FS-MCPS 2017

Call for Contributions:

3nd Workshop on Fail Safety in Medical Cyber-Physical Systems (FS-MCPS)

Workshop at "Software Engineering 2017

Goals

Medical cyber-physical systems (MCPSs) extend the notion of conventional medical devices to more complex technical systems in close connection to humans, e.g., acquiring sensor data, controlling a treatment, or monitoring recovery. Typically, these systems include the patient in the loop and require a high degree of dependability and fail safety. One challenge is the complex nature of physiological processes, which are often patient-specific and less deterministic than in, e.g., engineering scenarios. Another challenge is the growing complexity of medical systems and devices themselves. Hence, fail safety of a MCPS cannot be achieved within a single component or layer --- neither the software layer nor any other isolated layer ---, but requires an interdisciplinary effort addressing different aspects, including patient modeling, hardware, software, and communication. The workshop will cover these aspects, discuss software-engineering issues of MCPS, and offer the possibility for an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and techniques.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of MPCS and to gain a better understanding of the issues of fail safety as well as theories and technologies that may be employed for addressing it.

Contributions and topics

We welcome three types of contributions

• extended abstracts (research)
• experience reports
• position papers

Following the philosophy of the main conference, contributions do not have to present original work but may be summaries of previously published results.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• theoretical foundations of fail safety in MCPS
• technologies (medical implants, biosensors, harvesters)
• modeling (of patients, environment, resources)
• design methodologies and interface specifications
• platforms, architectures, components
• network protocols, resource management
• certification and regulatory frameworks
• time-critical and real-time systems
• applications of MCPS
• evaluation and testing of MCPS
• fail-safe integration and interoperability

Committee

PC Chairs

Alexander Schlaefer (Hamburg University of Technology)
Sibylle Schupp (Hamburg University of Technology)
Andre Stollenwerk (RWTH Aachen University)

Program Committee

Sabine Glesner (TU Berlin)
Christian Hansen (University of Magdeburg)
Michaela Huhn (Ostfalia)
Bernhard Rumpe (RWTH Aachen)
Stefan Schlichting (Dragerwerk AG)
Annette Stumpel (University of Lubeck)