The Eleventh International Conference on Performance, Safety and Robustness in Complex Systems and Applications

PESARO 2021


Engineering & Computer Science (General)



INVITATION:



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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate

groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original

scientific results to:

- PESARO 2021, The Eleventh International Conference on Performance,

Safety and Robustness in Complex Systems and Applications

PESARO 2021 is scheduled to be April 18 - 22, 2021 in Porto, Portugal

under the NexComm 2021 umbrella.

The submission deadline is January 19, 2021.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article

versions to one of the IARIA Journals: https://www.iariajournals.org

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============== PESARO 2021 | Call for Papers ===============



CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS



PESARO 2021, The Eleventh International Conference on Performance,

Safety and Robustness in Complex Systems and Applications



General page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2021/PESARO21.html



Submission page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2021/SubmitPESARO21.html



Event schedule: April 18 - 22, 2021



Contributions:

- regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]

- short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]

- ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

- extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

- posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

- posters:  slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]

- presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]

- demos: two pages [posted at www.iaria.org]



Submission deadline: January 19, 2021



Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA

Journals:  https://www.iariajournals.org

Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.:

https://www.proceedings.com/9769.html

Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library:

https://www.thinkmind.org



The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of

concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations,

running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors

are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under

review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not

limited to, topic areas.



All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in

terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress,

Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.



Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules:

https://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html



PESARO 2021 Topics (for topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)



Call for Papers: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2021/CfPPESARO21.html



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PESARO 2021 Tracks (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)



Fundamentals and metrics

Fundamentals on system safety; Robustness technology and evaluation;

Metrics for risk assessment; Performance-oriented design;

Safety-oriented system design; Performance metrics and dependable

metrics; Active and passive safety; Performance warning delay



Methodologies, techniques and algorithms

Systems modeling; Hazard analysis; System measurement and monitoring;

Evaluation of safety data, and mitigation and prevention strategies;

Model verification and validation; Fault-tolerant systems; Simulation,

statistical analysis, and experimental design analysis; Language and

run-time systems



Systems performance and performance evaluation

Performance basics; Performance-oriented design;  Performance

methodology techniques and algorithms for analytic modeling; System

measurement and monitoring; Model verification and validation,

simulation, statistical analysis;  Experimental design, and reliability

analysis; Performance evaluation of various technologies and systems

(mobile devices and wireless networks, distributed and parallel systems,

file and storage systems, power management, database systems, computer

networks and architectures, operating systems, fault-tolerant systems,

and language and runtime systems). Performance in dedicated service

systems (Web services, Financial services, Healthcare and

pharmaceuticals, Telecommunications services, Industrial Manufacturing,

Education services, Transportation services, Energy and utilities)



Safety in transportation systems

Advanced vehicle safety systems;  Predictive computation for driver

assistance; Advanced driver assistance systems; Vision-based driver

assistance systems; Estimation of driver intention; Detecting driver

distraction; Automatic emergency steering systems; Systems for

positioning multiple maps for self-driving car's autonomous navigation;

Models for selecting an evacuation route; Safety in electric vehicles;

Safety of traction power supply system in electrified railways;

Automation systems mainline railways; Emergency vehicle management; 

Vulnerability of ambulance response; Intelligent logistics and

multimodal transport systems; Connected vehicle wireless systems; Design

of railway freight business process; Traffic monitoring and redirecting

systems;  Monitoring heavy goods vehicles; Speed transition zone control

in small, rural communities; Spatial and temporal analysis of planned

road Infrastructure and traffic in large cities; Transit signal priority

strategies; Rural school bus routing safety problem; Large-scale dynamic

traffic control systems; Development and analysis of bicycle collision

avoidance systems; Dynamic car route planning; Near-optimal train

scheduling and routing;  Optimal dynamic lane reversal systems for

autonomous vehicles; Speed limit sign recognition systems; Fast

pedestrian detection for mobile devices; Pedestrian guidance systems for

public transportation users; Systems for assessment and signalling

dangerous transportation; Traffic safety based on speed profiles.



Safety in industrial systems

Fundamentals on system safety; Safety of software systems and software

engineering; Safety requirements; Safety for critical systems;

Engineering for system robustness and reliability; Control of mission

critical systems; Safety-oriented system design; Human tasks and error

models; Hazard analysis; Cost and effectiveness of system safety;

Verification and validation of safety; Safety tools; Evaluation of 

safety data, and mitigation and prevention strategies; Safety control

and management; System Safety Implementation Guidelines and Standards;

Transferring safety knowledge; Metrics for Risk Assessment; Contingency

Planning and Occurrence Reporting; Preparedness Activities; Industry

specific safety systems (Medical devices, Aerospace, Chemical industry,

Nuclear power plants, Public health, Biological Safety)



Robustness

Robustness concepts and applications; Theory and mechanisms for

robustness; Uncertainty and robustness; Statistic robustness;

Computation and optimization of robustness; Robustness estimation and

approximation; Robustness correction;  Robust systems; Robustness tests

and benchmarking; Robustness and performance; Robustness and safety;

Robustness of self-adapting production lines; Situation-awareness and

self-awareness



Systems risks

Identify and weight risks; Risk management systems; Risks in industrial

systems; Risks in information-sharing systems; Limits in risks models;

Systems risk evaluating  (military, economic, judicial, etc.); Knowledge

for risk-aware systems; Proactive and reactive alarm processing; Weak

signals and big data; Risks of atmospheric surveillance systems; Risks

in health systems; Earthquake systems; Radio-protection and nuclear

risks;  Risks in avionic and transportation systems;  Lessons learned

from accidents, crises and false alarms



Applications and services

Mobile Web performance; Multiple data center management; Network latency

and impact on performance/robustness; Performance and robustness of

cloud-based solutions; Scalable safe and robust solutions; Mobile

devices and wireless networks; Mission critical systems and

applications; Industry specific safety systems (medical devices,

aerospace, chemical industry, nuclear power plants, public health,

biological systems)



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PESARO 2021 Committee:

https://www.iaria.org/conferences2021/ComPESARO21.html



Publicity Chairs

Lorena Parra, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

Jose Luis García, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

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