Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET 2012)

I take real pleasure in seeing the proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis online already on the day of the workshop. This helps WCET’12 achieve its goal of facilitating discussion and interaction among participants as well as of returning value to the authors of the works that were accepted for presentation. I also feel personal satisfaction in having achieved the production of these proceedings as a tangible manifestation of the considerable effort that went in making WCET’12 happen, and successfully so, in fact. The WCET workshop is a successful series indeed. The research community active in WCET analysis evidently cares for the event, values its venue and atmosphere, and the relevance of its proceedings. In that respect, it is a comparatively easy job to be the program chair for it (hopefully my predecessors would not feel diminished by me saying so!) in as far as the harvesting of valuable contributions goes. I was very pleased and reassured at seeing the whole program committee actively help me disseminate the call for papers, scout for good research projects that would be at the stage of maturity to present their ideas in the workshop, and turn in very thorough reviews. We received 23 good-quality submissions, of which we selected 10 for the program and the proceedings. We had the luxury of being selective, and the opportunity of putting together a solid program that makes ample room for discussion and interaction, which is what the workshop is for in the first place. I welcome all participants to WCET’12 in both the physical event, taking place as usual as a satellite event to ECRTS12, this year on 10 July at the beautiful venue of Scuola Sant’Anna in Pisa, Italy, and the online proceedings, which I hope will get the amount of citations that the authors need for their good work.