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10th International Workshop on Critical Automotive Applications: Robustness & Safety
The CARS workshop is a forum focusing on architecture, methods and development techniques for safety-related automotive embedded systems and applications.
The 10th edition of CARS is collocated with EDCC 2026, Canterbury, UK.
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:
In particular, CARS aims at promoting and fostering discussion on novel ideas and techniques, possibly controversial approaches, a place where researchers and developers can share both real problems and innovative solutions.
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.
Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems IKS