International conference on reliability, safety and security of railway systems:  

modelling, analysis, verification and certification - RSSRail 2017

November 14-16, 2017, Pistoia, Italy
https://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/rssrail/

Call for Papers

The railway industry is facing an increasing pressure to improve system safety, 

to decrease the production cost  and time to market, to reduce the carbon emission 

and running cost, and to improve the system capacity.  Railway systems are now 

being integrated into larger multi-transport networks. Such systems require an even  

higher degree of automation at all levels of operation. These trends dramatically 

increase the complexity of railway applications and pose new challenges in developing  

novel methods of modelling, analysis, verification and validation to ensure their 

reliability, safety and security, as well as in supporting novel mechanisms and 

procedures to help argue that the development processes are meeting the standards. 

Following the success of RSSRail 2016 held on June 28-30, 2016 in Paris, this conference 

will contribute to a range of key objectives. There is a pressing demand to bring 

together researchers and developers working on railway system reliability, security and safety 

to discuss how these requirements can be met in an integrated way. It is also vital to ensure 

that all advances in research (in both  academia and industry) are driven by the real industrial

needs.  This will help ensure that such advances are followed by industrial deployment.  

Another particularly important objective is to integrate advances in research into the current 

development processes,  and make them usable and scalable. Finally, a key goal is 

developing advanced methods and tools that would ensure that the systems meet 

the requirements imposed by the standards and help in building the arguments.

Development of complex railway systems of the future requires integrated environments 

and methods that support different abstraction levels and different views, including systems 

architecture, safety analysis, security analysis, verification tools and methods.

The conference aims to bring together researchers and engineers interested in building 

critical railway applications and systems. This will be a working conference in which 

research advances will be discussed and evaluated by both researchers and engineers 

focusing on their potential to be deployed in industrial settings. 

The topics of particular interest include
* Safety in development processes and safety management
* Combined approaches to safety and security
* System and software safety analysis 
* Formal modelling and verification techniques
* System reliability
* Validation according to the standards
* Safety and security argumentation
* Fault and intrusion modelling and analysis 
* Evaluation of system capacity, energy consumption, cost and their interplay
* Tool and model integration, toolchains
* Domain-specific languages and modelling frameworks
* Model reuse for reliability, safety and security 

* Modelling for maintenance strategy engineering.

We are interested in the submissions of three types:
* Research papers
* Industrial experience reports
* PhD student papers.

The conference submission site is 

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rssrail2017

The research papers will be no more than 16 pages long, the industrial experience 

reports and the PhD student papers – no more than 10 pages long. The submissions 

will be formatted in the Springer LNCS format (see 

www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS series.

The important dates:
- June 1, 2017 - abstract submission

- June 8, 2017 - paper submission deadline
- July 8, 2017 - notification
- August 18, 2017 - camera-ready papers submitted

Conference Chairs:
Alessandro Fantechi, University of Firenze, Italy