CFP

ICSC & ESWC 2018: International Cross-industry Safety Conference & European STAMP Workshop and Conference 2018

Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 31-November 2, 2018

Conference website	http://www.amsterdamuas.com/icsc
Abstract registration deadline	June 10, 2018
Submission deadline	September 30, 2018

Topics: safety complexity risk human factors

The Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) is proud to organize the 3^rd edition of the International Cross-industry Safety Conference (ICSC) together with the 6^th edition of the European STAMP Workshop and Conference (ESWC), both events dedicated to practical and theoretical aspects of safety. The ICSC aims to function as a platform to disseminate and share knowledge and experience about safety within and between industry and academia. The ESWC focuses on applications and studies related to the Systems-Theoretic Accident Model and Processes (STAMP) which is a new systems-thinking approach to engineering safer systems. This year’s common theme for both conferences is “Safety Management: Structures or Networks?”.

International Cross-industry Safety Conference (ICSC)

For all industry sectors safety is one of the main focal points. Organizations have recognized that safety improvements contribute to the achievement of broader business goals. The ICSC is a unique opportunity to bring together the various industry sectors and academia. The event aims to function as a platform for disseminating and sharing knowledge and experience about safety and intends to grow further and become a hub for discussing current and future safety challenges and ways to deal with those.

European STAMP Workshop and Conference (ESWC)

Traditional system safety approaches are being challenged by the introduction of new technology and the increasing complexity of the systems we design, manufacture and operate. STAMP and its associated tools deal with the complexity of systems and provide systematic ways to analyze and assess existing and conceptual systems proactively or detect and illustrate deficiencies revealed through investigations. The EWSC brings together researchers and practitioners who use or want to get familiar with, STAMP that is widely used in different sectors such as space, aviation, healthcare, defence, nuclear, railways, infrastructure and automotive.

Submission Guidelines

Researchers and practitioners from the academia and industry are invited to submit an abstract (up to 400 words) on original research or practical experiences. Proposals for tutorials and workshops are also welcome. Possible topics for the ICSC may include but are not limited to: safety management, safety performance, safety culture, resilience, risk assessment, new safety thinking etc. The ESWC topics are expected to cover relevant research or practical studies using STAMP / CAST / STPA, or application positions under development.

Authors must select the conference(s) of interest and suggest the form of their contribution(s): tutorial/workshop, full paper (presented or poster) or oral presentation. Contributions for both conferences are welcome if they cover different topics.

Abstracts can be uploaded to the Easychair system until 10 June 2018 through the following links:

ICSC 2018: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsc20180

ESWC 2018: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc20180

The program committees will evaluate the proposed contributions on the basis of their relevance to the goals of each conference and their importance for the industry and academia. The contributors will be informed accordingly until 29 June 2018.

Full papers, posters, oral presentations and tutorials/workshops

Upon abstract acceptance, full papers must be submitted before 30 September 2018. A template and further instructions will be provided to the authors in time.

All presentations will take place in chaired sessions of 25 minutes including questions and answering time. Poster sessions will be offered as part of the program. The tutorials and workshops will be delivered on the 31st of October and the topics will be selected based on expected impact and variety.

Important Dates

10 June 2018: Deadline for abstracts.
29 June 2018: Notification of acceptance.
30 September 2018: Camera-ready submission deadline for full papers.
31 October 2018: ICSC and ESWC tutorials and workshops
1-2 November 2018: ICSC and ESWC presentations

Committees (Chair: Nektarios Karanikas, AUAS, NL)

ICSC Program Committee (Co-chair: Maria Mikela Chatzimihailidou, Imperial College London, UK)

James Catmur, JC&A Ltd., UK
Steve Denniss, WSP, UK
Kubra Kaya, University of Cambridge, UK
Genovefa Kefalidou, University of Leicester, UK
Angela Ku, Jacobs, UK
Alberto Martinetti, University of Twente, NL
Catherine Menon, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Jan Przydatek, Lloyds Register Foundation, UK
Alfred Roelen, Netherlands Aerospace Centre, NL
Emma Taylor, RSSB, UK

ESWC Program Committee (Co-chair: Martin Rejzek, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, CH)

Asim Abdulkhaleq, Robert Bosch, DE
Svana Helen Björnsdottir, Stiki, IS
Robert J. de Boer, AUAS, NL
Ioannis Dokas, Democritus University of Thrace, GR
Thordur Vikingur Fridgeirsson, Reykjavik University, IS
Sven Stefan Krauss, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, CH
Anastasios Plioutsias, National Technical University of Athens, GR
John Thomas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US
Stefan Wagner, University of Stuttgart, DE
Simon Whiteley, Dependable-Management Collaboration, UK

Publication

ICSC and ESWC full papers will be peer-reviewed and the final revised papers along with all abstracts will be included in the conference proceedings (open-access). Only original manuscripts not previously published or have not been submitted to a journal or conference proceedings will be considered for publication as a full paper. All papers will be checked for plagiarism.

Venue

The conference will be held in the vicinity of Amsterdam. More information will be released soon.

Contact

General questions about submissions should be emailed to Nektarios Karanikas (n.karanikas@hva.nl). Specific submission inquiries per conference must be addressed to Maria Mikela Chatzimichailidou (mikelachatzimichailidou@gmail.com) for the ICSC or Martin Rejzek (rejz@zhaw.ch) for the ESWC.