This is a call for papers for the 2nd ACM International Conference on High Confidence Networked Systems (HiCoNS) to be held April 9-11, 2013 as part of Cyber Physical Systems Week 2013 (CPSWeek 2012) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA.

http://www.hi-cons.org/

IMPORTANT DATES
-Extended Abstracts Due: November 15, 2012
-Authors Notified: December 15, 2012
-Camera Ready Full Papers Due: February 15, 2013
-Conference Dates: April 9-11, 2013

CONFERENCE SCOPE
HiCoNS aims to bring together novel concepts and theories that will help in the development of the science of high confidence networked systems, in particular those considered cyber-physical systems (CPS). The conference will focus on system theoretic approaches to address fundamental challenges to increase the confidence of networked CPS by making them more secure, dependable, and trustworthy. An emphasis will be the control and verification challenges arising as a result of complex interdependencies between networked systems, in particular those at the intersection of cyber and physical areas. In doing so, the conference will advance the development of a principled approach to high-confidence networked CPS.

Topics of interest include:
-Taxonomy of attacks and attack models for control systems
-Novel security challenges in control systems
-Testbeds for security of critical infrastructure systems
-Decision and game theoretic approaches to security and reliability
-Design architectures for prevention and resilience against attacks
-Risk assessment and verification of security properties
-Detectability and diagnosis of attacks
-Economics based studies of security and reliability
-Resilience and robustness against attacks
-Response and reconfiguration methods
-Cyber awareness of human-centric systems
-Complexity and resilience in control systems

Approaches that can be applied to particular critical infrastructure systems in Transportation (surface and aviation), Energy (smart grid and building energy management), and Healthcare (medical systems and associated embedded devices) are particularly welcomed but other areas will be explored. Equally welcomed is foundational work that cuts across multiple application areas or advances the scientific understanding of underlying principles for the development of high-confidence (secure, reliable, robust, and trustworthy) networked cyber-physical systems. This includes ways to measure the security properties of a system, science-based principals of security and dependability, and methods to conduct robust and repeatable experimentation.

This conference will engage researchers from multiple disciplines, including information security, network and systems security, security economics, game theory, and control theory and link work being done in the applied areas with foundational work to advance a science base for high-confidence networked systems that aims to provide a means of building such systems in a principled way.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS
General Chairs
Shankar Sastry, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Tamer Başar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Program Chairs
Linda Bushnell, University of Washington, USA
Larry Rohrbough, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Program Committee
Saurabh Amin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Hamsa Balakrishnan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
John Baras, University of Maryland, USA
Alvaro Cárdenas, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Christian Claudel, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia
Emiliano De Cristofaro, PARC, USA
Manimaran Govindarasu, Iowa State University, USA
Tembine Hamidou, SUPELEC, France
Naira Hovakimyan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Karl Henrik Johansson, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
Himanshu Khurana, Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions, USA
Xenofon Koutsoukos, Vanderbilt University, USA
Deepa Kundur, University of Toronto, Canada
Cedric Langbort, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Rahul Mangharam, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Brad Martin, National Security Agency, USA
John Musacchio, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Radha Poovendran, University of Washington, USA
Ram Rajagopal, Stanford University, USA
Henrik Sandberg, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
Galina Schwartz, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Uday Shanbhag, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Bruno Sinopoli, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Pascal Sitbon, EDF, France
Janos Sztipanovits, Vanderbilt University, USA
Paulo Tabuada, University of California, Los Angeles, USA