**18th Real Time Linux Workshop\\ and\\ 7th Real Time Linux Summit\\ October 19 to 21, 2017\\ Faculty of Electrical Engineering\\ Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic ** Following the meetings of academics, developers and users of real-time and embedded Linux at the previous 17 real-time Linux workshops held world-wide - the Real-Time Linux Workshop for 2017 will come back to the Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic, and is held from October 19th to 20th, 2017 followed by the [[realtime:events:rt-summit2017:start|Real-Time Linux Summit 2017]], a discussion focused single track event on October 21st. Real Time systems have evolved over the past decades in a relatively calm manner - performance has increased, one can say dramatically, but the main paradigms were pretty stable since the mid 80s. This has changed now. With the real-time PREEMPT_RT patch set moving into mainline there is nothing left to do - all problems solved... or not quite yet. Developing a rigorous theory is important - relating these to reality is equally important. This is where CTU's research group has much experience to offer. The focus on system properties be it real-time or security and extending this into functional safety in the past years,form a good background for hosting this gathering of real-life systems developers. Research interests of our host, Prof. Hanzalek and his group, focus, among others, on: * Real-time systems and networking * Combinatorial optimization and time-triggered scheduling * Autonomous cars and other automotive applications * Open-source (not "only" GNU/Linux) FLOSS in embedded systems is well established, ranging from consumer electronics to network devices and increasingly industrial applications including safety related systems. The technological resources suitable for high-availability, real-time, and safety critical systems have been continuously expanding and improving - allowing to cover the entire development life cycle of industrial projects based on Open-Source tools. At the core of this development is the availability of stable operating systems with reliable real-time properties. Extending and improving these real-time properties of open-source RTOS is continuous research and development effort that OSADL documents in the form of the annual Real Time Linux Workshop together with Linux Foundation's annual Real-Time Linux Summit. The below call for paper exclusively refers to the Real Time Linux Workshop. The Real-Time Linux Summit is an add-on event to RTLWS held on Oct. 21st, focused on the real-time preemption patch set and the activities around it, which has a separate [[realtime:events:rt-summit2017:cfp|Call for Presentations]]. 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: * FLOSS based real-time system solutions * Modifications and variants of the GNU/Linux operating system 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 * Work in progress reports, covering recent developments * Educational material on real-time Linux * RTOS core concepts, synchronization, IPC mechanisms or resource allocators. * Analysis and Benchmarking methods and results of real-time FLOSS and GNU/Linux variants including comparisons * 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 * Real-time and virtualization We invite you to either submit an abstract as proposal for a Work-in-Progress (WiP) or an abstract as proposal for a full paper. Authors of WiP presentations will get the opportunity to present their work in a 30-minute talk, authors of a full paper will be awarded with a 60-minute time slot. When submitting an abstract as proposal for a full paper authors confirm that they are willing to prepare a paper adhering to the form defined by the [[https://www.osadl.org/paper.tgz|paper template]] upon acceptance of the proposal and to submit it meeting the paper submission deadline given below. A detailed description of the editing and formatting process will be provided along with the acceptance notification email. The full paper will be included in the RTLWS18 proceedings. __Important dates__ * June 2, 2017 Abstract submission deadline * July 14, 2017 Notification of acceptance * October 6, 2017, Final paper submission deadline (full paper proposals) Please submit your abstract proposal using the [[https://www.osadl.org/RTLWS-Submission|submission page]] Further information on RTLWS/RT-Summit: [[realtime:events:rtlws2017:start|RTLWS 2017]] __Organization committee__ * Michal Sojka, CTU, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic * Pavel Pisa, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic * Carsten Emde, OSADL, World * Andreas Platschek, OpenTech EDV Research, Austria * Nicholas Mc Guire, Lanzhou University, China * Thomas Gleixner, Linux Foundation RTL Collaborative Project lead __Program committee__ * Alexey Khoroshilov, ISPRAS, Russia * Andreas Platschek, OpenTech EDV Research, Austria * Bernhard Noelte, IQSE TueV SueD Rail, Germany * Carsten Emde, OSADL, World * Christian Schwarzl, Virtual Vehicle, Austria * Darren Hart, VMware, USA * Helmut Martin, Virtual Vehicle, Austria * Jan Kiszka, Siemens, Germany * Julia Cartwright, National Instruments, USA * Julia Lawall, Laboratory of Computer Sciences, Paris 6, France * Marcus Voelp, SnT, Uni Luxembourg, Luxenbourg * Michal Sojka, CTU, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic * Nicholas Mc Guire, Lanzhou University, China * Thomas Fischer, FH Campus Wien, Austria * Thomas Gleixner, Linutronix GmbH, Germany * Pavel Pisa, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic * Peter Okech, University of Nairobi, Kenya * Philippe Gerum, Xenomai.org, France * Ralf Ramsauer, OTH Regensburg, Germany * Roberto Bucher, Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana, SUPSI, Switzerland * Zhou Qingguo, Lanzhou University, China __Workshop organizers__ * Open Source Automation Development Lab (OSADL) * The RTL Collaborative Project of the Linux Foundation * Faculty of Electrical Engineering at Czech Technical University