Outstanding Papers Awards

The ECRTS 2013 Awards committee, formed by a small number of Technical Program Committee members, selected this year four papers which were deemend outstanding among the submitted work. These papers containing of the highest quality form the short list for the Best Paper Award and are listed in order of their appearance in the program. They are "Analysis of Global EDF for Parallel Tasks" by Jing Li, Kunal Agrawal, Chenyang Lu, Christopher Gill; "Schedulability Analysis of the Linux Push and Pull Scheduler with Arbitrary Processor Affinities" by Arpan Gujarati, Felipe Cerqueira, Bjorn Brandenburg; "Making Shared Caches More Predictable on Multicore Platforms" by Bryan Ward, Jonathan Herman, Christopher Kenna, James Anderson; and "Using Max-Plus Algebra to Improve the Analysis of Non-Cyclic Task Models" by Haibo Zeng and Marco Di Natale.