CERTS 2022

Submission timeline

• 3 Oct 2022 Full paper
• 10 Oct 2022 Notification

• 5 Dec 2022 Conference opens

What to submit

Format

2 pages IEEE

Proceedings

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Co-located with

Satellite of RTSS 2022

Authors of accepted papers will be requested to prepare a poster for the workshop.

Call for papers

• As first published CERTS-2022.txt · TXT · shown below
• As first published CERTS-2022.pdf · PDF

Posters, images and calls for participation are kept for the record but not reproduced here.

The call, as published

Reproduced verbatim from the organisers’ announcement. The conference’s own page is at certs2022.di.fc.ul.pt/.

Call for Papers
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CERTS 2022: 5th Workshop on Security and Dependability of Critical Embedded Real-Time Systems

December 5, 2022

https://certs2022.di.fc.ul.pt 

[Co-located with the IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, Houston, TX, USA]

*** Deadline: Oct. 3, 2022 (AOE) ***
Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=certs2022

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At their heart, many critical systems and system infrastructures are composed of real-time 
and embedded systems (RTES). For example, RTES control our power grids, maintain our smart 
homes, steer our vehicles or they host the software in road-side units that allow our vehicles 
to drive more safely and more efficiently. For sure, they will open the way to even more 
challenging applications, such as in autonomous and cooperating vehicles, terrestrial or 
aerial. However, most of these RTES are distributed and networked, which makes them vulnerable 
to accidental faults, targeted attacks, and advanced and persistent threats. Worse, compromise 
of a few nodes may bring down the entire system, in particular if attacks persist.

The grand challenges brought in by these scenarios include ensuring continuous unmaintained 
operation under faults and attacks. Systems may possibly utilize easier to upgrade computation 
resources in mobile phones or road side units whose trustworthiness needs to be established 
while the RTES approaches these units. And while attackers may try to compromise the RTES’ 
functionality or timing, we seek to protect the integrity and timeliness of systems and the 
privacy of their users. Mastering these challenges requires the expertise of several research 
areas, and so, the goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and engineers from 
the security and dependability, distributed systems and real-time communities, in order to 
discuss and promote new and exciting research ideas and initiatives, and to identify and discuss 
the challenges that lie ahead for such critical applications. Additionally, new artificial-
intelligence-based sensing, control, and decisions introduces new challenges in real-time 
guarantees, dependability and security threats.

CERTS’22 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from the security, dependability 
and real-time domain in a highly interactive workshop to discuss such challenges.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 
• Security and dependability of cyber-physical and other real-time and embedded systems,
• Vulnerabilities and protective measures of CPS infrastructure,
• Fault and intrusion tolerant distributed real-time systems,
• Confidentiality and privacy in real-time and embedded systems,
• System architectures encompassing combinations of distribution, security, dependability 
  and timeliness, and
• Threats and vulnerabilities due to the use of artificial intelligence techniques
• AI and ML in and for security and dependability in real-time systems

Submission format: extended abstracts (~2 pages) plus a poster (1 page). 

More details on the webpage: https://certs2022.di.fc.ul.pt
Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=certs2022

Technical Program Committee
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