The aim of the WoSoCer workshop series is to discuss novel safety assessment and certification approaches able to scale for complex software, and to promote their adoption in real-world, safety-critical systems through industrial and academic research projects.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Quantitative and qualitative evaluation of software dependability, and product-oriented certification and assurance cases

• Certifiable software for modern complex systems, including dynamic, autonomic, large-scale, and distributed systems

• Third-party components and software reuse across systems and safety standards

• Improvement of software development processes (e.g., SPICE, CMMI) in safety- and security-critical domains

• Cost-related issues and return-on-investment for certification activities

• Adoption of emerging technologies and practices in safety-critical systems

• Open issues, practical experiences and real-world case studies

• Cross-fertilization between safety and security standards and certification

We solicit the submission of original research papers, up to 6 pages.

Moreover, we invite proposals for demonstrations of innovative tools for dependability and certifiability assessment, accompanied by a short paper describing the tool, up to 3 pages. Tools will be presented during a special session at the workshop, with live demos and presentations.

Both research papers and short papers about the tools will be included in a supplemental volume of the ISSRE conference proceedings, and published by the IEEE Computer Society on IEEE Xplore.