WCET 2009 -- Preface to 9th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis

On June 30, 2009, thirty-five people from nine countries and three continents met in Trinity College, Dublin, to hold the 9th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET\u2709, http://www.artist-embedded.org/artist/WCET-2009.html). The workshop was organised as a satellite event of the 21st Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS\u2709, http://ecrts09.dsg.cs.tcd.ie). The final proceedings here presented contain the workshop papers as updated in response to the discussion at the workshop, the abstract of the invited talk by prof. Petru Eles, and a summary of the panel discussion that concluded the workshop. The slide presentations can be retrieved from the workshop web-site referenced above