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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">International conference on reliability, safety and security of railway systems: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">modelling, analysis, verification and certification - RSSRail 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">June 4-6, 2019, Lille, France<br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:blue"><a href="https://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/rssrail2019/">https://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/rssrail2019/</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Call for Participation
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">We would like to invite you to participate in the RSSRail 2019 conference aiming
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">to bring together researchers and engineers interested in building critical railway
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">applications and systems. This will be a working conference in which research <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">challenges and progress will be discussed and evaluated by both researchers and
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">engineers, focusing on their potential to be deployed in industrial settings. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Conference Chairs:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Simon Collart-Dutilleul, IFSTTAR, France <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Thierry Lecomte, ClearSy, France<br>
Alexander Romanovsky, Newcastle University, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">The conference programme includes three invited talks, eighteen technical papers
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">and four mini-tutorials.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">These are the invited talks:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">-Airy Magnien (UIC, France) RailTopoModel - a cornerstone to foster the federation of railway digital models<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">-Alessandro Fantechi (University of Florence, Italy). Connected or autonomous trains?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h3><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">-Cedric Blin (Ansaldo STS, France). Scientific and technological obstacles to achieve the autonomy<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">There will be tutorials delivered by RATP, SYSTRA, Altran and AdaCore.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">The conference proceedings are published by Springer in the LNCS series
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">(LNCS-11495).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">The conference programme - https://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/rssrail2019/programme/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">The registration site - https://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/rssrail2019/registration/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Earlier registration - by April 18, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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