International Workshop on Automobile Software Security and Safety (A3S’19, https://qrs19.techconf.org/workshops/a3s)
Co-located with The 19th International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security (QRS 2019, https://qrs19.techconf.org)
July 22-26
Sofia, Bulgaria
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The last decade has witnessed an increased level of sophistication within embedded software running on different types of automobiles. Automobiles are classified as critical systems, as their failure could directly impact human safety or lead to loss of valuable assets, making their security and safety a major concern for users and designers. The automobiles or vehicles are primarily software controlled and communicate with each other, the cloud, and the transportation infrastructure via wireless networks. Given that, the underlying software that controls vehicles’ operations and the integrated communication technologies must be safe and secure.

The A3S workshop seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners working toward the improvement of security and safety of software solutions in the automobile sector by discussing recent developments and current challenges and exchanging their research findings and experiences. The workshop welcomes papers and presentations in the field of automobile software, dealing with vehicle software security and safety.

The list of topics includes, but is not limited to:

- Automobile software vulnerability assessment, risk analysis, attack and threat models
- Architecture, design, and implementation of secure and safe automobile software
- Design of secure information systems and software applications for vehicles
- Vehicle operating system security
- Availability, reliability, and fault tolerance in automobile software
- Automobile software testing, verification, and validation
- Automobile software security and safety evaluation methodologies and metrics
- Automobile software penetration testing, forensics, events monitoring and auditing
- Automobile software standardization, certification, and interoperability
- Secure intra-vehicle, vehicle-to-vehicle, and other vehicular network communications
- Artificial Intelligence and machine learning for connected and autonomous vehicles
- Practical experiences, empirical studies, and testbeds for automobile software
- Industrial experiences and best practices for automobile software development

Important Dates:

Submission of papers due: May 1, 2019
Author notification: May 25, 2019
Camera-ready papers due: June 10, 2019
Workshop dates: July 22-26, 2019

More information can be found here: https://qrs19.techconf.org/workshops/a3s
Questions regarding the workshop should be emailed to thalabi@cs.queensu.ca