Call for Paper

ZiSE 2025
1. International Conference on
Zephyr in Science and Education
Jena, Germany
Sept 23-24, 2025

Topics

Training content/curricula for embedded development (esp. Zephyr)
Methodical teaching approaches in training in system design, software design and embedded software development
Training on Zephyr
Zephyr real-time operating system (RTOS) subsystem and interface evaluation
Embedded Systems Development Training
Zephyr in robotics (e.g. ROS 2 / micro-ros 2)
Zephyr in edge AI
Zephyr community evolution and health
Distributed systems based on real-time operating systems (sensor systems)
Operating system architecture with a focus on real-time operating systems
POSIX OS as the basis for embedded operating systems
Concepts in Zephyr (e.g. device tree)
Zephyr in practice - migration of existing applications to Zephyr
Zephyr in practice - introduction of Zephyr in existing structures/teams

Models of Submissions

Submissions made to the ZiSE may choose one of the following models:

Full papers (up to 12 pages + references) for normal research contributions that require longer explanations and discussions; usually feature some form of evaluation and/or broad consideration of related work
Short papers (up to 6 pages + references) for minor contributions, rather engineering-oriented projects, incomplete projects, less mature research ideas, positional papers, interesting project summaries, software pitches and/or negative observations.
Brief talk (up to 2 pages) for short communications and for resubmissions of successful research recently published in a full paper at a major conference or in a journal

Pre-Submission:

We offer the possibility of having abstracts and paper outlines thematically reviewed before the full paper is written and submitted. This way, authors can be sure that their planned topic fits the intended focus of the conference. Please note that the final paper will still be independently reviewed and may be accepted or rejected.

Presentation mode:

Long talk should be presented in a 20-25min presentation followed by a Q & A session of 10-5min.
Short talk should be presented in a 10-15min presentation followed by a Q & A session of 10-5min.

As a rough guideline, we assume that the length of the presentation correlates with the length of the paper. However, live demonstrations, detailed discussions about teaching and learning setups or similar may also result in short papers benefitting from more time in detailed presentations.

The talk length will be finalized after the review as part of the detailed schedule planning. Please feel free to share your preferred talk length.

Important Dates：

Pre-Submission for Abstracts and Paper outlines: rolling till May 09, 2025
Paper Registration and Submission Deadline: May 31, 2025
Notification of Acceptance: June 29, 2025
Registration: Aug 17, 2025
Camera Ready: Aug 31, 2025
Conference: Sept 23-24, 2025

Submissions Guidelines

Submissions are welcome in English. All papers have to be formatted according to the CEUR-WS formatting guidelines. You can also download an offline version with the style files from http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. It also contains DOCX template files. Papers are to be submitted as PDF files to EasyChair.

All submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. All authors of accepted submissions will be invited to the conference to present their work. Accepted in-practice and research papers (full papers and short papers) will also be included in the proceedings.

Proceedings shall be published as open accees and submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication

All conference and workshop participants have to register for the conference.