RSS 2014 - International Workshop on Resilient Systems and Solutions (RSS 2014)

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
Resilient Network Design
Resilience in Routing and Networking
Techniques for Enhancing Existing Networks with Resilience Capabilities
Resilient Cryptography
Tools for Developing Resilient Systems
Design for Resilience
Resilience at Run-time