OPERA 2024

2nd Workshop on OPtimization for Embedded and ReAl-time systems (OPERA)
co-located with the 45th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS)

December 10th, 2024​

@RTSS 2024
York, United Kingdom

Photo by Jonny Gios

About OPERA

The design of Real-Time and Embedded Systems is, by definition, subject to constraints:

  • timing of the input, output, or both;
  • minimal quality of the delivered output/service;
  • limited energy, power, or processing/communication resources, and more.

The design space exploration is often driven by expert designers who make the design decisions based on their experience. Such a design phase, however, can be more systematically modeled as an optimization problem, as long as the goal of the design becomes a cost to be minimized. This enables the usage of standard solvers of optimization problems.
The complexity of such a phase, however, is affected by several dimensions, including:

  • the size of the problem (e.g. the sample automotive application of the WATERS 2017 challenge composed by ~1000 functions and ~10000 shared variables);
  • the accuracy of the model for the workload and the computing platform;
  • the tolerable degree of approximation of the constraints.

Fundamentally, the nature of the design problem as described above never changed over time. Today, however, the rise of ML/AI methods as universal tools to solve optimization problems (and any other problem) without any guarantee on the quality of the solution, is challenging the sound practice of addressing the design phase with optimization.

This workshop aims at being a venue in which researchers from the academia and industry working on real-time constraints, design-space exploration, complexity and optimization, meet to share ideas, problems, and solutions.

News

Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela deliver a keynote talk at OPERA. Stay tuned for more updates!

The list of Accepted Papers has been published! Read all titles and authors on the Program page.

Important Dates

Deadline for contributions (firm): September 22nd, 2024
Notification (firm): October 8th, 2024
Camera-ready deadline (firm): October 22nd, 2024
The OPERA Workshop: December 10th, 2024

How to Submit

Please review the Call for Papers for details.

Organizers

Program Chair

Pontus Ekberg
Uppsala University, Sweden

Web Chair

Alessandro Druetto
University of Turin, Italy

Program Committee

Tanya Amert
Carleton College, MN, USA
Federico Aromolo
Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy
Antoine Bertout
University of Poitiers, France
Rob Davis
University of York, United Kingdom
Alessandro Druetto
University of Turin, Italy
Joël Goossens
Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Mario Günzel
TU Dortmund, Germany
Alexander Lindermayr
University of Bremen, Germany
Filip Marković
Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany
Marion Sudvarg
Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA
Sen Wang
Virginia Tech, VA, USA
Kecheng Yang
Texas State University, TX, USA