Topics of Interest

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

• Assurance and certification of autonomous or adaptive systems

• Assurance for new technologies and for their application (e.g., blockchain and edge AI)

• COTS or external sourcing management of evidence in critical systems

• Cross-domain product certification

• Emergent V&V needs for assurance and certification

• Engineering processes, lifecycles, and methodologies in the context of critical systems (incl. agile ones)

• Evolution of standards and trends on regulations

• Evolutionary approaches for system assurance

• Human factors in dependability assurance

• Industrial challenges for cost-effective assurance and certification of critical systems

• Integration of process-centric and product-centric assurance

• Management of assurance evidence

• Management of compliance with standards and regulations

• Methods and techniques for artificial intelligence assurance

• Mixed-criticality system assurance

• Model-based system assurance and certification

• Multi-concern (safety, security, privacy, reliability, explainability…) system engineering and assurance

• Support for re-certification processes

• Technical debt for safety, security, privacy, etc.

• Tools support for assurance and certification