CERTS 2020

Submission timeline

• 16 Apr 2020 Full paper
• 13 May 2020 Notification

• 7 Jul 2020 Conference opens

What to submit

Format

2-4 pages IEEE

Proceedings

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Satellite of ECRTS

Call for papers

• As first published CERTS-2020.txt · TXT · shown below

The call, as published

Reproduced verbatim from the organisers’ announcement. The conference’s own page is at www.ecrts.org/certs/.

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                          CALL FOR PAPERS

                              CERTS2020
            5th Workshop on Security and Dependability of
                 Critical Embedded Real-Time Systems

                    In conjunction with ECRTS2020
                  Modena, Italy, July 7, 2020

                    https://www.ecrts.org/certs/

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Welcome to the fifth round of the CERTS workshop! Following a successful series of workshops that co-locate with conferences in the fields of real-time and embedded systems, security, and dependability, we are now happy to be one of the workshops at ECRTS’20.

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Themes
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New reports about cyberattacks and vulnerabilities hit the press almost on a daily basis. Security experts believe that it is only a matter of time until we experience major cyberterrorism or cyberwarfare incidents. These could be carried out, for example, with “military-grade” malware that is increasingly accessible to malicious actors. Now, while such attacks on cyber-only systems can have devastating effects, really important threats lie in the vast amount of safety-critical and cyber-physical systems. These systems have real-time properties that open completely new threat surfaces. They typically operate for, or in close proximity to, humans. Examples include, but are not limited to, electric grids, manufacturing systems, avionics, automobiles, nuclear reactors, etc. Successful attacks on such systems can result in damages manifesting in the physical world – causing harm to humans, the environment or the systems themselves.

The complexity of cyber-physical systems (CPS)s requires a multi-disciplinary effort from experts in the fields of control, real-time, security, dependability and distributed systems, to name but a few. The goal of CERTS is to bring together researchers and engineers from these fields to discuss and promote new and exciting research ideas and initiatives, aimed at preventing and/or tolerating advanced and persistent threats in critical embedded real-time systems.

As such, CERTS seeks short and long scientific publications, experience reports, open problem reports, case studies and research ideas and initiatives in the intersection of real-time, security, dependability and distributed systems.

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Important dates
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Submission deadline: April 16, 2020
Notification: May 13, 2020
Camera ready deadline: May 28, 2020
Workshops: July 7, 2020


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Scope and topics of interest
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CERTS’20 is open to all topics at the intersection of security and dependability of embedded and real-time systems, with an emphasis on criticality and distribution. As such, areas of interest include but are not limited to the following topics:

* Threat assessments for potential attacks on real-time and cyber-physical systems,
* Security solutions and frameworks for such systems,
* Security and dependability of cyber-physical and other real-time and embedded systems,
* Vulnerabilities and protective measures of CPS infrastructure with safety critical requirements,
* Fault and intrusion tolerant distributed real-time systems,
* Confidentiality and privacy in real-time, embedded and cyber-physical systems,
* System architectures encompassing combinations of distribution, security, dependability and timeliness,
* Threats and vulnerabilities due to the use of artificial intelligence techniques.

Contribution formats include technical presentations of systems, system models and architectures, methods, tools, protocols and infrastructures to improve the dependability and security of real-time systems but also open problems and future challenges papers and experimental papers including experience reports and negative results.

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Committees
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Workshop Chairs

António Casimiro, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Jérémie Decouchant, SnT - University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Program Committee

Hans Reiser, Universität Passau, Germany
Rakesh Bobba, Oregon State University, US
Martin Gilje Jaatun, University of Stavanger, Norway
Gert Jervan, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Antônio Augusto Fröhlich, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Christian Esposito, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Elena Troubitsyna, KTH, Sweden
Sasikumar Punnekkat, Maelardalen University, Sweden
Mikael Asplund, Linköping University, Sweden
Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Marisol Garcia Valls, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
David Kozhaya, ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland



Steering Committee

Marcus Voelp, SnT – University of Luxembourg
Paulo Esteves-Verissimo, SnT – University of Luxembourg
Antonio Casimiro,  University of Lisboa
Rodolfo Pellizzoni, University of Waterloo