<div dir="ltr"><div style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border-width:medium medium 1.5pt;border-style:none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor black;padding:0cm 0cm 6pt"><p style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;font-size:12pt;margin:7pt 0cm 6pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:medium;padding:0cm"><b style="font-size:12pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">RAGE 2026: 5th Workshop on <u>R</u>eal-time <u>A</u>nd intelli<u>G</u>ent <u>E</u>dge computing<u></u> </span></b><br></p></div><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt 10pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Co-located at the CPS-IoT Week 2026, Saint Malo, France, May 11th, 2026<u></u></span></p><table width="699" id="m_1606972492524325885m_-530022557290447167m_-363350766184337870m_5517514603781019496m_6976159716940493591m_5558491313731026464m_-3409850790177078013m_4556278680113970615m_-3796687252813474997m_974353990026364945m_5762338778668183838m_-7031958739563033507m_-2779777454260191073m_1785135198095253619m_-3627536438673936961m_-6895505632582941480tableSelected0" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;width:524.5pt;border-width:1.5pt medium;border-style:solid none;border-color:black currentcolor"><tbody><tr><td width="192" style="width:143.8pt;border:1pt solid rgb(182,182,182);background:rgb(239,239,239);padding:3pt 6pt 3pt 16pt"><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Workshop website<u></u> <u></u></span></b></p></td><td width="502" style="width:376.2pt;border:1pt solid rgb(182,182,182);background:rgb(239,239,239);padding:3pt 6pt 3pt 16pt"><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><a href="https://rage-workshop.github.io/2026/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,65,159)">https://rage-workshop.github.io/2026/</span></a><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></td></tr><tr><td width="192" style="width:143.8pt;border:1pt solid rgb(182,182,182);background:rgb(249,249,249);padding:3pt 6pt 3pt 16pt"><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Submission link<u></u> <u></u></span></b></p></td><td width="502" style="width:376.2pt;border:1pt solid rgb(182,182,182);background:rgb(249,249,249);padding:3pt 6pt 3pt 16pt"><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rage2026" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,65,159)">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rage2026</span></a><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> <u></u></span></p></td></tr><tr><td width="192" style="width:143.8pt;border:1pt solid rgb(182,182,182);background:rgb(239,239,239);padding:3pt 6pt 3pt 16pt"><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Submission deadline<u></u> <u></u></span></b></p></td><td width="502" style="width:376.2pt;border:1pt solid rgb(182,182,182);background:rgb(239,239,239);padding:3pt 6pt 3pt 16pt"><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><b><u>February <font color="#ff0000">10th</font>, 2026, AoE, extended (firm)</u></b><u></u></span></p></td></tr><tr><td width="192" style="width:143.8pt;border:1pt solid rgb(182,182,182);background:rgb(249,249,249);padding:3pt 6pt 3pt 16pt"><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Notification to authors<u></u> <u></u></span></b></p></td><td width="502" style="width:376.2pt;border:1pt solid rgb(182,182,182);background:rgb(249,249,249);padding:3pt 6pt 3pt 16pt"><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">March 2nd, 2026<u></u></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt 10pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt 10pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Dear Colleagues,<br>We would like to inform you about the extension of the </span><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:9pt">paper submission deadline for the Workshop on Real-time And intelliGent Edge computing (RAGE) 2026.</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt 10pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">The edge computing paradigm is becoming increasingly popular as it facilitates real-time computation, reduces energy consumption and carbon footprint, and fosters security and privacy preservation by processing the data closer to its origin, thereby drastically reducing the amount of data sent to the cloud. On the application side, there is a growing interest in using edge computing as a key pillar to support decentralized artificial intelligence by implementing federated learning and adaptive deep learning inference at the edge. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">However</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">, many edge applications tightly interact with the surrounding environment and are required to deliver a result (e.g., perform actuation or send a message through a 5G network) within a predefined deadline. Therefore, a key requirement in edge computing is the need to be predictable across the edge-to-cloud continuum while also efficiently utilizing the system resources.<u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 9pt 10pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">However, meeting the above requirements is non-trivial. Modern edge devices can be very diverse, ranging from hand-held devices to large in-premise servers, and can include complex embedded platforms with multiple heterogeneous cores and hardware accelerators such as GPUs, TPUs, and FPGAs. This complexity introduces considerable challenges when trying to guarantee timing requirements of real-time applications: for example, due to scheduling policies implemented by the hardware accelerators (often not publicly disclosed by vendors) or due to the memory contention experienced by applications when accessing main memory concurrently in a multi-core setup. Secondly, network transmission time (TSN over Ethernet to 5G links) can lead to variability in the end-to-end latencies incurred by edge applications. Thirdly, a distributed infrastructure is naturally exposed to security attacks potentially able to compromise the execution of one or multiple devices or threaten their corresponding communications.<u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 9pt 10pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Furthermore, the operating system (OS) also plays a crucial role in enabling the edge computing paradigm, but quite often at the price of increasing the difficulty in deriving timing guarantees: for example, think of a complex deep neural network that needs to leverage a Linux-based OS (which is far more complicated than a real-time operating system), since it provides all the software stacks (e.g., TensorRT) and device drivers to interact with NVIDIA GPUs.<u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 9pt 10pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">The complexity of the problem is further increased by the usage of middleware frameworks, which simplify the development of applications, but at the cost of introducing scheduling policies in addition to the one offered by the underlying operating system, hindering predictability. Some relevant examples are ROS, in the context of robotics, TensorFlow for artificial intelligence, TensorRT for efficient deep neural network inference on GPUs, and others. Virtualization technologies are also becoming crucial in implementing the edge paradigm, but again, at the expense of creating a more complex operating environment, where guaranteeing temporal properties is a challenging endeavor. These problems are common to many application domains, including cyber-physical systems, future-generation autonomous driving applications, robotics, Industry 4.0, smart buildings, and more.<u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 9pt 10pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">We solicit the submission of work-in-progress papers. Workshop topics include, but are not limited to:<u></u> <u></u></span></p><ul type="disc" style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;margin-bottom:0cm"><li style="margin:0cm;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Real-time edge computing<u></u> <u></u></span></li><li style="margin:0cm;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">QoS mechanisms for temporal isolation in light-weight virtualization mechanisms (Docker, WebAssembly)<u></u> <u></u></span></li><li style="margin:0cm;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Mechanisms for end-to-end latency guarantees in the edge-to-cloud continuum<u></u> <u></u></span></li><li style="margin:0cm;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Methods for functional decomposition between the edge and cloud<u></u> <u></u></span></li><li style="margin:0cm;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Predictability in middleware frameworks (ROS, TensorFlow, TensorRT, and more)<u></u> <u></u></span></li><li style="margin:0cm;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Real-time edge computing use cases<u></u> <u></u></span></li><li style="margin:0cm;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Real-time network protocols for edge computing<u></u> <u></u></span></li><li style="margin:0cm;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Real-time distributed artificial intelligence<u></u> <u></u></span></li><li style="margin:0cm;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Resource scheduling and allocation in embedded real-time systems<u></u> <u></u></span></li><li style="margin:0cm;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Predictable and efficient parallel applications<u></u> <u></u></span></li><li style="margin:0cm;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Energy- and power-aware allocation in the edge-to-cloud Continuum<u></u> <u></u></span></li><li style="margin:0cm;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Timing predictability for artificial intelligence<u></u> <u></u></span></li><li style="margin:0cm;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Security and safety verification techniques for edge computing and infrastructures<u></u> <u></u></span></li><li style="margin:0cm;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Software/hardware/communication mechanisms, analysis, and/or tools supporting security in edge </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">computing </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">or in critical infrastructures<u></u> <span style="font-size:9pt"><u></u></span></span></li></ul><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 9pt 10pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></p><div style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border-width:medium medium 1.5pt;border-style:none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor black;padding:0cm 0cm 6pt"><p style="margin:7pt 0cm 6pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:medium;padding:0cm"><font color="#333333" face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.3333px"><b>Organizers</b></span></font></p></div><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 9pt 10pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 9pt 10pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><u><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs</font></u></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 9pt 10pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></p><ul><li style="margin-left:15px">Mario Günzel, TU Dortmund University, Germany</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Alfonso Mascareñas González, ONERA, France</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Ahlem Mifdaoui, University of Toulouse, France</li></ul><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">    <u>Steering Committee:</u></font></div><div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Daniel Casini, Scuola Superiore Sant\u2019Anna, Italy</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Dakshina Dasari, Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Matthias Becker, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden</font></li></ul></div><p></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 9pt 10pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><u>Publicity Chairs</u>: </font></p><ul><li style="margin-left:15px">Biagio Boi, University of Salerno, Italy</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Ida Falco, University of Sannio, Italy</li></ul><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 9pt 10pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><u>Web Chair</u>: Gabriele Serra, Scuola Superiore Sant\u2019Anna, Italy  </font><br></p><h2 style="margin:7pt 0px 6pt;border-bottom:2px solid rgb(0,0,0);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(51,51,51);padding:4pt 0pt 6pt;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;border-radius:3px"><font size="2">Venue</font></h2><p style="margin:0px 0pt 12px 10pt;max-width:650pt;line-height:1.4;padding-bottom:5pt;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The conference will be held in Saint-Malo, France, as part of the CPS-IoT-Week 2026. May 11, 2026.</p><h2 style="margin:7pt 0px 6pt;border-bottom:2px solid rgb(0,0,0);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(51,51,51);padding:4pt 0pt 6pt;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;border-radius:3px"><font size="2">Contact</font></h2><p style="margin:0px 0pt 12px 10pt;max-width:650pt;line-height:1.4;padding-bottom:5pt;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">All questions about submissions should be emailed to <a href="mailto:mario.guenzel@tu-dortmund.de" target="_blank">mario.guenzel@tu-dortmund.de</a>,  <a href="mailto:alfonso.mascarenas@onera.fr" target="_blank">alfonso.mascarenas@onera.fr</a>, <a href="mailto:ahlem.mifdaoui@isae-supaero.fr" target="_blank">ahlem.mifdaoui@isae-supaero.fr</a></p></div>