Involvment type: participant
Project website: http://www.cecris-project.eu/
Start date: 01-01-2013
End date: 31-12-2016

The project aims at taking a step forward in the growing field of development, verification and validation and certification of critical systems.

The project focuses on the more difficult/important points of (safety, efficiency, business, .) of critical system development, verification and validation and certification process. The scientific objectives of the project are study both the scientific and industrial state of the art methodologies for system development and the impact of their usage on the verification and validation and certification of critical systems. Moreover the project aims at developing strategies and techniques supported by automatic or semi-automatic tools and methods for these type of activities, whose cost-quality achievements are well-predictable in order to tie costs of application of techniques to the RAMS attributes level achieved by the product being tested. The project will draw-up guidelines to support engineers during the planning of the verification & validation phases.

Today is the day in which Maria Hafiza Maqsood, PhD student at the RCL group, ends her 1-month secondment at INPE (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espacial) in the Sao Paulo State!

It was a very inspiring secondment within the ADVANCE project, as it allowed to establish connections between UNIFI and INPE researchers. Thanks Maria and thanks Fatima's group at INPE for hosting!

Starting from the middle of November, the Resilient Computing Lab is hosting three brazilian students as part of the DEVASSES project. All of them are coming from Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL), in Maceió, Alagoas, and are supervised by professor Baldoino Neto.

Anderson Santos is a graduate student working on Anomaly Detection Benchmarks, and he will stay in Firenze for six months. Caio Barbosa and Felipe Falcão are both undergraduate students visiting Firenze for three months: Caio is studying an Anomaly Detector Framework and Felipe is addressing the Classification of Anomaly Detection Algorithms.

RCL hosted the 5th face-to-face meeting of the project IRENE (now at month 19/30), which involved attendees from all the partners of the consortium. In particular, the meeting was directed to discuss the novel architectures and the modeling tool that are being developed within WP3 and WP4 of the project.

During the meeting, RCL promoted the discussion about the integration of the tools that are being developed in the context of the project (modeling, threat analysis, load prediction), aiming to find the best way to connect them. In addition, a presentation about model-based evaluation of the IRENE methods and framework was shown, to support and complement the analysis including evaluations related to dependability and security assessment. These evaluations will be conducted using techniques such as extensions of SAN (Stochastic Activity Networks).

For some of the participants this was the first time in Firenze. Consequently the session of the 26th April ended in a dinner in one of the most famous restaurants of the city centre. Moreover, a brief Firenze-by-night tour was performed before coming back to the hotels.

Very enjoyable international collaboration is happening in these days at RCL!

Today we had a seminar joining together people with both the DEVASSES and the CECRIS projects. Beáta Hergovics and Máté Tóth are testing engineers from Prolan in Budapest, Hungary, and are currently visiting RCL for a short period to work on the CECRIS project.

Lucas Leal is a Master's student at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, in Brazil, and he will stay in Florence for a three-months secondment to work in the DEVASSES project. During his secondment he will work on "Model-Based Online Testing for Dynamic SOA"; this seminar was the opportunity to present the initial idea and discuss the topic with the other researchers.

Prof. Henrique Madeira, from the University of Coimbra in Portugal was also attending the workshop. In this period Prof. Madeira is visiting University of Florence, where he is also holding a set of seminars on "Design of experiments for resilience assessment and benchmarking". The goal is to use real data from concrete resilience/dependability assessment experiments, particularly raw data from fault injection experiments, to provide a comprehensive set of examples on how to design and perform correct experiments. The course is covering basic concepts on fault injection for dependability and resilience assessment, steps of designing an experiment, how to perform correct measurements, and hypothesis testing.

The WP1 report of the TENACE project is now available on the website of Italy’s Intelligence System for the Security of the Republic.

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