Workshop CARS@EDCC2010 - Call for Contributions

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Workshop CARS 2010 Critical Automotive applications: Robustness and Safety April 27, 2010 http://www.laas.fr/CARS@EDCC2010 Organized within the framework of the      8th European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC-2010)                Valencia, Spain, April 28-30, 2010                  http://edcc.dependability.org/ Submission deadline of workshop papers: Jan. 20, 2010 Workshop objectives The increasing range and complexity of automotive applications, the need to master development costs using off-the-shelf components, the coexistence of critical and non-critical applications, and the emergence of new architectural paradigms may have a strong impact on dependability of automotive embedded systems. This situation calls for novel design and validation methods, but also tools to improve the robustness of automotive systems and their safety properties. The evolution of automotive systems is currently supported by standards (like AUTOSAR and ISO26262) that respectively advocate a software architecture but also recommend specific development approaches. The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the design, implementation and operation of critical automotive applications and systems. Particular emphasis will be put on dependability issues, software engineering for robustness, security and safety issues, real-time embedded systems technologies, architectural solutions and development processes for dependable automotive embedded systems. Topics of interest for the workshop include (but are not limited to): * Architectures for robust automotive application. * Hardware mechanisms for dependable automotive systems. * Real-time operating systems, WCET estimation, etc. * Coordination, communication, networking and distributed control architectures. * Analysis and verification techniques for automotive systems. * Middleware and tool support for dependable embedded automotive systems. * Safety architectures, processes, analyses, and standards. * Failure data collection and analysis, diagnosis approaches. * Practical experience and case studies on critical applications. * Modelling and code generation techniques. Primary application areas of interest to the workshop focus on the automotive domain. However, methods and techniques developed in other fields of application of critical embedded systems (e.g., avionics, railways, space, etc.) can be of interest for the automotive domain. Organizers Jean-Charles Fabre (LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France) Olivier Guetta (Renault TechnoCentre, Paris, France) Mario Trapp (Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern, Germany) The organizers can be contacted at: cars-at-edcc2010[at]laas.fr Program committee Jean Arlat, LAAS-CNRS, France Andrea Bondavalli, Univ. of Florence, Italy Vincent David, CEA-LIST, France Luc Fougerousse, Valeo, France Per Johannessen, Volvo Car Corporation, Sweden Christoph Jung, BMW, Germany Johan Karlson, Chalmers Univ., Sweden Philip Koopman, Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA Hermann Kopetz, TU Vienna, Austria Antonio Kung, Trialog-Paris, France Nils Oppermann, Audi Electronics Venture, Germany Massimo Osella, General Motors R&D, USA François Ougier, Renault SAS, France Yiannis Papadopoulos, Univ. of Hull, UK Juan-Carlos Ruiz-Garcia, Univ. Politécnica de Valencia, Spain Jürgen Schwarz, Daimler AG, Germany Françoise Simonot, INRIA, France Yvon Trinquet, IRCCYN, France Submission information To contribute to the workshop, authors are invited to submit a position paper of no more than 4 pages (10-pt font, single space, double-column format, IEEE styles). The submission of contributions can be made through the CARS workshop page: http://www.laas.fr/CARS@EDCC2010. The program committee will carefully review each position paper. The review will focus not only on the paper's quality but also on its novelty and ability to engender fruitful discussions. All authors of accepted position papers are invited to attend the workshop. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop.  The accepted papers will be published in a workshop volume at ACM Digital Library with an ISBN. Important dates Workshop papers submission deadline:  20 January 2010 Workshop papers acceptance: 5 March 2010 Camera ready workshop papers: 26 March 2010 EDCC Workshops date: 27 April 2010 Sponsors This workshop will be partially supported by the research project SCARLET, funded by ANR (the French National Research Agency, ground transportation research program PREDIT).