[SystemSafety] 3rd CfP: 1st International Workshop on Assurance Cases for Software-intensive Systems (ASSURE)

[Ganesh J. Pai]

Dear all,

Please consider submitting a research/position/practice paper to the 1st
International Workshop on Assurance Cases for Software-intensive Systems
(ASSURE) to be held in conjunction with ICSE 2013, in San Francisco.

The deadline for submissions has been extended to Feb. 14, 2013.

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                           CALL FOR PAPERS
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                            ASSURE 2013
   The 1st International Workshop on Assurance Cases
              for Software-intensive Systems

          San Francisco, California, May 19, 2013
                in conjunction with ICSE 2013

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              http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/assure2013
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Software plays a key role in high-risk systems, e.g., safety-
and security-critical systems. Several certification standards/
guidelines now recommend and/or mandate the development of
assurance cases for software-intensive systems, e.g., defense (UK
MoD DS0056), aviation (CAP 670, FAA Interim Guidance 08-01),
automotive (ISO 26262), and healthcare (FDA Guidance on Infusion
Pumps 510(k)). As such, there is a need to understand and evaluate
(a) the application of assurance cases to software, and
(b) the relationship between assurance case development and
assessment, and software engineering concepts, processes and
techniques.

The goals of the ASSURE 2013 workshop are to explore techniques
for the creation and assessment of assurance cases for software-
intensive systems; leverage, adapt and apply techniques, concepts,
and tools from software engineering in the assurance case
lifecycle; identify the dimensions of effective practice in the
development and evaluation of assurance cases, and identify
critical challenges and define a roadmap for future developments.

We solicit high-quality research contributions, practice and position
papers on the application of assurance case principles and techniques
for software assurance, and on the treatment of assurance cases as
artifacts to which the full range of software engineering
techniques can be applied. Papers should attempt to address the
workshop goals in general.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to

- Standards How can assurance cases be used to show compliance
  to standards that recommend/mandate their use?

- Methodologies How do development and verification methodologies
  (including configuration management) transfer to an assurance
  case paradigm?

- Use of output from software engineering tools (testing, formal
  verification, code generators) as evidence in assurance cases
  and use of software engineering tools for the modeling, analysis
  and management of assurance cases.

- Application of formal techniques to the creation and analysis of
  arguments.

- Exploring relevant techniques for assurance cases for real-time,
  concurrent, and distributed systems.

- Assurance issues in emerging computational paradigms, e.g.,
  cloud, mobile, virtual, many-core architectures, and adaptive
  and autonomous systems.

- Representation of structured arguments through meta-models.

- Assurance of software quality attributes, e.g., safety,
  security and maintainability as well as dependability in
  general; exploring notions of quality of assurance cases.

- Domain-specific assurance issues, in domains such as aerospace,
  automotive, healthcare, defense and power.

- Reuse and modularization contracts and patterns for improving
  the reuse of assurance case structures.

- Connections between the Goal Structuring Notation for assurance
  cases and goal-orientation from the requirements engineering
  community.

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Papers should conform to the formatting guidelines
(http://2013.icse-conferences.org/content/submission-guidelines)
and be no more than 6 pages long. Papers submitted for consideration
should not have been published elsewhere and should not be under
review or submitted for review elsewhere.

Instructions for submission are available on ASSURE 2013 website
(http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/assure2013).

Accepted papers will be published in the ICSE 2013 electronic
proceedings. Authors of best papers will be invited to submit
extended versions for publication in an edited book.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper submission      : February 14, 2013
Author notification     : February 28, 2013
Camera ready copy    : March 7, 2013.
Workshop                  : May 19, 2013.


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WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
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Ewen Denney, SGT / NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Ibrahim Habli, University of York, UK
Tim Kelly, University of York, UK
John Knight, University of Virginia, USA
Ganesh Pai, SGT / NASA Ames Research Center, USA

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Robin Bloomfield, City University, UK
Luke Emmet, Adelard, UK
Richard Hawkins, University of York, UK
Kelly Hayhurst, NASA Langley Research Center, USA
Michael Holloway, NASA Langley Research Center, USA
Daniel Jackson, MIT, USA
Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Peter Lindsay, University of Queensland, USA
Tom Maibaum, McMaster University, Canada
Nikolai Mansourov, KDM Analytics, USA
Robert Martin, MITRE Corporation, USA
Yutaka Matsuno, Nagoya University, Japan
Roger Rivett, Jaguar Land Rover, UK
Christel Seguin, ONERA, France
Kenji Taguchi, AIST, Japan
Fredrik Torner, Volvo Car / Chalmers University, Sweden
David Ward, MIRA Ltd., UK
Alan Wassyng, McMaster University, Canada
Robert Weaver, Airservices Australia, Australia
Charles Weinstock, SEI, USA

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