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Call for Papers: IEEE SMC-2011 Special Session on System Safety and Security
October 9-12, 2011, Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
http://www.eng.fsu.edu/~mingyu/smc-sss-2011.html
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Introduction/Call for Papers
It has been widely recognized that safety and security are the two major requirements to large-scale critical infrastructures, such as telecommunication networks, electric power systems, smart grid, and water distribution networks. The design, control, operation and maintenance of such systems have posed a significant challenging to the R&D community. This workshop aims at providing a forum for exchange of ideas and dissemination of best research and practice in this field. Prospective authors are invited to submit original papers to the Special Session.
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Indicative Topics/Areas
The interested topics include but are not limited to the following:
Safety Issues in Large-scale Systems
Security Issue in Critical Infrastructures
Qualitative and Quantitative Systems Safety and Security Analysis
Systems Modeling and Simulation
Probabilistic Safety and Security Performance Forecasting
Systems Risk and Reward Management focused on Safety & Security Performance
Demonstration of Compliance against Standards and Legal Requirements
Application Issues in Various Systems
Systems Specification & Characterization
Requirements Specification, Analysis and Target Setting
High Integrity Systems Design
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Important Dates
April 1, 2011: Deadline for submission of full-length papers to special sessions.
June 1, 2011: Acceptance/Rejection Notification.
July 5, 2011: Final camera-ready papers due in electronic form.
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Submission

Please contact the Special Session organizer for arrangement of submission in the first instance. All submissions may well need to be uploaded to SMC11 main conference online submission system.
All submitted papers of Special Sessions have to undergo the same review process (three completed reviews per paper). The technical reviewers for each Special Session paper will be members of the SMC 2011 Program Committee and qualified peer-reviewers to be nominated by the Special Session organizers.
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Special Session organizer: Organized by IEEE SMC TC on System Safety and Security

Ming Yu,
Florida State University,
Address: 2525 Pottsdamer St., Tallahassee, FL 32310
Phone: (850)410-6263
Fax: (850)410-6479
Email: mingyu@eng.fsu.edu

Co-organizers:
A. G. Hessami,
Vega Global Systems, UK.
Email: a.g.hessami@ieee.org

	Feng Hsu,
Space Energy Group, USA
Email: f.hsu@spaceenergy.com
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