Engineering Safety-Critical, Software-Intensive Cyber-Physical Systems, including Selected Papers from “the 10th Scandinavian Conference on Safety Critical Systems and Software”

Dear Colleagues,

System and software safety in cyber-physical systems is becoming increasingly central in many industries, and is often critical in societal infrastructure, enabling applications in smart transport, smart energy, smart health, smart manufacturing, and smart cities. The systems are becoming ever more complex, connected, and autonomous, and the software continues to develop. This poses many engineering challenges, even for mature organizations, requiring approaches that advance beyond established best practices.

This Special Issue solicits papers on engineering methods, processes, and organizational approaches for enabling and assuring the safe deployment of cyber-physical systems. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) systems and software architectures, safe and transparent artificial intelligence, agile approaches to safety, hazard analysis for connected/autonomous vehicles, and safety case argumentation/structure. Relevant integration issues for engineering organizations, such as novel approaches on eliciting safety-relevant information from already deployed systems, and the co-engineering between safety engineers and other engineering disciplines such as security engineers, are also of interest.

The Special Issue is organized together with the Scandinavian conference on safety critical systems and software (SCSSS2022), which has become a central meeting place for safety experts from industrial, public, and academic organizations. We encourage authors interested in publishing in this Special Issue to also submit a presentation to the first day of the conference, which will feature distinguished keynotes, industrial, and research presentations.

Dr. Fredrik Asplund
Dr. Barbara Gallina
Prof. Dr. Miroslaw Staron
Guest Editor

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• engineering safety
• functional safety
• hazard analysis
• safety cases
• agile safety
• safe artificial intelligence
• dependable cyber-physical systems architectures
• co-engineering safety