and-publish tier acceptance will be published in the IEEE ESL special issue of TCRS.

Review Process

Authors of the submissions will be notified with the first round of reviews. Below are the subsequent processes for accepted papers.

1. Present-only acceptance

Papers that are not accepted for publication in the IEEE ESL journal may still be eligible to present at the workshop. In this case, the authors will receive a “reject” from IEEE ESL and a separate “Present-only” acceptance notification from TCRS. Authors of a submission with Present-only acceptance will be asked to submit the final version of their paper, which will be included in the “proceedings to be distributed.”

2. Present-and-publish acceptance

Authors of a submission with Present-and-publish acceptance will receive a “minor revision” decision from the IEEE ESL journal. The authors will be required to submit a revised version of their paper and a video graphical abstract (which is a short video presenting the paper), which will be reviewed in the second round. Once the final manuscript and the video graphical abstract are reviewed and meet IEEE ESL standards, the submission will receive an “accept” decision from the journal and will be included in the IEEE ESL special issue of TCRS.

See here for more information on the video graphical abstract.

Important Dates

  • July 8, 2024 (Extended) July 22, 2024: Paper submission deadline
  • August 13, 2024: Author acceptance notification for the first round of reviews
  • August 20, 2024: Final manuscript and video graphical abstract deadline (video graphical abstract is only required for papers with Present-and-publish acceptance)
  • August 27, 2024: Final acceptance notification
  • October 3, 2024: Paper presentations

Organization

General Co-Chairs

  • Jeronimo Castrillon, TU Dresden, Germany
  • Hokeun Kim, Arizona State University, USA

Organizing Committee

  • Jeronimo Castrillon, TU Dresden, Germany
  • Hokeun Kim, Arizona State University, USA
  • Edward A. Lee, UC Berkeley, USA
  • Marten Lohstroh, UC Berkeley, USA

Program Chair

  • Patricia Derler, Zoox, USA

Program Committee

  • Fatima Anwar, UMass Amherst, USA
  • Grzegorz Bazydło, University of Zielona Góra, Poland
  • David Broman, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
  • Didem Güdür Broo, Uppsala University, Sweden
  • Jeronimo Castrillon, TU Dresden, Germany
  • Stephen A. Edwards, Columbia University, USA
  • Andrés Goens, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Erwan Jahier, Verimag, France
  • Chadlia Jerad, University of Manouba, Tunisia
  • Hokeun Kim, Arizona State University, USA
  • Edward A. Lee, UC Berkeley, USA
  • Shaokai Lin, UC Berkeley, USA
  • Marten Lohstroh, UC Berkeley, USA
  • Angela Nicoara, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland
  • Gustavo Quiros, Siemens Technology, USA
  • Martin Schoeberl, DTU, Denmark
  • Alexander Schulz-Rosengarten, Kiel University, Germany
  • Reinhard von Hanxleden, Kiel University, Germany
  • Hoeseok Yang, Santa Clara University, USA
  • Eugene Yip, GLIWA GmbH & Co. KG, Germany