[SystemSafety] Call for Papers. ASSURE 2016

[Ganesh J. Pai]

Dear System Safety List Members,

Please consider submitting a research / position / tools / industrial
practice paper to the 4th International Workshop on Assurance Cases for
Software-Intensive Systems (ASSURE 2016), which will be collocated this
year with SAFECOMP 2016, in Trondheim, Norway.

The Call for Papers is included below. More details on the workshop are
available on the ASSURE 2016 website:
http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/events/assure2016/

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                       CALL FOR PAPERS
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                        ASSURE 2016
      The 4th International Workshop on Assurance Cases
                for Software-intensive Systems

                     September 20, 2016
                     Trondheim, Norway.
                Collocated with SAFECOMP 2016
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            http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/events/assure2016
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Software plays a key role in high-risk systems, e.g.,
safety-, security-, and mission-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 DS-0056),
aviation (CAP 760 and the FAA's operational approval guidance
for unmanned aircraft systems), automotive (ISO 26262), and
healthcare (FDA total product lifecycle guidance for
infusion pumps). As such, there is a need to develop models,
tools, and techniques that target the development of
assurance arguments for software.

The goals of the 2016 Workshop on Assurance Cases for
Software-intensive Systems (ASSURE 2016) are to:

(a) explore techniques for creating/assessing assurance
    cases for software-intensive systems;
(b) examine the role of assurance cases in the engineering
    lifecycle of critical systems;
(c) identify the dimensions of effective practice in the
    development and evaluation of assurance cases;
(d) investigate the relationship between dependability
    techniques and assurance cases; and,
(e) identify critical research challenges and define a
    roadmap for future development.

We solicit high-quality contributions (research, practice,
tools, and position papers) on the application of assurance
case principles and techniques to assure that the
dependability properties of critical software-intensive
systems have been met.

Papers should attempt to address the workshop goals in
general. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Assurance issues in emerging paradigms, e.g., adaptive and
  autonomous systems, including self-driving cars, unmanned
  aircraft systems, complex health care and decision making
  systems, etc.

- Standards: Industry guidelines and standards are
  increasingly requiring the development of assurance
  cases, e.g., the automotive standard ISO 26262, and the
  FDA guidance on the total product lifecycle for infusion
  pumps.

- Certification and regulations: The role and usage of
  assurance cases in the certification of critical systems,
  as well as to show compliance to regulations.

- Dependable architectures: How do fault-tolerant
  architectures and design measures such as diversity and
  partitioning relate to assurance cases?

- Dependability analysis: What are the relationships between
  dependability analysis techniques and the assurance case
  paradigm?

- Tools: Using the output from software engineering tools
  (testing, formal verification, code generators) as
  evidence in assurance cases / using tools for the
  modeling, analysis and management of assurance cases.

- Application of formal techniques to create and analyze
  arguments.

- Modeling and meta modeling: Representation of structured
  arguments through meta models, such as OMG's Structured
  Assurance Case Metamodel (SACM).

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

- 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.

- Other topics, including the exploration of relevant
  techniques for assurance cases for real-time, concurrent,
  and distributed systems; and the connections between the
  Goal Structuring Notation for assurance cases and
  goal-orientation from the requirements engineering
  community.

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                   SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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1. All papers must be original work not published, or in
   submission, elsewhere.

2. All papers should be submitted only in PDF. Please
   verify that papers can be reliably printed and viewed on
   screen before submitting.

3. Papers should conform to the LNCS paper formatting
   guidelines. See the ASSURE 2016 website (below) for
   details.

4. Regular (research, or practice) papers can be up to 12
   pages long including figures, references, and any
   appendices.

5. Tools papers can be up to 10 pages long including
   figures, references and any appendices. Note: Authors of
   accepted tools papers will be expected to give a
   demonstration of the tool(s) at the workshop, i.e., no
   screenshots.

6. Position papers can be between 4 and 6 pages long,
   including figures, references, and any appendices.

6. Submit your paper electronically by May 17, 2015 through
   the workshop website:
   http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/events/assure2016/

Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three program
committee members. Accepted papers will be published in
the SAFECOMP 2016 Workshop Proceedings, to be published by
Springer, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
Series.

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                       IMPORTANT DATES
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       Workshop papers due  : May 17, 2016
       Author notification  : June 7, 2016
       Camera ready papers  : June 20, 2016
       ASSURE 2016 Workshop : September 20, 2016
       SAFECOMP 2016        : September 20 - 23, 2016

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

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                      PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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       To be confirmed. See the ASSURE 2016 Website.

          http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/events/assure2016/
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