CERTS 2018: 3rd Workshop on Security and Dependability of Critical Embedded Real-Time Systems Alvisse Parc Hotel Luxembourg, Luxembourg, June 22, 2018 |
Conference website | https://certs2018.uni.lu |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=certs2018 |
Abstract registration deadline | April 1, 2018 |
Submission deadline | April 1, 2018 |
At their heart, many critical systems and system infrastructures are composed of real-time and embedded systems (RTES). For example, RTES control our power grids, maintain our smart homes, steer our vehicles or they host the software in road-side units that allow our vehicles to drive more safely and more efficiently. For sure, they will open the way to even more challenging applications, such as in autonomous and cooperating vehicles, terrestrial or aerial.
However, most of these RTES are distributed or networked, which makes them vulnerable both to accidental faults and targeted attacks and advanced and persistent threats. Worse, compromise of a few nodes may bring down the entire system, in particular if attacks persist.
The grand challenges brought in by these scenarios include ensuring continuous unmaintained operation under faults and attacks. Systems may possibly utilize easier to upgrade computation resources in mobile phones or road side units whose trustworthiness needs to be established while the RTES approaches these units. And while attackers may try to compromise the RTES’ functionality or timing, we seek to protect the integrity and timeliness of systems and the privacy of their users. Mastering these challenges requires the expertise of several research areas, and so, the goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and engineers from the security and dependability, distributed systems and real-time communities, in order to discuss and promote new and exciting research ideas and initiatives, and to identify and discuss the challenges that lie ahead for such critical applications.
CERTS’18 strives for an inclusive and diverse program and solicits short and long technical papers on open problems, experiments, case studies, new ideas, or future challenges.
Submission Formats
- Short Work-in-Progress Paper: up to two pages, standard IEEE format
- Full Paper: up to six pages, standard IEEE format
Adherence to the format is strict, but we tolerate moderately exceeding the page limit (by up to two pages) if the content so justifies.
List of Topics
CERTS’18 is open to all topics at the intersection of security and dependability of embedded and real-time systems, with an emphasis on criticality and distribution. As such, areas of interest include but are not limited to the following topics:
- Security and dependability of cyber-physical and other real-time and embedded systems,
- Vulnerabilities and protective measures of CPS infrastructure,
- Fault and intrusion tolerant distributed real-time systems,
- Confidentiality and privacy in real-time and embedded systems, and
- System architectures encompassing combinations of distribution, security, dependability and timeliness.
Contribution formats include technical presentations of systems, system models and architectures, methods, tools, protocols and infrastructures to improve the dependability and security of real-time systems but also open problems and future challenges papers and experimental papers including experience reports and negative results.
Important Dates
- Workshop submission deadline:
1st April 2018 (aoe) - Notification of acceptance:
22th April 2018 - Final versions:
4th May 2018 - Main conference:
25th – 28th June 2018
Program Committee
Antônio Augusto Fröhlich, Federal University of Santa Catarina
Rakesh Bobba, Oregon State University
Christian Esposito, University of Naples Federico II
Martin Gilje Jaatun, University of Stavanger
Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology
Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, University of Illinois
Ravi Prakash, University of Dallas
Sasikumar Punnekat, Maelardalen University
Hans Reiser, Universität Passau
Guillermo Rodriguez-Navas, Maelardalen University
José Rufino, Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade de Lisboa
Elad Schiller, Chalmers University of Technology
Elena Troubitsyna, Abo Akademi
Martin Törngren, KTH
Bryan Ward, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Heechul Yun, Kansas University
Saman Zonouz, Rutgers University
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to
Sibin Mohan
University of Illinois
sibin@illinois.edu
Mikael Asplund
Linköpings Universitet
mikael.asplund@liu.se