[SystemSafety] Fwd: ESSS 2015 (co-located with FM 2015 in Oslo): First call for papers

[Peter Bernard Ladkin]

First, this might be of interest to some here.

Second, this is another example of a moderately common phenomenon.

Engineering safety systems is nowadays governed worldwide by a series of international standards,
and where there aren't international standards yet there are often national ones. Increasingly you
can't deploy a safety-related system without arguing conformance to one or another of those standards.

How can you put a conference together on engineering safety systems without having people on the PC
who have experience working with these standards in some way and some experience actually
engineering actual safety-related systems or development tools?

(The answer, if I may be snide, is that this is an well-known disease of academics. In my
university, colleagues often talk of "engineering" when they mean "programming".)

I've written to someone on the program committee who has a solid reputation (in FM for security)
about it. Maybe others here who feel the same way can do so?

PBL


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4th International Workshop on
Engineering Safety and Security Systems
June 22, 2015, Oslo, Norway
Co-located with FM 2015 in Oslo, Norway, June 22-26, 2015

More information:
http://pat.sce.ntu.edu.sg/esss15/
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Important dates
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* March 16th, 2015: Submission deadline
* April 27th, 2015: Notification of acceptance/rejection
* June 22nd, 2015: Workshop date


Introduction of the Workshop
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The International Workshop on Engineering Safety and Security Systems
(ESSS) aims at contributing to the challenge of constructing reliable
and secure systems. The workshop covers areas such as formal
specification, (extended) type checking, model checking, program
analysis/transformation, model-based testing and model-driven software
construction. The workshop will bring together researchers and
industry R&D expertise together to exchange their knowledge, discuss
their research findings, and explore potential collaborations.


Theme of the Workshop
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The main theme of the workshop is methods and techniques for
constructing large reliable and secure systems. The goal of the
workshop is to establish a platform for the exchange of ideas,
discussion, cross-fertilization, inspiration, co-operation, and
dissemination. The topics of the workshop include, but are not
limited to:

-- methods, techniques and tools for system safety and security
-- methods, techniques and tools for analysis, certification, and
   debugging of complex safety and security systems
-- model-based and verification-based testing
-- emerging application domains such as cloud computing and
   cyber-physical systems
-- case studies and experience reports on the use of formal methods
   for analyzing safety and security systems


Submissions guidelines
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Paper submissions must be original, unpublished work. Submissions
should be in made via the Easychair site:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esss2015.

We invite two types of submissions:

--Regular papers (up to 15 pages) describing original and unpublished
work within the scope of the workshop.
--Short papers (up to 6 pages) describing work in progress or less
mature results.

Case studies and tool papers are welcome as well. All submissions must
be prepared in LATEX using the EPTCS macro package.

The final versions of accepted regular and short papers will be
published as a volume of Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical
Computer Science (EPTCS). Furthermore, authors of a selection of the
accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their
articles to a special issue of a high-quality journal, after the
workshop. Publication of accepted articles requires the commitment of
one of the authors to register for the workshop and present the paper.


Workshop chairs
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Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg


Program committee
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Etienne Andre, Universite Paris 13, France
Guandong Bai, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Weiqiang Kong, Dalian University of Technology, China
Keqin Li, SAP Research, France
Cong Tian, Xidian University, China
Mohammad Torabi Dashti, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Anton Wijs, Eindhoven University of Technology
Yoriyuki Yamagata, AIST, Japan
Tian Zhang, Nanjing University, China
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