Call for Papers: PESARO 2027 || April 18 - 22, 2027 - Lisbon, Portugal

INVITATION:

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to:

- PESARO 2027, The Seventeenth International Conference on Performance, Safety and Robustness in Complex Systems and Applications

PESARO 2027 is scheduled to be April 18 - 22, 2027 in Lisbon, Portugal under the NexComm 2027 umbrella.

The submission deadline is December 28, 2026.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: https://www.iariajournals.org

All events will be held in a hybrid mode: on site, online, prerecorded videos, voiced presentation slides, pdf slides.

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============== PESARO 2027 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS


PESARO 2027, The Seventeenth International Conference on Performance, Safety and Robustness in Complex Systems and Applications

General page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2027/PESARO27.html

Submission page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2027/SubmitPESARO27.html


Event schedule: April 18 - 22, 2027


Contributions:

- regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]

- short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]

- ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

- extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

- posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

- posters: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]

- presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]

- demos: two pages [posted at www.iaria.org]


Submission deadline: December 28, 2026


Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: https://www.iariajournals.org

Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: https://www.proceedings.com/9769.html

Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: https://www.thinkmind.org


The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in terms of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions.
Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: https://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html


PESARO 2027 Topics (for topics and submission details: see Call for Papers on the site)

Call for Papers: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2027/CfPPESARO27.html

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PESARO 2027 Tracks (topics and submission details: see Call for Papers on the site)

Fundamentals and metrics

Fundamentals on system safety; Robustness technology and evaluation; Metrics for risk assessment; Performance-oriented design; Safety-oriented system design; Performance metrics and dependable metrics; Active and passive safety; Performance warning delay

Methodologies, techniques and algorithms

Systems modeling; Hazard analysis; System measurement and monitoring; Evaluation of safety data, and mitigation and prevention strategies; Model verification and validation; Fault-tolerant systems; Simulation, statistical analysis, and experimental design analysis; Language and run-time systems

System performance measurement and metrics with the human in the loop

Performance, safety, and robustness aspects of human-machine interfaces; Performance, safety, and robustness aspects of social robotics; Performance, safety, and robustness aspects of extended reality; Performance, safety, and robustness aspects of interaction with medical devices; Explainability of systems with human-in-the-loop

Systems performance and performance evaluation

Performance basics; Performance-oriented design; Performance methodology techniques and algorithms for analytic modeling; System measurement and monitoring; Model verification and validation, simulation, statistical analysis; Experimental design, and reliability analysis; Performance evaluation of various technologies and systems (mobile devices and wireless networks, distributed and parallel systems, file and storage systems, power management, database systems, computer networks and architectures, operating systems, fault-tolerant systems, and language and runtime systems). Performance in dedicated service systems (Web services, Financial services, Healthcare and pharmaceuticals, Telecommunications services, Industrial Manufacturing, Education services, Transportation services, Energy and utilities)

Safety in transportation systems

Advanced vehicle safety systems; Predictive computation for driver assistance; Advanced driver assistance systems; Vision-based driver assistance systems; Estimation of driver intention; Detecting driver distraction; Automatic emergency steering systems; Systems for positioning multiple maps for self-driving car's autonomous navigation; Models for selecting an evacuation route; Safety in electric vehicles; Safety of traction power supply system in electrified railways; Automation systems mainline railways; Emergency vehicle management; Vulnerability of ambulance response; Intelligent logistics and multimodal transport systems; Connected vehicle wireless systems; Design of railway freight business process; Traffic monitoring and redirecting systems; Monitoring heavy goods vehicles; Speed transition zone control in small, rural communities; Spatial and temporal analysis of planned road Infrastructure and traffic in large cities; Transit signal priority strategies; Rural school bus routing safety problem; Large-scale dynamic traffic control systems; Development and analysis of bicycle collision avoidance systems; Dynamic car route planning; Near-optimal train scheduling and routing; Optimal dynamic lane reversal systems for autonomous vehicles; Speed limit sign recognition systems; Fast pedestrian detection for mobile devices; Pedestrian guidance systems for public transportation users; Systems for assessment and signalling dangerous transportation; Traffic safety based on speed profiles.

Safety in industrial systems

Fundamentals on system safety; Safety of software systems and software engineering; Safety requirements; Safety for critical systems; Engineering for system robustness and reliability; Control of mission critical systems; Safety-oriented system design; Human tasks and error models; Hazard analysis; Cost and effectiveness of system safety; Verification and validation of safety; Safety tools; Evaluation of safety data, and mitigation and prevention strategies; Safety control and management; System Safety Implementation Guidelines and Standards; Transferring safety knowledge; Metrics for Risk Assessment; Contingency Planning and Occurrence Reporting; Preparedness Activities; Industry specific safety systems (Medical devices, Aerospace, Chemical industry, Nuclear power plants, Public health, Biological Safety)

Robustness

Robustness concepts and applications; Theory and mechanisms for robustness; Uncertainty and robustness; Statistic robustness; Computation and optimization of robustness; Robustness estimation and approximation; Robustness correction; Robust systems; Robustness tests and benchmarking; Robustness and performance; Robustness and safety; Robustness of self-adapting production lines; Situation-awareness and self-awareness

Systems risks

Identify and weight risks; Risk management systems; Risks in industrial systems; Risks in information-sharing systems; Limits in risks models; Systems risk evaluating (military, economic, judicial, etc.); Knowledge for risk-aware systems; Proactive and reactive alarm processing; Weak signals and big data; Risks of atmospheric surveillance systems; Risks in health systems; Earthquake systems; Radio-protection and nuclear risks; Risks in avionic and transportation systems; Lessons learned from accidents, crises and false alarms

Applications and services

Mobile Web performance; Multiple data center management; Network latency and impact on performance/robustness; Performance and robustness of cloud-based solutions; Scalable safe and robust solutions; Mobile devices and wireless networks; Mission critical systems and applications; Industry specific safety systems (medical devices, aerospace, chemical industry, nuclear power plants, public health, biological systems)


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PESARO 2027 Committee: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2027/ComPESARO27.html


IARIA Ambassadors

Steve Chan, Decision Engineering Analysis Laboratory, USA
Dirceu Cavendish, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Monika Maria Moehring, Study Centre for Blind and Disabled Students, Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen, Gie en Germany
Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Lasse Berntzen, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway
Les Sztandera, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA
Alexander Lawall, IU International University of Applied Science, Germany
Timothy Phan, NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Manuela Vieira, CTS/ISEL/IPL, Portugal
Luigi Lavazza, Universit dell'Insubria - Varese, Italy