Novel Approaches to Security and Safety Development of Engineering of Cyber-Physical Avionic and Medical Systems

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue will consist of manuscripts describing recent advances in the understanding and predicting key features of cyber–physical avionic and medical systems (CPAMS).  The key features of this domain of software-intensive systems are safety and security. More specifically, the Special Issue is expected to include submissions on co-modeling, simulations, analysis of architectural design of avionic and medical systems, security of situational awareness systems that work with key avionic technologies, such as ADS-B and GPS, used in unmanned aircraft systems (small, medium, large), cyber-attacks detection algorithms and countermeasure methods, and many other new developments that make extensive use of formal methods, the model-based engineering of safety and security critical systems, and risk assessment and mitigations in the design and verification of CPAMS.

Prof. Dr. Hassan Reza
Dr. Emanuel Grant
Dr. Naima Kaabouch
Dr. Kouhyar Tavakolian
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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• unmanned aircraft systems (UAS, sUAS)
• cyber-physical systems
• model-based engineering
• security of situational awareness systems (GPAS, RADAR, ADS-B)
• sense-avoid systems
• adaptive and autonomous systems
• safety management systems
• risk assessment and mitigations
• swarms systems
• co-design and modeling