Authors are invited to submit English-language research and application papers that are original, previously unpublished work and have not been submitted simultaneously to another journal or conference.
The proceedings will be published in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Papers should be submitted as a PDF using the LNCS paper style, respecting a page limit of 20 pages of technical content (excluding the title page and references). Submissions have to respect Springer’s code of conduct and ensure the anonymity of the authors, adopting the usual double blind policy:
- The authors’ identities, such as names, affiliations, email addresses, avatars, repositories, et cetera., should not be shown anywhere in the paper. This includes, notably, the title page, acknowledgments, but also meta data in the produced PDF, et cetera.
- Authors should refrain from copying extended parts from their own prior work. When figures, tables, or test cases are reused the relevant work should be cited appropriately.
- References to accepted, but not yet publicly available, work should be avoided. One possible solution in this case it to publish a preprint, e.g., on a public archive, and cite that publicly available preprint.
- Own prior related work by the authors themselves should be referenced and discussed in the 3rd person as any other related work.
- The authors should try to avoid removing pertinent information or blinding the paper.
RTNS tends to be a community rather than a collection of individual experts. Then, authors are encouraged to present their results in such a way that the main ideas can be understood by any real-time researcher and lead to discussions and exchanges.
Authors of outstanding papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work for a special issue of Springer Real-Time Systems journal. The extended papers must have at least 35% new content. Best papers and best student papers awards will be presented at the conference, along with an award for the best presentation.
Multi-Submission Model
RTNS 2025 adopts a multi-submission model with three rounds.
Submissions done at the first round may be:
- Rejected: no re-submission possible to the second or third round.
- Accepted: accepted papers will receive a DOI, the list will be published on the conference website, and the author may put an author version on their webpage. The publication will occur after the conference.
- Major Revision: the paper may be re-submitted in the second or third round and will be re-evaluated by the same reviewers.
Submissions done at the second round may be:
- Rejected: no re-submission possible to the third round.
- Accepted: accepted papers will receive a DOI, the list will be published on the conference website, and the author may put an author version on their webpage. The publication will occur after the conference.
- Major Revision: the paper may be re-submitted in the third round and will be re-evaluated by the same reviewers.
Submissions done in the third round may be:
- Rejected: no re-submission possible.
- Accepted: accepted papers will receive a DOI, the list will be published on the conference website, and the author may put an author version on their webpage. The publication will occur after the conference.
- Major Revision: the paper may be re-submitted to the next RTNS edition. The PC chairs of the current and next RTNS edition ensure continuity in the reviewing process. However, it is not guaranteed that the re-submission will be evaluated by the exact same reviewers. The conference will however try to maintain a majority of the reviewers involved in the original submission.
Papers rejected at any round cannot be re-submitted to a later round. A new submission to the next RTNS edition is, of course, possible.