The conference focuses on research of an empirical nature pertaining to systems, architecture and applications for time-sensitive or embedded systems. It also includes on fundamental models, techniques, methods, and analyses that are applicable to time-sensitive systems to solve specific problems.

IEEE 32nd Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS) is technically sponsored by IEEE. The proceedings  of this event are likely to be indexed in  prominent databases such as Scopus, Web of Science (WoS), Ei Compendex, DBLP, Google Scholar, and many others.