With increasing use of software systems together with commodity hardware comes the need for better quality control techniques. However, there is a gap when considering separate domains like hardware and software and their interactions which usually tend to be forgotten or neglected as reserach ends up working in only one of the areas. Ignoring these interactions is no longer possible in the context of generalized usage of Cyber Physical Systems (CPSs) and Cyber Physical Systems of Systems (CPSoSs). Thus, it becomes urgent to deal with faulty and malicious hardware/software interactions.
The challenge in analyzing faulty hardware-software interactions is caused by research and development activities that have, over time, evolved into two separate directions, namely FEF (Faults, Errors, Failures) analysis of hardware resources and FEF analysis of software components. Analysis of faulty hardware-software interactions can prevent deployment of future platforms (combination of hardware resources and software components) likely to contain faulty behavior, with a major impact on the users and fixing costs.
The main theme is identification and reporting on malicious and faulty hardware-software interactions of systems, especially in the context of Cyber Physical Systems. The workshop has multiple topics of interest but not restricted to:
We welcome relevant contributions in the following forms:
Authors are invited to submit high quality unpublished research work describing the results of theoretical and experimental research in identification and reporting on malicious and faulty hardware-software interactions of systems, in the context of Cyber Physical Systems. All the accepted papers will be included in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
Papers must be written in English and be formatted according to the IEEE authoring guidelines.