Eduardo Tovar was the Program Chair of the 19th IEEE Real Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2013), a top tier conference in the area. The conference was held during April in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, as part of the Cyber-Physical Systems Week (www.cpsweek.org).
The scope of RTAS is defined by its four tracks: Track 1 on Applications, Systems, RTOSs, and Tools; Track 2 on Applied Methodologies and Foundations, that is, on basic methodologies and algorithms that are applicable to real systems to solve specific problems; Track 3 on Wireless Sensor Networks; and Track 4 on Hardware-Software Co-design, including design methodologies and tools for hardware/software integration. Papers submitted to all tracks were required to clearly define motivating application examples and include a section reporting experimental results with a real implementation of the proposed system, or showing the applicability to an industrial case study or working system.
One of the highlights of this year’s RTAS was the Industrial Session, which included talks by various industrialists on case studies, design methodologies, tools, deployment experiences and industry challenges in various application domains. This session included speakers from Siemens, General Motors, Mathworks, Honeywell, Emerson, United Technologies and National Instruments.
Further information on RTAS 2013 is available at:
http://www.cister.isep.ipp.pt/rtas2013/ 
