Scope and Topics

The conference is a leading international forum for providers, practitioners, and researchers in reliable software technologies. The conference presentations will illustrate current work in the theory and practice of the design, development, and maintenance of long-lived, high-quality software systems for a challenging variety of application domains. The program will allow ample time for keynotes, Q&A sessions and discussions, and social events. Participants include practitioners and researchers from industry, academia, and government organizations active in the promotion and development of reliable software technologies.

The topics of interest for the conference include but are not limited to:

    Formal and model-based engineering of critical systems
        Formal specification; Formal verification; Integrated methods for engineering reliable software-intensive systems; Formal architectural patterns; Multi-aspect modelling and verification; Model-based engineering of safety-critical systems.
    High-Integrity Systems and Reliability
        Theory and Practice of High-Integrity Systems: Medium to Large-Scale Distribution, Fault Tolerance, Security, Reliability, Trust and Safety, Languages Vulnerabilities, Assurance Case;
        Software Architectures for Reliable Systems: Design Patterns, Frameworks, Architecture-Centered Development, Component-based Design and Development;
        Methods and Techniques for Quality Software Development and Maintenance: Requirements Engineering, Re-engineering and Reverse Engineering, Reuse, Software Management Issues, Compilers, Libraries, Support Tools.
    AI for High-Integrity Systems Engineering
        AI for code generation, AI for test generation, AI for refactoring of code, AI for code comprehension, AI for program analysis;
        Evaluation of how well AI solutions for software engineering perform (efficiency, accuracy, etc.)
        Reliable/responsible/robust AI
    Real-Time Systems
        Design and Implementation of Real-Time and Embedded Systems: Real-Time Scheduling, Design Methods and Techniques, Architecture Modelling, HW/SW Co-Design, Reliability and Performance;
        Design and Implementation of Mixed-Criticality Systems: Scheduling Methods, Architectures, Design Methods, Analysis Methods
    Domain applications
        Mainstream and Emerging Applications with Reliability Requirements: Manufacturing, Robotics, Avionics, Space, Health Care, Transportation, Cloud Environments, Smart Energy Systems, Serious Games, etc;
        Experience Reports in Reliable System Development: Case Studies and Comparative Assessments, Management Approaches, Qualitative and Quantitative Metrics.
    Ada Language and Technologies
        Ada Language and Technologies: Compilation Issues, Runtimes, Ravenscar, Profiles, Distributed Systems, SPARK;
        Experiences with Ada: Reviews of the Ada 2012 or 2022 language features, implementation and use issues, positioning in the market and in the software engineering curriculum, lessons learned on Ada Education and Training Activities with bearing on any of the conference topics.