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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">International Conference on Reliability, Safety and Security of Railway Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">RSSRail 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><a href="https://rssrail2021.univ-gustave-eiffel.fr/">https://rssrail2021.univ-gustave-eiffel.fr/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Call for papers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Conference chairs:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">-Anne Haxthausen (Technical University of Denmark)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">-Simon Collart-Dutilleul (Université Gustave Eiffel)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">-Thierry Lecomte (CLEARSY)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The 4th International Conference on Reliability, Safety and Security of
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Railway Systems will be held on the 1st and 2nd of June 2022, in
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">the International Union of Railways Congress Center, Paris.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">In 2021 the RSSRail conference was replaced by a special issue of
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">the "Formal Aspects of Computing" journal.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">RSSRail 2022 will address challenges currently faced by the railway
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">industry such as:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* improving system safety<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* decreasing production costs and time to market<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* reducing carbon emissions and running costs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* increasing the capacity of the railway.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Railway systems are now being integrated into larger multi-transport networks.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Such systems require an even higher degree of automation at all levels of
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">operation. These trends dramatically increase the complexity of railway
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">applications and pose new challenges in developing novel methods of modelling,
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">analysis, verification and validation to ensure their reliability,
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">safety and security, as well as in supporting novel mechanisms and procedures
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">to help make the case that development processes meet the mandated standards. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The RSSRail 2022 conference will build on the success of
<a href="https://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/rssrail2016/">RSSRail 2016</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">(June 28-30, Paris, France) that took place in the Maison de la RATP,
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><a href="https://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/rssrail">RSSRail 2017</a> (November 14-16, Pistoia, Italy) and
<a href="https://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/rssrail2019">RSSRail 2019</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">(June 4-6, Lille, France), and will contribute to a range of key objectives.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Development of the complex railway systems of the future requires integrated
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">environments and methods that support different abstraction levels and
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">different views, including:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* systems architecture<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* safety analysis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* security analysis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* verification tools and methods.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The conference aims to bring together researchers and engineers interested
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">in building critical railway applications and systems. This will be a working
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">conference in which research challenges and progress will be discussed and
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">evaluated by both researchers and engineers, focusing on their potential
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">to be deployed in industrial settings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Topics of particular interest include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* safety in development processes and safety management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* combined approaches to safety and security<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* system and software safety analysis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* formal modelling and verification techniques<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* system reliability<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* validation according to the standards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* safety and security argumentation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* fault and intrusion modelling and analysis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* evaluation of system capacity, energy consumption, cost
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> and their interplay<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* tool and model integration, toolchains<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* domain-specific languages and modelling frameworks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* model reuse for reliability, safety and security<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* modelling for maintenance strategy engineering.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Submissions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">We can accept three types of submission:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Research papers – not more than 16 pages in length<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Industrial experience reports – not more than 10 pages in length<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* PhD student papers – not more than 10 pages in length.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">To submit your paper please go to the
<a href="https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=rssrail2022">conference submission site</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Submissions must be formatted in the
<a href="https://www.springer.com/gb/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines">
Springer LNCS format</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Accepted papers will be published by Springer in a volume in
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">the LNCS series. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Important dates<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* November 25th, 2021 – abstract submission<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* December 2nd, 2021 – full paper submission<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* February 1st, 2022 – notification<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* March 1st, 2022 – camera-ready papers submitted<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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