The IEEE International Symposium on High Assurance Systems Engineering is a forum for discussion of systems and software engineering approaches to achieving high assurance systems. The focus is on integrated approaches for assuring reliability, availability, integrity, privacy, confidentiality, safety, and real-time performance of complex systems; and methods for assessing assurance levels of these systems to a high degree of confidence. Technical and experience papers on algorithms, policies, middleware, tools, and models for high assurance systems development, verification and validation, and assessment are welcome.

Topics of interest for the symposium include, but are not limited to:

Design and development of highly reliable, survivable, secure, safe, and time-assured systems

Integrated system reliability, availability, security, safety, and timing analysis and evaluation methods

Policies for reliability, safety, security, integrity, privacy, and confidentiality of high assurance systems

Formal specification, validation, testing, and model checking for high assurance systems

High assurance software architectures and design

Transformation-based and evolutionary-based system development

Reconfigurable system design for evolving high assurance requirements

Dynamic monitoring and adaptation for run-time assurance

High assurance information/knowledge systems and data grids

High assurance embedded systems, ubiquitous systems, and sensor networks

High assurance web services

Extending web service specifications for reliability, safety, security, privacy and other QoS properties

Assurance techniques for service-oriented systems

Case studies, experiments, and tools for high assurance systems