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VERDI 2025 - 1st call for papers

Co-located with the 55th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)
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=== About VERDI ===

The VERDI workshop aims at serving as a discussion forum focused on the area of V&V as a means to guarantee dependability of complex, potentially automated/autonomous CPS. This workshop covers all aspects related to the dependability evaluation (with special focus on *safety* and *security*) of safety-critical CPS using techniques such as fault/attack-injection, runtime verification, formal verification, semi-formal analysis, simulation, and testing.


=== Scope ===

The fast increase and availability of communication bandwidth and computational power, as well as emerging computing paradigms such as Cloud Computing, Edge Computing, and Deep Learning, are pushing forward Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) research and development and establishing them as promising engineering solutions to address challenges arising in several domains. A key property that CPS are expected to exhibit is that of dependability. A key ingredient to ensure dependability is to successfully apply verification & validation (V&V) techniques and attest the desired levels of safety, security, and privacy. This is a challenging task that comes with significant time and cost implications for all the organizations involved in the build-up and evaluation of CPS. This challenge becomes even more critical with the incorporation of more and more Artificial Intelligence models into the operational capabilities of CPS for handling tasks that are increasingly complex.


=== Topics ===

The workshop covers all aspects related to the dependability evaluation (with special focus on safety and security) of safety-critical CPS using techniques such as fault/attack-injection, runtime verification, formal verification, semi-formal analysis, simulation, and testing. Topics include, but are not limited to:

- Safety/security risk assessment and assurance
- Analysis of threats and vulnerabilities
- In-the-loop and model-based analysis and assessment
- Architecture-driven assurance of safety and security
- Interplay between safety and security
- AI for safety/security and safety/security for AI
- Tools for validation and verification
- Verification and validation of LLM-enhanced systems
- Dependability analysis using simulation and experimental measurement
- Methods for qualification, assurance, and certification
- Test space exploration and test space pruning
- Distributed and real-time monitoring and control
- Analysis of probabilistic, real-time, or hybrid systems


=== Submissions ===

We welcome submissions in IEEE two-column conference style in two formats:

- Full papers - up to 8 pages
- Short papers - up to 4 pages

The page limit includes references. Accepted papers (full and short) will be published in the DSN supplemental volume and made available in IEEE Xplore.

Please use the EasyChair link below to submit your paper to VERDI 2025:

- https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=verdi2025

All submissions should be made in PDF and must adhere to the IEEE Computer Society 8.5"x11" two-column camera-ready format (using a 10-point font on 12- point single-spaced leading). Templates are available at https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html.

Reviewing is single-blind. The names and affiliations of authors must appear in the submitted papers. Submissions not respecting format requirements may be rejected without review.


=== Program Committee (to be finalized) ===

- José Bacelar Almeida, University of Minho, Portugal
- Magnus Almgren, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
- Cyrille Artho, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Thomas Bauer, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
- Marcello Cinque, University of Naples Federico II (UNINA), Italy
- Jose Luis de la Vara, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
- André De Matos Pedro, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
- Marie Farrell, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
- Guillaume Hiet, INRIA, France
- Paolo Lollini, University of Firenze, Italy
- Rosemary Monahan, Maynooth University, Ireland
- Jan Tobias Mühlberg, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- Nasser Nowdehi, Volvo AB, Sweden
- Peter Ölveczky, University of Oslo, Norway
- Karthik Pattabiraman, University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada
- Antonio Pecchia, University of Sannio, Italy
- Peter Popov, City University, United Kingdom
- Juan Carlos Ruiz, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
- Horst Schirmeier, TU Dresden, Germany
- Aleš Smrčka, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
- Volker Stolz, Høgskulen på Vestlandet, Norway
- Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, USA
- Stefano Tonetta, FBK-ICT, Italy
- Ahmet Yazici, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Turkey
- Saman Zonouz, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA


=== Organising committee ===

- David Pereira (david.pereira@vortex-colab.com), VORTEX CoLab, Portugal
- José Proença (jose.proenca@fc.up.pt), University of Porto, Portugal
- Behrooz Sangchoolie (behrooz.sangchoolie@ri.se), RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Sweden