SAFECOMP 2010 - SAFECOMP 2010 - 29th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security

SAFECOMP 2010

The 29th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security

14 - 17 September 2010
Schoenbrunn Palace Conference Centre, Vienna, Austria

Call for Papers

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Safecomp 2010 Key Theme: Critical Embedded Systems Challenges and Risks

After 31 years of SAFECOMP, the emphasis of the 29th event is to take a look at critical embedded systems which are already almost omnipresent, communicating and cooperating, interacting with each other, humans and environment. Their impact on our life, risks and challenges are often not well understood (underestimated or exaggerated). The primary issue is to cope with complexity and new paradigms of failure modes and resource management, due to shrinking feature size, multi-core systems on chip and management of multiple variants while maintaining dependability properties and robustness of systems.

The topic includes purely scientific/technical as well as societal aspects. It concerns (explicitly used or hidden) devices, services, infrastructures, machines, transport systems, robots etc. It also involves raising awareness for rare circumstances under which, because of an unlucky combination of conditions, a normally non-critical system may endanger life, as may be the case when relying too much on past correct operation. Therefore, a holistic view is required. The conference will cover research in all related areas, industrial experience and practice, reports from interesting R&D projects, studies, standardization issues, assessment, evaluation and certification of systems, tools and utilities. Different application domains as well as generic, cross domain issues may be covered.

Scope of the Conference

Papers are invited in application and industrial sectors as well as research areas. Examples are given below:

Application and Industrial Sectors: aerospace and avionics, automotive, industrial process control, networking & telecommunication, railways, robotics and autonomous systems in general, medical devices and systems, e-health, off-shore technology, ship building, power systems, critical infrastructures, security of safety-critical systems, safety guidelines and standards, education & training.

Especially papers on industrial experience and practice are encouraged !!

Research Areas: safety & security risk assessment, design for dependability, diversity, fault tolerance, verification & validation, testing, qualification and certification, modelling and simulation, human factors, dependability analysis, networked (distributed) embedded systems, safety-critical computer systems, resilient (robust) systems, embedded intelligence, software and hardware for critical systems, methods, techniques and tools.

Paper Submission

Submissions: Contributions are to be submitted in portable document format (pdf) or postscript (ps) via the conference website. They must indicate the name, postal address, e-mail address, phone and fax number of the contact author. Contributions must be written and presented in English; no simultaneous translation will be provided during the conference.

Abstracts: In order to support the reviewing process we strongly encourage the preliminary communication of an abstract of about 200 words providing essential keywords and announcing the intention to submit a full paper.

Full papers: Full papers must not exceed the maximum number of 14 pages and have to be prepared according to the LNCS templates provided by Springer Verlag on the web site www.springer.de/comp/Incs

Originality: Only papers not published elsewhere may be submitted for publication. The following declaration should be added:

‘All necessary clearances for the publication of this paper have been obtained. If it is accepted, the author will prepare the final manuscript in time for inclusion in the conference proceedings and will present the paper at the conference.’

The best presentation will be awarded free attendance to Safecomp 2011.

Conference Proceedings & Journal Special Issue

After acceptance by the International Programme Committee the final paper is required in electronic version according to templates provided by the publisher. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).

Extensions of the best papers will be considered for publication in a Special Issue of the International Journal on Reliability Engineering and System Safety (RESS) published by Elsevier.

Tutorials and Exhibition

It is planned to have Tuesday, Sept. 14, as a tutorial and workshop day. Tutorial and workshop proposals are welcome and should be submitted to the conference secretariat.

A dedicated space will be available for a Technical Exhibition and a Tool Fair in the communication area where coffee breaks and lunches take place. Organisations wishing to present their products or projects are invited to request further information from the conference secretariat.

Conference Secretariat

Secretariat SAFECOMP 2010
Austrian Computer Society (OCG)
Wollzeile 1-3
1010 Vienna, Austria
Email: ocg-AT-ocg.at
Fax: ++43 (0)1 512 02 35 ? 9
Tel. ++43 (0)1 512 02 35 - 23
Conference Chair: erwin.schoitsch-AT-ait.ac.at