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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">International conference on reliability, safety and security of railway systems: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">modelling, analysis, verification and certification - RSSRail 2023</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">October 10-12, 2023, Berlin, Germany</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://rssr2023.ebuef.de/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">https://rssr2023.ebuef.de/</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Extended submission deadline<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Call for Contributions</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The railway industry faces increasing pressure to improve system safety, to
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">decrease production costs and time to market, to reduce carbon emissions and
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">running costs, and to increase the capacity of the railway. Railway systems are
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">now being integrated into larger multi-transport networks. Such systems require
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">an even higher degree of automation at all levels of operation. These trends
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">dramatically increase the complexity of railway applications and pose new
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">challenges in developing novel methods of modelling, analysis, verification
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">and validation to ensure their reliability, safety and security, as well as in
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">supporting novel mechanisms and procedures to help make the case that
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">development processes meet the mandated standards.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">This conference will bring together researchers and developers working on railway </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">system reliability, security and safety to discuss how all of these requirements </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">can be met in an integrated way. It is also vital to ensure that advances in </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">research (in both academia and industry) are driven by the real industrial needs. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">This will help ensure that such advances are followed by effective industrial </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">deployment. Another particularly important objective is to integrate advances </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">in research into the current development processes, and make them usable and </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">scalable. Finally, a key goal is to develop advanced methods and tools that </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">can ensure that the systems meet the requirements imposed by the regulatory </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">standards and help in building the supportive arguments. This will be a </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">working conference in which research challenges and progress will be </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">discussed and evaluated by both researchers and engineers, focusing on </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">their potential to be deployed in industrial settings. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Topics of particular interest include:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Safety in development processes and safety management </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Combined approaches to safety and security </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> System and software safety analysis </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Formal modelling and verification techniques </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> System reliability </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Validation according to the standards </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Safety and security argumentation </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Fault and intrusion modelling and analysis </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Evaluation of system capacity, energy consumption, cost and their interplay </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Tool and model integration, tool chain </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Domain-specific languages and modelling frameworks </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Model reuse for reliability, safety and security </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Modelling for maintenance strategy engineering. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The conference offers different options for presenting research: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Regular conference papers of 16 pages </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Industrial conference papers of 10 pages, providing real-life feedback </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Student conference papers of 10 pages, showcasing novel ideas and </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> early research results </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Poster presentation, not to be accompanied by a full paper, however </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> the abstract will be published on the website </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Tutorials to be offered in the first day (in total 4 tutorials a 90 minute in </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> two parallel sessions). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The important dates:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> May 12, <s>(May 5,)</s> 2023: paper submission, abstract submission for tutorials<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> June 20, <s>(May 16,) </s>2023: notification <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> July 14, 2023: camera-ready papers submitted <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> July 14, 2023: abstract submission for posters</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS series. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The conference submission will be via </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.tu.berlin/bbi/rssr2023" title="https://www.tu.berlin/bbi/rssr2023"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">https://www.tu.berlin/bbi/rssr2023</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Submissions must be formatted in the Springer LNCS format </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">[details see </span><a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0" title="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> ].</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Conference Chairs:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Simon Collart-Dutilleul, Universitι Gustave Eiffel, France</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Thierry Lecomte, CLEARSY, France</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Birgit Milius, TU Berlin, Germany</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">PC members (to be confirmed): </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Abderrahim Ait Wakrime, University Mohammed V, FSR, Morocco </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Alessandro Fantechi, University of Florence, Italy </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Alexander Romanovsky, Newcastle University, UK </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Alexei Iliasov, The Formal Route, UK </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Anne Haxthausen (Technical University of Denmark) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Aryldo Russo, CERTIFER, France </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Barbara Gallina, Mδlardalen University, Sweden </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Bas Luttik, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Carlo Becheri, Alstom, Italy </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Christophe Ponsard, Cetic , Belgium </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> David Bonvoisin, RATP, France </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Elena Troubitsyna, Univ Stockholm, Sweden </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Etienne Prun, ClearSy, France </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Fabien Belmonte, Alstom, France </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Fares Chucri, SNCF, France </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Francesco Flammini, Linnaeus Univ., Sweden </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Frank Golatowski, Univ. of Rostock, Germany </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Hironobu Kuruma, Hitachi, Japan </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Jan Peleska, Verified Systems Int., Germany </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Jens Braband, Siemens, Germany </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Kenji Taguchi, CAV Technologies, Japan </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Klaus Reichl, Thales, Austria </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Laurent Voisin, Systerel, France </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Mariλlle Stoelinga, Univ. of Twente, Netherlands </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Mario Gleirscher, University of Bremen, Germany </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Maurice ter Beek, ISTI, CNR, Pisa, Italy </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Michael Leuschel, Univ. of Dόsseldorf, Germany </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Nadia Chouchani, IRT Railenium, France </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Peter Popov, City University, UK </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Sana Debbech, IRT Railenium, France </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Stefano Tonetta, FBK-irst, Italy </span></p>
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