[agents] S4CIP 2016: call for papers

[Stefano Marrone]

Apologies for multiple posting

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                         CALL FOR PAPERS -- S4CIP 2016
1st International Workshop on Safety & Security aSSurance for Critical
Infrastructures Protection

Co-located with ANT 2016: 7th International Conference on Ambient
Systems, Networks and Technologies
         May 23–26, 2016, Madrid, Spain – (workshop date to be defined)
Web: http://www.dimat.unina2.it/marrone/s4cip16.html

# Important Dates
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Paper Submission: January 7, 2016
Notification of Acceptance: February 18, 2016
Camera-ready Paper: March 5, 2016
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# Objectives and scope
Modern society heavily relies on large, heterogeneous and complex
software-intensive systems to support all kinds of daily activities.
Services such as urban transportation, logistics, health-care, data
communication, railway, aerospace, and power distribution, to name a
few, are becoming more and more dependent on the availability of such
infrastructures. Any discontinuity of service may lead to serious
problems, from severe financial losses to fatalities or injuries; the
causes have different natures, either human errors, unexpected acts of
nature, or intentional attacks like sabotage. Safety and security (S&S)
assessments in critical infrastructures measure how these disruptions
are handled and what is the impact suffered by the critical
infrastructure under stress. These assessments are normally performed
using analytical or simulation-based techniques often addressing one
single specific aspect at a time rather than studying these
infrastructures in a holistic manner.

This workshop aims at providing a forum for people from academia and
industry to communicate their latest results on theoretical advances,
industrial case studies, practical scenarios, and lessons learned in the
assurance of S&S for critical infrastructures. Since the special
interest on S&S assurance, a special focus will be put on model-based
approaches; to the joint modelling and analysis of both cyber and
physical aspects of critical infrastructures; and to the definition of
unifying modelling and analysis methodologies. Research papers focused
on safety or security assurance only are also welcome.

Topics of interests are, but not limited to:

* Methods and Methodologies: Threat, Vulnerability and Risk
Assessment; Model-Based Penetration Testing; Security Metrics Definition and
Evaluation; RAMSS Analysis; Crisis and Emergency Management; Unifying
Modelling
Methodologies for Cyber and Physical Security; Resilience Engineering.
* Modelling: Stochastic Modeling; Formal Methods; Domain Specific
Languages and Model-Driven Engineering; Multi-Level Hierarchical
Modeling; Multi-Paradigm Modeling.
* Analysis: Quantitative & Qualitative Evaluation; Interconnections
Among Non-Functional Aspects (e.g., Reliability vs.
Safety, Security vs. Performance); Multisolution Processes; Resilience
Analysis.
* Domains: Cyber-Physical Systems; Critical Infrastructure Protection;
SCADA and Control Systems Security; Homeland Security; Transport,
Manufacturing, Energy, Health and Banking Applications; Computer
Networks and Cloud Infrastructures.

# Paper Submission

Accepted papers will be included in the ANT proceedings published by
Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series
on-line. At least one of the (co)author(s) of each accepted paper is
required to register and attend the conference to present the work. PDF
versions of papers should be submitted through EasyChair submission
system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=s4cip). The maximum
length is 6 pages formatted according to the guidelines of Procedia
Computer Science
(http://www.elsevier.com/journals/procedia-computer-science/1877-0509/guide-for-authors). 

Two additional pages may be added for a price. Please refer to the pages
of ANT 2016 for more detail on this.

Submitted papers will be reviewed by three members of Program Committee
(or their sub-reviewers) and selection of accepted papers will based on
relevance, quality and originality.

After the conference, extended versions of selected contributions will
be consider for publication in a Special Issue of the International
Journal of Critical Computer-Based Systems
(http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijccbs). Those papers will
undergo at least one other review round.

# PC Chairs
   Stefano Marrone, Seconda Universitá di Napoli (Italy)
   Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain)

# PC Members
   Simona Bernardi, Centro Universitario de la Defensa, Universidad de
Zaragoza (Spain)
   Tomas Bures, Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic)
   Xiaolin Chang, Beijing Jiaotong University (China)
   Francesco Flammini, AnsaldoSTS (Italy)
   Juan Felipe García, Research Institute of Applied Sciences in
Cybersecurity - University of León (Spain)
   Silvio La Porta, EMC2 (Ireland)
   Anne Koziolek, Institute for Program Structures and Data
Organization, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany)
   Stefano Marrone, Seconda Universitá di Napoli (Italy)
   Roberto Nardone, Universitá di Napoli "Federico II" (Italy)
   Giuseppe Primiero, Middlesex University (United Kingdom)
   Guillermo Rodriguez-Navas, Mälardalen University (Sweden)
   Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain)
   Kristin Rozier, NASA/Cincinnati University (USA)
   Kumiko Tadano, NEC Laboratory for Analysis of System Dependability
(Japan)
   Stefano Tonetta, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy)
   Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute (Italy)
   Valeria Vittorini, Università di Napoli "Federico II" (Italy)
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