Call for Papers

Established in 1979 by the European Workshop on Industrial Computer Systems, Technical Committee 7 on Reliability, Safety and Security (EWICS TC7), SafeComp has contributed to the progress of the state-of-the-art in dependable application of computers in safety-related and safety-critical systems.

SafeComp is an annual event covering the state-of-the-art, experience and new trends in the areas of safety, security and reliability of critical computer applications. SafeComp provides ample opportunity to exchange insights and experience on emerging methods, approaches, and practical solutions. It is a single-track conference allowing easy networking.

This 44th edition of SAFECOMP is a unique occasion to explore and debate hot topics of current challenges and solutions for future safety critical systems.

Theme

Managing safety in an era of a software defined computing continuumFuture societal and industrial systems will be increasingly relying on a digitalized infrastructure, from embedded systems, fog/edge-computing systems, to cloud and communications. Entire systems will also increasingly be software defined and upgradeable. Societal and industrial systems consequently be increasingly relying on such digitalized infrastructures, requiring an even stronger and proactive emphasis on key dependability properties, as emphasized by the SafeComp conferences. The theme for SafeComp 2025 has been chosen to highlight some of the following topics and challenges:

Predictability and reliability of cloud and edge computing, and AI components: The corresponding systems yet have to offer dependability properties suitable for critical systems
Architectures ensuring safety while enhancing performance
Co-design of applications and digital infrastructure to achieve cost-efficient dependability
Trustworthy DevOps – reconciling software and safety practices

Paper Submission Guidelines

The tradition of SAFECOMP is to act as a platform for bringing academic research and industrial needs together. Therefore, industrial contributions and real-world experience reports are explicitly invited. We solicit two types of paper submission (in both cases, up to 14 pages incl. bibliography):

Research papers address a research gap and illustrate how the contribution submitted can help improve the state-of-the-art by advancing current knowledge;
Practical experience reports / tool descriptions provide new insights and valuable support to practitioners.

Papers exceeding the page limit will be excluded from the review process. All papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the International Programme Committee. Papers must not have been previously published or concurrently submitted elsewhere.

All paper submissions must be formatted according to the LNCS templates provided by Springer. Abstracts and papers should be submitted in pdf through Easychair.

LNCS templates

Easy Chair

Workshop Submission Guidelines

Workshops are planned for the day preceding the conference. Workshop proposals should be sent by email to the SAFECOMP 2025 Workshop Chairs (Erwin Schoitsch at AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, AT, and Elena Troubitsyna at KTH, SE) and include scope, contents, programme committee and length (half or full day). Accepted contributions will, as far as the publisher’s requirements are fulfilled, be included in the SAFECOMP Workshop Proceedings.

List of Topics

The conference covers all aspects related to the development, assessment, operation, and maintenance of safety-related and safety-critical computer systems.

Major topics include, but are not limited to:

Distributed and real-time monitoring and control
Fault-tolerant and resilient hardware and software architectures
Fault detection and recovery mechanisms
Security and privacy protection mechanisms for safety applications
Safety guidelines and standards
Safety/security co-engineering and tradeoffs
Safety and security qualification, quantification, assurance and certification
Threats and vulnerability analysis
Risk assessment in safe and secure systems
Dependability analysis using simulation and experimental measurement
Model-based analysis, design, and assessment
Formal methods for verification, validation, and fault tolerance
Testing, verification, and validation methodologies and tools
Multi-concern dependability assurance and standardization

Domains of application are (but not limited to):

Railways, automotive, space, avionics & process industries
Highly automated and autonomous systems
Telecommunication and networks
Safety-related applications of smart systems and IoT
Critical infrastructures, smart grids, SCADA
Medical devices and healthcare
Surveillance, defense, emergency & rescue
Logistics, industrial automation, off-shore technology
Education & training

Publication

All accepted research papers, practical experience reports, and tool descriptions will be published by Springer in the LNCS series (Lecture Notes on Computer Science) in the SafeComp and the SafeComp Workshop volumes.

Venue

The conference will be held at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, one of Europe’s leading technical universities. KTH conducts research and education in engineering and architecture, and ranks among the top universities in the world in several technical fields. The conference will take place in KTH’s beautiful main Campus located in the northern part of Stockholm city center, easily accessible by public transportation.