Topics of Interest

Contributions are sought in (but are not limited to) the following topics:

• Industrial challenges for cost-effective safety assurance and certification
• Assurance and certification of autonomous or adaptive systems
• Cross-domain product certification
• Integration of process-centric and product-centric assurance
• Management of compliance with standards and regulations
• Management of assurance evidence
• Multi-concern (safety, security, privacy, reliability…) system assurance
• Evolutionary approaches for safety and security assurance
• Tools support for safety and security assurance
• Seamless toolchains for development, assurance, and certification of safety-critical systems
• Evolution of standards and trends on regulations
• Human factors in safety and security assurance
• COTS or external sourcing management of evidence in safety-critical systems
• Mixed-criticality system assurance
• Assurance for new technologies and for their application (e.g. blockchain)