RSS 2013 - International Workshop on Resilient Systems and Solutions (RSS 2013)

“Change happens ? we need to design for it.” Resiliency, the ability of a system to persistently deliver its services in a trustworthy and adaptable fashion even when facing changes, is becoming increasingly challenging in the ever-changing environments and circumstances of unprecedented complex modern systems. Coupled with increasing levels of dependency on and pervasiveness of new technologies and systems, resiliency is essential especially in critical infrastructures and complex systems of modern day societies. Resiliency is important in the face of growing device and software susceptibility to transient and hard errors and compromises. Lack of resilient systems and solutions may lead to devastating consequences and dreadful accidents and failures. Engineering resilient systems, new engineering concepts, science, and design tools to protect against inadvertent and malicious compromises of systems and to develop agile manufacturing for trusted and assured systems are key objectives to address these challenges. Future systems will require architects and scientists to integrate adaptive design techniques at all levels to ensure robust and resilient mission execution and to be able to constantly re-optimize in the face of changes both external and internal. New systems must learn to dynamically identify, detect and recover from glitches and compromises in the field.
Designing systems for resiliency requires the ongoing cooperation of a much larger group of stakeholders than customarily work together. Knowledge resulting from that cooperation has to be shared and exchanged among additional stakeholders as the systems development process shifts from conceptual design to deeper design to prototyping to evaluation to production design to manufacturing and sustainment. Otherwise, the original intents of the initial efforts can be defeated in later stages. For complex systems, the scale and heterogeneity of the communities involved combine with the large number of potential unforeseen interactions between the differing concerns of these diverse communities. Furthermore, many critical contributors are not full-time participants but rather are heavily loaded with other primary tasks (imagine, for example, warfighters in theater, who have significant inputs to offer regarding new systems designs, but are necessarily deeply occupied with their operational duties). These factors create a collaboration problem that is challenging at a level beyond crowdsourcing as we think about it today. The criticality of recognizing and collaboratively remediating interacting requirements and technical issues is inherently in conflict with the risk of excessive workload and cognitive overload.
The research community is called upon to address the challenge to develop methods, technologies and solutions to facilitate the design and implementation for resiliency in virtual enterprises that span engineers, customers, users, maintainers and other stakeholders in the extended lifecycle process of creating and fielding new products and systems.
This workshop explores this area and invites exploratory papers as well as mature research contributions of promising approaches to design, develop, maintain, evaluate, and benchmark adaptive and resilient systems.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Design Process for Resilient Systems
Modeling and Simulation Tools for Resiliency and Resilient Systems
Conceptual Models and Paradigms for Adaptability & Trustworthiness
Characterization and Properties of Resilient Systems
Architectures for Resilient Hardware and Software Systems
Architectures for Collaborative Interaction
Algorithms for Evaluating Adaptability and Resilience
Overheads and/or Tradeoffs of Resiliency Techniques
Social Infrastructure for Resiliency
Roles of Human Participants in the Design of Resilient Autonomic Systems
Human-centered Computing, Human Factors and Collaboration over Resilient Systems
Collaboration Issues of Engineering Resilient Systems
Designing Resilient Mission Critical Systems
Resilience Metrics
Monitoring and Self-adaptation
Autonomic and Adaptive Solutions
Recovery- and Healing-oriented Computing
Testing, Verification and Validation of Resilient Systems
Data Integrity, Recovery and Warehousing in Resilient Systems
Fault Tolerance, Avoidance and Masking
Vulnerabilities, Threats, and Attacks
Risk Management Guidelines and Standards
Security and Intrusion Avoidance and Detection in Sensitive Collaborations
Access Control in Collaborations Involving Sensitive Topics
Context-aware and Data Mining for Resilient Systems
Collaborative Information Presentation and Decision Support Tools
Mechanisms for Facilitating Communication Among Heterogeneous Communities
Resilient Network Design
Resilience in Routing and Networking
Techniques for Enhancing Existing Networks with Resilience Capabilities
Cyber Physical Systems Support
Sensory Systems for Resilience
Self-Configuration and Self-Protection
Resilient Cryptography
Resilience in Noisy Environments
Tools for Developing Resilient Systems
Design for Resilience
Resilience at Run-time