[SystemSafety] Call for Papers. ASSURE 2015

[Ganesh J. Pai]

Dear System Safety List Members,

Please consider submitting a research / position / tools / industrial
practice paper to the 3rd International Workshop on Assurance Cases for
Software-Intensive Systems (ASSURE 2015), which will be collocated this
year with SAFECOMP 2015, in Delft, the Netherlands.

The Call for Papers is included below. More details on the workshop are
available on the ASSURE 2015 website:
http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/events/assure2015/


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                       CALL FOR PAPERS
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                        ASSURE 2015
     The 3rd International Workshop on Assurance Cases
              for Software-intensive Systems

                     September 22, 2015
                   Delft, The Netherlands
                Collocated with SAFECOMP 2015
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            http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/events/assure2015
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Software plays a key role in high-risk systems, e.g.,
safety-, reliability-, and security-critical systems.
Several certification standards/guidelines now recommend
and/or mandate the development of assurance cases for
software-intensive systems, e.g., defense (UK MoD DS-0056),
aviation (CAP 670, FAA operational approval guidance for
unmanned aircraft systems), automotive (ISO 26262), and
healthcare (FDA guidance on  infusion pumps total product
lifecycle). As such, there is a need to develop models,
tools, and techniques that target the development of
assurance arguments for software.

The goals of the 2015 Workshop on Assurance Cases for
Software-intensive Systems (ASSURE 2015) are to:

(a) explore techniques for creating/assessing assurance
    cases for software-intensive systems;
(b) examine the role of assurance cases in the engineering
    lifecycle of critical systems;
(c) identify the dimensions of effective practice in the
    development and evaluation of assurance cases;
(d) investigate the relationship between dependability
    techniques and assurance cases; and,
(e) identify critical research challenges and define a
    roadmap for future development.

We solicit high-quality contributions (research, practice,
tools, and position papers) on the application of assurance
case principles and techniques to assure that the
dependability properties of critical software-intensive
systems have been met.

Papers should attempt to address the workshop goals in
general.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Standards: Industry guidelines and standards are
  increasingly requiring the development of assurance
  cases, e.g., the automotive standard ISO 26262, and the
  FDA guidance on the total product lifecycle for infusion
  pumps.

- Certification and Regulations: The role and usage of
  assurance cases in the certification of critical systems,
  as well as to show compliance to regulations.

- Dependable architectures: How do fault-tolerant
  architectures and design measures such as diversity and
  partitioning relate to assurance cases?

- Reliability analysis: What are the relationships between
  reliability analysis techniques (e.g., Fault Tree
  Analysis / Markov Modeling) and the assurance case
  paradigm?

- Tools: Using the output from software engineering tools
  (testing, formal verification, code generators) as
  evidence in assurance cases / using tools for the
  modeling, analysis and management of assurance cases.

- Application of formal techniques to create and analyze
  arguments.

- Exploration of relevant techniques for assurance cases
  for real-time, concurrent, and distributed systems.

- Assurance issues in emerging computational paradigms,
  e.g., cloud, mobile, virtual, many-core architectures,
  and adaptive and autonomous systems.

- Modeling and Metamodeling: Representation of structured
  arguments through metamodels, such as OMG's Structured
  assurance Case Metamodel (SACM).

- Assurance of software quality attributes, e.g., safety,
  security and maintainability as well as dependability in
  general, including tradeoffs, and exploring notions of
  the quality of assurance cases themselves.

- Domain-specific assurance issues, in domains such as
  aerospace, automotive, healthcare, defense and power.

- Reuse and Modularization: Contracts and patterns for
  improving the reuse of assurance case structures.

- Connections between the Goal Structuring Notation for
  assurance cases and goal-orientation from the
  requirements engineering community.

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                   SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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1. All papers must be original work not published, or in
submission, elsewhere.

2. All papers should be submitted only in PDF. Please
verify that papers can be reliably printed and/or viewed on
screen before submitting.

3. Papers should conform to the LNCS paper formatting
guidelines. See the ASSURE 2015 website for details.

4. Regular (research, practice, or position) papers can be
up to 12 pages long including figures, references, and any
appendices.

5. Tools papers can be up to 10 pages long including
figures, references and any appendices.

Note: Authors of accepted tools papers will be expected to
give a demonstration of the tool(s) at the workshop, i.e.,
no screenshots.

6. Submit your paper electronically via EasyChair by
May 22, 2015, through the conference website:

          http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/events/assure2015/


Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three members
of the program committee. Accepted papers will be published
in the SAFECOMP 2015 Workshop Proceedings, to be published
by Springer, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
Series. Authors of the best papers may be invited to submit
an extended version for publication in a special journal
issue (tentative).


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                       IMPORTANT DATES
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       Workshop papers due  : May 22, 2015
       Author notification  : June 15, 2015
       Camera ready papers  : June 28, 2015
       ASSURE 2015 Workshop : September 22, 2015
       SAFECOMP 2015        : September 22 - 25, 2015

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                     WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
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Ewen Denney, SGT / NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Ibrahim Habli, University of York, UK
Ganesh Pai, SGT / NASA Ames Research Center, USA

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                      PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Robin Bloomfield, City University, UK
Jérémie Guiochet, LAAS-CNRS, France
Richard Hawkins, University of York, UK
David Higham, Delphi Diesel Systems, UK
Michael Holloway, NASA Langley Research Center, USA
Paul Jones, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, USA
Tim Kelly, University of York, UK
Yoshiki Kinoshita, Kanagawa University, Japan
John Knight, University of Virginia, USA
Andrew Rae, Griffith University, Australia
Roger Rivett, Jaguar Land Rover, UK
Christel Seguin, ONERA, France
Mark-Alexander Sujan, University of Warwick, UK
Kenji Taguchi, AIST, Japan
Alan Wassyng, McMaster University, Canada
Sean White, Health and Social Care Information Centre, UK

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