OPERA 2023

Workshop on OPtimization for Embedded and ReAl-time systems (OPERA)
co-located with the 44th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS)

December 5th, 2023​

@RTSS 2023
Taipei, Taiwan

Photo by Thomas Tucker

Post-Event Survey

You are welcome to participate to a post-event survey. This survey accepts responses after the event.

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

Pontus Ekberg will deliver a keynote talk at OPERA. Stay tuned for more updates!

Important Dates

Deadline for contributions (firm): September 3rd, 2023 September 15th, 2023
Notification (firm): October 1st, 2023
Camera-ready deadline (firm): October 15th, 2023
The OPERA Workshop: December 5th, 2023

How to Submit

Please review the Call for Papers for details.

Organizers

Program Chair

Enrico Bini
Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy

Web Chair

Alessandro Druetto
Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy

Program Committee

Sanjoy Baruah
Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA
Antoine Bertout
University of Poitiers, France
Alessandro Biondi
Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy
Hoon Sung Chwa
DGIST, Korea
Alessandro Druetto
Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Joël Goossens
Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Mario Günzel
TU Dortmund, Germany
Minming Li
City University of Hong Kong
Cong Liu
UC Riverside, CA, USA
Martina Maggio
Lund University, Sweden
Jinghao Sun
Dalian University of Technology, China
Haibo Zeng
Virginia Tech, VA, USA