The 24th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2012)

Welcome to Pisa and the 3 rd International Real-Time Scheduling Open Problems Seminar (RTSOPS 2012). This seminar provides a venue for the exchange of ideas and discussion of interesting unsolved problems in real-time scheduling. The format of the seminar positively encourages interaction between participants and provides ample time for relaxed discussions. The goal of the seminar is to promote a spirit of cooperation and collaboration within the real-time scheduling community. This year, we have organized RTSOPS 2012 around joint presentation/collaboration sessions. At the beginning of each session, we will have 2-3 short presentations on a number of important problems in real-time scheduling that give a brief introduction to the problem and its challenges. At the end of each session, we invite the seminar participants (authors and audience members) to interact in small groups, exchanging ideas with the presenters on how the problems might be solved and taking the first steps towards a solution. A total of 11 open problems were selected for presentation at the seminar. These proceedings are also published as an INRIA research report available at hal.inria.fr. We would like to thank the Steering Committee (listed below) for their hard work in reviewing the open problem submission and helping to make the seminar a success