The design of modern Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) comprises systems of systems that include several heterogeneous components. Manufacturers of such systems must address several networking, dynamic and uncertain environmental constraints. CPSs are often safety-critical, i.e., any malfunctioning of the system may seriously harm its user. However, the involved communicating peripherals also necessitate the consideration of security issues so that the proper functioning of a CPS is not affected by cyber-security threats. 

The engineering of a CPS requires high safety integrity levels and strong assurances for their fitness for public use against safety hazards and cyber-security threats. Considering safety and security requirements in the design of CPS increases their reliability, confidentiality, integrity, and availability. This also ensures the continuous provision and protection of essential services and assets. However, modern systems and software engineering methods and approaches are often not adequate for the high-confidence design and manufacturing of CPSs. This is especially true within the era of artificial intelligence and quantum computing.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full/ Regular paper submissions about original work not exceeding 10 pages.
• Short paper submissions on recent or ongoing work on relevant topics and ideas not exceeding 5 pages.

Papers submission will be managed using www.easychair.org. If you have used this system previously for other conferences, you can use the same username and password. If this is the first time you are using EasyChair, you will need to register for an account by clicking the "I have no EasyChair account" button. Upon completion of registration, you will get a notification email from the system and you are ready for submitting your paper. You can upload and re-upload the paper to the system by the submission due date. Online papers submission https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwcfs2024.

List of Topics

• Functional safety, cyber-security, and their interplayModel-driven engineering
• Privacy and confidentiality
• Specification, verification, and validation
• System architecture, design, decisions, and tradeoffs, e.g., correct-by-design or privacy-by-design
• Security, safety, and CPSs in the era of artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, and quantum computing
• Regulation, homologation, legalization, and certification
• Case studies, experience reports, benchmarking, and best practices
• Healthcare, transportation, aerospace, energy, robotics, finance, business, etc

Committees

Organizing Committee

• Atif Mashkoor, LIT Secure & Correct Systems Lab, Austria
• Johannes Sametinger, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Program committee

• Please refer to our website https://www.dexa.org/iwcfs2024

Publication

All accepted IWCFS 2024 papers will be published by Springer in their Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS). CCIS volumes are indexed in Scopus; EI Engineering Index; Google Scholar; DBLP; etc. and submitted for indexing in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI), part of Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science. In addition, the best papers of the workshop, after further revisions and independent reviews, will be considered for publication in a special issue of Wiley Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (IF 1.972).

Venue

The conference will be held in University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to dexa@iiwas.org