SAFECOMP 2010
The 29th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security
14 - 17 September 2010
Schoenbrunn Palace Conference Centre, Vienna, Austria
Safecomp 2010 Key Theme: Critical Embedded Systems Challenges and Risks
After 31 years of SAFECOMP, the emphasis of the 29th event is to take a look at critical embedded systems which are already almost omnipresent, communicating and cooperating, interacting with each other, humans and environment. Their impact on our life, risks and challenges are often not well understood (underestimated or exaggerated). The primary issue is to cope with complexity and new paradigms of failure modes and resource management, due to shrinking feature size, multi-core systems on chip and management of multiple variants while maintaining dependability properties and robustness of systems.
The topic includes purely scientific/technical as well as societal aspects. It concerns (explicitly used or hidden) devices, services, infrastructures, machines, transport systems, robots etc. It also involves raising awareness for rare circumstances under which, because of an unlucky combination of conditions, a normally non-critical system may endanger life, as may be the case when relying too much on past correct operation. Therefore, a holistic view is required. The conference will cover research in all related areas, industrial experience and practice, reports from interesting R&D projects, studies, standardization issues, assessment, evaluation and certification of systems, tools and utilities. Different application domains as well as generic, cross domain issues may be covered.
Conference Secretariat
Secretariat SAFECOMP 2010
Austrian Computer Society (OCG)
Dampfschiffstrasse 4
1030 Vienna, Austria
Email: ocg@ocg.at
Fax: ++43 (0)1 512 02 35 – 9
Tel. ++43 (0)1 512 02 35 - 23
Conference Chair: erwin.schoitsch@ait.ac.at