===================================================================
CALL FOR PAPERS
1st ACM Workshop on the Internet of Safe Things (SafeThings 2017)
Co-located with ACM SenSys 2017

November 5, 2017, Delft, The Netherlands

Abstract Submission Deadline: July 14, 2017
Paper Submission Deadline: July 21, 2017
Poster and demo submission deadline: July 21, 2017

Web: https://www.safethings.info/
===================================================================

Dear Colleagues,

Please see below the Call for Papers for ACM SafeThings 2017. We 
enthusiastically look forward to your submissions on advancements in the 
safety of the Internet of Things ecosystem.

As the traditionally segregated systems are brought online for next 
generation connected applications, we have an opportunity to 
significantly improve the safety of legacy systems. For instance, 
insights from data across systems can be exploited to reduce accidents, 
improve air quality and support disaster events. Cyber-physical systems 
(CPS) also bring new risks that arise due to the unexpected interaction 
between systems. These safety risks arise because of information that 
distracts users while driving, software errors in medical devices, 
corner cases in data-driven control, compromised sensors in drones or 
conflicts in societal policies.

Accordingly, the Internet of Safe Things workshop (or SafeThings, for 
brevity) seeks to bring researchers and practitioners that are actively 
exploring system design, modeling, verification, authentication 
approaches to provide safety guarantees in the Internet of Things (IoT). 
The workshop welcomes contributions that integrate hardware and software 
systems provided by disparate vendors, particularly those that have 
humans in the loop. As safety is inherently linked with the security and 
privacy, we also seek contributions in security and privacy that address 
safety concerns. With the SafeThings workshop, we seek to develop a 
community that systematically dissects the vulnerabilities and risks 
exposed by these emerging CPSes, and create tools, algorithms, 
frameworks and systems that help in the development of safe systems.

SafeThings workshop covers safety topics as it relates to an 
individual’s health (physical, mental), the society (air pollution, 
toxicity, disaster events), or the environment (species preservation, 
global warming, oil spills). The workshop considers safety from a human 
perspective, and thus, does not include topics such as thread safety or 
memory safety in its scope.

Our workshop will cover, but not limit itself to, the following subject 
categories:
- Verification of safety in IoT platforms
- Privacy preserving data sharing and analysis
- Compliance with legal, health and environmental policies
- Integration of hardware and software systems
- Conflict resolution between IoT applications
- Safety in human-in-the-loop systems
- Support for IoT development - debugging tools, emulators, testbeds
- Usable security and privacy for IoT platforms
- Resiliency against attacks and faults
- Secure connectivity in IoT

Our workshop will cover, but not limit itself to, the following domains: 
autonomous vehicles and transportation infrastructure; medical CPS and 
public health; smart buildings, smart grid and smart cities.

Submission Types:
We solicit two types of original submissions:
- Regular papers for oral presentation (6 pages)
- Technical posters and demos (1 page)

Important Dates:
- Abstract Submission Deadline: July 14, 2017 (11.59 PM AoE)
- Paper Submission Deadline: July 21, 2017 (11.59 PM AoE)
- Poster and demo submission deadline: July 21, 2017 (11.59 PM AoE)
- Acceptance Notification: August 21, 2017
- Camera-ready versions: September 10, 2017

===================================================================

Organizing Committee:

General Chairs:
- Patrick Tague (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Bharathan Balaji (University of California, Los Angeles)

Program Chairs:
- Mani Srivastava (University of California, Los Angeles)
- Yuan Tian (Carnegie Mellon University)

Poster and Demo Chair:
- Houssam Abbas (University of Pennsylvania)

Publication Chair:
- Rasit Eskicioglu (University of Manitoba)

SenSys Workshop Chair:
- Xiaofan (Fred) Jiang (Columbia University, USA)

Technical Program Committee:
- Blase Ur (University of Chicago)
- Xiao Feng Wang (Indiana Bloomington)
- Xinyu Xing (Penn State)
- Paulo Tabuada (University of California, Los Angeles)
- Supriyo Chakraborty (IBM Research)
- Muhammad Naveed (University of Southern California)
- Yasser Shoukry (University of California, Berkeley)
- Yuvraj Agarwal (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Rajesh Gupta (University of California, San Diego)
- Brad Campbell (University of Virginia)
- John Stankovic (University of Virginia)
- Madhur Behl (University of Virginia)
- Houssam Abbas (University of Pennsylvania)
- Insup Lee (University of Pennsylvania)
- João Vilela (University of Coimbra)
- Eric Wustrow (Colorado Boulder)
- Richard Han (Colorado Boulder)
- Lu Feng (University of Virginia)
- Earlence Fernandes (University of Michigan)
- Falko Dressler (Paderborn University)
- Jie Liu (Microsoft Research)
- Kay Roemer (TU Graz)
- Nic Lane (University College London)
- Fang-Jing Wu (NEC Lab)
- Jyotrimoy Deshmukh (Toyota)
- Saman Zonouz (Rutgers University)
- Haixin Duan (Tsinghua University)
- Yutaka Arakawa (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
- Ingrid Verbauwhede (KU Leuven)
- Stefano Zanero (Politecnico di Milano)
- Thorsten Holz (Ruhr University Bochum)

========================================================
.................................................
   Ass.Prof. Boano Carlo Alberto
   Graz University of Technology
   Institute for Technical Informatics
   Inffeldgasse 16, Room: IE01144 / E.2.12
   A-8010 Graz, Austria
   Tel: +43 (0) 316 873-6413
   Fax: +43 (0) 316 / 873 - 6903
   E-Mail: cboano@tugraz.at
   http://www.carloalbertoboano.com