Proceedings of the International Workshop on Security and Dependability for Resource Constrained Embedded Systemss

Resource constrained embedded systems (RCES) refers to systems which have memory and/or computational processing power constraints. They can be found literally everywhere, in many application sectors such as automotive, aerospace, and home control. They are in many types of devices, like sensors, automotive electronic control units, intelligent switches, and home appliances such as washing machines and meters. RCES are becoming increasingly complex and have various communication interfaces. Therefore, they have to be seen in the context of bigger systems or complete infrastructures. Consequently, their non functional requirements such as security and dependability (S&D) become more important as well as more difficult to achieve. The integration of S&D requires the availability of both application expertise and S&D expertise at the same time. In fact, S&D could also require both specific security expertise and specific dependability expertise. Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) provides a very useful contribution to the design of RCES applications since it bridges the gap between design issues and implementation concerns. Significant research is being carried out concerning MDE for embedded systems, at the level of system architecture, design techniques, testing, validation, proof of correctness, modeling, software reliability, operating systems, parallel processing and real-time processing. More research is needed on the use of MDE to enforce the integration of S&D requirements into the engineering process and to support the reuse of S&D mechanisms. The objective of this workshop is to foster the exchange of ideas among practitioners, researchers and industry involved in the deployment of secure and dependable resource-constrained embedded systems. Special emphasis will be devoted to promote discussion and interaction between researchers and practitioners focused on the particularly challenging task of efficiently integrating security and dependability solutions within the restricted available design space for RCES. Furthermore, one important focus is on the potential benefits of the combination of model-driven engineering with pattern-based representation of security and dependability solutions. Of particular interest is the exchange of concepts, prototypes, research ideas, and other results which contribute to the academic area and also benefit business and industrial communities. Some of the topics that we seek to include in the workshop are related to the development of models and tools to support the inclusion of S&D issues into the RCES engineering process.