CREST 2017

2nd International Workshop on Causal Reasoning for Embedded and Safety-critical Systems Technologies (CREST 2017)

A satellite event of ETAPS 2017

Today's IT systems, and the interactions between them, become increasingly complex. Power grid blackouts, airplane crashes, failures of medical devices and malfunctioning automotive systems are just a few examples of incidents that affect system safety. They are often due to component failures and unexpected interactions of subsystems under conditions that have not been anticipated during system design and testing. The failure of one component may entail a cascade of failures in other components; several components may also fail independently. In the security domain, localizing instructions and tracking agents responsible for information leakage and other system attacks is a central problem. Determining the root cause(s) of a system-level failure and elucidating the exact scenario that led to the failure is today a complex and tedious task that requires significant expertise. Formal approaches for automated causality analysis, fault localization, explanation of events, accountability and blaming have been proposed independently by several communities - in particular, AI, concurrency, model-based diagnosis, software engineering, security engineering and formal methods. Work on these topics has significantly gained speed during the last years. The goals of this workshop are to bring together and foster exchange between researchers from the different communities, and to present and discuss recent advances and new ideas in the field. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• foundation of causal reasoning about systems in the philosophy of sciences
• languages and logics for causal specification and causal analysis
• definitions of causality and explanation
• causality analysis on models, programs, and/or traces
• fault localization
• causal reasoning in security engineering
• causality in accident analysis, safety cases and certification
• fault ascription and blaming
• accountability
• applications, implementations, tools and case studies of the above

Keynotes

• Samantha Kleinberg, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA NN

Important Dates

• abstracts due: January 27, 2017
• papers due: February 3, 2017
• notification: March 10, 2017
• papers for informal participant's proceedings due: March 24, 2017 workshop date: April 29, 2017 papers for post-workshop EPTCS proceedings due: June 9, 2017

Program Committee

• Georgiana Caltais, University of Konstanz, Germany
• Hana Chockler, King's College London, UK
• Anupam Datta, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Gorschwin Fey, University of Bremen, Germany
• Gregor Goessler, Inria, France
• Alex Groce, Oregon State University, USA (co-chair)
• Sylvain Halle, Universite du Quebec a Chicoutimi, Canada
• Joseph Halpern, Cornell University, USA
• Jeff Huang, Texas A&M University, USA
• Samantha Kleinberg, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
• Peter Ladkin, University of Bielefeld, Germany
• Stefan Leue, University of Konstanz, Germany (co-chair)
• Peter Lucas, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
• Mohammad Reza Mousavi, Halmstad University, Sweden
• Andy Podgurski, Case Western Reserve University, USA
• Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania, USA
• Joost Vennekens, K.U. Leuven, Belgium
• Willem Visser, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
• Georg Weissenbacher, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
• Thomas Wies, New York University, USA

Organizers

• Alex Groce, Oregon State University, USA
• Stefan Leue, University of Konstanz, Germany

The organizers can be reached via email address crest2017 "at" easychair.org.