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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-SE">MDPI Safety<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-SE">Special Issue: Safety - Practitioners' Perspectives<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-SE"><a href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/safety/special_issues/Safety_Practitioners_Perspectives">https://www.mdpi.com/journal/safety/special_issues/Safety_Practitioners_Perspectives</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-SE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-SE">Paper submission deadline:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-SE">April 1st, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-SE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-SE">Call for Papers:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-SE">Contemporary engineering is building ever more complex systems, especially through the integration of cyber and physical parts into cyber-physical systems (CPS) in domains such as transportation, manufacturing, healthcare,
and power generation. New hazards and increased risks of CPS during operations are known and under the intense scrutiny of researchers. However, this research is seldom actively related to the engineering organisations that ensure that the design of said CPS
is suitable for safe operations. This is problematic, as:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-SE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-SE">* Researchers might overlook important parts of engineering practice that influence the efficiency of the methods they propose for ensuring safety.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-SE">* Engineers might be unaware of new methods for ensuring safety or find it difficult to apply them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-SE">* Managers in engineering organisations might be unaware of their role in safety when organising work (including implementing practice and methods).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-SE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-SE">This Special Issue invites papers that bridge this gap between research and engineering practice, for instance, (empirical) studies:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-SE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-SE">* Of engineering organisations and practice as related to the safe engineering of CPS.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-SE">* Relating novel methods for ensuring safety to CPS engineering processes or standards.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-SE">* Clarifying limitations on safety practice brought on by the sociotechnical context of engineers producing CPS.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-SE">* Safety management (assurance) in engineering organisations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-SE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-SE">Guest editors:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-SE">Dr. Fredrik Asplund - KTH Royal Institute of Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-SE">Dr. Miroslaw Staron - University of Gothenburg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-SE">Dr. Pernilla Ulfvengren - KTH Royal Institute of Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-SE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-SE">Note:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-SE">APCs for this special issue will be supported for papers associated with presentations submitted to the 9th Scandinavian Conference on System & Software Safety (<a href="http://safety.addalot.se/2021">http://safety.addalot.se/2021</a>).
Deadline for the call for presentations to SCSSS2021 is April 23rd, 2021.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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