[SystemSafety] Call for Papers - CREST 2017

[Peter Bernard Ladkin]

			      CREST 2017

	  2nd International Workshop on Causal Reasoning for
	  Embedded and Safety-critical Systems Technologies

		 http://se.uni-konstanz.de/crest2017

		   April 29, 2017, Uppsala, Sweden

		   A satellite event of ETAPS 2017

			   Call for Papers

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Topic

Today's IT systems, and the interactions between them, become
increasingly complex. Power grid blackouts, airplane crashes, failures
of medical devices and malfunctioning automotive systems are just a
few examples of incidents that affect system safety. They are often
due to component failures and unexpected interactions of subsystems
under conditions that have not been anticipated during system design
and testing. The failure of one component may entail a cascade of
failures in other components; several components may also fail
independently. In the security domain, localizing instructions and
tracking agents responsible for information leakage and other system
attacks is a central problem. Determining the root cause(s) of a
system-level failure and elucidating the exact scenario that led to
the failure is today a complex and tedious task that requires
significant expertise. Formal approaches for automated causality
analysis, fault localization, explanation of events, accountability
and blaming have been proposed independently by several communities -
in particular, AI, concurrency, model-based diagnosis, software
engineering, security engineering and formal methods. Work on these
topics has significantly gained speed during the last years. The goals
of this workshop are to bring together and foster exchange between
researchers from the different communities, and to present and discuss
recent advances and new ideas in the field. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:

* foundation of causal reasoning about systems in the philosophy of
  sciences
* languages and logics for causal specification and causal analysis
* definitions of causality and explanation
* causality analysis on models, programs, and/or traces
* fault localization
* causal reasoning in security engineering
* causality in accident analysis, safety cases and certification
* fault ascription and blaming
* accountability
* applications, implementations, tools and case studies of the above


Paper Selection

All contributed papers will be reviewed by at least 3 PC
members. Revised versions of selected papers will be published as
formal post-workshop proceedings in the Electronic Proceedings in
Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). At least one of the authors of
an accepted paper needs to register for the workshop and present the
paper in order for it to be included in the post-workshop proceedings.


Submission

Papers should be prepared in EPTCS style with a length of up to 15
pages. All contributions must be submitted via the EasyChair
submission web site for CREST 2017:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=crest2017.


Keynotes

Samantha Kleinberg, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
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Important Dates

abstracts due: January 27, 2017
papers due: February 3, 2017
notification: March 10, 2017
papers for informal participant's proceedings due: March 24, 2017
workshop date: April 29, 2017
papers for post-workshop EPTCS proceedings due: June 9, 2017


Program Committee

Georgiana Caltais, University of Konstanz, Germany
Hana Chockler, King's College London, UK
Anupam Datta, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Görschwin Fey, University of Bremen, Germany
Gregor Goessler, Inria, France
Alex Groce, Oregon State University, USA (co-chair)
Sylvain Hallé, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada
Joseph Halpern, Cornell University, USA
Jeff Huang, Texas A&M University, USA
Samantha Kleinberg, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Peter Ladkin, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Stefan Leue, University of Konstanz, Germany (co-chair)
Peter Lucas, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
Mohammad Reza Mousavi, Halmstad University, Sweden
Andy Podgurski, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Joost Vennekens, K.U. Leuven, Belgium
Willem Visser, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Georg Weissenbacher, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Thomas Wies, New York University, USA


Organizers

Alex Groce, Oregon State University, USA
Stefan Leue, University of Konstanz, Germany

The organizers can be reached via email address crest2017 "at"
easychair.org.

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Posted on behalf of the organisers by
Prof. Peter Bernard Ladkin, Bielefeld, Germany
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