CERTS2019: 4th Workshop on Security and Dependability of Critical Embedded Real-Time Systems In conjunction with ECRTS2019 Stuttgart, Germany, July 9, 2019 |
Conference website | https://www.ecrts.org/certs/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=certs2019 |
Abstract registration deadline | April 16, 2019 |
Submission deadline | April 16, 2019 |
Welcome to the fourth round of the CERTS workshop! Following a successful series of workshops that co-locate with conferences in the fields of real-time and embedded systems, security, and dependability, we are now happy to be one of the workshops at ECRTS’19.
Themes
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 and networked, which makes them vulnerable to accidental faults, 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. Additionally new artificial-intelligence-based sensing, control, and decisions introduces new challenges in real-time guarantees, dependability and security threats.
CERTS’19 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.
Scope and topics of interest
CERTS’19 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,
- System architectures encompassing combinations of distribution, security, dependability and timeliness, and
- Threats and vulnerabilities due to the use of artificial intelligence techniques
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.
Submission and publication
Submissions can be made in one of the following two categories:
* Short Work-in-Progress Paper: up to two pages (double column)
* Full Paper: up to six pages (double column)
Accepted papers will appear in the OpenAccess Series in Informatics, which are published online with an ISBN-number. There will also be an option to publish the papers as extended abstracts to facilitate future journal publication.
Committees
Workshop Chairs
- Mikael Asplund, Linköping University, Sweden
- Michael Paulitsch, Intel, Germany
Program Committee
- Antônio Augusto Fröhlich, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
- Rakesh Bobba, Oregon State University, US
- Christian Esposito, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
- Marisol Garcia Valls, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
- Martin Gilje Jaatun, University of Stavanger, Norway
- Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Gert Jervan, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
- Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US
- Martina Maggio, Lund University, Sweden
- Sibin Mohan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US
- Sasikumar Punnekkat, Maelardalen University, Sweden
- Hans Reiser, Universität Passau, Germany
- Soheil Samii, General Motors, US
- Elena Troubitsyna, KTH, Sweden
- Bryan Ward, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, US
- Saman Zonouz, Rutgers University, US
Steering Committee
- Marcus Voelp, SnT – University of Luxembourg
- Paulo Esteves-Verissimo, SnT – University of Luxembourg
- Antonio Casimiro, University of Lisboa
- Rodolfo Pellizzoni, University of Waterloo
Contact
For more information, please contact the workshop chairs, Michael Paulitsch <michael.paulitsch@intel.com> and Mikael Asplund <mikael.asplund@liu.se>