Contributions are sought in (but are not limited to) the following topics:
Industrial challenges for cost-effective assurance and certification of critical systems
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
Development of assurance cases
Multi-concern (safety, security, privacy, reliability…) system engineering and assurance
Evolutionary approaches for system assurance
Tool support for assurance and certification
Evolution of standards and trends on regulations
Human factors in dependability assurance
COTS or external sourcing management of evidence in critical systems
Mixed-criticality system assurance
Model-based system assurance and certification
Emergent V&V needs for assurance and certification
Assurance for new technologies and for their application (e.g. blockchain)
Security debt
Agile approaches in the context of critical systems
Methods and techniques to assure artificial intelligence algorithms