CARS2026: Workshop on Critical Automotive Applications - Robustness and Safety 2026 University of Kent Canterbury, UK, April 7, 2026 |
| Conference website | https://www.iks.fraunhofer.de/en/events/cars-2026.html |
| Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cars2026 |
| Submission deadline | January 19, 2026 |
*** Workshop CARS@EDCC2026 – Critical Automotive applications: Robustness & Safety ***
On Robustness methods and development techniques for safety related automotive embedded systems and applications
10th edition of CARS in conjunction with EDCC 2026, Canterbury, United Kingdom
*** April 7th, 2026 ***
https://www.iks.fraunhofer.de/en/events/cars-2026.html
Organized by:
- Jean-Charles Fabre, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France
- Rolf Johansson, Astus, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Mario Trapp, Fraunhofer IKS, Munich, Germany
- Benjamin Herd, Fraunhofer IKS, Munich, Germany
IMPORTANT DATES
- Paper submission Jan 19th, 2026
- Author notification Feb 24th, 2026
- Camera-ready paper Mar 5th, 2026
SUBMISSIONS
WORKSHOP TOPICS AND GOALS
The increasing complexity of automotive applications, the challenges posed by autonomous vehicles, the need to master production costs using off-the-shelf components, the coexistence of critical and non-critical applications, and the emergence of new architectural paradigms may have a strong effect on dependability of automotive embedded systems. This situation requires design and validation methods, but also tools to improve automotive systems robustness and their safety and security properties.
The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the construction of critical automotive applications and systems. It will place emphasis on:
- Dependability issues,
- Software engineering for robustness,
- Security and safety issues,
- Real-time embedded systems technologies,
- Architectural software and hardware solutions,
- Development processes for dependable automotive embedded systems.
In particular, CARS aims at promoting and fostering discussion on novel ideas and techniques, possibly controversial approaches, it is a forum for on-going work exchange, a place where researchers and developers can share both real problems and innovative solutions.
Topics of interest for the workshop include (but are not limited to):
- Safety in the development processes and safety management,
- Combined approaches for safety and security,
- Autonomous systems, Car-to-X, ADAS and safety
- Safety of the Intended Functionality (SOTIF),
- Hardware and software support for dependable automotive systems.
- Middleware and tool support for dependable embedded automotive systems,
- Open-source approaches
- Hierarchy of SEooC (Safety Elements out of Context) for very complex systems as e.g. ADS
- Real-time operating systems, WCET estimation, schedulability analysis,
- Modeling and code generation techniques,
- Software safety analysis and formal verification techniques for automotive systems,
- Coordination, communication, networking and distributed control architectures,
- Diagnosis approaches, failure data, practical experience reports of critical applications,
- Validation and verification techniques,
- Cloud-based automotive applications and AI,
- Cybersecurity and connected cars.
Application areas of interest to the workshop focus on the automotive domain but methods and techniques in other transport domains (e.g. aerospace, railways) are also welcome.
CALL FOR PAPERS
To contribute to the workshop, authors are invited to submit (i) an extended position paper of 4 pages (IEEE format) or (ii) an abstract (1 page IEEE format).The program committee will carefully review submitted papers. The review will focus not only on the paper's quality, but also on its ability to engender fruitful discussions. All authors of accepted papers are invited to attend the workshop. The accepted papers will be published on line on HAL.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Academia members
- Felicita Di Giandomenico (CNR Pisa, Italy)
- Michael Lauer (ISAE-SUPAERO, France)
- Ilaria Matteucci (IIT CNR, Pisa, Italy)
- Nicolas Navet (Univ. Luxembourg)
- Yiannis Papadopoulos (University of Hull, UK)
- Peter Puschner (Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria)
- Daniel Schneider (Fraunhofer IESE, Germany)
- Martin Törngren (KTH, Sweden)
Industry members
- John Favaro (Trust-services, Italy)
- Olivier Flebus (Vitesco, France)
- Jelena Frtunikj (NVIDIA, Germany)
- Mathilde Machin (Airbus, France)
- Amina Mekki-Mokhtar (Ansys, France)
- Nadège Rizet, Ampère lab (Renault, France)
- Fredrik Törner (Volvo Car Corporation, Sweden)