SafeThings 2017: 1st ACM Workshop on the Internet of Safe Things Aula Conference Center, TU Delft Delft, Netherlands, November 5, 2017 |
Conference website | https://www.safethings.info |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=safethings2017 |
Abstract registration deadline | July 23, 2017 |
Submission deadline | July 30, 2017 |
Notification of Acceptance | August 21, 2017 |
Cameraready Deadline | September 10, 2017 |
As the traditionally segregated systems are brought online for next generation connected applications, we have an opportunity to significantly improve the safety of legacy systems. For instance, insights from data across systems can be exploited to reduce accidents, improve air quality and support disaster events. Cyber-physical systems (CPS) also bring new risks that arise due to the unexpected interaction between systems. These safety risks arise because of information that distracts users while driving, software errors in medical devices, corner cases in data-driven control, compromised sensors in drones or conflicts in societal policies.
Accordingly, the Internet of Safe Things workshop (or SafeThings, for brevity) seeks to bring researchers and practitioners that are actively exploring system design, modeling, verification, authentication approaches to provide safety guarantees in the Internet of Things (IoT). The workshop welcomes contributions that integrate hardware and software systems provided by disparate vendors, particularly those that have humans in the loop. As safety is inherently linked with the security and privacy, we also seek contributions in security and privacy that address safety concerns. With the SafeThings workshop, we seek to develop a community that systematically dissects the vulnerabilities and risks exposed by these emerging CPSes, and create tools, algorithms, frameworks and systems that help in the development of safe systems.
SafeThings workshop covers safety topics as it relates to an individual’s health (physical, mental), the society (air pollution, toxicity, disaster events), or the environment (species preservation, global warming, oil spills). The workshop considers safety from a human perspective, and thus, does not include topics such as thread safety or memory safety in its scope.
List of Topics
- Verification of safety in IoT platforms
- Privacy preserving data sharing and analysis
- Compliance with legal, health and environmental policies
- Integration of hardware and software systems
- Conflict resolution between IoT applications
- Safety in human-in-the-loop systems
- Support for IoT development - debugging tools, emulators, testbeds
- Usable security and privacy for IoT platforms
- Resiliency against attacks and faults
- Secure connectivity in IoT
Submission Guidelines
Submitted papers must be unpublished and must not be currently under review for any other publication. Submissions for full papers must be at most 6 single-spaced, double column 8.5” x 11” pages and follow the official ACM SIG Proceedings format. Submissions for Posters and Demos must be at most 1 single-spaced, double column 8.5” x 11” page and also follow the official ACM SIG Proceedings format. All figures, references, and appendices must fit within these limits. Paper reviewing is single-blind and submissions should list author names on the front page. Papers that do not meet the size and formatting requirements will not be reviewed. All papers must be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and submitted through the web submission form. Official ACM SIG Proceedings templates for Latex and Word are available here. Please do not modify any spacing parameters. Please refer to publication chair's Note as well as the User Guide of the new class. Accepted submissions will be available in the ACM digital library on the first day of the conference.
- Full papers: 6 pages
- Posters and Demos: 1 page
Committees
Program Committee
- Blase Ur (University of Chicago)
- Xiao Feng Wang (Indiana Bloomington)
- Xinyu Xing (Penn State)
- Paulo Tabuada (University of California, Los Angeles)
- Supriyo Chakraborty (IBM Research)
- Muhammad Naveed (University of Southern California)
- Yasser Shoukry (University of California, Berkeley)
- Yuvraj Agarwal (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Rajesh Gupta (University of California, San Diego)
- Brad Campbell (University of Michigan)
- John Stankovic (University of Virginia)
- Madhur Behl (University of Virginia)
- Insup Lee (University of Pennsylvania)
- João Vilela (University of Coimbra)
- Eric Wustrow (Colorado Boulder)
- Richard Han (Colorado Boulder)
- Lu Feng (University of Virginia)
- Earlence Fernandes (University of Michigan)
- Falko Dressler (Paderborn University)
- Jie Liu (Microsoft Research)
- Kay Roemer (TU Graz)
- Nic Lane (University College London)
- Fang-Jing Wu (NEC Lab)
- Jyotirmoy Deshmukh (Toyota)
- Saman Zonouz (Rutgers University)
- Haixin Duan (Tsinghua University)
- Yutaka Arakawa (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
- Ingrid Verbauwhede (KU Leuven)
- Stefano Zanero (Politecnico di Milano)
- Thorsten Holz (Ruhr University Bochum)
- Amir Rahmati (University of Michigan)
- Cong Zheng (Palo Alto Networks)
- Chenguang Shen (Facebook)
Organizing committee
General Chairs
- Patrick Tague (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Bharathan Balaji (University of California, Los Angeles)
Program Chairs
- Mani Srivastava (University of California, Los Angeles)
- Yuan Tian (Carnegie Mellon University)
Poster and Demo Chair
- Houssam Abbas (University of Pennsylvania)
Publication Chair
- Rasit Eskicioglu (University of Manitoba)
SenSys Workshop Chair
- Xiaofan (Fred) Jiang (Columbia University, USA)
Venue
SafeThings 2017 will be co-located with SenSys 2017 and held in the Aula Conference Centre of Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. TU Delft is the largest and oldest Dutch public technological university in the Netherlands. The university was established in 1842 by King William II of the Netherlands as a Royal Academy, with the main purpose of training civil servants for the Dutch East Indies. The school rapidly expanded its research and education curriculum, becoming first a Polytechnic School in 1864, Institute of Technology in 1905, gaining full university rights, and finally changing its name to Delft University of Technology in 1986. Dutch Nobel laureates Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, and Simon van der Meer have been associated with TU Delft.
The Aula, opened in 1966, is a classical example of a structure built in Brutalist style. The Aula, which symbolically opens the Mekelpark, houses the main university restaurant and a store, as well as lecture halls, auditoria, and the congress centre.
Contact
Patrick Tague (tague@cmu.edu)
Mani Srivastava (mbs@ucla.edu)
Yuan Tian (yt@cmu.edu)
Bharathan Balaji (bbalaji@ucla.edu)