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ASSURE 2017 has successfully concluded.
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2017-10-01: ASSURE 2017 concluded successfully. The accepted papers appear in the SAFECOMP 2017 Workshop Proceedings. Thank you for attending! See you in 2018. 2017-08-28: The ASSURE 2017 Program has been announced. The final program is contingent on registration. If you haven’t already done so, please register for ASSURE 2017 via SAFECOMP 2017. 2017-08-27: ASSURE 2017 will be held on Tuesday, Sep. 12, 2017. The accepted papers and program will be posted here soon. 2017-06-02: Authors of accepted papers have been notified. The final, camera-ready version and a signed copyright release form are due on June 12, 2017. Instructions on submitting both the final version and the copyright form also have been posted. 2017-05-24: Paper submission deadlines have passed. Submission is now closed. 2016-05-16: ASSURE deadlines have been extended by a week, to May 24, 2017. 2017-03-27: Dr. Simon Burton, Chief Expert Safety, Reliability and Availability at Robert Bosch GmbH Central Research Division, Germany, has generously accepted to give an invited keynote talk! Watch this space for the topic and abstract for the talk. 2017-03-22: The deadline to submit papers to ASSURE 2017 is May 17, 2017. Submit a paper now! 2017-03-01: The ASSURE 2017 website is live!
Introduction
The 5th International Workshop on Assurance Cases for Software-intensive Systems (ASSURE 2017) is being collocated this year with SAFECOMP 2017, and aims to provide an international forum for high-quality contributions on the application of assurance case principles and techniques to provide assurance that the dependability properties of critical, software-intensive systems have been met.
The main goals of the workshop are to:
Explore techniques for the creation and assessment of assurance cases for software-intensive systems Examine the role of assurance cases in the engineering lifecycle of critical systems Identify the dimension of effective practice in the development and evaluation of assurance cases Investigate the relationship between dependability techniques and assurance cases Identify critical research challenges and define a roadmap for future development We invite original, high-quality research, practice, tools and position papers that have not been published/submitted elsewhere. See the full Call for Papers, for more details on topics. Also view the submission deadlines, and guidelines.
Program
ASSURE 2017 Program
September 12, 2017, from 08:00 – 17:30
08:00 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 11:00 Session 1. Welcome, Introduction, Keynote and Assurance Case Frameworks
09:00 – 09:05 Welcome and Introduction, ASSURE 2017 Organizers
09:05 – 10:00 Keynote Talk: Making the Case for Safety of Machine Learning in Highly Automated Driving, Simon Burton (with Lydia Gauerhof and Christian Heinzemann)
10:00 – 10:30 A Thought Experiment on Evolution of Assurance Cases – from a Logical Aspect, Y. Kinoshita and S. Kinoshita
10:30 – 11:00 Morning Coffee/Tea Break
11:00 – 12:30 Session 2. Assurance Case Tool Support
11:00 – 11:30 Uniform Model Interface for Assurance Case Integration with System Models, A. Wardziński and P. Jones
11:30 – 12:00 ExplicitCase: Integrated Model-based Development of System and Safety Cases, C. Cârlan, S. Barner, A. Diewald, A. Tsalidis and S. Voss
12:00 – 12:30 D-Case Communicator: A Web-Based GSN Editor for Multiple Stakeholders, Y. Matsuno
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:30 Session 3. Assurance Cases for Security
13:30 – 14:00 Reconciling Systems-Theoretic and Component-Centric Methods for Safety and Security Co-Analysis, W. Temple, Y. Wu, B. Chen and Z. Kalbarczyk
14:00 – 14:30 Towards combined safety and security constraints analysis, D. Pereira, C. Hirata, R. Pagliares and S. Nadjm-Tehrani
14:30 – 15:00 Attack Modeling for System Security Analysis and Assurance Case, A. Altawairqi and M. Maarek
15:00 – 15:30 Using an Assurance Case Framework to Develop Security Strategy and Policies, R. Bloomfield, P. Bishop, E. Butler and K. Netkachova
15:30 – 16:00 Afternoon Coffee/Tea Break
16:00 – 17:25 Session 4. Guided Discussion
17:25 – 17:30 ASSURE 2017 Conclusion and Wrap-Up
Important Dates
EVENTDEADLINEWorkshop Papers Due24 May 2017Notification of Acceptance31 May 2017Camera-ready Copies Due12 June 2017ASSURE 2017 WorkshopSeptember 12, 2017SAFECOMP 2017September 13 – 15, 2017 Call for Papers
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 DS-0056), aviation (CAP 670, FAA’s operational approval guidance for unmanned aircraft systems), automotive (ISO 26262), and healthcare (FDA infusion pumps total product lifecycle guidance). As such, there is a need to develop models, techniques and tools that target the development of assurance arguments for software.
The goals of the 2017 Workshop on Assurance Cases for Software-intensive Systems (ASSURE 2017) are to:
explore techniques for creating/assessing assurance cases for software-intensive systems; examine the role of assurance cases in the engineering lifecycle of critical systems; identify the dimensions of effective practice in the development and evaluation of assurance cases; investigate the relationship between dependability techniques and assurance cases; and, 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
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. Empiricism: Empirical assessment of the applicability of assurance cases in different domains and certification regimes. 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? Safety and security co-engineering: What are the impacts of security on safety, particularly safety cases, and how can safety and security cases (e.g., as proposed in ISO 26262 and SAE J 3061 respectively) be reconciled? 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 for the creation, analysis, reuse, and modularization of arguments. Exploration of relevant techniques for assurance cases for real-time, concurrent, and distributed systems. 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. Relations between different formalisms and paradigms of assurance and argumentation, such as Goal Structuring Notation, STAMP, IBIS, and goal-oriented formalisms such as KAOS. Submit
Submission Instructions for Accepted Papers
If your paper has been accepted for the ASSURE 2017 Program, please follow the instructions below, when preparing your final, camera-ready paper for the proceedings.
1. Deadline
The final paper and the signed copyright form are due on June 12, 2017. This is a firm deadline for the production of the proceedings.
2. Copyright Release
Authors must fill and sign the Springer “Consent to Publish” copyright release form using the following information: Title of the Book or Conference Name: Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security – SAFECOMP 2017 Workshops – ASSURE, DECSoS, SASSUR, TELERISE, and TIPS Volume Editor(s): Stefano Tonetta, Erwin Schoitsch, Friedemann Bitsch One author may sign on behalf of all authors. Springer does not accept digital signatures, unfortunately. Please physically sign the form, scan, and email it in PDF or any acceptable image format, to the SAFECOMP 2017 Publication Chair by the deadline above. Alternatively, upload the signed, and completed form via EasyChair using your author account. 3. Corresponding Authors
Please nominate a corresponding author, whose name and email address must be included in the email containing the copyright release form. This author will be responsible for checking the pre-print proof of your paper prepared by Springer.
4. Pre-print Checking
The publisher has recently introduced an extra control loop: once data processing is finished, they will contact all corresponding authors and ask them to check their papers. We expect this to happen shortly before the printing of the proceedings. At that time your quick interaction with Springer-Verlag will be greatly appreciated.
5. Formatting and Page Limits
Please do not change the spacing and dimensions associated with the paper template files. Please ensure that your paper meets the page limits for your paper type. Page limits are strict.
Regular research/practice papers: 12 pages including figures, references, and appendices. Tools papers: 10 pages, including figures, references, and appendices. Position papers: 4 – 6 pages including figures, references, and any appendices. 6. Final Paper Submission
Submit your camera ready paper using your EasyChair author account, for inclusion into the Workshop Proceedings. After you have logged in, select the Proceedings Author role to be directed to the submission page.
Springer reserves the right to reformat your paper to meet their print and digital publication requirements. Consequently, you will need to submit all the source files associated with your paper. Follow the instructions after the login for uploading two files:
either a zipped file containing all your LaTeX sources or a Word file in the RTF format, and a PDF version of your camera-ready paper. Please follow the LNCS paper formatting guidelines when preparing the final version.
Committees
Workshop Chairs
Ewen Denney, SGT / NASA Ames, USA Ibrahim Habli, University of York, UK Ganesh Pai, SGT / NASA Ames, USA Kenji Taguchi, AIST, Japan
Program Committee
Robin Bloomfield, City University, and Adelard, UK Simon Burton, Bosch Research, Germany Isabelle Conway, ESA/ESTEC, Netherlands Martin Feather, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Jérémie Guiochet, LAAS-CNRS, France Richard Hawkins, University of York, UK Joshua Kaizer, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, USA Tim Kelly, University of York, UK Yoshiki Kinoshita, Kanagawa University, Japan Terrence Martin, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Andrew Rae, Griffith University, Australia Philippa Ryan, Adelard, UK Roger Rivett, Jaguar Land Rover, UK Mark-Alexander Sujan, University of Warwick, UK Sean White, NHS Digital, UK Previous ASSURE Workshops
ASSURE 2016, Trondheim, Norway ASSURE 2015, Delft, The Netherlands ASSURE 2014, Naples, Italy ASSURE 2013, San Francisco, USA Contact the Organizers
If you have questions about paper topics, submission and/or about ASSURE 2016 in general, please contact the Workshop Organizers.
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ASSURE 2016 has successfully concluded.
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New! 2016-09-30: ASSURE 2016 concluded successfully. The accepted papers appear in the SAFECOMP 2016 Workshop Proceedings. Thank you for attending! See you in 2017. 2016-07-18: Clive Tomsett, Clinical Strategist at the Cerner Corporation, will give an invited keynote talk! 2016-07-18: The ASSURE 2016 Program has been announced. The final program is contingent on registration. If you haven’t already done so, please register for ASSURE 2016 via SAFECOMP 2016. 2016-06-08: ASSURE 2016 will be held on Tuesday, Sep. 20, 2016. The accepted papers and program will be posted here soon. 2016-06-07: Authors of accepted papers have been notified. The final, camera-ready version and a signed copyright release form are due on June 20, 2016. Instructions on submitting both the final version and the copyright form have been posted. 2016-05-26: Paper submission deadlines have passed. Submission is now closed. 2016-05-16: ASSURE deadlines have been extended by to May 26, 2016. Submit a paper now! 2016-03-28: The deadline to submit papers to ASSURE 2016 is May 17, 2016. 2016-03-28: The ASSURE 2016 call for papers, and the paper submission guidelines are now available. 2016-03-07: The ASSURE 2016 website is live!
Introduction
The 4th International Workshop on Assurance Cases for Software-intensive Systems (ASSURE 2016) is being collocated this year with SAFECOMP 2016, and aims to provide an international forum for high-quality contributions on the application of assurance case principles and techniques to provide assurance that the dependability properties of critical, software-intensive systems have been met.
The main goals of the workshop are to:
Explore techniques for the creation and assessment of assurance cases for software-intensive systems Examine the role of assurance cases in the engineering lifecycle of critical systems Identify the dimension of effective practice in the development and evaluation of assurance cases Investigate the relationship between dependability techniques and assurance cases Identify critical research challenges and define a roadmap for future development We invite original, high-quality research, practice, tools and position papers that have not been published/submitted elsewhere. See the full Call for Papers, for more details on topics. Also view the submission deadlines, and guidelines.
Program
08:00 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 11:00 Session 1. Introduction, Keynote, and Lifecycles
09:00 – 09:10 Welcome and Introduction, ASSURE 2016 Organizers
09:10 – 10:00 Keynote Talk: Rhetoric or Rigor: The Development and Use of Safety Cases in Health IT Clive Tomsett, Cerner Corporation
10:00 – 10:30 The Agile Safety Case, Tor Stålhane and Thor Myklebust
10:30 – 11:00 Towards Faster Maintenance of Safety Cases, Omar Jaradat and Iain Bate
11:00 – 11:30 Morning Coffee/Tea Break
11:30 – 13:00 Session 2. Formal Evidence and Tool Support
11:30 – 12:00 On Using Results of Code-level Bounded Model Checking in Assurance Cases, Carmen Cârlan, Daniel Ratiu, and Bernhard Schätz
12:00 – 12:30 Configuration-aware Contracts, Irfan Šljivo, Barbara Gallina, Jan Carlson, and Hans Hansson
12:30 – 13:00 Developing SNS tool for Consensus Building on Environmental Safety using Assurance Cases, Yutaka Matsuno, Yang Ishigaki, Koichi Bando, Hiroyuki Kido, and Kenji Tanaka
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:30 Session 3. Applications
14:00 – 14:30 The 6W1H Model as a Basis for Systems Assurance Argument, Shuji Kinoshita and Yoshiki Kinoshita
14:30 – 15:00 The Assurance Timeline: Building Assurance Cases for Synthetic Biology, Myra Cohen, Justin Firestone, and Massimiliano Pierobon
15:00 – 15:30 Towards Safety Case Integration with Hazard Analysis for Medical Devices, Andrzej Wardziński and Aleksander Jarzębowicz
15:30 – 16:00 Afternoon Coffee/Tea Break
16:00 – 17:30 Session 4. Panel and Conclusion
16:00 – 17:15 PANEL: Assurance Challenges for Safety-critical Autonomous Systems
Panelists:
– Håkon Olsen, Principal Consultant at Lloyd’s Register, Norway
– Jérémie Guiochet, Professor at University of Toulouse, France
– Marialena Vagia, Research Scientist at SINTEF, Norway
– Ovidiu Drugan, Senior Researcher at DNV GL, Norway
17:15 – 17:30 Conclusion and Wrap-Up, ASSURE 2016 Organizers
Important Dates
Important Dates
EVENTDEADLINEWorkshop Papers DueMay 26, 2016Notification of AcceptanceJune 7, 2016Camera-ready Copies DueJune 20, 2016ASSURE 2016 WorkshopSeptember 20, 2016SAFECOMP 2016September 20 – 23, 2016 ASSURE 2016 Call for Papers
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 DS-0056), aviation (CAP 760, FAA’s operational approval guidance for unmanned aircraft systems), automotive (ISO 26262), and healthcare (FDA infusion pumps total product lifecycle guidance). As such, there is a need to develop models, techniques and tools 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:
explore techniques for creating/assessing assurance cases for software-intensive systems; examine the role of assurance cases in the engineering lifecycle of critical systems; identify the dimensions of effective practice in the development and evaluation of assurance cases; investigate the relationship between dependability techniques and assurance cases; and, 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
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. Exploration of relevant techniques for assurance cases for real-time, concurrent, and distributed systems. Modeling and Metamodeling: 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. Connections between the Goal Structuring Notation for assurance cases, and goal-orientation from the requirements engineering community. Submit
Submission Instructions for Accepted Papers
If your paper has been accepted for the ASSURE 2016 Program, please follow the instructions below, when preparing your final, camera-ready paper for the proceedings.
1. Deadline
The final paper and the signed copyright form are due on June 20, 2016. This is a firm deadline for the production of the proceedings.
2. Copyright Release
Authors must fill and sign the Springer “Consent to Publish” copyright release form using the following information: Title of the Book or Conference Name: Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security – SAFECOMP 2016 Workshops – ASSURE, CYBERSUP, DECSoS, SASSUR, and TIPS Volume Editor(s): Amund Skavhaug, Jérémie Guiochet, Erwin Schoitsch, Friedemann Bitsch One author may sign on behalf of all authors. Springer does not accept digital signatures, unfortunately. Please physically sign the form, scan, and email it in PDF or any acceptable image format, to the SAFECOMP 2016 Publication Chair by the deadline above. Alternatively, upload the signed, and completed form via EasyChair using your author account. 3. Corresponding Authors
Please nominate a corresponding author, whose name and email address must be included in the email containing the copyright release form. This author will be responsible for checking the pre-print proof of your paper prepared by Springer.
4. Pre-print Checking
The publisher has recently introduced an extra control loop: once data processing is finished, they will contact all corresponding authors and ask them to check their papers. We expect this to happen shortly before the printing of the proceedings. At that time your quick interaction with Springer-Verlag will be greatly appreciated.
5. Formatting and Page Limits
Please do not change the spacing and dimensions associated with the paper template files. Please ensure that your paper meets the page limits for your paper type.
Regular research/practice papers: 12 pages including figures, references, and appendices. Tools papers: 10 pages, including figures, references, and appendices. Position papers: 4 – 6 pages including figures, references, and any appendices. 6. Final Paper Submission
Submit your camera ready paper using your EasyChair author account, for inclusion into the Workshop Proceedings. After you have logged in, follow the “Proceedings” tab in the top panel.
Springer reserves the right to reformat your paper to meet their print and digital publication requirements. Consequently, you will need to submit all the source files associated with your paper. Follow the instructions after the login for uploading two files:
either a zipped file containing all your LaTeX sources or a Word file in the RTF format, and a PDF version of your camera-ready paper. Please strictly follow the LNCS paper formatting guidelines when preparing the final version.
Committees
Workshop Chairs
Ewen Denney, SGT / NASA Ames, USA Ibrahim Habli, University of York, UK Ganesh Pai, SGT / NASA Ames, USA
Program Committee (Login)
Ersin Ancel, NASA Langley Research Center, USA Robin Bloomfield, City University, UK Reece Clothier, RMIT, Australia Martin Feather, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Jérémie Guiochet, LAAS-CNRS, France Richard Hawkins, University of York, UK Tim Kelly, University of York, UK Yoshiki Kinoshita, Kanagawa University, Japan John Knight, University of Virginia, USA Helen Monkhouse, Protean Electric Ltd., UK Andrew Rae, Griffith University, Australia Roger Rivett, Jaguar Land Rover, UK John Rushby, SRI, USA Mark-Alexander Sujan, University of Warwick, UK Kenji Taguchi, AIST, Japan Alan Wassyng, McMaster University, Canada Sean White, Health and Social Care Information Centre, UK Previous ASSURE Workshops
ASSURE 2015, Delft, The Netherlands ASSURE 2014, Naples, Italy ASSURE 2013, San Francisco, USA Contact Us
If you have questions about paper topics, submission and/or about ASSURE 2016 in general, please contact the Workshop Organizers.
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ASSURE 2015 has successfully concluded.
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2015-10-05: ASSURE 2015 concluded successfully. The accepted papers appear in the SAFECOMP 2015 Workshop Proceedings. Thank you for attending! See you in 2016. 2015-06-24: Pippa Moore of the UK Civil Aviation Authority will give an invited keynote talk! 2015-06-24: The ASSURE 2015 Program has been announced. The final program is contingent on registration. If you haven’t already done so, please register for ASSURE 2015 via SAFECOMP 2015. 2015-06-15: ASSURE 2015 will be held on Tuesday, Sep. 22, 2015. The accepted papers and program will be posted here soon. 2015-06-15: Authors of accepted papers have been notified. Final, camera-ready copies and the copyright form are due on June 28, 2015 June 30, 2015. 2015-06-04: Paper submission deadlines have passed. Submission is now closed. 2015-05-28: SAFECOMP 2015 has extended all workshop deadlines, including for ASSURE 2015, by another week to June 3, 2015. 2015-05-19: ASSURE deadlines have been extended by a week to May 29, 2015. 2015-03-13: The ASSURE 2015 call for papers, and the paper submission guidelines are now available. 2015-03-12: The deadline to submit papers to ASSURE 2015 is May 22, 2015. 2015-03-05: The ASSURE 2015 website is live! Introduction
ASSURE 2015, collocated this year with SAFECOMP 2015, aims to provide an international forum for high-quality contributions on the application of assurance case principles and techniques to assure that the dependability properties of critical, software-intensive systems have been met.
The main goals of the workshop are to:
Explore techniques for the creation and assessment of assurance cases for software-intensive systems Examine the role of assurance cases in the engineering lifecycle of critical systems Identify the dimension of effective practice in the development and evaluation of assurance cases Investigate the relationship between dependability techniques and assurance cases Identify critical research challenges and define a roadmap for future development We invite original, high-quality research, practice, tools and position papers that have not been published/submitted elsewhere. See the full Call for Papers, for more details on topics. Also view the submission deadline, and guidelines.
Program
08:00 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 11:00 Session 1. Keynote and Foundations
09:00 – 09:10 Welcome and Introduction, ASSURE 2015 Organizers
09:10-10:00 Keynote Talk: Do We Really Want To Start From Here? Pippa Moore, UK Civil Aviation Authority
10:00-10:30 Informing Assurance Case Review through a Formal Interpretation of GSN Core Logic, Victor Bandur, and John McDermid
10:30 – 11:00 Representing Confidence in Assurance Case Evidence, Lian Duan, Sanjai Rayadurgam, Mats Heimdahl, Oleg Sokolsky, and Insup Lee
11:00 – 11:30 Morning Coffee/Tea Break
11:30-1:00 Session 2. Methodology and Patterns
11:30 – 12:00 Safe and Sec Case Patterns, Kenji Taguchi, Daisuke Souma, and Hideaki Nishihara
12:00 – 12:30 A Comprehensive Safety Lifecycle, John Knight, Jonathan Rowanhill, Anthony Aiello, and Kimberly Wasson
12:30 – 13:00 An Approach to Assure Dependability Through ArchiMate, Shuichiro Yamamoto
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:30 Session 3. Tool Support and Tool Demonstrations
14:00 – 14:30 Tool Support for Assurance Case Building Blocks: Providing a Helping Hand with CAE, Kateryna Netkachova, Oleksandr Netkachov, and Robin Bloomfield
14:30 – 15:00 Safety.Lab: Model-based Domain Specific Tooling for Safety Argumentation, Daniel Ratiu, Marc Zeller, and Lennart Kilian
15:00 – 15:30 A Safety Condition Monitoring System, John Knight, Jonathan Rowanhill, and Jian Xiang
15:30 – 16:00 Afternoon Coffee/Tea Break
16:00 – 16:45 Session 4. Applications and Project Overviews
16:00 – 16:30 Fault Type Refinement for Assurance of Families of Platform-Based Systems, Sam Procter, John Hatcliff, Sandy Weininger, and Anura Fernando
16:30 – 16:37 Safety and Security Assurance in Railway Standards, Kenji Taguchi
16:37 – 16:45 Towards Assurance Arguments of Disaster Management Plans, Shuji Kinoshita
16:45 – 18:00 Session 5. Panel and Conclusion
16:45 – 18:00 PANEL: The Role of Argumentation in Certification and Safety Risk Management,
John Birch, JaguarLandRover / AVL;
Robin Bloomfield, Adelard and City University;
Chris Johnson, University of Glasgow;
Yoshiki Kinoshita, Kanagawa University; and
Pippa Moore, UK CAA.
18:00 Conclusion and Wrap-Up, ASSURE 2015 Organizers
Important Dates
EventDeadlineWorkshop Papers DueJune 3, 2015 Now ClosedNotification of AcceptanceJune 15, 2015Camera-ready Copies DueJune 28, 2015 June 30, 2015ASSURE 2015 WorkshopSeptember 22, 2015SAFECOMP 2015September 22 – 25, 2015 Call For Papers
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 DS-0056), aviation (CAP 670. FAA operational approval guidance for unmanned aircraft systems), automotive (ISO 26262), and healthcare (FDA infusion pumps total product lifecycle guidance). As such, there is a need to develop models, techniques and tools that target the development of assurance arguments for software.
The goals of the 2015 Workshop on Assurance Cases for Software-intensive Systems (ASSURE 2015) are to:
explore techniques for creating/assessing assurance cases for software-intensive systems; examine the role of assurance cases in the engineering lifecycle of critical systems; identify the dimensions of effective practice in the development and evaluation of assurance cases; investigate the relationship between dependability techniques and assurance cases; and, 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
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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. Exploration of 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. Modeling and Metamodeling: Representation of structured arguments through metamodels, 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. Connections between the Goal Structuring Notation for assurance cases, and goal-orientation from the requirements engineering community. Submit
Paper submission is now closed.
Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Accepted papers will be published in the SAFECOMP 2015 Workshop Proceedings, to be published by Springer, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series. Authors of the best papers may be invited to submit an extended version for publication in a special journal issue (tentative).
All papers must be original work not published, or in submission, elsewhere. All papers should be submitted only in PDF. Please verify that papers can be reliably printed and/or viewed on screen before submitting. Papers should conform to the LNCS paper formatting guidelines. Regular (research, practice, or position) papers can be up to 12 pages long including figures, references, and any appendices. 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. Submit your paper electronically via EasyChair by May 22, 2015 May 29, 2015 June 3, 2015. Note: After logging into EasyChair, select New Submission . Then, be sure to select the track Assurance Cases for Software-intensive Systems to submit a paper to this workshop. Committees
Workshop Chairs
Ewen Denney, SGT / NASA Ames, USA Ibrahim Habli, University of York, UK Ganesh Pai, SGT / NASA Ames, USA Program Committee (Login)
Robin Bloomfield, City University, UK Jérémie Guiochet, LAAS-CNRS, France Richard Hawkins, University of York, UK David Higham, Delphi Diesel Systems, UK Michael Holloway, NASA Langley Research Center, USA Paul Jones, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, USA Tim Kelly, University of York, UK Yoshiki Kinoshita, Kanagawa University, Japan John Knight, University of Virginia, USA Andrew Rae, Griffith University, Australia Roger Rivett, Jaguar Land Rover, UK Christel Seguin, ONERA, France Mark-Alexander Sujan, University of Warwick, UK Kenji Taguchi, AIST, Japan Alan Wassyng, McMaster University, Canada Sean White, Health and Social Care Information Centre, UK Past Workshop
ASSURE 2013, San Francisco, USA ASSURE 2014, Naples, Italy Contact Us
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ASSURE 2023
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8th International Workshop on Assurance Cases for Software-intensive Systems
Toulouse, France
September 19, 2023
ASSURE 2023 is live
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2023-05-30: Notifications sent to authors 2023-05-01: Submission deadline extended to May 15 2023-04-20: The ASSURE 2023 website is live! Introduction
The 8th International Workshop on Assurance Cases for Software-intensive Systems (ASSURE 2023) is being collocated this year with SafeComp 2023, and aims to provide an international forum for high-quality contributions on the application of assurance case principles and techniques to provide confidence that the dependability properties of critical software-intensive systems have been met. ASSURE 2023 will be hybrid and run on Central European Time (CET).
The main goals of the workshop are to:
Explore techniques for the creation and assessment of assurance cases for software-intensive systems Examine the role of assurance cases in the engineering lifecycle of critical systems Identify the dimension of effective practice in the development and evaluation of assurance cases Investigate the relationship between dependability techniques and assurance cases Identify critical research challenges and define a roadmap for future development We invite high-quality research, practice, tools, and position papers, as well as papers containing new, forward-looking ideas and emerging results, works-in-progress, and reflections on current research examined through new perspectives, calling for future research directions. See the full Call for Papers, for more details on topics. Also view the submission deadlines, and guidelines.
2023 ASSURE – SASSUR Joint Workshop Program
8:00 9:00
Registration
9:00 9:05
Welcome
9:05 10:00
Welcome Keynote – Safety Cases: in Theory and Reality
Philippa Ryan Conmy
10:00 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 11:00
Invited Talk – Driving the Development Process from the Safety Case
Christopher Hobbs, Simon Diemert, and Jeff Joyce
11:00 11:30
Computer-Aided Generation of Assurance Cases
T.E. Wang, C. Oh, M. Low, I. Amundson, Z. Daw, A. Pinto, M.L. Chiodo, G. Wang, S. Hasan, R. Melville, P. Nuzzo
11:30 12:00
RACK: A Semantic Model and Triplestore for Curation of Assurance Case Evidence
A. Moitra, P. Cuddihy, K. Siu, D. Archer, E. Mertens, D. Russell, K. Quick, V. Robert, B. Meng
12:00 13:00
Lunch
13:00 13:30
Using Assurance Cases to Prevent Malicious Behaviour from Targeting Safety Vulnerabilities
V. Bandur, M. Lawford, S. Mosser, R. Paige, V. Pantelic, A. Wassyng
13:30 14:00
Constructing Security Cases Based on Formal Verification of Security Requirements in Alloy
M. Zeroual, B. Hamid, M. Adedjouma, J. Jaskolka
14:00 14:30
Assurance Cases for Timing Properties of Automotive TSN Networks
R. Kapinski, V. Pantelic, V. Bandur, A. Wassyng, M. Lawford
14:30 15:00
A Methodology for the Qualification of Operating Systems and Hypervisors for the deployment in IoT devices
I. Bicchierai, E. Schiavone, M.L. Itria, L. Falai, A. Bondavalli
15:00 15:30
Coffee Break
15:30 16:00
Toward Dependability Assurance Framework for Autonomous Systems
Y. Matsuno, T. Takai, M. Okada, T. Tsuchiya
16:00 16:45
Concluding Keynote – NASA’s Office of Safety and Mission Assurance (OSMA) Vision for an Objectives-Driven,
Risk-Informed, and Case-Assured Framework
A. Diventi
16:45
Conclusion
Important Dates
Paper submission: 15 May 2023 2 May 2023
Author notification: 25 May 2023
Camera-ready papers: 5 June 2023
Workshop: 19 September 2023
Call for Papers
Software plays a key role in high-risk systems, e.g., safety and security-critical systems. Assurance cases have been recommended or mandated for software-intensive systems in a number of domains, and are a promising way forward for assurance of autonomous systems. The goals of the 2023 Workshop on Assurance Cases for Softwareintensive Systems (ASSURE 2023) are to:
explore techniques for creating and assessing assurance cases for software-intensive systems, especially those enabling autonomy, including structured argumentation, graphical notations, narrative forms, etc. examine the role of assurance cases in the engineering lifecycle of critical systems; identify the dimensions of effective practice in the development and evaluation of assurance cases; investigate the relationship between dependability techniques and assurance cases; and, identify critical research directions, define a roadmap for future development, and formulate challenge problems. The workshop will be hybrid, and run on Central European Time (CET).
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. ASSURE 2023 additionally solicits papers that contain new, forward-looking, ideas with emerging results and concrete plans for comprehensive empirical validation, works-in-progress, as well as reflections that examine current research under a new lens, calling for future research directions. 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., autonomous and AI-based 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, the FDA guidance on the total product life cycle for infusion pumps and the OMG standard on argumentation (Structured Assurance Case Metamodel, SACM). Certification and Regulations: The role and usage of assurance cases in the certification of critical systems, as well as to show compliance to regulations. Empiricism Empirical assessment of the applicability of assurance cases in different domains and certification regimes. 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? Safety and security co-engineering: What are the impacts of security on safety, particularly safety cases and how can safety and security cases (e.g., as proposed in ISO 26262 and J3062 respectively) be reconciled? 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. More generally, the role of formal verification in the wider context of assurance. Application of formal techniques for the creation, analysis, reuse, and modularization of arguments. Exploration of relevant techniques for assurance cases for real-time, concurrent, and distributed systems. 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. Relations between different formalisms and paradigms of assurance and argumentation, such as Goal Structuring Notation, STAMP, IBIS, and goal-oriented formalisms such as KAOS. Submission
Submission Guidelines
Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program committee members, and accepted papers will be published in the SAFECOMP 2023 Workshop proceedings, to be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.
All papers must be original work not published, or in submission, elsewhere. Submission will be via EasyChair.
Papers should be submitted in PDF only. Please verify that papers can be reliably printed and viewed on screen before submission.
Papers should conform to the LNCS paper formatting guidelines.
Regular (research, or practice), Tools, and Experience papers can be up to 10 pages, including figures, references, and any appendices. Note that authors of accepted tools papers will be expected to give a demonstration of the tool(s) at the workshop. Papers describing the experience of an organization in developing assurance cases are particularly welcome.
Position papers, and papers presenting new ideas, works-in-progress, and emerging results can be 6 pages, including figures, references, and any appendices. Committees
Workshop Chairs
Ewen Denney, KBR / NASA Ames, USA Ibrahim Habli, University of York, UK Ganesh Pai, KBR / NASA Ames, USA Program Committee
Chih-Hong Cheng, Fraunhofer IKS and TU Munchen, Germany Alan Wassyng, McMaster University, Canada Philippa Ryan Conmy, University of York, England Irfan Sljivo, KBR/NASA Ames Research Center, USA Martin Feather, JPL, USA Yoshiki Kinoshita, Kanagawa University, Japan Kenji Taguchi, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Daniel Schneider, Fraunhofer, Germany Simon Burton, Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems, Germany Sean White, NHS, England Contact Us
8th International Workshop on Assurance Cases for Software-intensive Systems
Toulouse, France
September 19, 2023
If you have questions about paper topics, submission and/or about ASSURE 2023 in general, please contact the Workshop Organizers.
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