Call for Papers - Research Track

IEEE ISORC was founded in 1998 (with its first meeting in Kyoto, Japan) to address research into the application of real-time object-oriented distributed technology. Since then, ISORC has continually evolved to meet the latest challenges faced by researchers and practitioners in the real-time domain, with an emphasis on object-, component- and service-oriented systems and solutions.

ISORC is a single-track and single-blind conference, with a lively community. We seek to encourage diverse views and new approaches to all real-time issues and challenges for novel applications and systems in RT computing issues.

For our 29th symposium, we are meeting in Hamilton, The Waterfall Capital of the World. Located in Ontario (Canada) on the Niagara escarpment, McMaster University will host this edition from May 27 - 29, 2026.

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: February 02, 2026, 11:59 PM AoE
• Acceptance Notification: March 05, 2026
• Camera-ready papers: March 20, 2026
• Early registration for authors: March 20, 2026

Main Theme and Topics

This year’s theme is the evolution of Architectures for Next Generation Critical Real-Time and Distributed Systems.

On the one hand Electrical and Electronic (E/E) Architectures for automotive and aerospace vehicles are trending towards greater integration and centralization while complex systems of systems such as Smart Grid and Vehicle to Vehicle and Vehicle to Infrastructure are increasingly distributed and decentralized with edge compute. As a result, long established systems and software development paradigms and supplier relationships are changing, creating new challenges for industry and researchers that are compounded by the increasing adoption of AI/ML components and workflow.

We solicit high-quality papers pertaining to all aspects of ORC technology that consider performance, dependability, scalability, reliability, among other properties and those that are well aligned with the 2025 theme. Authors are encouraged to consider submissions with a practical orientation and validation related to Case Studies & Applications in this area. The specific ORC focus areas include, but are not limited to:

• Hardware & Software architectures for real-time distributed computing: Programming paradigms, ORC paradigms, object/component models, languages, synchronous languages, microservices architectures, soft, hard, performance-aware, distributed, aspects of real-time computing, service-oriented architectures, scalability, performance, event-driven, safety, reliability, middleware, patterns and practices, etc.
• Distributed real time computing and communication infrastructures: Real-time communications, networked platforms, protocols, Internet QoS, peer-to-peer computing, sensor networks, vehicle to vehicle and vehicle to infrastructure communications, time-predictable systems and hardware, Time Sensitive Networking, digital twin for real-time data processing, blockchain, distributed ledger technology, federated learning, TinyML, and EdgeAI for real-time IoT, trusted and dependable systems, complex systems of systems, model maintenance.
• Dependability, Fault tolerance, and Resilience of Distributed and Real-Time Computing: Fault tolerance, fault detection and recovery, fault injection testing, self-healing, failover, redundancy, high availability, safety, reliability, autonomic reconfiguration, autonomic resilience, formal verification, DevOps for distributed and real-time systems.
• Algorithms for Distributed and/or Real-Time Analytics: Real-time stream processing, clustering, classification, mining and inferencing, and statistical modeling, digital twins and predictive analytics, stream correlation and sampling, dynamic scheduling, complex event-processing, time-series and TimeFM analysis.
• System software: Real-time kernels, operating systems, virtualization/containerization, middleware for ORC, QoS management and performance, decentralized processing, scalability, extensibility, synchronization, resource allocation, scheduling, energy efficiency, timing analysis, fault tolerance and resilience, cyber security, etc.
• Distributed and Real-Time Applications: Medical devices, intelligent transportation systems, Industry 4.0, Internet of Things and smart grids, embedded and cyber-physical systems, multimedia processing, real-time web-based applications, QoS aware and real-time cloud/edge/fog computing, network slicing, decentralized real-time data network, digital twins, time-sensitive social dispersed computing.
• System evaluation: monitoring mechanisms & infrastructures, performance & timing evaluation, dependability, end-to-end QoS, system/infrastructure overheads, fault detection and recovery time, large-scale evaluations and field studies.

Guidelines for Manuscripts

ISORC 2026 invites papers in three (3) categories, all will be considered for publication in the IEEE proceedings (pending confirmation).

Submissions will be reviewed by at least three Program Committee members according to a single-blind review process. Submission guidelines for each category of paper are as follows:

• Regular Research Papers: Papers should describe original work and papers submitted for review should be a maximum of 10 pages in length, using the IEEE conference paper format. A maximum of two extra pages may be purchased during the camera-ready submission of accepted papers.

• Industrial Papers and Practitioner Reports: Papers describing experiences of using ORC technology in application or tool development projects, are an integral part of the technical program of ISORC. These papers should be no longer than 10 pages, using the IEEE conference paper format and may be less formal than research papers. A maximum of two extra pages may be purchased during the camera-ready submission of accepted papers.
  • They should clearly identify and discuss in detail the issues that represent notable industrial advances. Reports with project metrics supporting their claims are particularly sought, as well as those that show both benefits and drawbacks of the approaches used in the given project.
• Short Papers: Short research papers that are no longer than 6 pages, using the IEEE conference paper format, on real-time analytics are also invited, and should contain enough information for the program committee to understand the scope of the project and evaluate the novelty of the problem or approach.

The IEEE conference paper templates can be found here: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates

Papers are to be submitted through the HotCRP system: https://isorc2026.hotcrp.com/