AvioSE'24, February, 27, 2024, Linz, Austria

Software development in the aerospace domain is driven by demanding fault tolerance, increasing complexity, new application potentials, rising certification effort, and increasing cost pressure. New software development methodologies are required for future applications such as e.g. Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), aircrew (workload) reduction, and further enhancement of existing functionality. At the same time, there are challenges in communication and navigation in airspace, certification for multi-core processors, artificial intelligence (AI) as well as security of software, hardware, and connectivity.

News

2024-02-20	Proceedings released The proceedings for the AvioSE'24 are available here.
2024-02-16	Panel announced We are happy to welcome Steven VanderLeest, Stefan Brunthaler and Stephane Poulain as our panelists in the panel discussion on "Avionics Cyber-Security".
2023-12-1	Registration open Participation requires a registration for at least the workshops of SE-2024. The registration is now open. Early bird rates are available until Jan 10th.
2023-12-01	Preliminary program compiled Please find the preliminary program of the AvioSE'23 here. Return later for updates.
2023-11-17	Author notifications sent All contributors where informed via email about the acceptance or not acceptance of their paper. Final papers have to be prepared by Dec 15 (extended).
2023-10-22	Keynote teaser We will not reveal our keynotes today, but we can teaser that the two big players Airbus and Boeing both confirmed a keynote. Stay tuned!
2023-10-22	Cyber-security == hot topic 2024 Cyber-security is mandatory for aircraft certification. However, process and methods are still under development. There are still unknowns, e.g. regarding continued airworthiness. Cyber-security is the hot topic for the AvioSE'24. Cyber-security will be discussed in keynotes and the panel discussion. We are looking forward to your inputs.
2023-09-01	AvioSE'24 accepted AvioSE'24 was accepted as a workshop co-located with the SE24. Become a part of AvioSE. The Call for Papers for the AvioSE'24 is open. We are looking forward to your contribution and participation!
2023-07-10	AvioSE'24 announced We would like to inform you that we are planning AvioSE'24 in Linz. So far, the announcement and date are preliminary. We inform you, when our plans are confirmed.

Important dates

To be announced soon

Oct 27, 2023	Paper submission deadline
Nov 17, 2023	Paper acceptance notification
Dec 15, 2023	Camera-ready paper deadline
Jan 10, 2023	Early bird registration ends
Feb 16, 2024	Presentation slides deadline
Feb 27, 2024	Day of the workshop

Registration

Participation as an author or listener requires a registration at the hosting conference SE24.

Call for Papers ( PDF )

The objective of the workshop is the presentation of methods and technologies of the avionics domain. Topics of interest, but not limited to these, are:

Development technologies (e.g. model-based systems and software engineering):

• Requirements engineering
• Modelling languages and tools
• Model-based systems and software engineering (MBSE)
• Transfer of modelling techniques to industrial application and their scalability
• Cyber-Security and Safety
• Algorithm-based sizing, layout, design, and automation of development and certification artifacts

Development methods (e.g. deployment of AI):

• Avionics-specific languages, compilers, checkers or tools
• Agile development vs. certification
• Interaction with other domains (e.g., electrical engineering, physics, psychology)
• Deployment of artificial intelligence for enhancing development processes
• Automated and/or digital engineering workflows

Quality assurance methods (e.g. model-based tests, formal methods):

• Model-based tests as well as safety and security assessment
• Verification via testing and formal methods and their scalability
• Qualification simplification methods
• Alternative certification strategies

Product technologies (e.g. applications of AI):

• Applications of AI (including verification, certification, and explainability)
• Autonomous Systems (e.g., UAS, Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS))
• Reference architectures for hard- and software and interfaces between sub-systems
• Sensors, sensor fusion and sensor management
• Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) and other avionics platforms
• Human-Machine-Interface (HMI)
• Safty-critical middleware and operating systems

Vision papers

• Short vision papers on upcoming challenges, technologies or regulations

Type of submission and conditions

We welcome two kinds of contributions:

• Full Paper: The paper does not exceed 20 pages and states completed research.
• Short Paper: The paper does not exceed 10 pages and states ongoing research.

All accepted contributions will be published within the SE-workshop proceedings.

!!! Accepted contributions must be presented by one of the authors in person. One author must be registered for the workshop or full SE before the final manuscript deadline!!!

How to Contribute?

The papers must follow LNI formatting guidelines.

The papers are to be submitted using EasyChair. If you do not have an EasyChair account, you need to create a new one. The text of the abstract should not exceed 200 words.

Assessment and Selection of Submissions

The requested submissions lie in the field of expertise of the Organisation and Program Committee. They are assessed according to the following scientific criteria:

• Reasonable structure (problem statement and related work, solution, evaluation of the presented approach)
• Presentation of the unique feature of the submission w. r. t. existing solutions
• Intersubjectively comprehensible compilation
• Relevance of the presented approach
• Innovation of the submission
• Sustainability of the solution
• Appropriate citation of relevant scientific publications
• Form (language, spelling, grammar and formatting)

Program

The workshop is an all-day event. It is a mini-conference giving space to the authors of the accepted papers to present their work. Moreover, invited experts give insights on important avionics topics in keynote presentations. Last, a panel session with experts is organized for exchanging experiences and fostering the network. The workshop language is English. An early preliminary program can be found below.

FROM*	TO	DUR	SLOT	LOCATION
08:30	09:00	00:30	Opening	**
09:00	09:30	00:30	Keynote 1: Safe and Secure Linux for Avionics - Dr. Steven H. VanderLeest (The Boeing Company, USA)	**
09:30	10:00	00:30	Paper 1: Case Study: Securing Embedded Linux Using CHERI - Hesham Almatary and Alfredo Mazzinghi (Capabilities Limited, United Kingdom)	**
10:00	10:30	00:30	Paper 2: Enhancing DO-178C/DO-331 Based Process-Oriented Build Tool: Integration of System Composer and Automated PIL Simulation - Purav Panchal, Konstantin Dmitriev and Stephan Myschik (University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany and Technical University Munich, Germany)	**
10:30	11:00	00:30	Coffee break	**
11:00	11:30	00:30	Keynote 2: Usage of Data Policy to ease deployment of On-board Services & AI applications - Stephane Poulain (Airbus Operations GmbH, Germany)	**
11:30	12:00	00:30	Paper 3: A Universal Configuration Format for Avionics - Philipp Chrysalidis and Frank Thielecke (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany)	**
12:00	12:30	00:30	Paper 4: Towards COTS component synchronization for low SWaP-C flight control systems - Franz Sax and Florian Holzapfel (Technical University Munich, Germany)	**
12:30	14:00	01:30	Lunch break	***
14:00	14:30	00:30	Keynote 3: Supply chain attacks - Stefan Brunthaler (UniBwM \ Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany)	**
14:30	15:00	00:30	Paper 5: Enhancing System-Model Quality: Evaluation of the MontiBelle Approach with the Avionics Case Study on a Data Link Uplink Feed System - Hendrik Kausch, Mathias Pfeiffer, Deni Raco, Bernhard Rumpe and Andreas Schweiger (RWTH Aachen University, Germany and Airbus, Germany)	**
15:00	15:30	00:30	Paper 6: A Preliminary Survey of the State of the Art in Simulation-Based Development and Certification to support Digital Aircraft Design Research - Malte Christian Struck, Alexander Weinert, Andreas Schreiber and Michael Felderer (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Bremen/Köln, Germany and University of Cologne, Germany)	**
15:30	16:00	00:30	Coffee break	***
16:00	17:00	01:00	Panel discussion on "Avionics Cyber-Security": Moderated panel session with Stefan Brunthaler (UniBwM \ Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany), Stephane Poulain (Airbus Operations GmbH, Germany), and Dr. Steven H. VanderLeest (The Boeing Company, USA)	**
17:00	17:30	00:30	Closing	**
19:00			Dinner: Social and technical exchange with the people from the AvioSE workshop (optional and self-payed).	****

* All times are given in Central European Time (CET), e.g. Berlin
**/*** Room: Festsaal A (Uni Center @ main campus Johannes Kepler Universität Linz statt, Altenberger Straße 69, 4040 Linz, Österreich)
**** Grüne Papaya, Altenberger Str. 70, 4040 Linz, Österreich

Committee

To contact the organizers, send an email to Marina Reich: marina.reich[AT]airbus.com.

Workshop chairs

Marina Reich, Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Technische Universität Chemitz
Prof. Björn Annighöfer, Universität Stuttgart
Dr. Andreas Schweiger, Airbus Defence and Space GmbH

Program committee

Prof. Björn Annighöfer, Universität Stuttgart
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h. c. Jürgen Becker, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Steffen Becker, Universität Stuttgart
Rolf Buese, Diehl Aerospace GmbH, Überlingen
apl. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Umut Durak, DLR Braunschweig
FH-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Holger Flühr, FH Johanneum Graz
Prof. Dr. Ralf God, Technische Universität Hamburg
Dr.-Ing. Martin Halle, Hamburg University of Technology
Dr. Christian Heinzemann, Robert Bosch GmbH
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hommel, Universität der Bundeswehr München
Thanakorn Khamvilai (T.K.), Ph.D., Assistant Research Professor, The Pennsylvania State University
Dr. Winfried Lohmiller, Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
Dr. Christian Meißner, Volkswagen AG
Stéphane Poulain, Airbus Operations GmbH
Marina Reich, Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Technische Universität Chemitz
Deni Raco, RWTH Aachen University
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen University
Dr. Andreas Schweiger, Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
Dr. Steven H. VanderLeest, The Boeing Company
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Voss, FH Aachen

Proceedings

Please find the proceedings below.

Past Editions

AvioSE'23	Co-located with SE Paderborn, Germany
AvioSE'22	Co-located with SE virtual
AvioSE'21	Co-located with SE virtual
AvioSE'20	Co-located with SE in Innsbruck, Austria
AvioSE'19	Co-located with SE in Stuttgart, Germany