Event:
Fail Safety in Medical Cyber-Physical Systems
March 17, 2015, Dresden, Germany
| Program | Author Kit | Committee |
Conference aims
Medical cyber-physical systems (MCPSs) extend the notion of conventional medical devices to more complex technical systems in close connection to humans. MCPSs might acquire sensor data, control a treatment, or monitor recovery. Typically, these systems include the patient in the loop and require a high degree of dependability and fail safety. One challenge is the complex nature of physiological processes, which are often patient-specific and less deterministic than in, e.g., engineering scenarios. Another challenge is the growing complexity of medical systems and devices themselves. Hence, fail safety of a MCPS cannot be achieved within a single component or layer --- neither the software layer nor any other isolated layer ---, but requires an interdisciplinary effort addressing different aspects, including patient modelling, hardware, software, and communication. The workshop will cover these aspects, discuss software-engineering issues of MCPS, and offer the possibility for an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and techniques.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together both researchers and practitioners in the field of MPCS and to gain a better understanding of the issues of fail safety as well as thetheories and technologies that may be employed for addressing it.
Contributions and topics
We welcome three types of contributions:
- extended abstracts (research)
- experience reports
- position papers
Following the philosophy of the main conference, contributions do not have to present original work but may be summaries of previously published results.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- theoretical foundations of fail safety in MCPS
- technologies (medical implants, biosensors, harvesters)
- modeling (of patients, environment, resources)
- design methodologies and interface specifications
- platforms, architectures, components
- network protocols, resource management
- certification and regulatory frameworks
- time-critical and real-time systems
- applications of MCPS
- evaluation and testing of MCPS
- fail-safe integration and interoperability
All contributions should make clear reference to the issue of fail safety. Techniques and methods from other domains are explicitly solicited provided they can be applied to MCPS concerns.
Submissions should be 2-3 pages in LNI format and submitted electronically via the conference web site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fsmcpsworkshop2015. Each submission will be reviewed by two to three members of the programme committee, judging the paper on its topicality, scientific merits, and overall quality.
Keynote
Wolfgang Reisig (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Jürgen Stettin (HAW Hamburg & PROSYSTEM AG)
Proceedings
All accepted contributions will appear in electronic proceedings, which will be made available on the web. All authors keep their copyright.
Posters
For fostering interaction and discussion, all speakers of accepted contributions are expected to bring along a poster.Important Dates
| Deadline for submission | January 30, 2015 |
| Notification | February 18, 2015 |
| Camera ready version | February 25, 2015 |
| Working Conference | March 17, 2015 |
Author Kit
Final submissions should follow the guidelines for CEUR-Proceedings
(http://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html) and should be submitted both
as Latex file and as PDF.
Please use the style file onecolceurws.sty, available
at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/samplestyles
Committee
PC Chairs
Alexander Schlaefer (Hamburg University of Technology)
Sibylle Schupp (Hamburg University of Technology)
Programm Committee
Christian Hansen (University of Magdeburg)
Martin Leucker (Universität zu Lübeck)
Klaus Radermacher (RWTH Aachen)
Asarnusch Rashid (FZI)
Wolfgang Reisig (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Stefan Schlichting (Drägerwerk AG)
Jürgen Stettin (HAW Hamburg & PROSYSTEM AG)
