Rapita Director to co-chair Real-Time Scheduling Open Problems Seminar

York, UK, 29th March 2010 Rapita Director Rob Davis is co-chairing a new event associated with the 22nd EUROMICRO Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS'10). The 1st International Real-Time Scheduling Open Problems Seminar (RTSOPS 2010) provides a venue for the exchange of ideas and the 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 co-operation and collaboration within the real-time scheduling community. RTSOPS 2010 is organized around presentation and collaboration sessions. Each presentation session provides the opportunity to hear about a number of important unsolved problems in real-time scheduling, highlighted via brief presentations. The following collaboration session gives participants the opportunity to interact in small groups, exchanging ideas with the presenters about how the problems might be solved, and to take the first steps towards a solution. It is expected that the solutions to the problems posed at this seminar will lead to some of the most important breakthroughs and advances in real-time scheduling theory, over the next few years. See http://www.cs.wayne.edu/~fishern/Meetings/rtsops2010/ for further details.