TPC purpose, basic operation
The goal of the technical program committee is the selection of papers based on their technical merit and suitability for…
How does the Conference serve the Research Community?
The research community in a field, e.g., real-time systems, consists of everyone working in the area, independent of their role…
Quantitative Solutions don’t solve Qualitative Problems
A reflex to problems often seem to be “do more of x”. Let’s look at an example: “Not happy with…
Conferences become good because of the boring stuff
We are tempted to think that conferences become good because of great ideas, novel concepts etc. While that is important,…
Nothing happens on its own
Everything needs someone behind it making it happen, at least checking that it is on the way. Even if it…