Program Overview

This page provides a high-level summary of the conference schedule. For comprehensive details, including session abstracts and presenter biographies, please visit the Detailed Program page.

Presentation Format and Engagement

ISORC operates as a single-track conference, intentionally designed to prioritize scholarly discussion and the meaningful exchange of ideas. To facilitate this, the schedule adheres to the following allocation:

• Research & Doctoral Papers: 30 minutes total (15-minute presentation followed by a 15-minute moderated Q&A).
• Short Papers: 15 minutes total (10-minute presentation followed by a 5-minute Q&A).

We encourage all attendees to participate actively in the extended discussion periods following each presentation.

Wednesday 27/05

Opening Session

• Session Chair: Dr. Alan Wassyng

• 09:00 - 09:15: Welcome to ISORC 2026
• 09:15 - 10:15: Keynote Talk: From Safety to Resilience (Prof. Dr. Mario Trapp, TUM)

System and Software

• Session Chair: Dr. Tam Chantem

• 10:45 - 11:15: Trace-Aware Multidimensional Analysis of Hidden Bottlenecks in Autoscaling Microservices (M. Dashtbani, L. Tahvildari)
• 11:15 - 11:45: SlimFlit: A simple Network-on-Chip for Real-Time Systems (T. Petersen, V. Gavrilut, L. Pezzarossa, M. Schoeberl)
• 11:45 - 12:15: DRAM Bank-Aware Memory Allocation for Embedded Real-Time Virtualization (E. Bischoff Grasel, G. Gracioli, D. Casini)

Dependable Real-time Networking

• Session Chair: Dr. Gabor Karsai

• 14:00 - 14:30: Timing‑Aware Configuration Framework for TSN and OPC UA in Industrial Automation Systems (K. Ekrad, B. Johansson, I. Vadillo, S. Mubeen, M. Ashjaei)
• 14:30 - 15:00: An Open-Source Framework to Emulate Delay and Disruption Tolerant Networks for International Space Station Communication (K. Grover, M. Ponce)
• 15:00 - 15:30: ipc_shared_ptr: A Publish/Subscribe-Aware Smart Pointer for Cross-Process Object Lifetime Management (T. Ishikawa-Aso, A. Yano, K. Imai, T. Azumi, S. Kato)

Resilient Real-time systems

• Session Chair: Dr. Giovani Gracioli

• 16:00 - 16:30: A Machine Learning Based Approach for Fast Demand Characterization of Digraph Tasks (R. Mukherjee, T. Chantem)
• 16:30 - 16:00: Towards a Fully Verified Artificial DNA - Formal Verification of Building Block Behavior (A. Koschowoj, T. Zander, M. Scheffer, T. Kisselbach, M. Pacher)
• 17:00 - 17:30: Hard Real-Time Embedded Implementation of Closed-Loop Gastric Pacemaker (H. Lee, A. Malik, P. Roop, N. Allen, D. Martinez)

Welcome Dinner (Social Event)

• 18:30 - 21:00: Gastronomic dinner in the Buttery’s patio (weather permitting)
  • 18:30: Bar opens
  • 19:00: Opening remarks and short speech
  • 19:15: Dinner service begins

Thursday 28/05

Edge Computing Real-time ML Systems

• Session chair: TBA

• 09:00 - 09:15: General Annoucements
• 09:15 - 09:45: Edge Based Predictive Maintenance Using a TinyML Temporal Convolutional Transformer for NASA Turbofan Remaining Useful Life Estimation (A. Benbelghit, A. Gherbi, P. Hladik, A. Bali)
• 09:45 - 10:15: Deployment of Quantized Deep Noise Suppression on Real-Time Edge Platforms (A. Cerioli, T. Strøm, C. Laroche, T. Piechowiak, L. Pezzarossa, M. Schoeberl)

System performance & ML

• Session Chair: Dr. Akramul Azim

• 10:45 - 11:15: Accelerated Reinforcement Learning for Real-Time Task Scheduling in Edge Computing Environments (A. Avan, A. Azim, Q. Mahmoud)
• 11:15 - 11:45: Slowdown Modeling under Interference in Spatially Partitioned GPUs (S. Mobaiyen, M. Sjödin, S. Mubeen)
• 11:45 - 12:15: Power-Performance Trade-offs using Offline Reinforcement Learning for Compute Workloads (A. Raj, S. Perarnau, S. Bekele, A. Gokhale)

Excursion (Social Event)

• 14:15 - 21:30: Niagara Falls Excursion (limited to participants who registered for it)
  • 14:15: Departure from McMaster
  • 15:30: Floral clock
  • 15:45: Power station viewpoint
  • 16:00: Whirlpool Rapids viewpoint
  • approx. 16:0/16:30: Maple syrup tasting (if group is interested)
  • approx. 16:30/17:00: Arriving at Niagara Falls
  • 17:00 - 20:00: Free time in Niagara Falls
    • Participants to arrange their own dinner in Niagara Falls
  • 20:00: Departure from Niagara Falls
  • approx. 21:30: Drop back on Main Campus

Friday 29/05

Town Hall

• Session Chair: Dr. Sébastien Mosser

• 09:00 - 09:15: General Annoucements
• 09:15 - 10:15: Town Hall discussion
  • Panelists: Dr. Rob Pettit (George Mason University, Steering Committee chair), Dr. Gabor Karsai (Vanderbilt University), Dr. Mathias Pacher (DHBW Karlsruhe)

Security and intrusion detection

• Session Chair: Dr. Mark Lawford

• 10:45 - 11:15: A Context-Aware Trust Management and Calibration Framework for Cyber-Physical Systems (W. Khan, S. Fischmeister)
• 11:15 - 11:45: Cross-MAC IDS for Denial-of-Sleep Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks (D. Amoruso, B. Boi, C. Esposito)
• 11:45 - 12:15: Power-Based Security Monitoring: Non-Invasive Detection of Task Execution Violations in Real-Time Systems (M. Haldar, J. Patel, S. Fischmeister)

Spring Barbecue (Social Event)

• Join us for a nice barbecue to celebrate the last day of ISORC 2026!

Real-Time Networking in Adversarial Environments

• Session Chair: Dr. Sebastian Fischmeister

• 14:00 - 14:30: Exploring and Exploiting Synchrony Limitations of Time-Triggered Network-Agnostic Guardians (S. Kulhalli, M. Alkoudsi, G. Fohler)
• 14:30 - 14:45: [short paper] Task Splitting to Mitigate Schedule-Based Anterior Attacks in Real-Time Embedded Systems (S. Karin, H. Aydin, D. Zhu)
• 14:45 - 15:15: [doctoral paper] Rigorous Design of Time-Predictable Embedded Systems (E. Khodadad, L. Pezzarossa, M. Schoeberl)
• 15:15 - 15:30: Closing remarks