CfP: FS-MCPS (2nd Workshop on Fail Safety in MCPS)

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Thu, 12/01/2016 - 1:56pm

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Call for Contributions:

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

Hannover, Germany, February 21, 2017 | http://www.sts.tuhh.de/aa4r/fs-mcps2017.html
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

All contributions should make clear reference to the issue of fail safety. Techniques and methods from other domains are explicitly solicited provided they can be applied to MCPS concerns.

Submission

Submissions should be 2-4 pages in LNI format and should be submitted
electronically via EasyChair:

Each submission will be reviewed by two to three members of the program committee, judging the paper on its topicality, scientific merits, and overall quality.

All accepted contributions will appear in electronic proceedings, which will be made available on the web. All authors keep their copyright.

Important Dates

Deadline for submission January 8, midnight, 2017
Notification January 13, 2017
Camera ready version January 20, 2017