ASCoMS 2014
3rd Workshop on Architecting Safety in Collaborative Mobile Systems (ASCoMS)
The 3rd ASCoMS workshop takes place at SAFECOMP 2014 - with the purpose to gather industrial and academic experts with interests in architecting safety in collaborative mobile systems.
The use of autonomous mobile systems, like unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or smart cars, is desirable for many reasons. For instance, UAVs can be used for environmental surveillance and control, and smart vehicles coordinating their behaviours can be used to increase traffic throughput and improve mobility without the need of using more space for the respective traffic infrastructures. New and improved sensor and communication technologies creates new opportunities for designing embedded and mobile systems that are able to interact with their environment, and exhibit "smart" and autonomous behaviour. Furthermore, collaboration between mobile entities can also be envisaged for improving their functionality as well as performance.
However, a fundamental challenge is to ensure that safety requirements are satisfied despite the increased system complexity and the uncertainties introduced by the operation in open and not well defined environments. In general, the problem might be equated in terms of achieving system safety for potentially mass consumer products. From an application perspective, the workshop focuses on distributed and cooperative safety-critical systems. So far, the existing solutions are still insufficient or inadequate and therefore these systems are not allowed to operate in the public air space or on public roads because the risk of causing severe damage or even threaten human lives cannot be excluded with sufficient certainty. This justifies the importance of research in this area, and explains the interest on the subject by the academia and the industry.
The workshop has a main emphasis on architectural approaches towards safety, recognizing that the size and capabilities of current and future systems will require appropriate structuring and abstractions in terms of modularization, separation of concerns, balancing of properties, and supporting interactions between components/subsystems/systems. This becomes especially challenging for safety critical highly dynamic systems such as collaborative mobile systems, truly representing cyber-physical systems of systems.
Contributions related to the workshop theme:
Architectural design for safety-critical systems
Aspects of functional safety
Reliable perception of the environment
Coordination and adaptation strategies for safety-critical systems
Safety in automotive and avionic applications
System safety guidelines and standards
Safety, security and robustness/stabilization
Systems engineering for collaborative mobile systems
Industrial experiences and best practices relevant for architecting safety
Program Committee
Jorg Kaiser
OVGU, Germany
Rolf Johansson
SP, Sweden
Luis Almeida
FEUP, Portugal
Fredrik Asplund
KTH, Sweden
Karl Goeschka
TUWIEN, Austria
Mattias Nyberg
Scania and KTH, Sweden
Marc-Olivier Killijian
Laas, France
Per Johannessen
Volvo AB, Sweden
Teruo Higashino
Osaka University, Japan
Abele Andreas
Bosch, Germany
Vana Kalogeraki
Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Henrik Lonn
Volvo AB, Sweden
Erwin Schoitsch
AIT, Austria
Antonio Casimiro
FCUL, Portugal
Elad Michael Schiller, publicity chair
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Renato Librino, co-chair
4S s.r.l, Italy
Martin Torngren, co-chair
KTH, Sweden