WoSoCer 2020

Workshop program

Opening (Mon 12th Oct, 1:00pm - 1:10pm UTC)

Session 1 (Mon 12th Oct, 1:10pm - 1:55pm UTC) (Keynote)

• Keynote Talk: How do Ordinary Coding Errors Contribute to Security Vulnerabilities? - D. Richard Kuhn, National Institute of Standards & Technology, Computer Security Division, Gaithersburg, Maryland, US (details)

Session 2 (Mon 12th Oct, 1:55 pm - 2:15pm UTC) (Reconfigurable Systems)

• Resilience, Survivability, and Elasticity: A Taxonomy for Change Impact Quantification of Reconfigurable Systems - Alireza Hakamian, Floriment Klinaku, André van Hoorn and Steffen Becker

Break (2:15pm - 2:30pm UTC)

Session 3 (Mon 12th Oct, 2:30pm - 3:30pm UTC) (Machine Learning and Certification Evidence)

• Ensuring Dataset Quality for Machine Learning Certification - Eric Jenn, Sylvaine Picard, Camille Chapdelaine, Baptiste Lefèvre, Thomas Soumarmon, Cyril Cappi and Laurent Gardes

• New Wine in an Old Bottle: N-Version Programming for Machine Learning Components - Arpan Gujarati, Sathish Gopalakrishnan and Karthik Pattabiraman

• Towards Automated Evidence Generation for Rapid and Continuous Software Certification - Joanna Cecilia Da Silva Santos, Ali Shokri and Mehdi Mirakhorli

Break (3:30pm - 3:45pm UTC)

Session 4 (Mon 12th Oct, 3:45pm - 4:45pm UTC) (Test and Safety Cases)

• Checkable Safety Cases: Enabling Automated Consistency Checks between Safety Work Products - Carmen Carlan, Daniel Petrișor, Barbara Gallina and Hannes Schoenhaar

• Safety-Critical Software - Quantification of Test Results - Johan Sundell, Kristina Lundqvist and Håkan Forsberg

• Generating Test Cases to Evaluate and Improve Processes of Safety-Critical Systems Development - Lilian Barros, Celso Hirata, Johnny Marques and Ana Maria Ambrosio

Call for Papers

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The WoSoCer workshop is a forum to discuss novel solutions for the assessment and certification of software in critical systems, and to promote their adoption through industrial and academic research projects.

We welcome contributions related to any area of critical software systems and certification. Besides, this edition of the workshop encourages contributions to a special theme in security and privacy certification, e.g., certification with respect to privacy concerns in the context of COVID-19 tracing apps.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Certification and assurance of systems and services

• Certification of software for emerging technological trends, including dynamic, autonomic, large-scale, and distributed systems

• Certification of third-party components, software reuse, and open-source software across systems and services

• Certification and best practices of software development processes in safety- and security-critical domains

• Quantitative and qualitative evaluation of system dependability and resilience

• Economics of certification and standards

• Adoption of emerging technologies and best practices in safety- and security-critical domains

• Open issues, practical experiences, and real-world case studies

• Cross-fertilization between safety and security certification and standards

• Certification in AI-based and ML systems

• Certification for Cyber-Security

Since 2011, WoSoCer has been a satellite event of the IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), a premier conference that emphasizes both academic excellence and industry impact.

Accepted peer-reviewed papers will be included in a supplemental volume of the ISSRE conference proceedings, published by the IEEE Computer Society on IEEE Xplore.

This year, extended, peer-reviewed versions of the best papers will be invited for potential publication in a special issue of a high-impact journal (more information will be provided soon).

Submission Guidelines

We invite original research papers discussing ideas and novel approaches in the area of software certification and dependability.

Papers must be submitted as a single Portable Document Format (PDF) file through the EasyChair website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=issre2020

The page limit papers is up to 8 pages. Both full-length and short papers (e.g., papers reporting ongoing projects and prospective ideas, up to 4 pages) are welcome. Papers must be written in English, and be formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Format Guidelines. We recommend that you embed fonts whenever possible to improve portability. We also strongly recommend you print the file and review it for integrity (fonts, symbols, equations, etc.) before submitting it. Papers that exceed the page limits specified above, are outside the scope of the workshop, or do not follow the formatting guidelines will be rejected.

All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by program committee members, with the objective of having at least three reviews for each paper. The best papers will be accepted and included in the workshop program according to the following criteria: relevance of the addressed topic to the scope of the workshop; novelty of the proposed contribution; technical relevance and practicality of presented ideas; relevance of case studies and of results for the industrial community; writing, presentation accuracy and style.

Accepted papers will be published in a supplemental volume of the ISSRE conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society, and will appear on IEEE Xplore, provided that at least one author of each accepted paper registers for the ISSRE conference and presents the paper at the workshop.