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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">6th International Conference on Reliability, Safety, and Security of Railway Systems</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">RSSRail 2025</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Pisa, Italy</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">November 26-28, 2025 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://gram.isti.cnr.it/rssrail2025/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">https://gram.isti.cnr.it/rssrail2025/</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Call for Contributions (papers, tutorials, posters)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The railway industry faces increasing pressure to improve system safety, to decrease production costs and time to market, to reduce carbon emissions and running costs, and to increase the capacity of the railway.
Railway systems are now being integrated into larger multi-transport networks. Such systems require an even higher degree of automation at all levels of operation. These trends dramatically increase the complexity of railway applications and pose new challenges
in developing novel methods of modelling, analysis, verification and validation to ensure their reliability, safety and security, as well as in supporting novel mechanisms and procedures to help make the case that development processes meet the mandated standards.</span></p>
<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 system reliability, security and safety to discuss how all of these requirements can be met in an integrated way. It is also
vital to ensure that advances in research (in both academia and industry) are driven by the real industrial needs. This will help ensure that such advances are followed by effective industrial deployment. Another particularly important objective is to integrate
advances in research into the current development processes and make them usable and scalable. Finally, a key goal is to develop advanced methods and tools that can ensure that the systems meet the requirements imposed by the regulatory standards and help
in building the supportive arguments. This will be a working conference in which research challenges and progress will be discussed and evaluated by both researchers and engineers, focusing on their potential to be deployed in industrial settings.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Important Dates</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Abstract submission (papers/tutorials): 6 June 2025</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Paper submission: 13 June 2025</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Notification (tutorials): 18 July 2025</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Notification (papers): 1 August 2025</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Camera-ready version: 12 September 2025</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Abstract submission (posters): 26 September 2025</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Notification (posters): 10 October 2025</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Conference: 26-28 November 2025</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Deadlines expire at 23:59 anywhere on earth on the dates displayed above.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Topics of Interest</span></b></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"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Categories of contributions</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">RSSRail 2025 solicits high-quality papers reporting research results and/or experience reports as well as tutorials and posters related to the Reliability, Safety, and Security of Railway Systems.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We accept contributions in the following five categories:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">1. Regular papers (limit 16 pages) on</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- original scientific research results</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- tools, their foundation, and evaluations</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- applications, including rigorous evaluations</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">2. Short papers (limit 8 pages) on</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- any topic of interest that can be described in sufficient detail within the page limit</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">3. Journal-First papers (limit 4 pages)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- summarising recently published papers in high-quality journals on any topic of interest</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">4. Tutorial proposals (limit 2 pages)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- describing the topic and intended audience, the plan for conducting the tutorial (content/schedule
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> and duration), and the backgrounds of the presenters (experience) and the tutorial (first iteration?).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">5. Posters on any topic of interest</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">All page limits exclude the references. Appendices may be included, but they will only be read by a reviewer at their discretion.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Regular and short papers submitted in categories (1) and (2) must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers in these two categories will undergo a thorough review process.
Submissions will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality and clarity.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The aim of journal-first papers in category (3) is to further enrich the RSSRail program and to provide more visibility in the community to already published journal papers. Authors of published papers in
high-quality journals can submit a proposal to present their journal paper during RSSRail. The published journal paper must adhere to the following four criteria:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* It should be clearly within the scope of the conference.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* It should be recent: published in a journal after RSSRail 2023 (October 2023).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* It should report completely new research results or novel contributions that were not previously presented at the RSSRail conference.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* It has not been presented at, and is not under consideration for, journal-first tracks of other conferences.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The 4-page submission to RSSRail for category (3) should provide a concise summary of the published journal paper, which makes it clear</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- why its topics fit the conference's scope, and</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- why a presentation of its results would enrich the conference program.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Journal-first submissions must explicitly include full bibliographic details (including a DOI) of the journal publication they are based on. Submissions will be judged on the basis of the above criteria, but
also considering how well they would complement the conference program.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Submission guidelines</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Submissions for all categories should be made using the RSSRail 2025 EasyChair site:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rssrail2025"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rssrail2025</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Submissions must be in PDF format, following Springer LNCS style files and guidelines:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The conference proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">As for previous editions, one or more special issues are planned for extended versions of selected papers from RSSRail 2025.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Organisation</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Conference Chairs</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Maurice ter Beek, CNR-ISTI, Pisa, Italy</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Simon Collart Dutilleul, Université 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"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Program Committee</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Abderrahim Ait Wakrime, UM5r, Rabat, Morocco</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Dalay Almeida, CLEARSY System Engineering, France</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Davide Basile, CNR-ISTI, Pisa, Italy</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Maurice ter Beek, CNR-ISTI, Pisa, Italy (co-chair)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Nikola Besinovic, Technical University of Dresden, Germany</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Philippe Bon, Gustave Eiffel University, France</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Alessandro Borselli, Trenord, Italy</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Alessandro Cimatti, FBK, Trento, Italy</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Sana Debbech, SNCF Réseau, France</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Simon Collart Dutilleul, Université Gustave Eiffel, France (co-chair)</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">* Alessio Ferrari, University College Dublin, Ireland</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Francesco Flammini, Mälardalen University, Sweden</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Barbara Gallina, Mälardalen University, Sweden</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Stephan Griebel, Siemens AG, Germany</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Alexandra Halchin, RATP, France</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Anne Haxthausen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Akram Idani, Polytech Grenoble, France</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Alexei Iliasov, The Formal Route Ltd., UK</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Kenji Imamoto, Hitachi Ltd., Japan</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Thierry Lecomte, CLEARSY, France (co-chair)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Michael Leuschel, University of Düsseldorf, Germany</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Riccardo Licciardello, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Christophe Limbrée, UCLouvain, Belgium</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Bas Luttik, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Davide Moroni, CNR-ISTI, Pisa, Italy</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Marcel Oliveira, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Matthieu Perin, Systerel, France</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Jaco van de Pol, Aarhus University, Denmark</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">* José Proença, CISTER and University of Porto, Portugal</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Vito Renò, CNR-STIIMA, Bari, Italy</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Alexander Romanovsky, The Formal Route Ltd., UK</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Aryldo Russo, GESTE Engineering, France</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Marc Sango, SNCF, France</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Monika Seisenberger, Swansea University, UK</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Thai Son Hoang, University of Southampton, UK</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Mariëlle Stoelinga, University of Twente, The Netherlands</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Davide Tarsitano, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Stefano Tonetta, FBK, Trento, Italy</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Elena Troubitsyna, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Laurent Voisin, Systerel, France</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Organisation Chairs</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Stefania Gnesi, CNR-ISTI, Pisa, Italy</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Laura Semini, University of Pisa, Italy</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Web Chair</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Giorgio O. Spagnolo, CNR-ISTI, Pisa, Italy</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Publicity Chair</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Giovanna Broccia, CNR-ISTI, Pisa, Italy</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><br>
<i>Steering Committee </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">* Simon Collart Dutilleul, Université Gustave Eiffel, France (Chair)</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">* Anne Haxthausen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark</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">* Alexander Romanovsky, The Formal Route Ltd., UK</span></p>
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