The 1st Workshop on Modeling and Verification for Secure and Performant Cyber-Physical Systems

This workshop focuses on advancing methodologies for ensuring the security and performance of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), critical for their safe deployment across sectors such as healthcare, energy, transportation, and autonomous systems. As CPS becomes an integral part of modern infrastructure, achieving robust security without sacrificing performance has emerged as a central challenge, especially in domains where any compromise could have severe, even life-threatening, consequences. This workshop will explore cutting-edge approaches to verifying and maintaining secure, performant CPS, with an emphasis on model-based design, digital twins, and feedback-driven verification techniques. By bringing together researchers, practitioners, and policymakers, this event aims to foster the development of tools and frameworks to bridge the gap between security and performance, offering innovative solutions for real-world CPS applications.

Submission Deadlines:

Paper Submission: January 15, 2025

Notification of Acceptance: March 10, 2025

Camera Ready Submission: March 31, 2025

Workshop Date: May 6, 2025

May 05, 2025

Irvine, CA, USA

In Person

University of California, Irvine

Call for Papers

We invite original submissions to the Workshop on Modeling and Verification for Secure and Performant CPS, focused on advancing system-level methodologies for balancing security and performance in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). The workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss the latest innovations in model-driven verification, digital twin integration, and multi-level feedback mechanisms to address the critical challenges of designing secure, resilient, and high-performing CPS.


As CPS become increasingly integral to critical sectors such as healthcare, energy, and autonomous systems, ensuring that security measures do not compromise performance—or vice versa—is essential. This workshop provides a forum for discussing how advanced modeling techniques and performance-security trade-offs can be integrated into system design, addressing both theoretical and practical aspects of CPS development.

 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Model-based verification techniques for CPS: Methods for early verification of CPS that assess both functional and non-functional requirements to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities and performance issues.
  • Security-performance trade-offs in CPS: Investigations into how security measures—such as encryption, access controls, and intrusion detection—impact CPS performance, and approaches to balancing these factors.
  • Digital twins for real-time monitoring and feedback: Advances in the use of digital twins for continuous monitoring and updating of CPS, enabling real-time feedback and dynamic response to security and performance concerns.
  • Case studies on secure and high-performing CPS deployments: Practical insights and experiences in designing, implementing, and managing secure CPS in fields like healthcare, energy, transportation, and industrial automation.
  • Tools and frameworks for secure CPS design, simulation, and verification: Descriptions and demonstrations of new or improved tools for modeling, simulation, and verification of CPS, particularly those addressing both security and performance.
  • Multi-level approaches and backtracing of performance results: Approaches that integrate feedback loops between design and runtime monitoring, enabling performance and security adaptations throughout the system lifecycle.
  • Cross-layer issues: Challenges arising from interactions between the hardware, network, and software layers in CPS, and methodologies to address security and performance across these layers.
  • Design process models for CPS: Structured design methodologies that prioritize security and performance throughout CPS development, from initial design through to deployment and maintenance.
  • Emerging standards and best practices: Contributions that address recent developments in CPS standards and best practices for security and performance, including frameworks for compliance and continuous improvement.
 

Designing Accelerated Edge AI Systems with Model-Based Methodology

Keynote @ MoVe4SPS

Petri Solanti

SIEMENS

Petri Solanti is a senior application engineer at Siemens, with an HLS and low-power tools focus. He is a designer and application engineer with over 25 years of experience in Electronics System-Level design tools and methodologies. His areas of interest include design methodologies from algorithm to RTL, system analysis and HW/SW co-design. Prior to Mentor, Mr. Solanti held application engineer positions at Cadence, CoWare, Synopsys and MathWorks. He received his MScEE degree from Tampere University of Technology, Finland.

Tentative Agenda

8:30am - 8:45am

Welcome Message from the organizers

Johannes Koch & Daniela Genius

8:45am - 9:45am

Keynote Talk: Designing Accelerated Edge AI Systems with Model-based Methodology

Petri Solanti (Siemens)

9:45am - 10:15am

Coffee Break

 10:15am - 11:45am

Paper Session 1: Model-based Verification

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 11:45am - 1:30pm

Lunch Break

 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Tutorial Session: tba.

Tutorial in a State of the Art Tool for Modeling for Performance and Security

 3:00pm - 3:30pm

Coffee Break

 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Paper Session 2: Digital twins

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 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Paper Session 3: Performance-Security Trade-Offs

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 5:30pm - 5:45pm

Closing Remarks

Steering Committee

General Chair: Johannes Koch, RPTU Kaiserlautern-Landau


Program Chair: Daniela Genius, Sorbonne Université, Paris



Steering Committee:

Ludovic Aprville, Télécom Paris

Christoph Grimm, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau

Ahlem Mifdaoui, ISAE-SupAéro

Klaus Schneider, RPTU Kaiserlautern-Landau


Technical Program Committee

Daniela Genius, Sorbonne Université

Johannes Koch, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau

Ludovic Apvrille, Télécom Paris

Ahlem Mifdaoui, ISAE-SupAéro

Christoph Grimm, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau

Klaus Schneider, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau

Carna Zivkovic, NXP

Liliana Andrade, TIMA Grenoble

Chokri Mraidha, CEA LIST

Hagen Heermann, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau

Oliver Bringmann, Universität Tübingen

Alexandru Stefanov, TU Delft

Petri Solanti, Siemens

Matthias Jung, Universität Würzburg

Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen

FAQ

Paper Submission Deadline: January 15, 2025

Notification of Acceptance: March 10, 2025

Camera ready Submission Deadline: March 31, 2025

Workshop Date: May 6, 2025