[SystemSafety] Reminder: Call for Position Papers: 1st Workshop on Whether Argumentation Works (WAW 2017)

[C. Michael Holloway]

Just a reminder that the deadline is only 1 week away.

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Call for Position Papers for the First Workshop on
Whether Argumentation Works (WAW)
https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/waw2017/

Monday 26 June 2017 in Denver Colorado
in conjunction with the 47th IEEE/IFIP International Conference
on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2017)

*Submissions due: 6 March 2017*
Author notification: 31 March 2017
Camera ready due: 14 April 2017
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As the use of assurance cases has grown, researchers have increasingly
stressed the role of explicit argument. Yet while safety cases are broadly
thought to be effective, the literature offers neither a precise definition
of what it means for assurance argumentation to work nor empirical evidence
that they do. The first workshop on Whether Argumentation Works (WAW)
invites short position papers and will feature a moderated audience
discussion. Participants will collaborate to (1) enumerate the goals and
purposes of the various forms of assurance argument, (2) define testable
hypotheses that capture what it means for arguments to 'work', and (3)
propose, critique, and refine designs for appropriate studies and
experiments.


Workshop format

The workshop will comprise keynote addresses, short presentations, and a
moderated discussion amongst workshop attendees. To promote a productive
discussion, we seek diverse participation by people from industrial,
regulatory, or academic backgrounds who are concerned with installations,
systems, or software in domains such as transport, military, medical, and
process industries.


Position paper topics

Potential workshop participants are invited to submit a short paper
addressing one or more of the following topics:

o Identification of the goals and purposes that argumentation is thought to
serve in a context or contexts of interest

o Definition of concrete, testable hypotheses that capture what it means for
arguments to `work' and underpin policy decisions

o The design of studies or experiments to test such hypotheses

To submit a position paper, point your browser to

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=waw2017

Authors of selected position papers will present their position at the
workshop before the relevant moderated discussion begins.

Position papers must be written in English and follow the IEEE double-column
format. The maximum length is two pages. Templates and instructions are
available from here:

http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

By submitting a position paper, the authors acknowledge that, if the 
paper is
accepted, at least one author will register for the WAW 2017 workshop and
present the paper at the workshop in person.


Workshop proceedings and summary paper

All accepted position papers will be published in the DSN supplemental 
volume
and made available through IEEE Xplore. The workshop organizers will
summarize the workshop discussion in a separate paper that will be published
following the workshop.


Organizers

o Patrick Graydon <patrick.j.graydon at nasa.gov> is a research computer
scientist whose interests are safety and security argumentation, dependable
software engineering, and certification.

o Michael Holloway <c.michael.holloway at nasa.gov> is a senior research
computer engineer whose primary professional interests concern epistemic
issues influencing the level of confidence that may justifiably be placed in
the safety of software-intensive systems.


Keynote Speakers

o David Rinehart, Architecture Technology Corporation

o Paul Caseley, Dstl Senior Fellow, Dstl, UK



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