RTW 2012 - International Workshop on Risk and Trust in Safety Critical Systems

Our society becomes more and more dependent on critical infrastructures. The dependability of safety and mission critical systems, including requirements on reliability, safety and security, is thus of utmost importance, and requires specific attention in all phases of the system life-cycle. These systems have traditionally been under strict control by the organization delivering and owning the critical system, and its continuous predictable operation has been closely and stringently monitored and maintained.
This is now changing rapidly, partly due to stricter cost control and the open source movement. Additionally, these systems are increasingly getting connected to the Internet, to peer and vendor sites, to regulatory bodies, and their management and control is being outsourced for various reasons. The notion of a system and an organization is more diffuse and is moving towards cross-organizational and distributed control structure. Also, there are organizations that collaborate and together provide parts of or complete critical systems (being it mission or safety critical), introducing a new control structure. No longer is one single organization in control of these systems, rather their dependability may now be affected by operations performed by a third party, and security becomes increasingly important and complex.
The Risk and Trust 2012 workshop focuses on how new cross-organizational and distributed control structures affect the reliability, safety and security of dependable systems and how this may change the way risks are identified, measured, controlled and mitigated. We also focus on how these changes affect the notion of trust, and how to measure the trustworthiness of organizations, and how trust is managed and accounted for in the decision-making processes. Of particular interest are safety and mission critical systems in the domains of Oil & Gas, Energy and Aerospace, although we welcome contributions from other critical system domains.
Workshop Objectives
Risk and Trust 2012 brings together experts and practitioners from industry and from academia involved in all areas of dependable systems. Most importantly, it aims at building a community around security and trust in safety and mission critical systems at ISSRE, promoting further research, and exchanging experiences and ideas around the topic. Of particular interest are safety and mission critical systems in the domains of Oil & Gas, Energy and Aerospace, although we welcome contributions from other critical system domains. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
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Risk and trust management in embedded systems
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Security and dependability of resource constrained embedded systems
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Access control and trust management in industrial control systems
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Approaches to model and simulate scenarios
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Trust and risk in safety critical systems
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Scalability of trust in safety critical systems
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Risk and trust in cross-organizational collaboration of critical systems
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Risk estimation
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Cascading risks
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Trust models and measures
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Risk control processes
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Business processes in new contexts in which safety and mission critical systems are now merged.