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 ‘25 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 ‘25 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 Instructions

Submissions will be managed through the IEEE Author Portal for IEEE ESL.

Once you are signed in to the IEEE Author Portal, click on “Start submission” at the top right. Then, click on Article Type” under the “Your Progress” menu on the right. On the next page, choose “TCRS 2025” under the dropdown menu. After confirming the check boxes, you will be prompted to upload your manuscript.

Conflicts of Interest Requirements

In addition to the manuscript, the authors are required to submit a document for Conflict of Interest (COI) with the program committee members through the IEEE Author Portal. The authors are required to submit the COI document during the submission process.

Acceptance Tiers

At least one of the authors for each paper must fully register and present the accepted paper at the workshop. TCRS ‘25 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 ESL 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

  • June 23, 2025: Paper submission deadline
  • July 21, 2025: Notification of Acceptance.
  • July 28, 2025: Final manuscript and video graphical abstract deadline (video graphical abstract is only required for papers with Present-and-publish acceptance)
  • August 12, 2025: Final acceptance notification
  • Octobe 2, 2025: Paper presentations at the Taipei International Convention Center (TICC), Room 101C

Organization

General Co-Chairs

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

Organizing Committee

  • Chadlia Jerad, University of Manouba, Tunisia
  • Chung-Wei Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
  • Erling R. Jellum, UC Berkeley, USA

Program Chair

  • Patricia Derler, Zoox, USA

Program Committee

  • Fatima Anwar, UMass Amherst, USA
  • Jeronimo Castrillon, TU Dresden, Germany
  • Samarjit Chakraborty, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
  • Stephen A. Edwards, Columbia University, USA
  • Alain Girault, INRIA - Grenoble, France
  • Erwan Jahier, Verimag, France
  • Erling R. Jellum, UC Berkeley, USA
  • Chadlia Jerad, University of Manouba, Tunisia
  • Hokeun Kim, Arizona State University, USA
  • Edward A. Lee, UC Berkeley, USA
  • Chung-Wei Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
  • Shaokai Lin, UC Berkeley, USA
  • Claire Pagetti, ONERA - Toulouse, France
  • Martin Schoeberl, DTU, Denmark
  • Jonathan Sprinkle, Vanderbilt University, USA
  • Hoeseok Yang, Santa Clara University, USA
  • Eugene Yip, GLIWA GmbH & Co. KG, Germany