? EDCC2021 - Program
 


17th European Dependable Computing Conference
13-16 September 2021
Munich, Germany

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Detailed program below.

All times are Munich local (CEST or UTC+2).
General rule: scientific talks are 15 minutes + 5 minutes discussion

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Monday, Sept. 13 2021
14:00 - 17:30 Workshop CARS
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14:00 - 17:30 Workshop DREAMS
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13:00 - 16:45 Workshop DSOGRI
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14:00 - 17:30 Workshop SERENE
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start 17:30 Social Networking
CARS workshop proceedings DREAMS, DSOGRI, SERENE workshop proceedings

Tuesday, Sept. 14 2021
14:00 - 14:15 Welcome to EDCC - Jeremie Guiochet, Karama Kanoun, Mario Trapp, Michael Paulitsch
14:15 - 15:00 Keynote Speech
Claus Bahlmann: The Power of AI & CV for Automation in Rail and its Challenges (chair: Mario Trapp)
15:00 - 15:15 Break
15:15 - 16:15 Session 1:
Distinguished papers(chair: Antonio Casimiro)
16:15 - 16:30 Break
16:30 - 17:30 Session 2:
Dependability Assessment (chair: Paolo Lollini)
17:30 - 17:45 Break
17:45 - 18:25 Session 3:
Fast Abstracts (chair: Barbara Gallina)

Wednesday, Sept. 15 2021
14:00 - 14:45 Keynote Speech
Arnaud Gotlieb: Leveraging AI methods for testing non-testable autonomous systems (chair: Jérémie Guiochet)
14:45 - 15:00 Break
15:00 - 16:00 Session 4
Verification (chair: Simon Burton)
16:00 - 16:15 Break
16:15 - 17:15 Session 5:
Security (chair: Michel Cuckier)
17:15 - 17:45 Break
17:45 - 18:45 Munich virtual city tour

Thursday, Sept. 16 2021
14:00 - 14:45 Keynote Speech
Fabian Hüger: Towards Safe AI for Automated Driving (chair: Mario Trapp)
14:45 - 15:00 Break
15:00 - 16:00 Session 6
AI & Dependability (chair: Elena Troubitsyna)
16:00 - 16:15 Break
16:15 - 17:15 Session 7:
Distributed Systems (chair: Rogério de Lemos)
17:15 - 17:30 Break
17:30 - 18:10 Session 8:
Student Session (chair: Marcello Cinque)
18:10 - 18:30 Closing of EDCC 2021. Announcement of EDCC 2022

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Monday, September 13th, 2021

CARS Workshop Program

14:00 - 14:10 Workshop Presentation - Rolf Johansson, Jean-Charles Fabre, and Mario Trapp

14:10 - 15:10 Session 1 - Safety Assurance (session chair: Mario Trapp)

  • Magnus Gyllenhammar, Carl Bergenhem and Fredrik Warg
    ADS Safety Assurance – Future Directions
  • Stefan Kaalen, Mattias Nyberg and Olle Mattsson
    Using State Transition Diagrams for Safety Quantification within the Automotive Industry
  • Rolf Johansson and Håkan Sivencrona
    Developing SEooC – Original Concepts and Implications when Extending to ADS

15:10 - 15:15 Break

15:15 - 16:15 Session 2 - Security and Safety (session chair: Rolf Johansson)

  • Maria Assunta Cappelli and Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo
    A semantic-based approach to analyze the link between security and safety for Internet of Vehicle (IoV) and Autonomous Vehicles (AVs)
  • Priyadarshini, Simon Greiner, Maike Massierer and Oum-El-Kheir Aktouf
    A Method for Identifying Inconsistencies between Functional Safety and Cybersecurity of Autonomous Vehicles
  • Lorenzo Rosa, Sagar Jha, Ken Birman
    DerechoDDS: Efficiently leveraging RDMA for fast and consistent data distribution

16:15 - 16:20 Break

16:20 - 17:20 Session 3 - Safe Autonomous Driving (session chair: Jean-Charles Fabre)

  • Florian Worter, Andreas Kreutz, Aniket Salvi, Marc Dreiser and Gereon Weiß
    Enhanced System Awareness as Basis for Resilience of Autonomous Vehicles
  • Magnus Gyllenhammar, Fredrik Sandblom, Mattias Brännström, Stig Ursing, Rolf Johansson and Fredrik Warg
    Minimal Risk Condition for Safety Assurance of Automated Driving Systems
  • Joao-Vitor Zacchi and Mario Trapp
    Towards Collaborative Perception in Automated Driving: Combining Vehicle and Infrastructure Perspectives

17:20 - 17:30 Wrap-up & closing remarks - Rolf Johansson, Jean-Charles Fabre, and Mario Trapp

start 17:30 - Social Networking

DREAMS Workshop Program

14:00 - 14:10 Introduction to DREAMS Workshop

14:10 - 14:45 Keynotes

  • Rasmus Adler
    Artificial Morality in Dynamic Risk Management

14:45 - 15:00 Break

15:00 - 16:00 Session 1 - Risk Assessment & Modular Safety Cases (session chair: Rasmus Adler)

  • Jan Reich, Marc Wellstein, Ioannis Sorokos, Fabian Oboril, Kay-Ulrich Scholl
    Towards a Software Component to Perform Situation-Aware Dynamic Risk Assessment for Autonomous Vehicles
  • Carsten Thomas, Elham Mirzaei, Björn Wudka, Lennart Siefke, Volker Sommer
    Service-Oriented Reconfiguration in Systems of Systems Assured by Dynamic Modular Safety Cases
  • Marta Grobelna
    Behavior Prediction of Cyber-Physical Systems for Dynamic Risk Assessment

16:00 - 16:15 Break

16:15 - 17:00 Session 2 - Cloud & AI (session chair: Rasmus Adler)

  • João Tomás, André Bento, João Soares, Luís Ribeiro, António Ferreira, Rita Carreira, Filipe Araujo, Raul Barbosa
    Autonomic service operation for cloud applications: Safe actuation and risk management
  • Prajit T Rajendran, Agnes Delaborde, Huascar Espinoza and Chokri Mraidha
    Evaluation of Human-in-the-Loop Learning based Autonomous Systems

17:00 - 17:30 Wrap-Up

start 17:30 - Social Networking

DSOGRI Workshop Program

13:00 - 13:10 Welcome and Introduction of Workshop - Rasmus Olsen

13:10 - 13:50 Keynote (session chair: Walter Schaffer)

  • Walter Schaffer, Salzburg Netz GmbH
    Digital Technologies for the Electricity Distribution Grid - Status and Evolution Paths

13:50 - 14:40 Session 1 (session chair: Nicola Nostro)

  • Kamal Shahid, Rasmus Olsen, Rolf Kirk
    Field Test Validation of Low Voltage Grid Applications in a Danish Setting
  • Christine Schäler, Kamal Shahid and Rasmus Løvenstein Olsen
    Reducing the Time to Diagnose Outages in Low Voltage Distribution Grids
  • Christine Schäler, Klaus Strasser, Robert Damböck, Hans-Peter Schwefel
    Increased renewable hosting capacity of a real low-voltage grid based on continuous measurements -- Results from an Actual PV Connection Request
  • Q&A and discussions (15 minutes)

14:40 - 15:00 Break

15:00 - 15:20 Invited Talk (session chair: Rasmus Olsen)

  • Nicole Diewald (Fronius International GmbH)
    Challenges and opportunities of digital technologies in a German regional distribution grid

15:20 - 16:20 Session 2 (session chair: Rasmus Olsen)

  • Yonghao Gui, Hans-Peter Schwefel, Jan Bendtsen, Jakob Stoustrup
    Power Loss Reduction in Low-voltage Distribution Grids via Coordinated Reactive Power Management of PV Inverters
  • Giovanni Paolo Sellitto, Tanja Pavleska, Massimiliano Masi, Helder Aranha
    Enabling a Zero Trust Architecture in Smart Grids through a Digital Twin
  • Christine Schäler, Serge Foko Fotso, Domagoj Drenjanac, Juan Felipe Chaves, Markus Duchon
    An ICT System To Assist Earth Fault Localization
  • Juan Felipe Chaves and Markus Duchon
    Signature Generation Using Parametrized Grid Models for Fault Localization in Simulink Called from a Web Rest API

16:20 - 16:35 Q&A and discussions (Invited Talk + Session 2) - Rasmus Olsen

16:35 - 16:45 Closing remarks - Rasmus Olsen

start 17:30 - Social Networking

SERENE Workshop Program

14:00 - 14:10 SERENE Workshop Presentation - Amleto Di Salle and Amel Bennaceur

14:10 - 15:00 Keynote Presentation

  • Prof. Bashar Nuseibeh
    Stories of socio-technical resilience

15:00 - 15:15 Break

15:15 - 17:30 Workshop Presentation

15:15 - 15:55 Session 1 - Resilient Cloud (session chair: Amleto Di Salle)

  • Jacopo Soldani, Antonio Brogi
    Automated Generation of Configurable Cloud-Native Chaos Testbeds
  • Szilárd Bozóki, Imre Kocsis, András Pataricza, Benedek Kovacs, Peter Suskovics
    The impact of rare container restarts on uninterrupted Kubernetes operations

15:55 - 16:15 Break

16:15 - 17:15 Session 2 - Resilience Architectures and Applications (session chair: Amel Bennaceur)

  • Farid Edrisi, Diego Perez-Palacin, Mauro Caporuscio, Margrethe Hallberg, Anton Johannesson, Claudia Kopf, Johanna Sigvardsson
    EA Blueprint: An Architectural Pattern for Resilient Digital Twin of the Organization
  • Mohammed El Amin Tebib, Pascal André, Oum-El-Kheir Aktouf, Mariem Graa
    Assisting Developers in Preventing Permissions Related Security Issues in Android Applications
  • Matthew Banton, Juliana Bowles, Agastya Silvina, Thais Webber
    Design of a Trustworthy and Resilient Data Sharing Platform for Healthcare Provision

17:15 - 17:30 Wrap-Up

start 17:30 - Social Networking

Tuesday, September 14th, 2021

14:00 - 14:15 Welcome to EDCC 2021 - Jeremie Guiochet, Karama Kanoun, Michael Paulitsch, Mario Trapp (session chair: Michael Paulitsch)

14:15 - 15:00 Keynote Speaker 1 (session chair: Mario Trapp)

  • Claus Bahlmann
    "The Power of AI & CV for Automation in Rail and its Challenges"

15:00 - 15:15 Break

15:15 - 16:15 Session 1 - Distinguished Papers (session chair: Antonio Casimiro)

  • José D'Abruzzo Pereira, João R Campos and Marco Vieira
    "Machine Learning to Combine Static Analysis Alerts with Software Metrics to Detect Security Vulnerabilities: An Empirical Study"
  • Marta Grobelna, Joao-Vitor Zacchi, Philipp Schleiß and Simon Burton
    "Dynamic Risk Management for Safely Automating Connected Driving Maneuvers"
  • Marcello Cinque, Raffaele Della Corte and Roberto Ruggiero
    "Preventing timing failures in mixed-criticality clouds with dynamic real-time containers"

16:15 - 16:30 Break

16:30 - 17:30 Session 2 - Dependability Assessment (session chair: Paolo Lollini)

  • Jacopo Parri, Samuele Sampietro and Enrico Vicario
    "FaultFlow: a tool supporting an MDE approach for Timed Failure Logic Analysis"
  • Dániel Szekeres, Kristóf Marussy and Istvan Majzik
    "Tensor-based reliability analysis of complex fault trees"
  • Jomar Domingos, Raul Barbosa and Henrique Madeira
    "Why is it so hard to predict computer systems failures?"

17:30 - 17:45 Break

17:45 - 18:25 Session 3 - Fast Abstracts (session chair: Barbara Gallina) - papers available on arxiv.org

  • Koichi Bando, Kenji Tanaka
    "Attempt to Predict Failure Case Classification in a Failure Database by using Neural Network Models"
  • Abdul Rahim Saleh, Gihad Al-Nemera, Saif Al-Otaibi, Rashid Tahir, Mohammed Alkhatib
    "Making Honey Files Sweeter: SentryFS - A Service-Oriented Ransomware Defense Solution"

Wednesday, September 15th, 2021

14:00 - 14:45 Keynote Speaker 2 (session chair: Jérémie Guiochet)

  • Arnaud Gotlieb
    "Leveraging AI methods for testing non-testable autonomous systems"

14:45 - 15:00 Break

15:00 - 16:00 Session 4 - Verification (session chair: Simon Burton)

  • Mehdi Maleki and Behrooz Sangchoolie
    "SUFI: A Simulation-based Fault Injection Tool for Safety Evaluation of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems Modelled in SUMO"
  • Daniel Loche, Alexis Generes, Michaël Lauer and Jean-Charles Fabre
    "Run-time Monitoring and Control for Temporal Fault Prevention in Mixed-criticality Systems"
  • Andreas Schmidt, Jan Reich and Ioannis Sorokos
    "Live in ConSerts: Model-Driven Runtime Safety Assurance on Microcontrollers, Edge, and Cloud"

16:00 - 16:15 Break

16:15 - 17:15 Session 5 - Security (session chair: Michel Cukier)

  • David Ferreira, João Paulo and Miguel Matos
    "ATOCS - Automatic Configuration of Secure Databases"
  • Simona Bernardi, Raúl Javierre, José Merseguer and Jose Ignacio Requeno
    "Detectors of Smart Grid Integrity Attacks: An Experimental Assessment"
  • Ricardo Czekster and Charles Morisset
    "BDMPathfinder: a tool for exploring attack paths in models defined by Boolean logic Driven Markov Processes"

17:15 - 17:45 Break

17:45 - 18:45 Munich virtual city tour Link

Thursday, September 16th, 2021

14:00 - 14:45 Keynote Speaker 3 (session chair: Mario Trapp)

  • Fabian Hüger
    "Towards Safe AI for Automated Driving"

14:45 - 15:00 Break

15:00 - 16:00 Session 6 - AI & Dependability (session chair: Elena Troubitsyna)

  • Nádia Medeiros, Naghmeh Ivaki, Pedro Nunes Da Costa and Marco Vieira
    "An Empirical Study on Software Metrics and Machine Learning to Identify Untrustworthy Code"
  • Michael Kläs, Rasmus Adler, Ioannis Sorokos, Lisa Joeckel and Jan Reich
    "Handling Uncertainties of Data-Driven Models in Compliance with Safety Constraints for Autonomous Behaviour"
  • Ahmad Adee, Roman Gansch and Peter Liggesmeyer
    "Systematic Modeling Approach for Environmental Perception Limitations in Automated Driving"

16:00 - 16:15 Break

16:15 - 17:15 Session 7 - Distributed Systems (session chair: Rogério de Lemos)

  • Oskar Lundström, Michel Raynal and Elad Michael Schiller
    "Self-stabilizing Multivalued Consensus in Asynchronous Crash-prone Systems"
  • Laura Lawniczak and Tobias Distler
    "Stream-based State-Machine Replication"
  • Michael Conard and Ali Ebnenasir
    "A Practical Self-Stabilizing Leader Election for Networks of Resource-Constrained IoT Devices"

17:15 - 17:30 Break

17:30 - 18:10 Session 8 - Student Session (session chair: Marcello Cinque) - papers available on arxiv.org

  • Muhammad Rusyadi Ramli, Fredrik Asplund, and Martin Toerngren
    "Towards Reference Architecture for Trustworthy Collaborative Cyber-Physical Systems: Reference Architecture as Boundary Objects"
  • Richárd Szabó and Vörös András
    "Towards formally analyzed Cyber-Physical Systems"
  • Nelson Makau Mutua and Petr Matousek
    "Outlier Detection in Smart Grid Communication"
  • Anamta Khan
    "Risk Assessment, Prediction, and Avoidance of Collision in Autonomous Drones"

18:10 - 18:30 Closing Session - EDCC 2022 Simona Bernardi, Karama Kanoun, Michael Paulitsch and Mario Trapp