Today, nearly every processor is deployed as an embedded system. To an increasing degree embedded systems are performing critical control functions in products and industries, too. This is the domain that we want to address in our one-day workshop on Dependable Embedded Systems.

In this workshop we wish to bring together researchers and practitioners to share research results, practical experiences and advances in (or impediments to) the application of embedded systems for dependable systems. We encourage participation by professionals with diverse backgrounds who can contribute to advancing the technology and reflecting the latest trends and who can foster discussing the implications.

We solicit position papers, research contributions, experience reports and panel proposals addressing topics that include (but are not limited to): application architecture, design and validation, distributed real-time communication, certification and approval, real-time, security, and applications such as automotive, medical, process control, and telecommunication. Topics of particular interest include:

• Self-configuring distributed embedded systems
• Adapting distributed embedded systems to failed hardware nodes and software modules
• Dependable (online) upgrade
• Maintaining assurances despite third party additions
• System-level integration of multi-supplier subsystems
• Security of safety-critical nodes with connectivity to open networks
• Low-power embedded systems
• Complexity vs. determinism
• Legal and societal issues, e.g., critical software regulation, liability, insurance

Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts, position papers, or research contributions from 2 to 5 pages in length. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. It is expected that at least one author of an accepted contribution will attend the workshop in order to present the work.
The authors are requested to send their contributions to guenter.heiner@daimlerchrysler.com or to koopman@cmu.edu no later than July, 18, 2003, as PDF or PS file.
A compilation of contributions will be distributed at the SRDS conference.

Submission: July, 18, 2003

Notification: August, 15, 2003

Günter Heiner (DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany)

Phil Koopman (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

• Tom Anderson (University of Newcastle, UK)
• Anish Arora (Ohio State University, USA)
• Alex Dean (NC State University, USA)
• Tom Forest (General Motors, USA)
• Reinhard von Hanxleden (University of Kiel, Germany)
• Gerard LeLann (INRIA, France)
• Tatsuo Nakajima (Waseda University, Japan)
• Erwin Schoitsch (Research Center Seibersdorf, Austria)