Second Workshop on Real-Time Autonomous Systems Security
July 8, 2025, Brussels, Belgium
Held in conjunction with ECRTS 2025
About
Autonomous systems such as ground and aerial vehicles, cognitive robots, and mechanical plants are used in many applications (transportation, surveillance, control systems, precision agriculture, and healthcare) and ease our everyday lives. Such systems also have “real-time” (viz., stringent timing and safety-critical) requirements. Due to their growing usage and high value, adversarial threats to those critical systems are increasing. Security, resiliency, and privacy problems in modern real-time autonomous systems pose direct threats to the users/operators, the system itself, the other entities (including humans) around it, and the environment. Hence, there is a need for a concerted effort to understand the threats and devise techniques to make critical systems resilient against cyber-attacks.
Considering the urgency and research needs, the Second Workshop on Real-Time Autonomous Systems Security (RT-AutoSec) provides a platform for researchers to present original research papers addressing these challenges. RT-AutoSec aims to bring together experts from academia and industry to discuss and address the security, resiliency, and privacy challenges of modern, connected autonomous systems. The expected impacts include identifying and eliminating adversarial threats in autonomous systems’ design and implementation space.
Scope and Topics of Interest
We welcome papers describing applications, methodologies, and case studies contributing to the state-of-the-art design of secure, time-sensitive autonomous systems. We require papers to consider some timing requirements related to the security of autonomous systems. The timing requirements of interest are broadly defined and may include soft real-time, QoS, and probabilistic guarantees.
Specific areas of interest include (but not limited to):
- Mathematical foundations for secure autonomous systems
- Control/game-theoretic approaches
- High-assurance security architectures
- Security, privacy, and resilience metrics
- Economics of autonomous systems security and privacy
- Hardware-assisted security
- Autonomous systems testbed for security analysis
- Security/privacy solutions for learning-enabled/AI-driven autonomous systems
- Trusted computing (TEEs) for autonomous systems
- Software-defined designs for improving security/resiliency
- Side-channel analysis
- Ethics and usability aspects related to time-criticality
Important Dates
- May 8, 2025
Submission Deadline - June 5, 2025
Acceptance Notification - July 8, 2025
Workshop - July 8-11, 2025
ECRTS Conference
Submission Instruction
The Workshop accepts two types of submissions: (1) regular papers that are up to 6 pages long and (2) short position papers or work-in-progress (WIP) papers that are up to 4 pages long. Both papers should be formatted in double-column IEEE style, including references and appendices. The IEEE template is available here. Submissions must be in Portable Document Format (.pdf).
Submissions website: will be published soon
If accepted, at least one author must attend the conference for the presentation. The workshop will publish and archive the proceedings. However, authors retain the right to publish their work elsewhere and may opt not to include their paper in the workshop proceedings. In such cases, authors may (optionally) provide an extended abstract.
Workshop Chairs
Monowar Hasan
Washington State University
Email: monowar.hasan@wsu.edu
Mohammad Hamad
Technical University of Munich
Email: mohammad.hamad@tum.de