Call for Papers 2022 - Conference (deadlines extensions)

The 4th International Conference on Reliability, Safety and Security of Railway Systems will be held on the 1st and 2nd of June 2022, in the International Union of Railways Congress Center in Paris. It will address topics faced by the railway industry such as :

improve system safety
decrease production costs and time to market
reduce carbon emissions and running costs
increase the capacity of the railway

Railway systems are now being integrated into larger multi-transport networks. Such systems require an even higher degree of automation at all levels of operation. These trends dramatically increase the complexity of railway applications and pose new challenges in developing novel methods of modelling, analysis, verification and validation to ensure their reliability, safety and security, as well as in supporting novel mechanisms and procedures to help make the case that development processes meet the mandated standards.

The RSSRail 2021 conference will build on the success of RSSRail 2016 (June 28-30, Paris, France) that took place in the Maison de la RATP, RSSRail 2017 (November 14-16, Pisola Italy) and RSSRail 2019 (June 4-6, Lille, France), and will contribute to a range of key objectives.

There is a pressing demand to bring together researchers and developers working on railway system reliability, security and safety to discuss how all of these requirements can be met in an integrated way. It is also vital to ensure that advances in research (in both academia and industry) are driven by the real industrial needs. This will help ensure that such advances are followed by effective industrial deployment.

Another particularly important objective is to integrate advances in research into the current development processes, and make them usable and scalable. Finally, a key goal is to develop advanced methods and tools that can ensure that the systems meet the requirements imposed by the regulatory standards and help in building the supportive arguments.

Development of the complex railway systems of the future requires integrated environments and methods that support different abstraction levels and different views, including:

systems architecture
safety analysis
security analysis
verification tools and methods

The conference aims to bring together researchers and engineers interested in building critical railway applications and systems. This will be a working conference in which research challenges and progress will be discussed and evaluated by both researchers and engineers, focusing on their potential to be deployed in industrial settings.