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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">International conference on reliability, safety and security of railway systems: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">modelling, analysis, verification and certification - RSSRail 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">June 4-6, 2019, Lille, France<br>
<a href="https://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/rssrail2019/">https://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/rssrail2019/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Call for Papers</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">The railway industry faces increasing pressure to improve system safety, to decrease <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">production costs and time to market, to reduce carbon emissions and running costs, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">and to increase the capacity of the railway. Railway systems are now being integrated <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">into larger multi-transport networks. Such systems require an even higher degree of <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">automation at all levels of operation. These trends dramatically increase the complexity <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">of railway applications and pose new challenges in developing novel methods of <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">modelling, analysis, verification and validation to ensure their reliability, safety and <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">security, as well as in supporting novel mechanisms and procedures to help make <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">the case that development processes meet the mandated standards. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><br>
The RSSRail 2019 conference will build on the success of RSSRail 2016 (June 28-30, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">2016, Paris, France) and RSSRail 2017 (November 14-16, 2017, Pistoia, Italy), and <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">will contribute to a range of key objectives. There is a pressing demand to bring <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">together researchers and developers working on railway system reliability, security <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">and safety to discuss how all of these requirements can be met in an <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">integrated way. It is also vital to ensure that advances in research (in both <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">academia and industry) are driven by the real industrial needs. This will help <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">ensure that such advances are followed by effective industrial deployment. Another <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">particularly important objective is to integrate advances in research into the current <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">development processes, and make them usable and scalable. Finally, a key goal <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">is to develop advanced methods and tools that can ensure that the systems meet <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">the requirements imposed by the regulatory standards and help in building <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">the supportive arguments.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><br>
Development of the complex railway systems of the future requires integrated <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">environments and methods that support different abstraction levels and different <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">views, including systems architecture, safety analysis, security analysis, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">verification tools and methods.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><br>
The conference aims to bring together researchers and engineers interested in building <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">critical railway applications and systems. This will be a working conference in which <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">research challenges and progress will be discussed and evaluated by both researchers <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">and engineers, focusing on their potential to be deployed in industrial settings. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Topics of particular interest include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">· Safety in development processes and safety management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">· Combined approaches to safety and security<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">· System and software safety analysis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">· Formal modelling and verification techniques<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">· System reliability<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">· Validation according to the standards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">· Safety and security argumentation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">· Fault and intrusion modelling and analysis <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">· Evaluation of system capacity, energy consumption, cost and their interplay<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">· Tool and model integration, tool chains<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">· Domain-specific languages and modelling frameworks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">· Model reuse for reliability, safety and security <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">· Modelling for maintenance strategy engineering.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">As part of the conference we are planning to organise a dedicated session on Railways <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">System and Infrastructure Advance Modelling. This session will be run in a close <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">coordination with Railenium and focus on the topics related to component-based railway <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">infrastructure modelling, model-based railway infrastructure modelling, exchange formats <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">for railway infrastructures, ontologies of railway systems and model-based railway <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">systems modelling.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS series.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">We can accept three types of submission:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">· Research papers – not more than 16 pages in length<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">· Industrial experience reports – not more than 10 pages in length<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">· PhD student papers – not more than 10 pages in length.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">The conference submission site is: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rssrail2019">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rssrail2019</a><br>
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Submissions must be formatted in the Springer LNCS format<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">[ for details see <a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0">www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0</a> ].<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">The important dates:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">January 5, 2019 – abstract submission deadline<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">January 11, 2019 – paper submission deadline<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">February 20, 2019 – notification<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">March 20, 2019 – camera-ready papers submitted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Conference Chairs:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Simon Collart-Dutilleul, IFSTTAR, France <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Thierry Lecomte, ClearSy, France<br>
Alexander Romanovsky, Newcastle University, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">PC members:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Marc Antoni, UIC, France<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Carlo Becheri, Alstom, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Fabien Belmonte, Alstom, France<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">David Bonvoisin, RATP, France <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Jens Braband, Siemens AG, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Tom Chothia, University of Birmingham, UK <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Fares Chucri, SNCF, France <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Alessandro Fantechi, University of Florence, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Francesco Flammini, Linnaeus University, Sweden <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Barbara Gallina, Mälardalen University, Sweden<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Frank Golatowski, Univ. of Rostock, Germany <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Anne Haxthausen, Technical Univ. of Denmark, Denmark<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Alexei Iliasov, Newcastle University, UK <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Chris Johnson, University of Glasgow, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Hironobu Kuruma, Hitachi, Japan <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Michael Leuschel, Univ. of Düsseldorf, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Gianluca Mando, Thales, Italy <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Jan Peleska, Verified Systems Int., Germany <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Peter Popov, City University, UK <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Etienne Prun, ClearSy, France<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Klaus Reichl, Thales, Austria <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Aryldo Russo, CERTIFER, France<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Colin Snook, University of Southampton, UK <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Mariëlle Stoelinga, Univ. of Twente&Radboud Univ. Nijmegen, Netherlands <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Kenji Taguchi, CAV Technologies Co., Ltd, Japan <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Stefano Tonetta, FBK-irst, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Laurent Voisin, Systerel, France <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Kirsten Winter, University of Queensland, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Conference Organisation and Finance Chair:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Joan Atkinson, Newcastle University, UK < <a href="mailto:joan.atkinson@newcastle.ac.uk">joan.atkinson@newcastle.ac.uk</a>><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Local Organisation Chair:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Nathalie Botticchio, IFSTTAR, France<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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