WoSoCer 2022

Workshop program

Mon 31st Oct, 8:50 AM - 9:00 AM EDT (Session Chair: Luigi De Simone)

Opening

Mon 31st Oct, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT (Session Chair: Luigi De Simone)

Keynote

• How Safe Is Safe Enough for Autonomous Vehicles? - Prof. Philip Koopman, Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM EDT

Break

Mon 31st Oct, 10:30 AM - 11:50 AM EDT (Session Chair: Pietro Liguori)

Session 1: Performance, Safety/Security, and Machine Learning Assessment

• (10:30-10:50) Towards Assessing Isolation Properties in Partitioning Hypervisors - Carmine Cesarano, Domenico Cotroneo and Luigi De Simone

• (10:50-11:10) Continuous Verification of Open Source Components in a World of Weak Links - Thomas Hastings and Kristen Walcott

• (11:10-11:30) Performance Bottleneck Analysis of Drone Computation Offloading to a Shared Fog Node - Qingyang Zhang, Fumio Machida and Ermeson Andrade

• (11:30-11:50) Towards the Quantitative Verification of Deep Learning for Safe Perception - Philipp Schleiss, Yuki Hagiwara, Iwo Kurzidem and Francesco Carella

12:00 AM - 13:30 PM EDT

Lunch

Mon 31st Oct, 13:30 PM - 14:30 PM EDT (Session Chair: Nuno Laranjeiro)

Session 2: Safety in Avionic Domain

• (13:30-13:50) Improving Documentation Agility in Safety-Critical Software Systems Development For Aerospace - Joaquim Rodrigues, Eduardo Ribeiro and Ademar Aguiar

• (13:50-14:10) Programming Language Evaluation Criteria for Safety-Critical Software in the Air Domain - Rob Ashmore, Andrew Howe, Rhiannon Chilton and Shamal Faily

• (14:10-14:30) A Domain Specific Language for the ARINC 653 Specification - Ikram Darif, Cristiano Politowski, Ghizlane El Boussaidi and Sègla Kpodjedo

Mon 31st Oct, 14:30 PM - 15:00 PM EDT (Session Chair: Luigi De Simone)

Closing Remarks + Discussion

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.

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

• Certification for virtualized mixed-criticality systems

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.

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=issrew2022

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.