Organizers

IEEE Ukraine Section
IEEE United Kingdom and Ireland Section
National Aerospace University KhAI, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Banking University, Kyiv, Ukraine
Leeds Beckett University, UK

Background & Key topics

The annual DESSERT conference began since 2006 and its primary focus has been on methodologies, techniques and tools for dependability, security and safety assessment and assurance of software, hardware and middleware, computer systems and IT-infrastructures. DESSERT’2020 is responding to current major challenges relating to state-of-the-art information and communication technologies and paradigms such as cloud and edge computing, Internet of things, big data, AI and ML, software defined applications, cyber physical systems, etc. Relevant areas of interest encompasses regulations, analysis, modeling, development, verification, operation and maintenance of computer systems and components, networks and infrastructures for safety-, secure, mission- and business-critical applications.

DESSERT’2020 is addressing the main dependability challenges related to the IoT, Big Data and AI for a Safe&Secure World and Industry 4.0. Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts demonstrating recent advances in in all areas relevant to these challenges, including, but not limited to:

Fundamentals and methodologies

• Methodology and technologies of dependable and resilient computing
• Methodologies and technologies of smart and pervasive computing
• Methodologies and technologies in sustainable and green computing and communications
• Multi-sectoral cybersecurity and safety analysis and assurance
• Safety, cybersecurity and resilience of Industry 4.0 and 5.0
• AI for design, safety and security of intelligent systems
• Digital economy for sustainable development

Methods and technologies

• Dependable and trust IoT for human and industry domains
• Human-machine interaction and cooperation for safety and security
• Dependability, security and resilience of web, cloud-, fog- and dew- computing
• Big data and data mining techniques for business and critical domains
• Augmented, virtual and mixed reality for secure industrial and human applications
• Blockchain technology for critical and business domains
• Fintech, digital banking and cybersecurity
• Formal methods and assurance case-based techniques of development and assessment
• Quantum computing and post quantum cryptography
• Image processing and recognition for smart and dependable systems

Domains and applications

• Protecting critical infrastructures from cyberattacks 
• Smart grid cybersecurity and resilience
• Reliability and safety of unmanned vehicles, drones and UAV fleets
• Dependability of mission critical, aviation and space systems
• Dependable communication and high-reliable electronics
• UI cooperation, networking, education and training for business and critical domains

The conference will include special events (workshops, tutorials, industrial panels) including sessions dedicated to special topics. One of the options will be excursion to Chernobyl NPP.