DSMDS 2011 - First International Workshop on Dependable and Secure Medical Devices and Systems (DSMDS 2011)

First International Workshop on Dependable and Secure Medical Devices and Systems (DSMDS 2011)

(To be held in conjunction with the 41st IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2011))

Monday, June 27, 2011, Hong Kong, China

Emerging technology advancements in the sensing, networking, and hardware/software industries have enabled design and development of medical systems with different applications and complexities. However, the rapidly increasing complexity of medical devices to achieve new functionalities and wide use of wearable devices for personalized healthcare raise new challenges in terms of reliability, performability, patient safety, and security. Thus, the cost-effective development of highly dependable and secure medical systems is becoming an important concern. We look forward to new ideas and systematic methodologies to address these technical concerns, for revolutionizing the manner next-generation reliable medical systems are designed, manufactured, validated, and integrated.

The DSMDS workshop will include keynote and research presentations selected by the technical program committee. We encourage the submissions of regular research papers and position papers that present novel ideas, work-in-progress, open issues.

We invite submissions from all areas of biomedical systems, with particular concerns on performance, reliability, safety, and security. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Reliability and performance metrics, real-time design constraints
- Smart sensors and distributed control in networked systems
- Secure telemedicine, remote health monitoring, and e-Health
- Reliable wearable and implantable systems for healthcare
- Robust software development for medical devices
- Reconfigurable custom computing platforms for biomedicine
- Adaptive patient-specific and disease-specific algorithms
- Trusted RFID medical tracking and tagging, privacy protection
- Threat modeling and security attacks against medical systems
- Regulatory policies for security of medical systems

A submission should be 4~6 pages in IEEE double-column format (please visit the workshop website for formatting details and submission). Please include the authors’ names and affiliations. Workshop papers will be published and archived on IEEE Xplore in separate “DSN-W” volume.

Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: April 1, 2011
Notification Date: April 25, 2011
Camera-Ready Deadline: May 1, 2011